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The White House appears poised for a fight over its policy of separating migrant families who cross the border illegally, even as a growing number of lawmakers are voicing concerns about the practice. Democrats and some Republicans have in recent days visited facilities used to house separated family members, leading to new questions about the process and growing calls for the so-called "zero tolerance" policy to end. GOP Sens. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Susan Collins (Maine) wrote to the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services on Saturday asking for clarity on the administration's practice of separating migrant...

Think Progress, a website operated by the liberal Center for American Progress, failed to vet a phony story which claimed that Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann proposed “Americanization” labor camps for Central American unaccompanied children. “I’m calling on all of us, Obama and Congress and everyone, to chip in and build special new facilities…‘Americanization facilities,’ if you will,” Bachmann said, according to Think Progress, which has since corrected its embarrassing flub. […] Think Progress published the erroneous story on Sunday but corrected it and issued an apology after another liberal website, the Raw Story, pointed out the massive hoax. […]...

MISS MANNERS It's best to ignore strangers who shout their prejudices Judith Martin Miss Manners November 8, 2007 Dear Miss Manners: This evening I found myself waiting in line with two young men who proceeded loudly to proclaim at least five different countries they would like to bomb, and advocated reintroducing the draft so that everyone else would have to share their "sacrifice." They then loudly branded several political figures they disapproved of with a crude word. I bit my tongue and waited quietly. Then the people in front of me joined in and, incredibly, they all complained about how...

The Anatomy of a Smear: "Phony Soldiers" Is a Phony Story September 28, 2007 Listen To It! WMP | RealPlayer  Audio clips available for Rush 24/7 members only -- Join Now! BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH:  What?  Am I going to apologize?  It is I who am owed an apology.  Greetings, my friends, and welcome.  The Rush Limbaugh program.  It's Friday. JOHNNY DONOVAN:  Live from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida via New York City, it's Open Line Friday! RUSH:  Oh, goody goody gumdrops, yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yahoo. Ladies and gentlemen, one of my favorite days...

Writing the history of our time in song. Skip to comments.DFU SONG: His Latest Flame (Dems go down in flames over Plame)DFU SONGS | 7-2005 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland Posted on 07/13/2005 8:08:57 AM PDT by doug from upland MIDI - HIS LATEST FLAME The party of scum is hot today A phony story has such great appeal These guys really are surreal They'll go down in flames...over trollop Plame They swear they'll get, they'll get Karl Rove Every time that guy has kicked their butts By that evil guy they're driven nuts They'll go down in flames...over trollop...

So, I’m the guy who hired the person whose name is associated with creating the biggest print journalism boner in the country since New York Times’ reporter Jayson Blair filed his “out-of-state” stories from his Brooklyn apartment. This week, an avalanche of stunning material has surfaced concerning Michael Brenner, who resigned and left the East Oregonian on July 16. (The former sportswriter spent exactly 164 days employed at the EO, 148 of them while I was still sports editor.) It seems as though Brenner played a part in one of the longest ongoing hoaxes ever played out in journalism while...