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The COVID-19 patient’s health was deteriorating quickly at a Michigan hospital, but he was having none of the doctor’s diagnosis. Despite dangerously low oxygen levels, the unvaccinated man didn’t think he was that sick and got so irate over a hospital policy forbidding his wife from being at his bedside that he threatened to walk out of the building. Dr. Matthew Trunsky didn’t hold back in his response: “You are welcome to leave, but you will be dead before you get to your car,’” he said. Such exchanges have become all-too-common for medical workers who are growing weary of COVID-19...

Candidates for public office in Ohio can lie and get away with it under a recent federal court ruling that struck down a state law banning false statements in campaigns, an attorney says. Attorney Donald Brey, who has represented Republicans in cases before the Ohio Elections Commission, told The Columbus Dispatch his clients mostly tell the truth, but can legally lie as long as they don’t defame anyone.In past elections, the commission ruled on false-advertising complaints. That changed when the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals a few weeks ago upheld the 2014 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy...

It’s not too difficult to understand that we are well on our way to a paradigm shift in America; in fact we’re in the midst of it right now. The writing is on the wall and can no longer be ignored. The US government has run up trillions of dollars in debt, and given the recent debates over the country’s debt ceiling, we can rest assured that neither Congress nor the President will act to curtail spending and balance the budget. We will continue adding trillions of dollars to the national debt clock until such time that our creditors no...

On Monday, June 24, 2013, the U.S. Senate passed a cloture motion (which ends debate) on the Schumer-Corker-Hoeven Amendment to the Gang of Eight's horrifying illegal alien amnesty bill - mislabeled "immigration reform." The purpose of this amnesty proposal is to capture future votes for the Democratic Party. Those who do not acknowledge that blatantly obvious fact either suffer from some debilitating mental illness or are working for the other side. On rare occasions, even the Left admit the objective. **snip**Herein lies the real reason Democrats are slavering for this amnesty bill to pass and are tickling themselves pink that...

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt claimed on Thursday that the Obama administration never referred to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” when it argued the bill’s constitutionality before the Supreme Court. However, as we demonstrated in an article published earlier this afternoon, this simply isn’t true. In fact, the claim is so monumentally false, everyone from CNN‘s Soledad O’Brien to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly has called “B.S.” on LaBolt.

I learned something about political campaigns at the Johnny Reid Edwards trial last week. I knew that politicians lie, and I knew that people campaigning for politicians lie. What I didn't know is that all the people working for the campaign are lying to each other, or at least that was the case in the Edwards presidential campaign. Harrison Hickman, the pollster for the campaign who testified on Monday, May 14, said that the Edwards campaign wasn't a lot different from the other presidential campaigns he had worked for, and he admitted would send out polling information he thought was...

I learned something about political campaigns at the Johnny Reid Edwards trial last week. I knew that politicians lie, and I knew that people campaigning for politicians lie. What I didn't know is that all the people working for the campaign are lying to each other, or at least that was the case in the Edwards presidential campaign. Harrison Hickman, the pollster for the campaign who testified on Monday, May 14, said that the Edwards campaign wasn't a lot different from the other presidential campaigns he had worked for, and he admitted would send out polling information he thought was...

This is a clip from the Johnny Carson Show. In it he plays a politician hooked to a lie detector. Johnny Carson Lie Detector Politician

Californians will get a chance to make history this November, an opportunity to seize control of their government from the politicians, handlers and consultants who have rigged the game to serve their own interests. Proposition 11 would take from the Legislature its power to draw political boundaries and give that job to an independent bipartisan commission that would operate under strict guidelines designed to ensure fairness for all parties and protect the rights of minorities. The process now allows the politicians to choose their voters by drawing district lines almost guaranteed to preserve the jobs of incumbents and freeze in...

In a raucous conference call to reporters that included an interruption and heated exchange with one of Barack Obama’s attorneys — Hillary Clinton’s campaign accused Obama supporters Tuesday of trying to hijack the Democratic presidential caucuses in Texas. The caucuses, which require supporters to organize and pledge their votes to their candidate in an open forum, began across the state immediately after primary polls closed at 9 p.m. ET. Shortly after their start time, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson convened a conference call with reporters to claim that alleged irregularities in the Texas caucuses were “not typical” of the usual...

Can anyone be a New York Yankees fan and a Boston Red Sox fan at the same time and win the presidency? Democratic candidate Bill Richardson wants to have it all. "I'm a Red Sox fan," said the New Mexico governor, who was born in Pasadena, Calif., but spent his early childhood in Mexico City. Richardson attended a boarding school in Concord, Mass., where he pitched on the baseball team. He graduated from Tufts University in 1971 with a master's degree in international affairs. He also pitched a season in the Cape Cod summer league. He follows baseball closely to...

TACOMA, Wash. - A state law that bars political candidates from deliberately making false statements about opponents violates their free speech right, an appeals court said. The state Court of Appeals said the 1999 law doesn't require maligned candidates to prove their reputations were harmed, noting that in this case, the candidate who complained won by an overwhelming majority. The judges also said the law allowed candidates to falsely puff up their own records, showing it wasn't narrowly tailored to promote honesty in elections. The ruling Wednesday dismissed a $1,000 fine imposed by the Public Disclosure Commission on a Green...

A member of the group the "Jersey Girls," who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks, is defending 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick against allegations that, as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, she blocked critical intelligence that had identified the two 9/11 hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center. "Gorelick gets a bad rap with that whole, you know, 'wall thing,'" Lorie Van Auken told WABC Radio's John Gambling on Thursday - referring to Ms. Gorelick's 1995 directive prohibiting intelligence agencies from sharing evidence on suspected terrorists with law enforcement.

When Secretary of State Bruce McPherson addressed the Sacramento Press Club last week, Steve Maviglio listened closely. Maviglio was the press secretary to ex-Gov. Gray Davis and now flacks for Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez. A couple of hours after McPherson finished his speech, Núñez declared that he was "pleased that the Republican secretary of state has joined the chorus of other Republicans and county election officials who believe that the governor's redistricting plans are ill-conceived and unworkable." Sell It Yourself McPherson did not, however, say that the redistricting measure that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is promoting, and that will likely appear...

Anti-DCTA message gets more visible Transit authority opponents organize committee, distribute signs 07:47 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 By Josh Baugh / Staff Writer A political action committee that opposes the proposed half-cent sales tax to fund the Denton County Transportation Authority has begun distributing yard signs in its campaign to derail the mass transit agency. The Transit Truth Committee is against approval of the Denton County Transportation Authority and has printed about 250 yard signs, including the one above on East Hickory Street. The Transit Truth Committee has printed about 250 yard signs that read: "DCTA —...

A prominent criminologist has slammed a claim from Industry Minister Allan Rock that the controversial gun registry will save 1,240 lives in a decade. Mr. Rock -- who introduced the registry when he was justice minister seven years ago -- spent much of last week defending the program and its billion-dollar cost overrun revealed last week by Auditor-General Sheila Fraser. At one point, he said the registry had saved 300 lives a year. In Vancouver last Friday, he repeated the claim that the registry has had a direct impact on the number of gun-related deaths in Canada. "You have to...