Fleeing the country
It’s March, and the tension is mounting. One commenter at Birther Report said: The warrants are already lined up for some of the Obot clowns. I’m quite sure because this is a full blown criminal...
View ArticleThe occasional open thread: gastrointestinal distressing edition
Put your Obama Conspiracy comments not related to the current articles here. This thread will close in two weeks. The post The occasional open thread: gastrointestinal distressing edition appeared...
View ArticleInexplicable geographic interest in birtherism
Why is Orly’s web site 21 times more popular in Colombia than in the US? Here are the current Alexa.com statistics for the Taitz web site: Just how does someone explain something as stark as that? And...
View ArticleIs Obama a good President?
Lest any one be disappointed, let me say up front that I don’t plan to answer the question that titles this essay. I frankly do not know the answer, nor even have a firm opinion. When it comes to where...
View ArticleMRC, the cloud and me
In the aftermath of temporarily losing the content of Obama Conspiracy Theories, I implemented a backup plan. I had a little trouble getting the backup working because the size of temporary files...
View ArticleFaux quote challenge
Here’s a contest that I announce with just a little trepidation. The idea is to come up with a “quotation” that you attribute to a historical figure, only it has to be fake. I’ve seen so many of them,...
View ArticleWhat happened
I enjoyed reading the book What Happened by former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, but I did not particularly enjoy what happened over the last 8 hours when there was a question of whether Obama...
View ArticleAltered states
I listened to the President’s State of the Union address last evening. To my ears it was unremarkable. It was a “glass is half full” description of the country offering motivation to move forward, but...
View ArticleIneligibility is the new “nigger”
The dreaded “N” word is pretty much banned from public discourse in the USA. You can say s*** and f*** the rest of George Carlin’s 7 dirty words with impunity in many social settings (even if you’re...
View ArticleIs Obama a good President?
Lest any one be disappointed, let me say up front that I don’t plan to answer the question that titles this essay. I frankly do not know the answer, nor even have a firm opinion. When it comes to where...
View Article2014 Obama Conspiracy Preview
I predict more of the same and some things different. Predicting the future is done for fun. It’s even more fun if some outlandish prediction actually comes true. My favorite prediction that did come...
View ArticleChristmas truce
This is the second year of the tradition I started last December when I followed the lead of Steven Feinstein in declaring a unilateral truce in the battle with the birthers, for Christmas day 2013. I...
View ArticleFive years
It was in December 2008 when this post-presidential-election blog started with the intent of being a repository for the debunking of some fringe claims about Barack Obama left over from the election...
View ArticleInternet Archive donation link added
Sometimes the world is generous and we receive gifts we cannot hope to repay. Sometimes we can give back. This blog and I have gotten so much from the Wikipedia that I personally donate to it, and I...
View ArticleLearning from the birther list
My birther list, “Birthers from A to Z” has cruised past the count of 300. I’m pausing to think about the exercise. One of the things I learned, and this was a surprise, was a quirk in my own attitude...
View ArticleYou can’t put the genie back in the bottle
Obots complicit I am not a happy camper today. I have written lots about my feelings on privacy and have tried to enforce some rules here about not associating Internet pseudonyms with real people. I...
View ArticleDreaming of Zullo
I sometimes have these long rambling dreams that aren’t very interesting and don’t make a lot of sense—I had one this morning. This one was unusual because it had a birther theme, perhaps because I...
View ArticleCBL Project
I’m working on a combined birther list (CBL) project. The goal is to provide a list of all public birthers. It’s intended as a historical reference and Who’s Who. Also an index to the site. Here’s the...
View ArticleLarge numbers
What are the chances that… A while back, I had a story mentioning a Cornell law professor named Michael C. Dorf. Part of the discussion revolved around correctly identifying the person from his name. I...
View ArticleFaded hope and broken dreams
Remember my article, “Tricked out Obotmobile?” The Obama 2012 sticker in the photo looked bright and shiny. It’s coming apart today. I don’t mean that my tattered Obama bumper sticker is a metaphor for...
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