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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Huckabee Cut Crime and Taxes?
Summary In the run-up to the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, Huckabee is running a TV ad featuring graphics that claim he was "tough on crime" and "brought Arkansas' crime rate down," and that he "cut taxes over 90 times as governor." In fact, the violent crime rate was higher at …
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Romney’s Ridiculous Hyperbole
Summary Romney says in a TV ad that the U.S. will see more change in the next 10 years "than in the last 10 centuries." More than since the Dark Ages? More changes than the advent of the printing press, railroads, constitutional democracy, penicillin, electricity, telecommunications and the Internet all …
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Holocaust Curriculum Suspended in UK?
Q: Did the U.K. suspend its Holocaust curriculum because it offended Muslim students? A: No, neither the United Kingdom nor the University of Kentucky has suspended teaching the Holocaust.
How Many Have Bachelor’s Degrees?
Q: What percentage of the U.S. population has at least a bachelor's degree? A: According to the Census Bureau, the figure is 27 percent of adults.
