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Is Big Brother snooping on Cash for Clunkers site?

August 3, 2009

On Glenn Beck's show, Fox anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle claims the site gives government complete access to your home computer.

 

Rationing? Democrat says it’s happening already

July 31, 2009

Rep. Bill Pascrell said rationing is happening right now because of the high cost of health care. We check his evidence.

E-mail ‘analysis’ of health bill needs a check-up

July 30, 2009

Readers sent us a chain e-mail that comments on the House health reform bill page by page. Most of its factual assertions are wrong.

Break out the marshmallows!

July 29, 2009

It's double Pants on Fire! day at PolitiFact.com: We check a chain e-mail on illegal immigrants and comments from TV and radio personality Glenn Beck.

Gates incident spurs discussion on race, crime

July 28, 2009

Pundits are talking after last week's arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. We check their facts.

Sorting out the players in the health care debate

July 27, 2009

Want to know who's in and who's out in the health care debate? We did the dirty work for you.

Mailbag: ‘Seriously twisted logic’

July 24, 2009

Readers take us to task for our items on oil imports, Hamas and incandescent light bulbs.

Obama wrong about health insurance profits

July 23, 2009

We check the president's claim about insurance company profits (False) and an unusual one from a health group leader about end-of-life care for seniors (Pants on Fire!).

Staving off the stove police?

July 22, 2009

House Republicans say the government will tell you what kind of stove you can have. Actually, there's more to the story.

More ‘birther’ announcements

July 21, 2009

Doubters of President Obama's citizenship have gained prominent new voices, but no new facts.

At 6-month mark, Obama has long to-do list

July 17, 2009

Halfway through his first year, we examine President Obama's record on our Obameter and Truth-O-Meter.

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