Top 5 falsehoods about the health care law
The health care law is huge and complicated -- 1,000-plus pages that affect virtually every aspect of health care for millions of Americans. That's made it an easy target for exaggeration, distortion,...
View ArticleTexas fact checks to take to the polls
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler is mostly right that federal debt doubled under George W. Bush. He’s absolutely correct that his runoff opponent, Grady Yarbrough, ran twice statewide...
View ArticlePalin talks food stamps
Just before Ted Cruz claimed the Republican nomination to fill Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat, Sarah Palin spoke on his behalf at a rally near Houston. The former Alaska governor mentioned a...
View ArticleFact-checking the Sunday Nov. 24 shows
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the Sunday news show circuit to pitch a new book and talk about the health care law with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace. In a taped interview, Wallace asked...
View ArticleFact-checking Sarah Palin and Nov. 24 Sunday shows
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the Sunday news show circuit to pitch a new book and talk about the health care law with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace. In a taped interview, Wallace asked...
View ArticleSarah Palin twice, the DA's vodka, Rand Paul on tanks: PolitiFact Oregon...
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is nothing if not controversial when it comes to the claims she makes. Now a Fox News commentator, Palin leaps into today’s PolitiFact Oregon Roundup in two very...
View ArticleSarah Palin not often fact-checked in Texas
Nationally, Sarah Palin has been Truth-O-Meter’d nearly 60 times as you can see on her PolitiFact report card. But PolitiFact Texas, where we focus on curious statements made by Texans or about Texas,...
View ArticleTexas fact checks in August topped by look into Wendy Davis claim about Greg...
Several fact-checks of Gov. Rick Perry collectively fanned online reader interest in August, but our Mostly True of a hard-edged charge by successor-want-to-be Wendy Davis, the Democratic senator from...
View ArticleTed Cruz, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and the Iran deal
Ted Cruz invited Donald Trump. Sarah Palin planned to be there too. The three were among many speakers lined up in Washington, D.C., to say no to the Iran deal awaiting congressional review. HELPFULLY,...
View ArticleA look back at Lie of the Year
PolitiFact’s editors and reporters award the Lie of the Year to the most significant falsehood or exaggeration of the past 12 months. Here’s a look back at the past six years of "winners." 2014:...
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