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Show Me Birther!

by David Kurtz
11.05.10 | 8:58 am

A dyed-in-the-wool birther has been elected House majority leader in the Missouri General Assembly. This guy is actually a plaintiff in one of Orly Taitz’s birther lawsuits.

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