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House Speaker Engages In Pseudo-Birtherism | Miscellanea Agnostica — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:14:28 +0000

[...] As I’ve blogged a number of times already, Birtherism is a delusion that simply will not die. A frequent mantra of Birthers is that Obama has never produced his birth certificate. That, however, is factually incorrect; he has done so, and did it prior to his election in 2008. See FactCheck and Politfact, cached here and here for the evidence. (Note, neither of these fact-checking sites is “biased” towards Obama and the Democrats; recently, for instance, FactCheck pointed out tall tales told by him and by his party, and Politifact has a running “Obameter” listing promises he’s made, and has not shied from listing some as broken.) [...]

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Critical Thinking Is An Uphill Battle | Miscellanea Agnostica — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:23:58 +0000

[...] as they ever were, and no amount of fact-teaching seems to make any difference. For instance, the Birther delusion lives on, in spite of it being based on lies and mistaken suppositions. Barack Obama was born in [...]

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By: House Speaker Engages In Pseudo-Birtherism | Miscellanea Agnostica

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