George Will's file:
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George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.

Recent statements involving George Will

Wisconsin education agency "urged white students to wear white wristbands ‘as a reminder about your (white) privilege.’ "    

"We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."

Federal spending is "all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid."

If Wisconsin's governor cuts perquisites as much as he plans to do, "it would still leave (workers) better off than their private sector" counterparts.

Just like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "the AFL-CIO receives dues from foreign entities associated with it."

Recent stories featuring George Will

Turning it over to readers:

We hear regularly from PolitiFact Wisconsin readers, so we decided it's time to give them some space.

Here's the debut of our Mailbag.

George Will “hearts” Rick Perry:

Over lunch with Gov. Rick Perry in San Antonio, conservative pundit George Will developed a column extolling Perry’s potential as a presidential aspirant — and plowed into turf we’d previously worked ...

Fact-checking the pundits on Wisconsin's budget:

We look at what's being said about the budget controversy in Wisconsin.

Truth-O-Meter stuck on Half True:

The Truth-O-Meter spent much of the past week stuck on Half True.

Hope as we might that politicians and pundits would be beacons of truth, they struggled to get things right on everything from mammograms to the federal budget.

In one case, both Democrats and Republicans fumbled on the same issue: foreign money in U.S. elections. And in one case -- taxes -- a Republican got it mostly right.

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Here's how things went down: 

The facts on foreign money in the 2010 campaign :

President Barack Obama finds a target for his speculation about foreign money being used for attack ads against Democrats: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But George Will counters that it's no different than AFL-CIO. We check the facts.
 

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