June 2012
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Phobias, Fears and Fires
I have already started writing my daily debunking which points out a part of today’s Supreme Court decision on health care that a lot of people have missed and/or don’t understand how bad it is. I also started another one simultaneously skewering and defending CNN for today’s blunder. But a couple of things made me change my mind and I’m going to do something, instead,...
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Will CNN be found unconstitutional?
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Full text of the Supreme Court’s decision on the... →
The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal -... →
Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk... →
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You Like "ObamaCare" Much More than You Think You...
If there is one very consistent thing that polling has found, it is that that people really like all of the parts of the health care reform law (The “Affordable Care Act” or “ObamaCare”). Even though people say they dislike the law, they really like all of the parts of it with the notable exception of the individual mandate (the Republican idea for bringing down health...
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SB 1070 Was a Worse Law Than You Realize
I remember when SB 1070 first came up as a law. A lot of people, some of them quite xenophobic, were very much in favor of the law because they saw it as a way to catch the illegal immigrants* they believed were streaming across the border and the source of crimes. There were a couple of Republican politicians in Arizona helping to encourage that idea. Governor Jan Brewer, Senator John Kyl and...
Cutting Taxes Raises the Deficit
It has become almost religious dogma among Republicans that cutting taxes will spur job growth, grow the economy and that this in no way contributes to the deficit. Let’s put aside the more complicated question of whether they do spur the economy (it depends on who you give them to - basically, if you give them to people who will spend the money right away like the poor, they do; to people...
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WatchWomen truly do get paid less than men. Number of hours worked, marital status, number of kids, none of that accounts for the difference in pay. Women really are getting paid less and the only explanation left is discrimination. As Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock Holmes famously said*, “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must...
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The Government DOES Create Jobs
“The government can’t create jobs.” This has been a frequent statement of politicians and pundits on the right since early 2009. This has been the rationale behind opposing the stimulus bill from 2009, any further stimulus after that ran out, government spending more generally and for the President’s jobs bill from 2011. This is hogwash. The government employs some of the...
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The President Did Try to Get the DREAM Act Through...
Today’s lie that I’m clearing up with facts is one spread by Speaker John Boehner that President Barack Obama didn’t try to get immigration reform done through Congress before he went the executive order route. This couldn’t be more blatant of a lie. The House passed the DREAM Act when Dems controlled it and Senate had 55 votes for it. But Senate Republicans under Minority...
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Obama and Holder Are NOT Coming for Your Guns
It is now my mission to combat one lie/myth/falsehood/urban legend/rumor a day by giving the facts. Today’s fact: Project Gunrunner (the project of which “Operation Fast and Furious” and “Operation Wide Receiver” are parts) the stupid gunrunning scheme by the ATF, was started in 2005 or 2006 under President Bush. It is not some complex plot for President Obama to...
