Conspiracy Theory News

Coulter doesn't just think immigration reform will hurt the economy -- she thinks it will be the "end of America." But economists generally agree that immigration reform will boost the overall economy, though it will likely increase labor competition in some sectors.

It's like they say: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Especially when it comes to right-wing extremists.

On yesterday's edition of Washington Watch, Tony Perkins and Peter Sprigg of the conspiracy theory enthusiast Family Research Council hosted an entire program about a pamphlet from an association of LGBT Department of Justice employees, which they falsely represented as an official government memorandum.

Plaid shirt, beard, toe shoes and a bit of a conspiracy theorist - is that the protester costume? Maybe not so much anymore.

Not long ago, I was reading Nate Silver's fascinating book The Signal and the Noise .

There is one thing that "Star Trek Into Darkness" does remarkably well, and that's provide further proof that J.J. Abrams is going to make one heck of a "Star Wars" movie.

Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status to groups, leaves after being dismissed from a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Conservative radio host and conspiracy theorist Pete Santilli recently said that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deserves to be shot "in the vagina" for her involvement in the "killing of American troops." Among other violent comments, Santilli said of Clinton, "I want to shoot her right in the vagina and I don't want her to die right ... (more)

Glenn Beck doesn't just manufacture wild conspiracy theories out of absolutely nothing.

Yeah, I know, Kos doesn't want any "conspiracy theories" on his blog. So we won't discuss any of them, or at least not with the idea that we should take any of them seriously, which we shouldn't. But you can see there's a problem here.

The conservative media has found conspiracy talk show host Alex Jones interesting because of his support of gun rights, but after his latest comments regarding the tornadoes in Oklahoma may drive the GOP away from Jones.

He enjoyed devising elaborate hoaxes and was said by many, including close friend and colleague Bob Zmuda, to have been obsessed with the idea of faking his own death.

Conservatives have alleged that progressives have been engaged in a callous attempt under this plutocratic administration in creating artificial crises so that the plutocracy can abridge citizens' rights.

With only three of its candidates having won in the senatorial elections, the opposition coalition United Nationalist Alliance must now concede, Sen.

What does the mainstream media do when they don't want to discuss a real issue that diverts away the topic from political theater? Simply deem it a wild 'conspiracy theory' and pretend it doesn't exist.

Considering the feverish zeal with which Obama-haters are pushing their conspiracy theories these days, I guess THIS KIND OF THING was inevitable: If our planet's increasingly extreme weather isn't caused by man-made climate change, then it stands to reason that it's actually caused by man-made supervillains using government technology to take ... (more)

Maggie Koerth-Baker has an article in The New York Times that surveys some recent research on the psychology of conspiracy believers.

The best defenses of his administration require undermining the rationale for his presidency.

Less than 24 hours after Alex Jones theorized that a "weather weapon" could have been used to cause the devastating Oklahoma tornado, conservative gossip Matt Drudge returned to his pattern of promoting the conspiracy theorist.

You don't have to be crazy to believe in conspiracy theories. In fact, 63 percent of registered voters in American believe in at least one political conspiracy theory.