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'Misleading' Andy Griffith Ads Cost Taxpayers $3 Million, Gov't Documents Show

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by Fred Lucas

December 1, 2010

The first ad, entitled "1965," featured Griffith saying, "This year, as always, we'll have our guaranteed benefits. And with the new health care law, more good things are coming."

But the non-partisan FactCheck.org says some 10 million Medicare Advantage recipients will see their benefits cut by about $43 a month. "Currently, about one in every four beneficiaries is enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan," said FactCheck.org, a project of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center.

'Mighty pill' poisons county's quality of life

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by John Richardson

October 15, 2011

No place in Maine has been harder hit by painkiller abuse than Washington County.

Maine was hit earlier and harder by prescription painkiller abuse than much of the nation. And Washington County, at its eastern tip, has been considered ground zero for painkiller abuse in Maine for the past decade, since an explosion of addiction in Down East Maine and in West Virginia earned OxyContin the nickname "hillbilly heroin."

'Lost' emails, lost confidence

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by Rep. Pete Olson

June 29, 2014

What's also troubling is the lack of outrage from the media on behalf of the Americans who were bullied by the IRS.

The First Amendment to the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, "prohibits the making of any law... abridging the freedom of speech." Every American is protected by this inalienable right that ensures that the government cannot attack its citizens for their beliefs. Yet, one of the most powerful federal agencies, the Internal Revenue Service, did exactly that when they targeted conservative non-profit organizations seeking tax-exempt status. Officials at the IRS have admitted to these actions and Congress has been investigating. Yet, the IRS has refused to provide critical information about the extent of the targeting and who was involved. After promising for a year to deliver emails related to how certain conservative groups were targeted and who was involved in the decision making process, the IRS informed Congress last Friday that they cannot locate many of the emails in question prior to 2011 as the result of a computer crash during that year. Lois Lerner, former head of the IRS division that processes applications to determine tax-exempt status, is currently under investigation by three congressional committees, the Justice Department and the IRS inspector general. Her emails are the ones the IRS claims have both been erased and the data is unrecoverable due to the hard drive in question being recycled.

'Little or no warning': Obama draws up worldwide cyber-attack target list

rt.com

June 8, 2013

President Barack Obama ordered national security leaders to compile a list of potential overseas "adversaries" for US cyber-attacks which could be targeted with "little or no warning", a top secret document reveals.

The 18-page, classified document, entitled Presidential Policy Directive 20, outlines plans for Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO), cyber-attacks which would target US adversaries around the world. "OCEO can offer unique and unconventional capabilities to advance US national objectives around the world with little or no warning to the adversary or target and with potential effects ranging from subtle to severely damaging," the Washington Post cites the document as saying. "The United States government shall identify potential targets of national importance where OCEO can offer favorable balance of effectiveness and risk as compared with other instruments of national power," it continues. The directive also mulls the potential use of cyber actions within the US, though any such operations must be conducted with prior authorization of the White House, unless "it qualifies as an Emergency Cyber Action."

'Life's reality': Writer, advocate, foster care leader finds the positive in life

Sun Journal

by My Tien Huynh

July 6, 2009

Dustin Strout has no family. He has resided in a mental institution, two group homes, five foster homes, several friends' homes and numerous homeless shelters for nearly 20 years, but nowhere within those places did his family reside.

"I didn't want toys; I wanted family love." Strout remembers crying over not having a biological mother. "I wanted the person who gave birth to me to be there," he said. By the time Strout was 9, he had entered and left four more foster homes. "They just didn't know how to deal with me because I had so much confusion and so much anger."

'Keeping Them Honest': CNN's Tom Foreman Uses False 'Fact-Checking' to Slam Republican Candidates

Big Journalism

by Joel B. Pollak

November 23, 2011

After last night's Republican debate over national security and foreign policy, CNN called upon Tom Foreman to check some of the facts asserted by the candidates, in a segment entitled "Keeping Them Honest."

It soon became clear that Foreman and CNN were not interested in checking the candidates' facts-which were correct in each case-but in checking their opinions, while misleading viewers about the candidates' honesty.

'It's hard to live with yourself after you murder someone so innocent'

wnd.com

by Bob Unruh

November 12, 2011

The ruling comes today from Judge Fortunato P. Benavides, of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in arguments in a lawsuit brought by abortion providers against the law, H.B. 15, which was signed on May 19, 2011, by Gov. Rick Perry.

That an abortion can cause grave mental injury to a woman is documented in a number of studies, and now the testimony from those victims will be heard in a dispute over the new Texas state law that requires abortion providers to perform a sonogram before destroying the unborn baby. The Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services brought a challenge to halt the enforcement of the law and a trial court issue a preliminary injunction on Aug. 15. But the women who gathered to prepare the friend-of-the-court brief regarding their own injuries believe its important for future abortion patients to have the knowledge they didn't.

'Incredible Irony': Court Has 'Declared Obama to Be a Monumental Liar'

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by Susan Jones

June 28, 2012

"From now til Election Day the GOP should simply run clips of Obama insisting this wasn't a tax," Bozell said.

"The incredible irony here is that in upholding Obamacare, Roberts et. al. have formally also declared Obama to be a monumental liar," said L. Brent Bozell III, president of the conservative Media Research Center, the parent organization of CNSNews.com. "And in the most bizarre twist of them all, they upheld the lie by declaring this to be a tax."

'I Wouldn't Feed This Stuff to a Dying Animal'

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by Yelena Sukhoterina

June 14, 2016

Carrol Krause, a former reporter for the Herald-Times of Bloomington, Indiana, had to retire from her journalism career because of an ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2014.

A few months ago she started having digestive issues and could no longer eat normal food. What hospice workers brought her as meal replacements horrified her. Krause writes: "Hospice had the very best of intentions, [but] the stuff they sent over was not real FOOD. In fact, I'm outraged at the idea that they feed this stuff to dying people." What the hospice provided to Krause was a bag full of products by Ensure: pudding, shakes, and a drink that pretends to be apple juice.

'I was like everybody: Are you kidding me? Marijuana?'

thenewsstar.com

by Miranda Klein

July 29, 2015

Michele Hall has decided to leave the security of her Vernon Parish home, split her family and head West in hopes that medical marijuana will help her epileptic daughter find relief from uncontrollable seizures.

Four-year-old Ella Grace takes six different medicines, which her mom says don't work and give her side effects just as bad - and sometimes worse - than the seizures. So, Hall said this week it looks as if she and two of her children, including Ella Grace, will be Colorado residents by the end of October. There, Ella Grace will have access to cannabidiol, a compound of marijuana, which people consume in oil form.

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