Mailbag: Pandering to “room-temperature IQs”
To celebrate July 4th, we let our readers shoot off their own fireworks.
To celebrate July 4th, we let our readers shoot off their own fireworks.
On ABC's This Week, CIA Director Leon Panetta said there is "no question that we are abiding by international law and the law of war" in CIA operations in Pakistan. But not everyone agrees.
Before we sink into full-blown summer — abundant with fresh statements to test, we hope — let’s unload our mailbag. It’s too heavy to carry through July.
These reader notes are edited for length and style.
We recap the full story, reviewing our Truth-O-Meter rulings along the way.
But we find Gov. Jan Brewer's claim -- that "the majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules" -- is unsupported by the facts.
Like most political candidates these days, Democrat Anthony Gemma is using new media outlets, from Facebook to Twitter, to get his message out and keep in touch with voters. In fact, Gemma says he is making his web expertise a key part of his strategy in running for Congress in Rhode Island"s 1st Congressional District.
One of Gemma's claims in particular, about topping President Obama on LinkedIn, a networking site, caught our attention. So we took a closer look.
We summarize our fact-checks on Elena Kagan's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
That roar in Corpus Christi this weekend? It wasn’t necessarily the surf.
Conventioneering Texas Democrats pounded Gov. Rick Perry, lofting some charges we’ve explored before ...
The Providence Journal launches PolitiFact Rhode Island, our fourth state site. More are on the way.
We continue reporting the status of more than 500 of Barack Obama's campaign promises.
Harry Reid set the tone for a knock-down-drag-out with an attack ad against Republican challenger Sharron Angle. We check two of the ad's claims.
Republican gubernatorial candidates Rick Scott and Bill McCollum are trading attacks routinely as their campaigns heat up. PolitiFact Florida had to weigh in on dueling claims over the issue of illegal immigration in Florida.