Monthly Archives: July 2013

Obama porn bombs talk show hosts

This one came in an email with title: “URGENT ALERT: Patriots are being set up – PLZ FWD” signed by Bob Powell1 editor of The Truth is Viral blog. The Obama administration will apparently stoop pretty low in an attempt … Continue reading

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Looking backward

This is not about Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel of the same title, but some thoughts about this web site. It’s a little difficult to get my mind around the fact that there have been 2,895 articles published on this web … Continue reading

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Unfortunate advertising

This on ORYR today: Google seems to think that ORYR is a good place to advertise to me on immigration reform. I doubt ORYR supports it. Orly certainly doesn’t with her headline last Tuesday: Keep calling every congressman, tell him … Continue reading

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Tolerance and respectful language (2)

I appreciate the comments on my previous article “Tolerance and respectful language.” I want to expand on one of my comments: If you say anything nasty about birthers on a birther blog, that becomes the issue. They basically make an … Continue reading

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Tolerance and respectful language

In an essay on categorizing conspiracy theories, author Paul McCaffrey writes, following a section describing the characterization of conspiracy theorists as wearing tinfoil hats: …the good-versus-evil, truth-versus-deception dynamic may divide the world a little too neatly and not in a … Continue reading

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Birthers and the Moon landing hoax

American astronauts set foot on the Moon in 1969, or at least most folks think so—“one small step for man…” and all that. There are some folks (6% in a 1999 poll) who think it was all a hoax with … Continue reading

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