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Parent of radio’s The Patriot buys Hot Air

By Paul Schmelzer | 02.17.10 | 11:35 am

HotAirSalemOK, maybe it’s not quite the vast rightwing conspiracy, but the expansive conservative multimedia entity Salem Communications — which runs local radio stations including AM 1280 The Patriot and the national TownHall.com, home to Michele Bachmann’s blog…

Was ‘Birthers’ born in Minnesota?

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.23.09 | 11:36 am

BirtherIn yesterday’s “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine, Leslie Savan wrote that while the term “birthers” — “those who insist despite all evidence to the contrary that Barack Obama doesn’t have a U.S. birth certificate and…