Frist Addresses Tennessee's Birther Problem
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist attempted to skirt a question on Thursday as to why nearly half the Republicans in his home state of Tennesse...
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist attempted to skirt a question on Thursday as to why nearly half the Republicans in his home state of Tennesse...
Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
Lineage and religion -- they are killer topics. It's not easy to escape religious roots. No one makes their own choice at birth regarding religion, yet ancestry and religious rules decide a lot.
washingtonindependent.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Camille Paglia, the lone Salon.com columnist who can count on her ramblings getting regular links from The Drudge Report, appeared on NPR's "On Point"...
Terrance Heath | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
What we're seeing from the health care town halls and what we've seen from the "birthers" is essentially what I call the Tyranny of the Tantrum, which many parents encounter during the "terrible twos."
POLITICO | Andy Barr | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
A month before Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told a town hall audience that there is not enough evidence that President Barack Obama is a natural-born c...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
At a health care town hall this weekend, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said he might file a lawsuit to have the president release his birth certificate....
Paul Korda | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home
Two old law school buddies can no longer find any common political ground to stand on.
Bryant Welch | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
We need to harness the uncertainty and confusion in this country for constructive purposes, exposing the puppeteers of the far right and the corporate interests that are behind them.
Bennet Kelley | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The sad reality is that the current town-hall screamers are being embraced by Republicans not as champions of free speech, but rather as cannon fodder in their fight to block any bill.
Tom Roston | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
There is an unspoken subtext to the Obama-bashing at the health care town halls and in the Birther movement. And I'm not talking about the racism -- I'm talking about anti-Hawaiianism
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
In an editorial on July 31, Investor's Business Daily warned of end-of-life counseling in health care reform by saying people like Stephen Hawking "wo...
Ross Hyzer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Comedy
There are patriots among us who realize that a battle is raging. These foot soldiers of freedom have seized our town halls to loudly, incoherently speak truth to power.
Joseph Romm | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Both groups come from the same group of people, both are impervious to the evidence, and both get their disinformation from the same right-wing sources.
Dan Pashman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The level of press attention devoted to the birthers -- far more than left wing crackpots ever get -- seems to be a sign of liberal media bias.
Washington Post | Harold Meyerson | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Judging by the first public meetings on health-care reform that members of Congress have begun convening in their districts, America is in Second Comi...
Steven Weber | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics
These birthers are throwbacks, confederate civil war re-enactors, desperately trying to get back to the America of their dreams rather than dwell in the America that is their reality.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 09.04.2009 | Comedy
Not only did Chuck write a blog post defending Lou, he has now cut a video showing that when you mess with Lou, you mess with Chuck. Take a look.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
It's not just the bizarro "birther" brigades that are treating Obama as electorally illegitimate. Think about the way the health-care fight has played out recently.
State Journal-Register | Bernard Schoenburg | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
Freshman U.S. Rep. AARON SCHOCK, R-Peoria, recently received some national exposure he probably could have done without. (via)...
Chris Kelly | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's birthday is tomorrow (or is it?) and in the spirit of gift giving, I've got something for the 28% of Republicans who don't believe Obama was born in America.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
Last night Rachel Maddow responded to CNN's Lou Dobbs calling her a "tea-bagging queen" on his radio show yesterday. She said Dobbs called her that b...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
CNN's Lou Dobbs has come under fire for recent comments he made suggesting President Obama might be undocumented, and that, as a result, Obama's presi...
Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Did you catch Liz Cheney on Larry live?/Allowing the birthers' claims to thrive/Carville, quite exasperated on Mr. King/Telling us this is, indeed, a very "nutty thing".
Beth Armogida | Posted 08.26.2009 | Comedy
I saw the video clip of your passionate speech to Representative Mike Castle on YouTube right after I watched a cat do the Riverdance.
Harry Shearer | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
It's easy to understand why some opponents to a still-popular president would be drawn to a cause that once again allows the suggestion of illegitimacy to trump disagreement with policy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics