If you say you've never lied to your kid, you're probably, well, stretching the truth a little. Your fib may have been as innocuous as "there aren't any Fudgeos left" or as significant as "Fluffy went to live on a farm," but face it: The judiciously deployed lie is as much a part of a mother's arsenal as hand sanitizer and string cheese. In fact, 84 percent of REDBOOK readers recently surveyed admit to lying to their kids about once a month. We moms tend to beat ourselves up about fibbing; more than 76 percent of the readers we surveyed said they felt guilty about telling their kids a lie. But the untruths that fly out of your mouth in times of duress (read: tantrum at the mall) aren't going to permanently damage your kids. Ditto for those "developmental" lies that help kids kick bad behaviors or habits ("If you don't stop sucking your thumb, it might fall off!"). In fact, sometimes, massaging the truth is the most responsible thing to do. "Part of y
Disgraced banker R. Allen Stanford's pitch to investors was equal parts glamour and flattery.
A mother plans to apologize after she was charged with telling church members her child had cancer and needed money for a kidney transplant and then pocketing the cash.
The Pentagon's intelligence arm is adding more polygraph studios and relying on outside contractors for the first time to conduct lie detection tests in an attempt to screen its 5,700 prospective and current employees every year.
A male who lied to Sheboygan police to hide his unpaid traffic citations almost got himself into far more serious trouble. Police said they stopped a vehicle Saturday for improper registration. One passenger identified himself to police, who ran a check on that name.
Millions of readers who bought James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" were sold something less than the truth. After the best-selling "memoir" was found to be laced with fabrications, buyers around the country sued, saying they had been misled. But in the end, only about 1,700 people asked to be reimbursed, a lawyer said Friday as a judge approved a final settlement with disgruntled readers.
Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.
A law that bars political candidates from deliberately lying about their opponents is unconstitutional, a sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
It can be hard to get people to face the truth sometimes. Especially about lying. You don't want your kids to eat too much, so you say all the cookies are gone. You don't feel like going out, so you tell your date something important came up. You're overloaded with errands, so you call in sick.
I can't help but wonder what percentage of right-wing "two-fisted-flag-waving-so-called-patriotic-tough-guys-when-it-comes-to-anybody's-ass-but-their-own," keep insisting that America (or any other country) not only has the right to torture...but should!
A state of war can exist without your cooperation, without your desire to fight, without your willingness to die or live, your enemy can declare war on you without your permission; a state of war exist anytime any individual or collective of individuals or systems of power try t …
The 12 students arrested for terrorism realted charges, all freed not to be free but to held by the immigration department to deport them and gagging them under " not desirables". What have they done nothing, yet we are deporting them for our failings.
Cheney makes assertions that are complete fabrications. The evidence is powerful that he is STILL lying about torture and secret memos. He even thinks he sent a request to the CIA - which denies any such thing.
Greta Van Susteren, whom FOX News points to as liberal balance to the prime time conservatives, nonetheless did her part to help spread the hate-mongering against President Barack Obama last night (4/20/09) on On The Record by hosting Rush Limbaugh and asking him leading question …
An April 17 headline posted on TheFoxNation.com -- Fox News' new and allegedly bias-free website -- claimed that the "Taliban Copies Democrat Playbook." The headline linked to an April 16 New York Times article headlined, "Taliban Exploit Class Rifts in Pakistan." In fact, the Ti …
The Spanish Civil War "remains very much a burning issue of contemporary political significance," an audience at the British Academy heard Professor Paul Preston of the London School of Economics say introducing an evening discussion entitled "Civil War and Foreign Interven …
When Steve Doocy introduced the weekly "trouble with textbooks" segment (April 15th) as a "fair and balanced debate, look about how our economic past is portrayed in your kids books," I got excited thinking that perhaps there would be a counterpoint to the months of right …
It was an intensive, three-hour dinner at 30 Rock which Zucker himself was behind," a source familiar with the powwow told us. "There was a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much.
For more than a hundred years, the Democratic symbol has been the donkey. Depending on your outlook, it reflects either a humble reliability, or a certain braying stubbornness. But in a sharp recent change, the symbol of the Republican Party is now the microphone.
The recent shootings at the Binghampton immigration center in New York where hundreds of immigrants were studying to become American citizens by a rampaging gumman, and of three Pittsburgh police officers by a paranoid shooter were tragic.
Summary: Several media figures and outlets have uncritically repeated or failed to challenge the discredited GOP talking point that President Obama's cap-and-trade proposal would cost the average U.S. household more than $3,000 per year.
Summary: Cavuto on Business featured on-screen text that read: " 'Pay-For-Performance' Bill: Gov't dictating how much you'll make?" In fact, the bill would regulate compensation only for employees of financial institutions that have received federal assistance.
Sean Hannity edited a speech by President Obama to make it appear as if Obama was "attacking America." Sean Hannity, who claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ, then falsely attacked Obama based on his staged lies.
Summary: On America's Newsroom, on-screen text falsely claimed that President Obama's $3.6 trillion FY 2010 budget is "4x bigger than Bush's costliest plan." In fact, President Bush submitted a $3.1 trillion budget for FY 2009 and a $2.9 trillion budget for FY 2008.
There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one: It's just not true. In fact, it's not even close. By all accounts, it's probably around 17 percent.
Hullo, I've been gone awhile. Since early November, in fact. Did I miss much?
I am captive of faces, a map of what we have endured, then labor to hide. Secrets buried at corners of lips and softened gazes, that what is painful or embarassingly cocksure, remains underneath.
The drug war in America is failed. 15 million people use pot daily! The police will not say anything positive because what happens when a war ends. The Troops are sent home and laid off! The primary public excuses used are:
Excerpt: There has been CCTV, finger printing and eye recognition. Now comes body odour profiling. In its ongoing efforts to nail the bad guys, the US Department of Homeland Security is investing heavily in the sniff test: "odourprint".
Summary: Fox & Friends' Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed that the Obama administration advocates regulating "executive pay at any financial institution." In fact, restrictions on employee compensation would be placed only on "financial institutions that are receiving government a …
Summary: CNBC's Joe Kernen allowed Sen. Judd Gregg to advance the false Republican talking point that President Obama's income tax proposals would increase taxes on a large percentage of small businesses.
How can you keep a substance illegal for so many years, push policies that are detrimental to the country, throw thousands of people in prison and arrest hundreds of thousands more? Why you lie, dominate the media, censor the other side so they cannot tell the story, demonize, an …
Earlier this week, China's Central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan suggested the need for a "super-sovereign reserve currency," a move most passed off as China trying to "flex some muscle." And yet, within days, Fox News' Major Garrett was demanding whether President Oba …
Excerpt: Frantic calls from a Dallas woman who told her husband that someone had kidnapped her and their three young children set off an intense search over the weekend, according to police documents.