- 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….”
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
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