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Help choose PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year

November 26, 2012

PolitiFact will be choosing the Lie of the Year in the next few weeks. Send them your suggestions!

Help us choose PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year

November 26, 2012

We'll be choosing the Lie of the Year in the next few weeks. Send us your suggestions!

Help us choose PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year

November 26, 2012

We'll be choosing the Lie of the Year in the next few weeks. Send us your suggestions!

Mailbag: Post-election edition

November 23, 2012

A look at what our readers have been saying about our recent Truth-O-Meter and Obameter items.

PolitiFact Florida Mailbag: “You got this one wrong.”

November 23, 2012

Readers react to our fact-checks from the national conventions and elections.

Rick Perry’s promises, metered

November 23, 2012

We’re getting closer to rating the fulfillment, or not, of all of Rick Perry’s 2010 campaign promises.

PolitiFact’s guide to Thanksgiving dinner

November 21, 2012

At Thanksgiving dinner, there's probably a good chance you'll end up sitting beside your uncle.

You love your uncle, but you could do without all those chain e-mails that he forwards to you, the ones that claim the government is forcing you to get rid of your light bulbs, that "Obamacare" is going to put a tax on home sales and that President Barack Obama fits the biblical description of the Antichrist. (Note to uncles:     We're not really singling you out. Chain e-mails get forwarded by aunts, grandparents and plenty of other relatives.)

PolitiFact’s Thanksgiving guide

November 20, 2012

Find yourself sitting beside a relative who has sent you lots of chain emails?

Here's PolitiFact's annual guide on what to say. Stash it under the green bean casserole (or JELL-O) until you need it.

PolitiFact’s guide to Thanksgiving dinner

November 20, 2012

Find yourself sitting beside a relative who has sent you lots of chain e-mails?

Here's our annual guide on what to say. Stash it under the green bean casserole until you need it.

PolitiFact’s guide to Thanksgiving dinner

November 20, 2012

At Thanksgiving dinner, there's probably a good chance you'll end up sitting beside your uncle.

You love your uncle, but you could do without all those chain e-mails that he forwards to you, the ones that claim the government is forcing you to get rid of your light bulbs, that "Obamacare" is going to put a tax on home sales and that President Barack Obama fits the biblical description of the Antichrist. (Note to uncles: We're not really singling you out. Chain e-mails get forwarded by aunts, grandparents and plenty of other relatives.)

So PolitiFact has put together this handy guide to chain e-mails and other viral messages. Hide it under the green bean casserole and you can pull it out if your uncle brings up the chain e-mails.

New Jersey tax, lottery revenues focus of weekend rulings on Truth-O-Meter

November 20, 2012

Claims by Gov. Chris Christie, Big Gamble NJ campaign checked.

PolitiFact’s guide to Thanksgiving dinner

November 19, 2012

Find yourself sitting beside a relative who has sent you lots of chain e-mails? Here's our annual guide on what to say. Stash it under the green bean casserole until you need it.

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