Five years of truths and not-so-truths
Light the candles. We're five years old.
Rick Perry gets a laugh out of Texas Truth-O-Meter
Outgoing Gov. Rick Perry recently got a laugh out of PolitiFact.
Appreciated -- and here's his Truth-O-Meter report card.
Missed signs, fatal consequences; new facts on child abuse in Texas
With Texas legislators just embarking on the 140-day 2015 regular legislative session, we suspect there will be ample down time for everyone to soak up facts gathered over six months by the Austin American-Statesman about how the state investigates child abuse and neglect.
Big tax hikes taking effect? Pants on Fire
Perhaps you saw the chain email about multiple tax hikes taking effect this month. It's wrong in many ways.
Louie Gohmert, House speaker aspirant, has PolitiFact report card
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, the Tyler Republican who's revealed he wants to unseat House Speaker John Boehner, is familiar with the Truth-O-Meter.
Fact check of Census Bureau mandate proves No. 1 in reader views in 2014
We tuned in to the morning show hosted by KOKE FM's Bob Cole and, waddya know, heard a grumble touching off our most-viewed fact check of 2014.
Ted Cruz claim about ISIS nailing Christians to trees led to a most-read fact check of 2014
Ted Cruz, critical of ISIS, said the group had gone so far as to nail Christians to trees.
Our check of Cruz on this front was our No. 2-most-viewed story of 2014. (The No. 1 story, coming soon, arose from Bob Cole's mail.)
Debunked claim about Texas prisoner ordering a child for last meal among 2014 reader hits
Ridiculously, a website got traction with stories suggesting a Texas inmate had requested a child for his last meal.
Our recap of this "order" getting debunked (by Snopes.com) was our third-most-viewed story of 2014. Our countdown to No. 1 continues.
Our look into Obama ordering deaths of Americans among our popular fact checks
A U.S. Senate aspirant charged President Obama will killing four Americans with drone strikes.
We concluded three were not intended targets. And this fact check proved our fifth-most viewed story of 2014.
Our countdown to No. 1 continues.
Michele Bachmann didn’t say Bible written in English
Michele Bachmann, who's leaving Congress, has some Pants on Fires to her name.
But readers this year flocked to our story on a Pants on Fire claim about Bachmann supposedly saying the Bible was originated in English (not so).
We continue our countdown of the top 10 most-read PolitiFact Texas stories of 2014.
Lesson of 2014: Check the facts behind Mexico border claims
A trio of fact checks of flawed claims about activities near the Texas-Mexico border drew reader interest, each one landing among our 10 most-read stories of 2014:
* Ted Cruz incorrectly said Barack Obama has promised amnesty to illegal immigrants
* Pants on Fire: Duncan Hunter makes unconfirmed claim Border Patrol caught at least 10 ISIS fighters
* Rick Perry claim about 3,000 homicides by illegal immigrants not supported by stat
Wendy Davis needed to clarify claim about Greg Abbott siding with company that hired rapist
Only one claim by a gubernatorial candidate landed among our top 10 most-read fact checks of 2014.
We found Mostly True the statement by Democrat Wendy Davis that as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.