Monthly Archives: May 2016

Birther sheriff Arpaio found in contempt of court

Joe Arpaio and Chief Deputy Sheridan had already admitted to being in contempt in the Melendres v. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit. The findings of fact in this civil contempt decision state: In short, the Court finds that the Defendants have … Continue reading

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Fake Twitter accounts and the 2016 presidential election

Recent poll results in swing states sent me running to FiveThirtyEight.com to be reassured that Donald Trump has no chance to be elected president. I didn’t quite find what I was looking for, but I found another article entitled “Everyone … Continue reading

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Trump blames Hillary for the birthers

While I try be an even-handed reporter of the things I cover on this web site, I think it would be futile for me to attempt to hide the fact that I have no respect at all for Donald Trump. … Continue reading

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Pwned

According to the web site, ‘;–have i been pwned? my personal email and poorly encrypted password was hacked in the largest data breach of all time, that of Adobe.com back in October of 2013 when almost 153 million user accounts … Continue reading

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I won’t have Ted Cruz birthers to kick around any more

This is a bit of a crisis for this blog. With Ted Cruz officially out of the race for president, the tangential issue of what constitutes a natural born citizen drops out of the news and while the frontrunner Donald … Continue reading

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The occasional open thread: National Women Build Week

Put your Obama conspiracy comments that don’t relate to the current articles here. This thread will close in two weeks. (For more on National Women Build Week, see here.)

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