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Published: 11/28/10

2010: A Tin Foil Hat Odyssey

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Published: 11/16/10

Bend It Like Glenn Beck

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Published: 07/7/10

The Anti-Vaccine Movement: Blinding Us With Pseudoscience

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

Despite the American infatuation with gambling, in other areas of life we shy away from random chance. We like cause and effect. We like the story of one thing leading to another in a nice, straight line. And if such a story does not declare itself, we'll invent one. Our need for a clear, predictable pattern leads us down the wayward path of conspiracy theories. In the absence of a cause that makes sense to us, we'll spend hours, days, years looking for one. Why? Peter Jennings alluded to a possible reason in his thorough 2003 documentary "Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination ...

Published: 05/21/10

Rand Paul: An Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist?

By David Corn - Politics Daily

Should a U.S. senator hang out with a 9/11 conspiracy theory champion? That's a question for Rand Paul, the Tea Party favorite who this week won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky. While Paul was still celebrating, he created a media-political tempest by declaring that he opposed the provision of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bans discrimination by private businesses. But Paul, with his die-hard libertarianism and connections to extremists, is a veritable political kerfuffle-creating machine. Take his hobnobbing with Alex Jones, an anti-government activist and one of the ...

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Published: 11/11/09

Fox News Fact-Checks Sarah Palin on Coin 'Conspiracy'

By David Sessions - Politics Daily

Fox News Channel anchor Brett Baier on Tuesday challenged an old conspiracy theory about U.S. currency design that Sarah Palin stirred up at an appearance last week. At a media-free event Friday in Wisconsin, Palin raised questions about the design of the presidential $1 coins, implying that someone in government was trying to downplay "In God We Trust" on the coins' design. She noted that the motto had been moved from the center of the coin's face to the outer rim (see photo). "It's been pushed to the side, to the edge, where we can't really see it," Palin says in a video captured by a ...

Published: 10/22/09

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Published: 02/24/09

The Birth Certificate That Wouldn't Die

By David Knowles - Politics Daily

Via that most untrusted name in news, World Net Daily, comes word of an uprising:A U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq has called President Obama an "impostor" in a statement which he affirmed plans to join as plaintiff a challenge to Obama's eligibility to be commander-in-chief.The statement was publicized by California attorney Orly Taitz who, along with her Defend Our Freedom Foundation, is working on a series of legal cases to uncover Obama's birth records and other documents that would reveal whether he meets the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.Here we go again. Like the best ...

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