With former Columbia/HCA CEO Rick Scott now leading Attorney General Bill McCollum in polls for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, the attacks are flying. Focus on the fraud, they all say. The fraud, the fraud, the fraud. PolitiFact Florida had to bite. We sort out whether Scott’s old company committed fraud, and also explain Scott’s role with the company.
Our in-box is full of chain e-mail! We check out claims on immigration, Muslim voters, gun laws, and taxing your health care benefits.
Republican congressional candidate Liz Carter said she was excluded from a candidate forum last week because she is white. The forum's organizers, who are black, said that's not true. In the complex and often controversial world of Atlanta-area racial politics, such issues are never easy to simplify. PolitiFact jumps into the fray to sort it all out.
Arianna Huffington and Liz Cheney sparred over Iraq war contracts. We sort out a long history.
We settle the important question of whether that's Barack Obama in the Whoomp! video.
We've posted three items from Sunday's show and have two others in the works, including one on the disagreement between Arianna Huffington and Liz Cheney about Halliburton.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution launches our newest state site, checking campaigns in the peach state.
In the first segment of our Message Machine partnership with NPR, we review some of the ads in the California primary.
An advocay group says the spill means it's time for cap-and-trade energy legislation. We fact-check a critical statement on oil dependence.
Talk show host said that most Americans support a new immigration law in Arizona. The numbers back him up.
We look into the American workforce at Carly Fiorina's HP and find fuzzy numbers.
In a web-only video ad, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner accuses his Republican primary opponent Meg Whitman of peddling porn as CEO of eBay. We check the facts.