New story at The Nation.com:

In the past few weeks, Delaware Congressional candidate Christine O’Donnell has come under ridicule for seeming embellishments to her résumé. A CV posted on the networking site LinkedIn transformed a 2001 summer seminar she attended in rented space at Oxford University into a term of study at the school, and represented a week-long fellowship at the right-wing think tank the Claremont Institute as graduate coursework at Claremont Graduate University. Although, at O’Donnell’s request, the profile has since been taken down—her campaign claimed the enhanced resume was a fake posted to embarrass her (a charge LinkedIn expressly would not confirm, and other sources seem to refute), the real story is what O’Donnell actually did learn at the Claremont Institute, and how thoroughly the candidate absorbed its viciously antigay politics.

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