Daily Archives: August 21, 2010

Reading the Constitution

I wrote on the topic of Constitutional Fundamentalism a few weeks ago, about how some Tea Party members carry around a pocket copy of the United States Constitution as a sort of talisman. I must confess that until recently it … Continue reading

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Obama is a Muslim?

Perhaps not so much a conspiracy theory as it is a crank opinion, the meme that Barack Obama is a Muslim goes hand in hand with views that he’s a [insert bad thing here]. A recent Pew Research poll says … Continue reading

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