Beyond the Truth-O-Meter
Lindsey Graham’s ‘Enemy Combatant’ Exaggeration
Sen. Lindsey Graham exaggerated when he claimed "all the information" that led to the capture of Osama bin Laden came from "enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay." Detainees provided "key information" about bin Laden's "courier network," but "other sources" provided "other intelligence" that ultimately led to his capture and death.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
No, Sarah Palin didn't urge an invasion of the Czech Republic after the bombings
A satirical site strikes again, and readers are fooled.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Rand Paul’s misguided question on how the Tsarnaev brothers arrived in the United States
Sen. Rand Paul’s question in a letter urging delay of comprehensive immigration reform appears to ask the wrong question, based on the information that is now known about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and their arrival in the United States.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
The accused Boston bombers' allegedly pricey education
Did the accused Boston Marathon bombers attend expensive private schools?
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
The Policeman-Milkman in Watertown
Does a photograph really shows a police officer delivering milk to a Watertown, Mass., family during a stay-in-place order?
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Rhetoric about health insurance can be over-simplified and misleading
Lawmakers are pushing competing plans that next Jan. 1 would put about one in five Floridians in some sort of Medicaid-like health-insurance plan. Or not.
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Who’s responsible for ‘chained CPI’?
President Barack Obama’s budget included one budget reduction item that has riled some Democrats: “chained CPI.” Is it a Republican creation alone?
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Does San Diego's Budget Skip a Year of Street Repairs?
Checking a San Diego council member's claim that Mayor Bob Filner's budget "skips a year in terms of our street infrastructure repair that the council was planning on doing, delaying that bond for an entire year until 2014."
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
History lesson: The NRA’s ‘support’ for expanded background checks
Some readers were curious to learn more about the National Rifle Association’s purported support for background checks. As it happens, there is a bit of fact checker dispute about this history.
Friday, April 19th, 2013
NRA Misrepresents Police Survey, Legislation
On the day the Senate voted down a series of gun control bills, the National Rifle Association made false and misleading claims in opposing a measure to expand background checks.
Friday, April 19th, 2013
The NRA and its ad about a poll of police
Does an NRA ad citing poll data on the views of ‘America’s police’ hold up?
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
What book is Obama carrying?
A photograph purportedly shows Barack Obama carrying the book "The Post-American World." What's that about?
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Rubio’s Immigration Evolution
Sen. Marco Rubio claimed during a Sunday talk show interview that the immigration bill he is pushing is not a change of position for him since his 2010 campaign. But it is.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Twisting Feinstein’s Words on Military Vets
Q: Did Sen. Dianne Feinstein say all military veterans are mentally ill and should not be allowed to own guns? A: No. She said veterans should not be exempt from her proposed assault weapons ban, citing post-traumatic stress disorder as a concern.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Fact Check: Boston Marathon Bombings
Sorting through what's confirmed and not in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Debunking the early Boston Marathon conspiracy theories
Rumors and conspiracy theories associated with the Boston Marathon bombing abound. Here's a rundown.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Obama’s Numbers (Quarterly Update)
Reviewing some key statistical measures of Barack Obama's presidency so far.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Chris Matthews and the Pope-to-be
Does a transcript document an unaired interview between MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Cardinal Bergoglio?
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
John Kerry’s claim that foreign students are ‘scared’ of U.S. gun violence
Is the new Secretary of State, John Kerry, right to have said this? "We had an interesting discussion about why fewer students are coming to, particularly from Japan, to study in the United States," he said. "And one of the responses I got from our officials, from conversations with parents here, is that they’re actually scared. They think they’re not safe in the United States and so they don’t come."
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Claims about the cost and time it takes to file taxes
On tax day, we check a claim that “it takes the average American taxpayer 13 hours to comply with the tax code, gathering receipts, reading the rules and filling out the forms the IRS requires. . . . The tax code forces Americans to spend over $168 billion to comply and 6 billion hours.”
Monday, April 15th, 2013
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