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Monday link dump: Old Blackwater, keep on rolling

Blackwater returns, John McCain lies about immigrants, and Rand Paul can't say how old the planet is

By Alex Pareene

Published June 28, 2010 10:40PM (EDT)

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  • A CBS/Vanity Fair poll finds that Americans are largely fat birthers.
  • Blackwater's back! Erik Prince is on CNBC, they're bidding on Army contracts, and the CIA is basically forced to hire them for some reason.
  • Jan Brewer believes that most of the people who cross the US-Mexican border are drug mules. John McCain doesn't necessarily disagree. He also has an untrue opinion about the number of kidnappings in Phoenix.
  • South Carolina's looking into where Democratic party hero Alvin Greene got his $10,400.
  • Steve Forbes finds one of the upsides to Robert Byrd's death.
  • Rand Paul: not willing to say how old the Earth is!
  • Michele Bachmann is keynoting the 2010 BirtherCon Expo-Rama this September.
  • Alert Jan Brewer: "Illegal pinatas turn up on border...."

By Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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Birthers Blackwater Immigration John Mccain R-ariz. Michele Bachmann R-minn. Rand Paul

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