2012 Dishonest Reporting Awards December 17, 2012 15:05 by Pesach Benson The 2012 Dishonest Reporter: Gideon Levy, Haaretz In a break with tradition for HonestReporting readers, this year’s Dishonest Reporter winner is not a member of the international media but someone disturbingly close to home. It’s no secret that some of the most critical stories […]
Kicking the can is the least repugnant remaining resolution to the fiscal cliff. The only alternatives appear to be the Republicans’ unconditional surrender on income tax rates (and conceding their principles) or simply going over the cliff. The story is now a familiar one. Congress and the President conspire to delay every conceivable difficulty until […]
A Texas government program prepares citizens for what has become a new and sick American custom of mass killings: Run, fight and hide. [youtube 5VcSwejU2D0 nolink] The “Houston Ready” website offers a free 15-minute DVD for families to prepare themselves for a mass murderer and teaches how to respond. The site states, “The Houston Region […]
Faced with a court-ordered deadline, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized more stringent rules for National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Pollution (PM2.5), more commonly known as soot. The new standard lowers the standard from 15 micrograms per cubic meter of air down to 12 micrograms, and counties must meet the standard by 2020 […]
In just a little over a decade, the U.S. federal debt will exceed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), an “economically damaging” level, according to analysis from The Heritage Foundation based on numbers provided by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office. To the numbers: Fiscal year (FY) 2012 […]
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” […]
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), proposed a “bar exam” for public-school teachers in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week. Modeled after the bar exam for aspiring lawyers, the new test would be intended to produce highly effective teachers. But it would do nothing of the kind. As we have […]
A 1987 study ordered by the CIA found that Jonathan Pollard, convicted in the U.S. of spying for Israel, never sought to obtain information about U.S. activities. Rather, he was instructed by his Israeli handlers to obtain information about Israel’s enemies. The 1987 study by the Foreign Denial and Deception Analysis Committee was ordered by […]
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) alleged that the recent escalation of violence between Hamas and Israel can be blamed on U.S. foreign policy, which, he maintains, favors Israel. “U.S. foreign policy being so one-sided actually results in more loss of life and of security on both sides,” Paul said, according to The Hill. “Surely Israelis do […]
The United States will send Patriot air defense missiles and 400 troops to Turkey to defend it from Syria, AP reported Friday. Pentagon press secretary George Little said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has signed a deployment order. Turkey requested assistance from NATO following multiple incidents in which violence in Syria spilled over the border. In […]
