Latest Fact Checks

Conservative group says you’ll be imprisoned for not having health insurance

By Louis Jacobson

September 29, 2009

"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."

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Palin says defense spending was tiny portion of stimulus

By Ian Jannetta

September 29, 2009

"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."

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E-mail claims Democratic Congress to blame for no COLA increase in Social Security

September 28, 2009

"For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment)."

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Health reform includes a tax penalty if you don’t have insurance

By Angie Drobnic Holan

September 28, 2009

Barack Obama and the Democrats have "proposed a tax for not having health insurance."

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Hoyer claims Republicans have no health care alternative

By Catharine Richert

September 28, 2009

"House Republicans pledged to introduce a bill to reform America’s health care system," but "the 'party of no' has . . . failed to produce…

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GOP claims video shows public B. Bernice Young Elementary School students made to sing about Obama

September 25, 2009

In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'"

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Barack Obama got many campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs

By Angie Drobnic Holan

September 25, 2009

Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's "No. 1 private contributor."

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Hannity says Obama is “cutting back on defense”

By Louis Jacobson

September 25, 2009

The Obama administration is "cutting back on defense"

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Massachusetts legislature flip-flops on governor’s senatorial appointment power

By Louis Jacobson

September 24, 2009

On whether the governor of Massachusetts should be able to appoint an interim U.S. senator

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Pawlenty changes course on cap-and-trade

By Catharine Richert

September 24, 2009

On a cap-and-trade plan.

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No difference between Medicare and Medicare Advantage? Maybe

By Angie Drobnic Holan

September 24, 2009

"Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy" as Medicare Advantage.

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Hannity says U.S. is reducing its nuclear arsenal

September 23, 2009

"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."

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