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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Democratic PAC Revisits Old Claims
In ads airing in three states, a Democratic PAC repeats familiar, and misleading, attack lines — saying one Republican lawmaker voted to “essentially end Medicare” and another voted for billions in earmarks and turned a surplus “into a massive federal deficit.” The Majority PAC, a political action committee that aims …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Eric Hovde, george allen, Majority PAC, Rick Berg, Tim Kaine, Tommy Thompson
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Texas-Size Mudballs in GOP Senate Runoff
A bitter GOP primary contest in Texas for a U.S. Senate seat has come to this: an ad featuring a grieving mother who links one of the candidates to her son’s suicide. A Texas super PAC is airing a TV ad that features a distraught mother who says Ted Cruz, …
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Senator Mangles Facts on Drilling Moratorium
In an email to constituents, Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana claims “the Obama administration shut down the entire offshore oil and gas industry” after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. That’s not true. The administration halted the drilling of all new wells for one month. And the Interior Department …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Articles, The FactCheck Wire
Tagged David Vitter, drilling, energy, oil (24), oil spill
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Gunman’s Weapons Already Illegal?
Arguing against the need for new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings, Mitt Romney said many of the weapons possessed by shooter James Holmes were “illegal … already.” While it’s true that the bombs found later at Holmes’ apartment were illegal, that’s not the case for the …
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of July 17-23
This week, readers reacted to our rundown on the whoppers, so far, of the 2012 campaign. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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Biggest Tax Increase in History?
Critics of the health care law have claimed that it’s the biggest tax increase in history. But that could only be true in raw dollars. When adjusted for inflation — or better yet, as a percentage of gross domestic product — several other tax increases just since 1968 are larger. …
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