Pants on Fire to race in Kentucky Derby
The horse got his name from his father's passion, not the Truth-O-Meter rating. But he's still our pick for Saturday's race.
The horse got his name from his father's passion, not the Truth-O-Meter rating. But he's still our pick for Saturday's race.
But Axelrod was wrong when he said McDonnell balanced Virginia's budget by borrowing $3 billion against future federal transportation receipts. And McDonnell erred when he said "30 years after World War II, we cut the deficit every year."
Mitt Romney, a possible Republican presidential candidate, drew derision when he wrote in an op-ed that we're currently in "peacetime." But despite military action in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the distinctions betwen wartime and peacetime are no longer what they once were.
Our look into a Texas legislator’s assertion about President Barack Obama’s birthplace proved our readers’ favorite article last week. We also marked a Rick Perry promise "kept" and probed Texans gamboling to gamble.
To the Flashback...
During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama pledged several times that he would act to capture or kill terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Today, that's a Promise Kept on our Obameter.
We post new Obameter items involving the death of Osama bin Laden. The promise to kill him gets a Kept; the vow to "crush al-Qaida" is rated In the Works.
With the announcement that Osama Bin Laden is dead, many PolitiFact readers have pointed out President Obama's vow to kill him from October 2008. Is it the president's most significant Promise Kept?
With the announcement that Osama Bin Laden is dead, PolitiFact readers pointed out President Barack Obama's October 2008 vow to kill him. Is this the president's most significant Promise Kept?
With the announcement that Osama Bin Laden is dead, many PolitiFact readers have pointed out President Obama's vow to kill him from October 2008. Is it the president's most significant Promise Kept?
Last week, the trusty Truth-O-Meter took on everyone from President Barack Obama to a metro Atlanta Republican flirting with a presidential run to a University of Georgia student activist.
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During a lengthy conversation with the Texas Tribune, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas touched on at least four claims previously run through the Truth-O-Meter.
It's usually a partisan game. But this year's vote on raising the debt limit matters.