Quick-hit quote I’m glad someone fact-checked for us: “Georgia congressman Paul Broun claimed after Tuesday’s State of the Union address that “There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than…
Science! Check it out some time! Perhaps at this detailed, thorough, and admittedly somewhat wonky article from Skeptical Science that frankly takes a foolish PR stunt printed in the Financial…
Nice quick piece, compiled from recent blogs at The Week.com and a linked article by Greg Mankiw of Harvard. Always irks me that politician’s rhetoric flies so far from the…
This is a story covered all over the place, but check out this article by CNN’s Ashley Killough on a big lie Romney and his campaign have tried to push,…
Our leaders need to be held accountable, says journalist Heather Brooke. And she should know: Brooke uncovered the British Parliamentary financial expenses that led to a major political scandal…
From the most recent edition of The List, via The Week.com: Fans of political drama got a real treat in Tuesday night’s town-hall rumble between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.…
Both candidates stretched the truth during their televised showdown. A breakdown of how fact-checkers scored it. Via The Week.com’s Fact Sheet: What happens when a 36-year Senate veteran like Joe Biden…
I wonder sometimes it would be fair to prosecute people in positions of power for flat out lying in public. There’s allegory, and metaphor, and suggestion, and sarcasm, and humor,…
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