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Donna Brazile: No conspiracy here, IRS targeted liberals, too

By Steve Contorno

June 22, 2014

The IRS "also investigated liberal groups, groups that had progressive in their name. ... The IRS was basically looking at everybody."

Are there immigrants on the 2014 U.S. Men’s World Cup team?

By Steve Contorno

June 19, 2014

Says 11 soccer players on the U.S. Men’s National Team are immigrants.

Are thousands of Westerners and Americans fighting with extremists in Iraq and Syria?

By Steve Contorno

June 18, 2014

"Thousands of Westerners and Americans" are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq.

Bill Cassidy said Senate Democrats only moved to fund new VA clinics after scandal

By Steve Contorno

June 16, 2014

"Only after news broke that our veterans are dying because of inadequate health care did Harry Reid and Senate Democrats take action."

Reince Priebus says Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers have plummeted

By Steve Contorno

June 15, 2014

Says Hillary Clinton’s approval rating went from 70 percent to 52 percent in 18 months.

Hillary Clinton says in memoir that there’s very little U.S. military presence in Africa

By Steve Contorno

June 12, 2014

"The U.S. military footprint in Africa is nearly nonexistent."

Conservative columnist says Obama fought to keep Taliban official in Guantanamo Bay because he was a ‘huge risk’

By Steve Contorno

June 8, 2014

The Obama administration "went to court to keep one of these five in jail at Guantanamo just three years ago because he was such a…

Claire McCaskill credits Hillary Clinton for ‘groundwork’ in Syria chemical weapons deal

By Steve Contorno

June 4, 2014

Says Hillary Clinton "laid the groundwork" for getting chemical weapons out of Syria.

Boehner: Obama’s climate change policies will kill 224,000 jobs and surge electric bills by billions

By Steve Contorno

June 2, 2014

New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by "$17 billion every year" and "potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every…

Ted Cruz: ‘U.S. policy has changed, now we make deals with terrorists’

By Steve Contorno

June 1, 2014

Says Barack Obama broke a decades-old policy of "not negotiating with terrorists."

Eric Cantor says Senate immigration reform efforts are the Obama-Reid amnesty plan

By Steve Contorno

May 28, 2014

Senate immigration legislation is the "Obama-Reid plan to give illegal immigrants amnesty."

Elizabeth Warren says the top five banks are 38 percent larger than at the time of the bailout

By Steve Contorno

May 22, 2014

"Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail."

Latest Fact Checks By Steve Contorno

Donna Brazile: No conspiracy here, IRS targeted liberals, too

Are there immigrants on the 2014 U.S. Men’s World Cup team?

Are thousands of Westerners and Americans fighting with extremists in Iraq and Syria?

Bill Cassidy said Senate Democrats only moved to fund new VA clinics after scandal

Reince Priebus says Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers have plummeted

Hillary Clinton says in memoir that there’s very little U.S. military presence in Africa

Conservative columnist says Obama fought to keep Taliban official in Guantanamo Bay because he was a ‘huge risk’

Claire McCaskill credits Hillary Clinton for ‘groundwork’ in Syria chemical weapons deal

Boehner: Obama’s climate change policies will kill 224,000 jobs and surge electric bills by billions

Ted Cruz: ‘U.S. policy has changed, now we make deals with terrorists’

Eric Cantor says Senate immigration reform efforts are the Obama-Reid amnesty plan

Elizabeth Warren says the top five banks are 38 percent larger than at the time of the bailout