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CNN political commentator Steve Cortes has taken his own network to task for perpetuating the lie that President Donald Trump referred to neo-Nazis in the Charlottesville, Virginia, riot as “very fine people.” As Breitbart News has noted repeatedly, CNN’s own contemporaneous reporting showed that Trump was referring to peaceful protesters over the issue of the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, and specifically excluding neo-Nazis, whom he said should be “condemned totally.” Yet the network’s anchors, reporters, and contributors have claimed, over and over again, that Trump referred to the neo-Nazis as “very fine people” —...

An article in the New York Times today discusses both the call by some in Alaska to dismantle two of Governor Palin’s energy related legislative victories and the claim by others that they are responsible for Governor Palin’s great fiscal record and Alaska’s strong fiscal health. Current Alaska Governor Sean Parnell is seeking to make changes to Governor Palin’s oil tax structure–”Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share” (ACES) legislation. This legislation replaced Governor Murkowski’s corruption-tainted oil tax plan. Governor Palin’s plan primarily taxed oil company’s net profits on production, which encouraged greater capital development and investment than Murkowski’s gross tax structure....

LAST week, the Senate Finance Committee voted 12-11 not to wait for the Congressional Budget Office to "score" its health-care bill before the committee votes on it. Imagine that: Some senators actually wanted to know how much the bill costs before voting on it. Let them get away with something like that, and before you know it they'll be demanding honest accounting practices -- sending the whole legislative process to hell in a hand basket. When it comes to the health-care-reform debate, you see, honest budgeting is nowhere to be seen.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico wants a full investigation by U.S. authorities on Friday into a shooting on the U.S. border that left three illegal migrants dead and two injured. Mexico's Foreign Ministry said it had told the Mexican consulate in Tucson, Arizona, to ask local U.S. authorities to probe the attack by unknown gunmen, which took place on a back road often used by migrant traffickers. The ministry requested "an exhaustive investigation" into the incident, it said in a statement. Armed men stopped a bus full of people on the remote desert track near Tucson and began shooting at...

Over the past several months, I've seen the Roman Catholic church,its beliefs,its clergy, and its members sneered at,smeared with vicious exaggerations,and deliberately lied about. I've read these things on the web and wondered: " Where are the Catholics ? Why aren't we hearing from them ? Why isn't their viewpoint appearing ? You received a little tap on your cheek or shoulder- during confirmation to remind you of your duty as "soldiers of Christ". Did that little tap so unnerve you, that you can only cower in silence when bullies from the Left and Right denounce your faith ? It's...

Bible references to Mary are few in the New Testament. To demonstrate how far removed traditions are from the Bible, we want to contrast the Bible teaching and the present-day traditional Catholic view of Mary. In so doing, we can better appreciate why Jesus rejected the very concept of traditionalism

America is a land of second opportunities — even for disgraced, trial-lawyer hacks. Remember the 1993 side-impact crash fiasco on Dateline NBC? The Los Angeles Times called it "the biggest TV scam since the Quiz Scandals." Unbeknownst to viewers, model rockets had been attached to the "side-saddle" gas tank of a GM pickup truck and set off by remote control to ensure an explosion during the collision. Now the man who bragged that he was instrumental in staging the phony explosion has a new cause. As executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), Ben Kelley is trying to...

I have honestly lost count of all the lies and distortions being thrown about in the press these last few weeks concerning Bush and his agenda, and the things going on in and around this country, especially concerning the government, the DOJ, and the Congress. I would like to use this thread -- and you other Freepers -- to compile a COMPLETE THREAD of all the various errors we find in and among the articles we read on here and the news shows that we see daily on TV. My thoughts are that if we get them all on one...