Latest Fact Checks By Alexander Lane

Here’s the scoop: Obama has worked in the ice cream business, among many others

By Alexander Lane

April 15, 2009

President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.

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Rush Limbaugh incorrect about Washington’s religious views

By Alexander Lane

April 10, 2009

"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."

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Maddow claims Palin got zero support for her idea, only it wasn’t hers, and others supported it

By Alexander Lane

April 10, 2009

Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

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In defending U.S. currency, Bachmann distorts Geithner’s comments about dollar

By Alexander Lane

April 1, 2009

"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.

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Conditions in Afghanistan have deteriorated for soldiers and civilians alike

By Alexander Lane

March 31, 2009

"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."

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GOP full of hot air about Obama’s “light switch tax”

By Alexander Lane

March 30, 2009

"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household…

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Secret ballots would be rare, but not eliminated

By Alexander Lane

March 27, 2009

The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the "elimination of the secret ballot."

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Republicans accuse nominee Johnsen of supporting abortion rights but opposing motherhood

By Alexander Lane

March 24, 2009

Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"

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Billionaire Warren Buffett still backs Obama

By Alexander Lane

March 23, 2009

"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."

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Dodd flip-flopped on whether he changed amendment on bonuses to AIG and banks

By Alexander Lane

March 23, 2009

On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.

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Dodd failed to halt bailout bonuses, but he did limit future ones

By Alexander Lane

March 20, 2009

"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money…

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Wyden and Snowe wanted AIG bonus money back

By Alexander Lane

March 18, 2009

"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."

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