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It was just ten days ago that Stephen Hayes of  The Weekly Standard  reported “fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults” last September on U.S.

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By all accounts, the Heritage Foundation study that would have been the conservative media’s cudgel to defeat comprehensive immigration reform a second time is all but rotting in the ground, buried under accusations of anti-immigrant and race-based bias.

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Fox News reporter Todd Starnes claims to offer “culture war news,” but several of his recent stories have turned out to be false or misleading. Starnes’ Story: Military Undergoing “Christian Cleansing” Under Obama Starnes’ Story: Lesbian Role Play At Middle School Starnes’ Story: Pentagon Blocks Access To Southern Baptist Website Starnes’ Story: Track Team Disqualified For Praising God Starnes’ Story: “Saudi National” Involved In Boston Bombing Starnes’ Story: Military Undergoing “Christian Cleansing” Under Obama Starnes: Christians “Under Significant Attack” By Obama Administration

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A Wall Street Journal editorial asked questions that have already been answered regarding military deployments in response to the Benghazi attack when it rehashed false claims that U.S. military forces were not deployed to the region around Benghazi, Libya, and suggested that political considerations hampered a quicker response

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In coverage of a May 8 House Oversight Committee hearing, conservatives are pushing new myths about the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on a U.S.

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CNN’s Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger used right-wing scandal mongering to push the discredited allegation that talking points about the attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, were edited for political purposes. Borger’s analysis ignored that the intelligence community signed off on these talking points and that General David Petreaus testified in November that references to Al Qaeda were removed to protect the integrity of the investigation and to avoid tipping off terrorists.

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As wildfires swept through southern California over the past week, experts warned that the state is in for an especially dangerous wildfire season due to unusually hot and dry conditions. But in their coverage of the fires, several of California’s major newspapers have entirely ignored how climate change has increased wildfire risks in the region. California’s wildfire season kicked off early this year, with record temperatures, heavy winds and ongoing drought conditions fueling fires across the state that have threatened thousands of homes and businesses

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According to the Washington Post , the Cato Institute has identified another major flaw with the conservative Heritage Foundation’s immigration report that further invalidates Heritage’s conclusions: Heritage has repeatedly touted the use of “dynamic” scoring, as opposed to the “static” scoring used in its immigration studies, as the more accurate model for gauging fiscal impact. As Cato Institute immigration expert Alex Nowrasteh explained , estimating a proposed bill’s fiscal impact using dynamic scoring involves taking into account how legislation “will affect the rest of the economy, also changing tax revenue and government spending.” He added: “Since increased immigration will increase the size of the economy, it will also increase tax revenue and some government spending.” As Nowrasteh went on to note, however, Heritage used “static” scoring to analyze immigration reform in 2007 — which assumed the bill would not affect the rest of the economy. Heritage has also employed the “static” method in a new analysis claiming that granting “amnesty” to undocumented immigrants would cost U.S

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According to Fox News Sunday ‘s Chris Wallace, the conservative Heritage Foundation is set to release a report that claims immigration reform will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. But Heritage’s analysis is reportedly based on a 2007 study that was widely discredited by experts for its faulty methodology and dubious conclusions. On KFTK’s Allman in the Morning , Wallace stated that he plans to host Heritage Foundation president and former Republican Sen

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Fox News editor-at-large Peter Boyer previewed the network’s special on the Kermit Gosnell murder trial by falsely claiming the trial illustrates “what abortion is,” and that Gosnell’s alleged crimes were the natural response to Roe v.

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