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Monthly Archives: January 2008
The Florida Recount of 2000
Q: When the votes were recounted in Florida, who won the 2000 presidential election? A: Nobody can say for sure who might have won. A full, official recount of all votes statewide could have gone either way, but one was never conducted.
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Tagged 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, George W. Bush, recount
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Clinton Passed on Killing bin Laden?
Q: Did Bill Clinton pass up a chance to kill Osama bin Laden? A: Probably not, and it would not have mattered anyway as there was no evidence at the time that bin Laden had committed any crimes against American citizens.
Crooked Claims About Clinton
Summary In a video that has logged millions of views on the Internet since early October, Peter Paul, a felon who helped produce a gala fundraiser for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, makes a number of false or misleading charges against the presidential contender and former …
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U.S. Intelligence on WMDs in Iraq
Q: What was known to U.S. intelligence and Congress about WMDs in Iraq before the vote to go to war? A: Senior U.S. intelligence officials believed, incorrectly, that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and germ weapons and was developing nuclear weapons. They also agreed Saddam Hussein wouldn’t give such weapons …
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Tagged Congress, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, WMD
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The Impact of Tax Cuts
Q: Have tax cuts always resulted in higher tax revenues and more economic growth as many tax cut proponents claim? A: No. In fact, economists say tax cuts do not spark enough growth to pay for themselves.
McCain’s Misleading Mailer
Summary McCain is sending out a postcard mailing in South Carolina that is misleading on more than one point. It says that "Romney provided taxpayer-funded abortions," a distortion. Romney’s Massachusetts health-care plan faced a court order requiring abortions to be covered. It says Romney "refused to endorse Bush Tax Cut …
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Myrtle Beach Blarney
Summary Another debate, another round of fact-checking. The GOP meeting in South Carolina was the third for Republican candidates in a week, but they haven’t run out of exaggerations or misstatements: Romney claimed Massachusetts gained jobs "every single month" he was governor after hitting a low point. In fact the …
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Tagged fred thompson, GOP debate, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani
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