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For the first time, Washington-based PolitiFact National has posted the principles we live by in choosing statements to check and then, after research, reaching our ratings.

We explain our process for selecting claims to check and how we make our Truth-O-Meter rulings.

The Truth-O-Meter seems more flammable lately.

We explain our process for selecting claims to check and how we make our Truth-O-Meter rulings.

The big news in Florida is Gov. Rick Scott's decision to reject $2.4 billion in federal funding for a high-speed rail line linking Tampa and Orlando. Readers weighed in on both the governor's decision and the fact-checks we did here at PolitiFact Florida.

As Texas senators discussed a proposal to require women seeking abortions to get a sonogram first, two made wildly different claims about the annual number of abortions in the state. One was right, and the other, well, he gave a belated shout-out to PolitiFact Texas. Thank you. Thank you very much.

The budget proposal from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has prompted protests, intense debate and lots of factual claims. PolitiFact Wisconsin has put many of them to the Truth-O-Meter.

We dig into the numbers on crime and gun laws.

The release of President Barack Obama's proposed budget this week has kicked off a back-and-forth over fiscal policy. We start by looking at a claim by the president that  within a couple years, the U.S. will "not be adding more to the national debt."

"The statistics are staggering," PETA wrote in a sample letter posted on its web site Feb. 1 that members were urged to send to their governor. "In the U.S. alone, animals shelters must spend an estimated $2 billion in taxpayer money to take in, house, euthanize, and dispose of unwanted animals." 

In Sunday's strip, Mark Slackmeyer made a claim about gun deaths. We put it to the Truth-O-Meter.

With Texas’ junior senator running for Republican whip, we review how his claims have fared on the Truth-O-Meter.