A Facebook meme suggests Canada-born Ted Cruz conveniently flip-flopping on needing to be born in the U.S. to run for president.
Pants on Fire! The comments attributed to Cruz don't reflect any actual remarks that we could find.
Our look at the meme turned out to be
Scott Walker and Greg Abbott, both visiting the Texas-Mexico border, have something else in common.
Truth-O-Meter records!
Walker, governor of his state longer than Abbott has led Texas, has been checked more often, though.
Remember Gov. Greg Abbott's celebration of Dallas students testing better than students any other place in America?
ALSO: On the Abbott-O-Meter, see Abbott's campaign Promises now In The Works.
Rick Perry, who might join Texan Ted Cruz in declaring for president, has said he's the only aspirant who's got military service under his belt.
Ted Cruz, the lively Texas senator, is declared his candidacy for president Monday. (Ahem, he tweeted his plans before he spoke.)
Win or lose in that endeavor, the Houston lawyer already has a Truth-O-Meter record drawing lots of online attention. See his ratings through today below. Dig into some of his "greatest hits" in our story starting here. Or gander at a PolitiFact look into his eligibility to run for president (Cruz was born in Canada) here.
It's TRUE: Cruz is the longest-serving solicitor general of Texas in history.
As the United Nations celebrates International Women’s Day, nonpartisan fact-checkers from five continents looked at claims about women’s lives.
A website retracted its story stating a Texas community replaced police officers with private security--and crime plunged 61 percent.
The yank happened at rare.us last week after Texas Monthly blew a whistle.
And now we’ve got the rest of the story about what’s up in part of the Sharpstown section of Houston.
Ted Cruz has a book coming this summer, perhaps in time to run for president.
Coming in June: "A Time for Truth."
Can't wait? Check out the Texas Republican's Truth-O-Meter report card.
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Remember last summer’s Pants on Fire claims about immigrants committing 3,000 murders in Texas?
A similar claim singling out Barack Obama just drew four Pinnochio's from The Washington Post’s Fact Checker which also revealed the state of Texas has reconfigured its data.
(See video of Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, making his statement at the 23:29 mark of the video posted above this story or go directly here.)
Speaker Boehner posted a list supposedly showing 22 times President Obama disavowed his power to stop immigrant deportations without congressional help.
That count doesn’t hold up. But Obama made repeated disavowals.
