When I was back in eighth grade, my science teacher, Mr. Malone, a brittle old man with a shock of white hair and a stern classroom demeanor, but a sharp sense of humor, had made a banner that ran across the top of the blackboard.

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There are claims abroad that hackers supported by Russia were behind Britain's Climategate.

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Recently, I met some jihadis who have been in the business of holy war since the 1990s. I was surprised to hear that even though they were in support of the jihad in Afghanistan and Kashmir, they were opposed to the idea of destabilising Pakistan itself.

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It's amusing that someone so practiced in conspiracy theorism could demonstrate such ignorance of how conspiracy theories work.

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The GHQ attack has drawn accusations from several quarters in Pakistan that it was inspired by foreign powers; some have named India and the US among the usual suspects.

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It's no surprise that the world gets taken in by hoaxers and con men. They're really good at what they do and most of us are bored enough to believe anything as long as it takes our mind off the cubicle for a while.

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Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won't corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy, and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Yet conspiracies do exist.

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(Watch) Next... H3N8: Dog Flu Virus

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Even before Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the internet was seething with lurid conspiracy theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.

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Assignment to Glenn Beck: Uncover the Murdoch Conspiracy (Quasi-satire)

News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch is a multi-billionaire, with a reported net worth of $4 billion. In 1999, BBC News reported that Newscorp had paid only 6% taxes on approximately 5.4 billion dollar profits over the previous four years.

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In 1964, historian Richard Hofstadter published an influential essay in Harper's Magazine titled "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." It came to mind recently in the context of the hysteria and hyperbole of the health care debate. Parts could have been written today.

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People start to go collectively crazy when they know that all the exits from our present state into the world of constructive reason are locked.

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If nothing Obama can do (short of resigning) will have any effect on birther activity, then it is certain  that the birthers bear all of  the responsibility for all the public funds spent in dealing with birtherism. What are those costs?

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There are many unanswered questions about the tragic hanging death of Bill Sparkman, a US Census Bureau employee, in rural Kentucky. But one thing is clear.

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Conspiracy theorists -- and by conspiracy theorists, I don't mean anyone who believes in particular conspiracies (which occur all the time), but rather those who maintain that a single vast conspiracy suffices to explain the better part of human affairs -- claim to be hard-boiled …

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excerpt: "" Lou Dobbs has always been unrepentant in the face of proof of his many journalistic misdeeds.

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CNN's Jim Spellman has been following the teabagger express and he's reporting what bloggers and our readers already know.

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Birthers believe Barack Obama's birth certificate was faked. Deathers believe Obama's health care reform bill is Soylent Green in disguise. Truthers believe the 9/11 attack was an inside job, that mines detonated prior to airplane impact.

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Even though his dogged pursuit of the Van Jones story helped topple the 9/11 communist "truther" who served as President Obama's green jobs czar, Glenn Beck refused to take any of the credit on his TV show Tuesday.

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excerpt: ""So far, we've had Birthers, "death panels," a "death book," concentration camps for conservatives, and the pervasive "Obama=Hitler" meme. And that's just been in the first eight months of Barack Obama's presidency.

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The article is on two pages. If you prefer to view it on one page, with fewer graphics, click here.Is the federal government building secret camps to lock up people who criticize President Barack Obama?

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Last year, Senator John McCain demanded that Barack Obama have 100,000 town halls with him, daily, until election day. So he is loving this month. His town hall was a sleepy affair, but it's Arizona, so there was crazy!

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OMG! Chinese soldiers dressed in Mexican camo taking over U.S.-Mexico Border, NOT.

I came across this thread this morning and thought it was some kind of joke, unfortunatly it is not. Quite the contrary it is living proof that both ignorance and stupidity have run amuck in ye gintlemen and swell of yonder northern hills.

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excerpt; ""We've been reporting steadily on the return of the militia movement in post-Bush America, and now that reportage has been confirmed by a disturbing report from the Southern Poverty Law Center describing a "Second Wave" of militiamen organizing across the countryside.. …

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