Out of all of Ben Carson’s various fabulist fever dreams currently floating around, the one about a Florida woman trying to sue him for child support pales in comparison to, say, the one about him trying to murder a pal (or was it a family member?) with a knife. But for something with such legal import, there’s…

[UPDATE: Ben Carson’s campaign has denied specifically “admitting,” to Politico, that Carson intentionally misled people.] Ben Carson’s campaign reportedly admitted Friday that his oft-repeated story about applying and obtaining a scholarship to the West Point military academy was a lie.

Another day, another dubious claim of violence from Dr. Ben Carson, a man who, for whatever reason, would very much like you to believe he stabbed a friend in the stomach and tried to attack his own mother with a hammer.