Summary Vice President Biden and former V.P. Cheney have been slugging it out publicly over the proper way to prosecute suspected terrorists. Biden went so far as to accuse Cheney of being "factually, substantively wrong." So we took a look, and found both men have been straining the facts: Cheney said that shoe bomber Richard Reid was tried in civilian court rather than a military tribunal "primarily because he pleaded guilty." In fact, 10 months passed between Reid’s... Click to Read the Full Post
Summary Former Sen. Fred Thompson said on "Meet the Press" that "the 45 million … figure of uninsured is probably about twice the real number of people who can’t afford insurance or don’t have access to it really." He’s not the only one saying that the number is inflated. We find that many of the numbers cited are accurate, but may need to be seen in context to get a true picture. The Census Bureau estimates that 45.7 million lacked health insurance at... Click to Read the Full Post
