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News Nuggets, 20 August 2009: CU’s Lahn gets a few more minutes of fame

By | 08.20.09 | 7:50 pm

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NOT EXACTLY OXFORD STYLE: CU student Zach Lahn continues to follow up on his contentious questioning of President Barack Obama in Grand Junction last weekend with a tour of cable news shows. Yesterday, the…

News Nuggets: 5 August 2009

By | 08.05.09 | 5:52 pm

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HEALTH-CARE RICHES: Colorado anti- health-care reform protesters are being rallied and bused around tomorrow by “free-market” group Americans for Prosperity. On its “Patients First Bus Tour,” AFP will be hauling the group to Fort…

Life in Birther Conspiracyland: Running the endless loop

By | 08.05.09 | 8:18 am

This thread at the Right Side of Life, keying off of a FreeRepublic.com thread, is actually a pretty useful look at the way facts bounce off of the “birther” community like so many eggs off of a Humvee.

David

Forged Kenyan document splinters ‘Birther’ movement

By | 08.03.09 | 9:09 pm

WASHINGTON — Jon Chessoni, a first secretary at the Kenyan Embassy, can’t understand why his office gets so many baseless questions about whether Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

“It’s madness,” said Chessoni on Monday. “His father, in 1961, would…

Liz Cheney sympathizes with the Birthers

By | 07.22.09 | 7:57 am

Joan Walsh saw this last night: Liz Cheney, the most famous former principal deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs in American history, appeared on Larry King’s CNN show and fielded a question about the Obama birth…

Red-herring birther movement dogging GOP officials

By | 07.17.09 | 7:43 am

Six months into Obama’s presidency, after scores of embarrassing legal defeats, and even after tussles between the attoneys who’ve turned frivolous lawsuits about the president’s citizenship into full-time jobs,…