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A dubious meme has emerged online in conservative circles: The price of gasoline will spike because Joe Biden is taking office. The theory is that the president-elect's coming efforts to wean the United States off oil will nail people's pocketbooks. Conservative corners of Facebook are filled with viral photos of gas station signs with prices above $5 a gallon. “Just a reminder of what things looked like the last time Biden was in the White House,” reads one image. But this vastly overstates a president's power to control the cost of a commodity traded on a world market. Although a...

The Washington Post keeps insisting that President Trump lies all the time. When it's the Bezos/Baron social justice tabloid that can't stop lying. Tump suggests protesting should be illegal — Washington Post - Felicia Somnez President Trump has long derided the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people” and lashed out at NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. On Tuesday, he took his attacks on free speech one step further, Nope. If I were in the fact checking business, this would be deemed highly misleading to extremely deceptive. The Washington Post is mischaracterizing an exchange from Trump's...

CNN and Fox News aren’t the only ones doing a 180 on the Supreme Court ruling. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R), the first attorney generalin the nation to file a lawsuit over President Obama’s health-care overhaul, said the sky was pretty much falling in a news release issued half an hour after the court upheld the law. “This is a dark day for the American people, the Constitution, and the rule of law,” Cuccinelli said in the release. “This is a dark day for American liberty.” By the time he held a news conference an hour and 45...

Myth:  Yesterday’s Washington Post story (p A1), headlined “Medicare Drug Benefit May Cost $1.2 Trillion,” is simply wrong.  The article says “the White House released budget figures yesterday indicating that the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade, a much higher price tag than President Bush suggested when he narrowly won passage of the law in late 2003.”  This statement in the first paragraph of the story is flat wrong.  Here are the Facts: In 2003, President Bush committed to spending $400 billion over the next 10 years (2004 to 2013) to modernize Medicare and...