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Florida ranks 45th in the nation for tuition costs, Denise Grimsley says

By Joshua Gillin February 27, 2012

"Florida ranks 45th" in the nation for tuition.

Rick Santorum says “90 percent of Down syndrome children in America are aborted”

By Louis Jacobson February 27, 2012

After prenatal diagnosis, "90 percent of Down syndrome children in America are aborted."

Chain email says Gov. Scott Walker supports a move to abolish the state retirement system and reduce pensions

By Dave Umhoefer February 27, 2012

Says Gov. Scott Walker is "openly" backing a move to abolish the state retirement system and convert it to a 401(k)-style plan that will reduce…

Chris Christie claims private-sector job growth in 2011 places New Jersey in the top third among the states

By Bill Wichert February 27, 2012

Says private-sector job growth in 2011 "places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states."

Sen. Janet Howell says it’s easier to buy guns in Virginia than vote

February 27, 2012

"It’s going to be harder to vote in Virginia than it is now to buy a gun..."

Georgia’s top court doing more with less, chief justice says

By Eric Stirgus February 27, 2012

"Our small staff of 51 is still fewer than we had a decade ago, yet our caseload -- like that of other courts -- has…

Dem candidate for Wisconsin governor says 85 percent of newly employed Wisconsin residents got jobs in other states

February 26, 2012

Says 21,000 Wisconsin residents got jobs in 2011, but "18,000 of them" were in other states.

Chris Christie claims only Texas institutionalizes more developmentally disabled people than New Jersey

By Erin O'Neill February 26, 2012

"New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization" of people with developmental disabilities "in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines…

American Atheists President David Silverman says there are twice as many atheists in U.S. as Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. February 26, 2012

"There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled."

Newt Gingrich says U.S. may have ‘three times as much oil’ as Saudi Arabia

By Louis Jacobson February 24, 2012

One estimate says there may be "three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia."

A majority of Americans are conservative, Marco Rubio says

By Angie Drobnic Holan February 24, 2012

"The majority of Americans are conservatives."

Have only 41% of Oregon adults ever been tested for HIV?

By Ian K. Kullgren February 24, 2012

Says "in Oregon only 41 percent of adults have ever been tested" for HIV.

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