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Cruz vs. PolitiFact: Can you fact-check a wink?
The new tally: Cruz, 8; PolitiFact 1. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org PolitiFact is a public affliction. Its journalism is pedantic, gullible, and shady, which is no easy combination. PolitiFact is also...
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Vetoes could restore Perry’s cred with the right
Gov. Rick Perry could restore some credibility with conservatives by vetoing some spending measures. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org HOUSTON — Gov. Rick Perry lost some credibility as a fiscal...
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Budget-writer hits Texas think tank with low blow
Part 2 of 4 in the series Veto This! Chief budget-writer Tommy Williams delivered a low blow to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org HOUSTON — Hannah Arendt once said that...
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Veto this! Three Texas agenices that need the axe
Part 3 of 4 in the series Veto This! VROOOM! Taxpayers don’t need to be subsidizing Formula 1. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org Gov. Rick Perry has until Sunday to decide which line items in the budget he...
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Veto this! An easy $1 billion from the education budget
Part 4 of 4 in the series Veto This! Rice University is doing alright without tuition support from taxpayers.Photo by Anatol Stefanowitsch/licensed under Creative Commons By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org...
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Supreme Court overturns pro-affirmative action ruling in UT-Austin case
UT Austin may eventually have to revise its affirmative action policies, depending on the resolution of an affirmative action case the Supreme Court just ruled on. HOUSTON – By a 7-1 majority, the U.S....
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I see your point about world history, Sen. Cruz, but let’s argue video games
Whatever you say is wrong. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org PolitiFact is a public affliction. Its journalism is pedantic, gullible, and shady, which is no easy combination. PolitiFact is also dishonest,...
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I’m arrogant, dismissive, derisive, mistaken and a failure, but not sorry
That’s Cruz: 10, PolitiFact, 1. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org HOUSTON — Did President Obama go on an international apology tour after taking office? According to the fact-checkers, no, and anyone who...
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Texas rep says impeachment letter was doctored
NOT ME: Letter from Rep. Kenny Marchant sympathetic to impeachment was doctored, his office said. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org HOUSTON – A pro-impeachment letter written by a congressman that has...
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Medicare fraud: $97 million for mentally ill patients to watch movies, play...
By Eric Boehm | Watchdog.org While taxpayers were picking up the tab for intensive, outpatient care for mentally ill patients, those patients were playing games and watching movies. EXPENSIVE GAMES:...
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