Don't deny it: The lies we tell our kids

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

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Stanford deployed a web of lies, documents show

Disgraced banker R. Allen Stanford's pitch to investors was equal parts glamour and flattery.

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Fla. mom swindles church with sick kid story

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.

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Pentagon's intelligence arm steps up lie detecting

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.

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Cops trap man in lie when he identifies himself as felon

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.

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Judge Approves Frey Book Settlement

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.

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China Jails Woman for Internet Lies

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.

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Wash. Court Rejects Ban on Campaign Lies

A law that bars political candidates from deliberately lying about their opponents is unconstitutional, a sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

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Poll Finds White Lies a Necessary Evil

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.

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In 2007, a British High Court judge ruled that Al Gore's global warming film contained nine significant errors and should no longer be screened in schools unless accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore's "one-sided" views.

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Some of the most embarrassing e-mails are attributed to Philip Jones, the Director of the CRU; Keith Briffa, his assistant; Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia; Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona; and others.

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FORMER parliamentary barmaid Michelle Chantelois has detailed a series of alleged sexual encounters with South Australian Premier Mike Rann in his office and a car, saying he coached her on how to lie to her suspicious husband.

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Narrated Ma'qil ibn Yasar: A man came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: I have found a woman of rank and beauty, but she does not give birth to children. Should I marry her? He said: No. He came again to him, but he prohibited him.

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Fox News presents year-old Palin footage as new Palin book tour crowd. Stewart blasts Hannity for using old video footage to inflate Bachmann rally attendance. Fox News' Garrett apologizes for fake HBO-Obama story -- which Fox News repeated days later.

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Poll. The Anti-Defamation League Reports that some in the Media are contributing to Anti-Government rage. Do you agree?

The Anti-Defamation League has a long history of non-partisan, objective reporting on hate in America.

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President Obama's "Accomplishments"

To set the record straight, this didn't come from any chain email. I know the liberals will have a hard time believing that (but I don't really care).

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims that his health care bill costs about $848 billion in the first 10 years, well under President Obama's $900 billion target.

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By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM

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Wow this is a great seg-way into my upcoming "Karma" article. My Pastor always says when you try to set a trap for others you shall surely fall into it. Sad but true ~LuVUMuch Necia

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There are many aspects to this story. It is impossible to know where to begin — let alone cover all the pertinent facts in just one article.

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I Love me!!!!!

Look up in the air..It's a bird...it's a plane...no it's "superobama"...not to be confused with "underdog", and who disguised as " kcarab amabo" fights a never ending battle for lies,injustice and the socialist way..Speaking of planes, I was walking through the airport on Saturda …

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In her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin mocks the "political buckshot" her "critics fired" at her, pointing to a "Democrat lawmaker" in Alaska who "complained that I wasn't as 'sparky' " after the 2008 election.

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) went after the Associated Press on Sunday, accusing them of engaging in "opposition research" in fact-checking her forthcoming book.

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Time after time, as the "Lou Dobbs Tonight" show he has hosted on CNN since 2003 grew more rabidly critical of undocumented immigrants, he was warned of the kind of people he was putting on his show. He was told that many of the "facts" he was presenting just weren't so.

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"Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time." - Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward.

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Excerpts from Sarah Palin's Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies and other sources who have received advanced copies. Here are the first ten lies from Palin's memoirs:

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Poll. Do you think the men in the Extenze commercials are lying when they say they don't care if it makes them larger?

Late night TV is full of Extenze commercials. Usually it's a couple or a guy alone who is testifying that they've seen the commercials many times and finally decided to give it a try.

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File a Complaint With the FCC Regarding Fox's (Hannity's) Latest Lie!

It's easy and fast and important. For more information about the transgression in question, see Killfile's seed. I filed my complaint already, inspired by this comment on another article on another site.

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Link goes to the video at Media Matters.

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Micha Kurz was an Israeli soldier during the second intifada, and when he left the military he co-founded Breaking the Silence, an organization that collects stories from members of the service (which is compulsory in Israel for young men and women) who served in the occupied ter …

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"WorldNetDaily falsely claimed that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan "advised Obama transition" in the headline of an article by Jerome Corsi highlighting his listing as a "participant" in a report for the Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) at George Washington Univer …

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[click link to see video] Employees are being told they have to receive the Swine Flu vaccine or lose their jobs. Schools are giving children the vaccine against their parents wishes.

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I had a four-hour dinner once with Rush Limbaugh at the "21" Club in Manhattan, back in the days when I was still writing profiles as a "reporterette," to use a Limbaugh coinage.

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If you can't win the debate, brand it as religion. That's how climate change deniers operate. Let me unravel how this cheap marketing tactic of branding exists and is propagated.I should know, I work in advertising and very well know how companies spin a web of nonsense to get  …

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