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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Friday wrote off the idea that people arrested by the police in the United States deserve to know their rights, and argued that a U.S.

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Fox News host Bill Hemmer advanced a number of false and dubious claims about Rep.

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The Wall Street Journal presented a one-sided picture of the charter school network Knowledge Is Power Program, touting a KIPP charter school’s higher test scores while ignoring criticism about KIPP schools’ selection process and attrition rates. The Journal , reporting on school closings in Washington, D.C., noted that test scores at a KIPP charter school are higher than at a nearby public school: Since 2009, the portion of Davis students who tested proficient in reading doubled to 34%, while math proficiency jumped to 35% from 22%. At the nearby KIPP school, 59% are proficient in reading and 75% in math.

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Fox’s Gretchen Carlson mangled the facts on tax policy to suggest it would be reasonable for people to reduce their incomes in response to a tax rate increase for the wealthiest Americans. In fact, if tax rates increase on the wealthiest Americans, it would make no sense for them to decrease their income in response.  President Obama has  proposed  extending the Bush tax cuts for most tax cuts but letting them expire for taxpayers earning more than $250,000.  On  Fox & Friends , Carlson read an email from a viewer with a medical practice who responded to Obama’s plan by saying: “If my taxes go over 35%, I will decrease the number of patients I see daily to reduce my income, which means my staff will also reduce their income.” Carlson responded to the email by claiming: “That is the reality that a lot of physicians and small business owners are going to be facing.” In fact, if tax rates increased for individuals making over $250,000, it would still benefit people if they earned more than $250,000

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The battle for the future of the Republican Party has split warring factions of conservative pundits into two camps: those who clamor for expanding the base to increase diversity by appealing to Latino voters, and those who don’t. It’s Rush Limbaugh versus Sean Hannity, Fox News against Fox News. But while the country’s shifting demographics can partly explain what happened on Election Day, conservative pundits are ignoring a few keys facts: President Obama was reelected because voters trusted him on economic issues, and Latinos are more liberal in their views than conservative media give them credit for

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As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the east coast, Breitbart.com is reporting  that President Obama’s “proposal for the upcoming budget sequester would cut nearly $900 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including disaster relief, food and shelter, and flood management at both the federal and state levels.” This is absolutely false: the  report  they characterize as the White House’s “sequester proposal” is actually a legally required estimate of how scheduled automatic budget cuts will impact discretionary spending, and inveighs strongly  against  allowing those cuts to take effect.  The debt-limit deal passed in 2011 (with the support of  over two-thirds  of House Republicans, including GOP vice presidential candidate  Paul Ryan ) required both parties to find a way to cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion, or face  steep, automatic cuts across the board  starting in January 2013 — the sequester. On August 7, President Obama signed into law the  Sequester Transparency Act , which required the White House to “submit to Congress a detailed report on the sequestration” that provides “an estimate for each category of the sequestration percentages and amounts necessary to achieve the required reduction.” The White House Office of Management and Budget released that report in September

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The United States government is killing people. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia are all being pounded by missiles launched from US drones, and though the missiles are ostensibly targeted against terrorists, it seems possible that hundreds of civilians have been killed in the crossfire. Neither party’s nominee will debate this issue.

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The Wall Street bailouts happened in no small part because the big investment banks had America over a barrel in 2008 .

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Mitt Romney’s speech to the Republican National Convention on Thursday night was riddled with misleading claims and critical omissions . In no section was this more true than Romney’s discussion of foreign policy . The GOP presidential nominee devoted only 202 words to national security and while his speech completely ignored the war in Afghanistan and any homage to American servicemembers, it contained a shocking number of misstatements and false and baseless attacks on President Obama: 1

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Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Mitt Romney campaign co-chair and former Wisconsin governor Tim Pawlenty told Foreign Policy Magazine that he would support Congress authorizing war with Iran. Elliot Abrams , a former Bush administration official and now top foreign policy adviser to GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, floated this idea last week and Pawlenty said it might be “a good idea.” “I don’t know that it would be dispositive, but it couldn’t hurt and it probably would help,” he said

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