Latest Stories By Alexander Lane

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Checking the pundits

April 10, 2009

We examine claims by pundits and talk show hosts and find Rachel Maddow was wrong about Sarah Palin, that George Washington didn't speak of God the way Rush Limbaugh claimed, and that George Will was right about troubled assets.

Distorting Geithner’s comments about the dollar

April 2, 2009

A Minnesota congresswoman suggests incorrectly that the treasury secretary wants to dump the dollar.

‘Light switch tax’ isn’t what Republicans claim

March 30, 2009

The Republicans contend Obama's cap-and-trade policy would impose a $3,128 tax per family. But it's not a tax and it wouldn't cost that much.

The kids are alright

March 13, 2009

Obama claims U.S. eighth graders are slipping at math. But we find they're actually improving.

McConnell’s fuzzy math doesn’t compute

March 4, 2009

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says the Democrats spent more in a month than the combined cost of Hurricane Katrina and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We crunch the numbers and find that's wrong.

High-speed train not a Mickey Mouse line

February 27, 2009

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal stretches the truth about a rail line that might get money from the stimulus.

Chain e-mails are back — and they’re still wrong

February 11, 2009

Get ready to hit the Delete key. Chain e-mails are making a resurgence and landing in your inbox. We check two of them and find they're Pants on Fire wrong.

Is McCain within margin of error?

October 31, 2008

McCain claims he's "within the margin of error," but that's true only for the Fox poll.

Invoking the red menace

October 27, 2008

The McCain campaign went from tiptoeing around allegations that Obama is a socialist, to outright calling him one.

A radical Ayers allegation

October 10, 2008

The McCain campaign ratchets up its attempt to connect Barack Obama to former '60s radical William Ayers.

Campaigns dig into the archives to attack

October 7, 2008

The race is tight and the campaigns are digging deeper for the dirt.

Palin’s pipeline – less than meets the eye

September 15, 2008

It was her biggest goal as governor, and she took a few steps down the road. But this pipeline is still a bit of a pipe dream.

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