Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

I would like to contribute

$

Latest Fact-Checks

Clear
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on 2010-08-29 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Mike DeWine
Mike DeWine
stated on 2010-08-15 a television interview:
The DeWine campaign is "receiving money from so many more people. (Cordray's) money is coming almost exclusively from the party, labor unions, and special counsel that he has given business to."
Half-True
By Aaron Marshall • August 30, 2010
Back to Basics
Back to Basics
stated on 2010-08-24 a newspaper ad:
Gov. Rick Perry "has overseen the highest Texas unemployment in 22 years."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke • August 28, 2010
Loranne Ausley
Loranne Ausley
stated on 2010-08-12 a web ad.:
"(Jeff) Atwater's bank was so weak that just a few months ago it was shut down by the FDIC."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • August 27, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2010-08-24 a speech at the City Club of Cleveland:
"Since February 2009, the private sector has lost millions of jobs while the federal government has grown by hundreds of thousands of workers."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • August 24, 2010
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on 2010-08-10 a recorded message:
U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) refuses to return $37,000 in "dirty" campaign contributions from U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • August 23, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on 2010-08-10 a debate:
"Seventy bills [Kendrick Meek] authored, not one of them has passed."  
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman • August 20, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on 2010-08-09 an East Texas campaign stop.:
Says Rick Perry's proposal on driver licenses and high school dropouts has been state law since 1989.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 20, 2010
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on 2010-08-09 a television election ad:
"Jim Renacci supports a national sales tax of 23 percent."
Half-True
By Mark Naymik • August 19, 2010
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on 2010-08-15 a segment of CBS' ''Face The Nation.'':
Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • August 18, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on 2010-08-02 in a Univision debate in Miami.:
"We have over 700,000 illegal immigrants in the state. They're costing us billions of dollars and they're taking legal residents' jobs."
Half-True
By Cristina Silva • August 18, 2010
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on 2010-07-06 a speech:
"Since the president became the president, we have lost 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. But you know who's done OK and who's not complaining today? The public sector. We've gained 590,000 public sector jobs."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • August 18, 2010
Mike Keown
Mike Keown
stated on 2010-08-12 his campaign Web site:
"It is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than $100,000 while the average private-sector worker makes less than $70,000."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • August 18, 2010
Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson
stated on 2010-08-15 an interview on ABC's ''This Week with Christiane Amanpour.'':
The United States is "number 14, number 15" in college graduation rates, and "we're leading the world in high school dropout rates."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2010
Carol Browner
Carol Browner
stated on 2010-08-04 NBC's "Today Show.":
"More than three-quarters of the oil is gone."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 16, 2010
Committee to Protect Florida
Committee to Protect Florida
stated on 2010-08-02 in a mailer:
Kathryn Starkey "aided and abetted the continued taxation on residents’ properties over 70 percent of the time by seconding motions and voting to keep the millage rate the same."
Half-True
By Jodie Tillman • August 13, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on 2010-08-12 an op ed article:
Republicans are now "taking credit" for provisions of the health care bill "that they had tried to derail."  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 13, 2010
Barney Frank
Barney Frank
stated on 2010-07-07 MSNBC's Morning Joe:
The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.
Half-True
By Erin Mershon, Robert Farley • August 13, 2010
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on 2010-07-15 a consultant's e-mail to PolitiFact Texas.:
Says Democrat Hank Gilbert "has a criminal conviction for theft, has multiple years of unpaid taxes, has multiple tax liens and fines, unsafe driving convictions (and) has recently been accused of taking a bribe and is on record lying to the press this year about his criminal record."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 13, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on 2010-08-06 the "Rachel Maddow Show":
"We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending."
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • August 12, 2010
Previous Next