WTH?
No one could be bothered to vet her?
She was confirmed in summer 2010 and it looks like Red State and other sites published the thesis a few months before in May, 2010. Free Republic even had a bunch of threads on it...
http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/2510901/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2513152/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2514328/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2514829/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2515349/posts