Latest Stories By W. Gardner Selby

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Roger Williams and pancakes for yuppies in Washington

July 12, 2012

Williams cries foul about federal aid launching a Washington pancake house. We sniff the syrup.

Fresh (re-baked) blasts from Ted Cruz, David Dewhurst

July 10, 2012

Ted Cruz and David Dewhurst hatch competing ads about a payroll tax and being a businessman, respectively. We’ve probed both topics.

Spotlighting claims by Julián Castro, David Dewhurst and Wendy Davis

July 6, 2012

Our latest checks of leading Texas Democrats and a Republican spotlight inaccurate -- or, at least, incomplete -- accounts of what happened when state lawmakers gathered in 2011.

Supreme Court upholds argument that “penalty” is a tax

June 28, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the health-care law in part by embracing a familiar argument -- that the law's penalty for not obtaining health coverage fits with the power of Congress to levy taxes.

Dewhurst revisits “apples to carburetors”

June 26, 2012

Dewhurst, comparing Border Patrol agents and New York cops, reminds us of a previous time he did so -- which one observer likened to comparing apples and carburetors.

No rating reached on claim about Adan Ballesteros and “cocaine blood money”

June 25, 2012

An Austin political action committee says Adan Ballesteros, seeking re-election as a constable, accepted "cocaine blood money." We decided this claim cannot be rated.

The real thing on Paul Ryan, Texas and a Coca-Cola study

June 22, 2012

It sounded so good: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan telling Texas Republicans a Coca-Cola study showed Texans love Texas more than residents of any other state love their own state. But...

Romney, Obama and NALEO

June 21, 2012

Romney and Obama speaking to a national Latino group reminds us Texas Democrats say elected Latino Democrats vastly outnumber elected Latino Republicans in Texas.

Dewhurst, Cruz, Cornyn, the Sequel

June 20, 2012

As noted by the Houston Chronicle, Dewhurst is trying to remind Republicans that Cruz did not endorse Cornyn for a leadership role. We earlier checked a related jab.
 

Obama’s move on immigration and amnesty

June 18, 2012

The Obama administration’s move on immigration reminded us we’ve looked into how to define amnesty.

Mailbag: ‘Dear Comrade… You performed exactly as we instructed’

June 15, 2012

Readers objected to our finding no basis to a description of Barack Obama as a socialist.

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