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Ad misleading about Iran hostage crisis
By John Frank December 18, 2007

"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one…

A trillion is too much
By Angie Drobnic Holan December 17, 2007

"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."

Indeed, Bush did it his way
By Michael Van Sickler December 17, 2007

"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "

The ugly truths
December 15, 2007

"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in…

Can’t blame Bush
December 15, 2007

"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."

Poverty numbers are right
December 13, 2007

"We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children."

Thompson’s tax numbers add up
By Angie Drobnic Holan December 13, 2007

"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."

Yes, Biden spoke first
By Bill Adair December 12, 2007

"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."

He didn’t say that, but he did shift to the left
By Shawn Zeller December 11, 2007

"He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."

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