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How Corrupt Prosecutors Get Away With Sending Innocent People to Jail

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. May 15, 2012.

Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in the American criminal justice system, a system that is not equipped or willing to punish their crimes.

Meet the Religious Right Charlatan Who Teaches Tea Party America The Totally Pretend History They Want to Hear

People For the American Way FoundationApril 20, 2011.

David Barton is a Republican Party activist and a fast-talking, self-promoting, self-taught, self-proclaimed historian who is miseducating millions of Americans about U.S. history.

Shocker: Mike Huckabee Breaks the 9th Commandment

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. February 11, 2009.

Huckabee is either deliberately deceiving people, or he's making reckless accusations without knowing the facts. Either way, this is ridiculous.

Fox VP: Hate Crime Hoax Means McCain's Campaign Is 'Over, Forever Linked to Race-Baiting'

Matt Corley, ThinkProgress. October 24, 2008.

Ashley Todd has admitted to making up her story.