1. Barack Obama has no birth certificate — Donald Trump climbed aboard the birther bandwagon in 2011 during his pretend run for president. Ultimately the White House released the documentation showing Obama was indeed born in Hawaii, and the president smacked down The Donald in person at the White House correspondents dinner in April.

2. The U.S. “war” on Libya — The idea that President Obama pulled a Bush (and violated the War Powers Act) when he OK’d airstrikes to help NATO oust dictator Muommar Qaddafi, united the far-right and libertarian left (Dennis Kucinich even sued.) In the end, legal arguments pro and con were a wash. Congress stood down. And Qaddafi was taken down.

3. The U.S. didn’t really kill Osama bin Laden — The Navy SEAL operation that finally took down the world’s most wanted terrorist left no body behind (bin Laden was buried at sea.) So you know what comes next: conspiracy talk on the Interwebs that OBL wasn’t killed. So what was faked? A “dead bin Laden” photo that even fooled some members of congress and the media.

4. The conspiracy to kill the public option – The idea that President Obama struck a secret deal to kill the public option in healthcare reform originated in a widely misread November New York Times articleand rippled through the liberal blogosphere. Only problem: it wasn’t true, as was quickly debunked by the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent.

5. Homeland Security ‘ordered’ police to shut down “Occupy Wall Street” — A series of OWS crackdowns across the U.S. last month (some violent) prompted liberal activist/writer Naomi Wolf to spin a mayoral conference call into a “federalized” crackdown. Only problem: Wolf never had any evidence.

6. 100 Million Muslim march? One of the wackiest conspiracy theories of the year combined the “Barack Obama is really a Muslim” meme with the right’s obsession over illegal immigration. The plot: Obama planned to bring up to 100 million Muslims into the U.S. in order to turn the country into an Islamic nation. Seriously.

7. Michelle Obama’s pricey Africa ‘vacation’ – some claimed the first lady’s June goodwill trip to South Africa amounted to a $424,000, taxpayer funded vacation with her mom and kids. Problem: the Obama’s shelled out personal funds for a safari Judicial Watch complained about. And the expenses were no different than any previous FLOTUS.

8. ‘Candygate’ – Fox News’ morning crew played fast and loose with an AP headline to make it appear that the first family swapped Halloween candy for dried fruit for White House trick or treaters. That would have been a bummer for the little costumed kiddies, if it was actually true (they also gave out M&Ms…)

9. The Great Confiscator – One of the right’s favorite anti-Obama memes is his alleged plot to confiscate our guns and they’ve fixated on Attorney General Eric Holder and a botched illegal guns-to-Mexico operation called “Fast and Furious” — an alleged plot to increase gun violence, so the administration can regulate firearms.

10. The VP Switcharoo — The rumor tantalized Hillary diehards: President Obama would dump his VP, Joe Biden, and put Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the ticket in 2012. This one’s been rattling around D.C. since Watergate reporter Bob Woodward floated it in 2010, and it’s no truer now than it was then.