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birthers now claim Obama born in 1957?
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is just laughable – the right-wing World Net Daily, which boasts of “over 200 exclusive reports on the eligibility issue”, has issued a breathless report that Obama’s actual year of birth was 1957, not 1961 as was previously thought – based on a typo on the President’s MySpace page. They breathlessly point out that…
apology to Daniel Larison
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Aziz Poonawalla
Daniel takes rightful issue with an off-hand comment of mine, that he was putting a “positive spin” on Birther nonsense: As Aziz and other long-time readers must know, I am not normally in the business of providing positive spin for Republicans. Given my criticisms of the dangers and problems of nationalism for conservatives and for…
VIDEO: Obama at NAACP, “the pain of discrimination is still felt in America.”
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Aziz Poonawalla
President Obama’s speech to the NAACP was equal parts encouragement and tough love. I found this passage to be refreshing, in that it broadens the reality of discrimination and thus implies common cause: “I understand there may be a temptation among some to think that discrimination is no longer a problem in 2009. And I…
“Eurabia” is hate speech
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Aziz Poonawalla
One of the pet projects of the Islamophobe industry is to issue dire warnings about how the tide of muslims in Europe is rising and threatening to wipe out European culture. There have been numerous factual rebuttals to this propaganda, but few have gotten wide exposure beyond the blogsphere. That is why i am glad…
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