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Rep. Lucas suspects Obama gun control ‘conspiracy’ to buy all the ammunition
Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas (R) recently told a conservative radio show that President Barack Obama’s administration may be engaged in a “conspiracy” to purchase all available ammunition as a form of gun control. Last week, Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s National Security Subcommittee caved to conspiracies…
Rep. blasts House hearing on ‘bizarre conspiracy theories’ about DHS ammunition hoarding
Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s National Security Subcommittee, slammed Republicans on Thursday for conducting a hearing that he said was driven by Internet conspiracy theories suggesting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was buying a billion rounds of ammunition…
‘Room 237′ examines conspiracy theories and possible hidden meanings in Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
Have you ever watched a movie and thought the filmmaker was sending you surreptitious signals? More to the point, do you think Stanley Kubrick’s deeply creepy 1980 classic “The Shining… …
Maddow: Senate GOP joins North Korea and Iran in opposition to UN arms treaty
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night criticized Republicans in the Senate for believing in a conspiracy theory about the United Nation’s Arms Trade Treaty. “It seems like Republicans and conservatives and people who voted for Mitt Romney are more susceptible than the rest of America to conspiracy theories, especially…
Declassified documents reveal U.S. military tried to develop flying saucers in 1950s
Newly released diagrams show scale of the future that never was after air force cancelled funding for wobbly disc-shaped craft These days, flying saucers are most commonly associated with sci-fi films and conspiracy theories, but in the 1950s, some saw them as the future of aviation. Documents published by the…
Test your skills: Which are the real conspiracy theories about Obama?
We’ve all heard of the birthers, who believe that President Obama wasn’t really born in Hawai’i and is thus ineligible for his office. And no one could’ve missed the fact that 17 percent of Americans believe that he’s actually a Muslim. But, in fact, there’s a whole host of conspiracies…
Are climate skeptics more likely to be conspiracy theorists?
New research finds that sceptics also tend to support conspiracy theories such as the moon landing being faked It’s time to come clean: climate change is a hoax. And the moon landings were faked, 9/11 was an inside job, and the CIA is hiding the identity of the gunman on…
It’s like the 90s took their vitamins
The evolution of right wing crankery under the “stress” of having to live with the fact that the nation willfully elected a Democrat as President is utterly fascinating. I hope one day a historian writes a book comparing the ever-more-baroque conspiracy theories that proliferated under Clinton and Obama. The two…
Fox starts in immediately with the conspiracy theories
Looks like Fox News has really benefited from the small amount of time between Obama releasing his birth certificate and the death of Osama Bin Laden. That's because they lost one conspiracy only to gain another: the inevitable claims that the Obama administration faked Osama Bin Laden's death. Digby posted…
Noble warriors vs. imaginary demons
Looks like the wingnuts have taken hold of New Mexico. Here’s the new head of the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department on Alex Jones’ show, ranting about how environmentalists are just undercover communists conspiring to create false alarm over the environment. New Mexico is one of the most…
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