Latest Fact Checks

Obama attended an Indonesian public school

By Angie Drobnic Holan

December 20, 2007

"Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging…

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So true, he’s understating it

By Shawn Zeller

December 19, 2007

"It used to be the policy of the Republican Party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally get in charge and a…

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If she’s right, Bill’s a criminal

By Bill Adair

December 19, 2007

"I can't sign money. That's illegal."

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Their shifts were less stark

December 19, 2007

"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush.…

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History supports McCain’s stance on waterboarding

By John Frank

December 18, 2007

" ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American…

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Need, not wealth, prompted estate taxes

By John Frank

December 18, 2007

"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've…

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Hunter perpetuates common myth

By John Frank

December 18, 2007

"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."

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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…

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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."

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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.' "

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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…

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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."

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