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In a promo for the new season of MTV's Jersey Shore, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi says Obama has taxed her right out of the indoor tanning salons.

What keeps Gov. Rick Perry from committing to debate Democratic challenger Bill White? That's none of PolitiFact's business, actually. 

Yet we were struck by a White shot at Perry tucked into an Austin American-Statesman editorial published Monday. Perry, White said, "doesn’t want to talk about how he’s nearly doubled state spending, doubled state debt and how Texas is facing an $18 billion shortfall."

We can't judge if Perry doesn't want to chat about all that. But...
 

We summarize our latest findings about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The latest Alabama ad to go viral has a congressional candidate talking with the Founding Fathers. We check the facts. 

During the campaign, Barack Obama promised more limits on commercial whaling. Environmental groups are concerned he is backing away from the pledge.

Congressman Bart Stupak criticizes Exxon Mobil's priorities, saying there are more pages on the media than on oil removal.

We check two claims in the battle between Sen. John McCain and former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth.

We explore a claim from Donna Brazile that federal law has put limits on the Obama administration's response to the oil spill.

The Republican and Democratic leaders discuss the budget and other issues. We check the facts.

We came, we saw, we're going to conquer — our reporter's notebook, that is, and various pungent statements we scribbled down at the Republican Party of Texas convention that wrapped in Dallas on Saturday.

We'll post updates as we digest this fresh (red) meat. But to set the table, here's a sampling of convention claims we heard that had already been through the PolitiFact Texas Truth-O-Meter...

The baseball fans here at PolitiFact couldn't resist fact-checking pundit George Will's description of Don Larsen's perfect game.

Readers call us out; PolitiFact Texas, get a grip!