PolitiFact makes a mockery of Catholic question

By   /  May 22, 2013  /  Texas, Texas WatchBlog, WatchBlog  /  1 Comment

This makes Cruz 7, 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 dishonest, presenting plain old punditry as some new form of journalism that’s scrubbed clean of any trace of bias. But the advertised factishness is just a gambit – a way to gain [...]

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True the Vote sues IRS over targeting

By   /  May 22, 2013  /  Texas WatchBlog, WatchBlog  /  No Comments

TRUE THE VOTE: Engelbrecht's organization has revealed multiple cases of voters casting ballots in two states in the same election

HOUSTON – True the Vote, the Houston-based secure elections organization, filed a federal lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service Tuesday, seeking damages over the agency’s handling of its application for nonprofit status and asking the court to grant it the 501(c)(3) exemption it applied for in 2010.
Since that application was filed, True the Vote’s founders, [...]

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Banned from state biz, Texas contractor cashes in on school districts

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Education, News, Texas  /  5 Comments

The $47 million spent on this sports complex raised the first of many questions about the behavior of the Beaumont Independent School District Board.

By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org

BEAUMONT – An electrical contractor for the scandal-plagued Beaumont Independent School District was barred from doing business with the state nine months ago, yet the school district continues to send business his way.

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Gosnell all over again: Will media ignore Houston abortion scandal?

By   /  May 16, 2013  /  abortion, News, Texas  /  12 Comments

Three former employees of Dr. Douglas Karpen gave their accounts to Operation Rescue.

By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
HOUSTON – A dead mother, gruesome photos of late-term babies with their necks snipped, authorities unwilling to intervene – the allegations reported this week by Operation Rescue against Houston abortion provider Douglas Karpen have much in common with the case of Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted Monday on three counts of [...]

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IRS wasn’t only agency hassling True the Vote

By   /  May 16, 2013  /  Ethics, Federal Government, News, Politics & Elections, Texas  /  18 Comments

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By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
HOUSTON — Since filing for tax exemption as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2010, the founders of True the Vote, a Houston-based group that tries to prevent elections fraud, have been overwhelmed with scrutiny from a host of government agencies, in particular, by the Internal Revenue Service.
Catherine and Bryan Engelbrecht have suffered through 18 [...]

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