Latest Fact Checks

A white flag has a literal meaning, too.

By Angie Drobnic Holan

January 25, 2008

Hillary Clinton wants to "wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal."

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When first means second

By David DeCamp

January 24, 2008

"I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina."

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The peace dividend began with a Bush

By Bill Adair

January 24, 2008

"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."

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His recollections are way off

By Adriel Bettelheim

January 24, 2008

Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.

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Obama decried Farrakhan’s racism

By Angie Drobnic Holan

January 23, 2008

Obama "remains silent" and "is never asked how he feels about his church honoring Farrakhan."

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Related magazine, not church, gave award

By Angie Drobnic Holan

January 23, 2008

Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan.

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Magic wands don’t exist

By Angie Drobnic Holan

January 23, 2008

"When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness."

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A fragment of truth, distorted

January 22, 2008

"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city…

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No evidence she said that

By Adriel Bettelheim

January 22, 2008

"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."

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Black and white family net worth disparity true

By Miranda Blue

January 22, 2008

"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."

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Hillary went the Wal-Mart way

By Bill Adair

January 22, 2008

"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at…

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Her words are somewhat misleading

January 21, 2008

The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something…

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