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As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.
Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.
Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama's stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending. The math is satisfyingly simple but highly misleading.
In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."
Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry.
In its assaults on a Democratic health care overhaul bill, the insurance industry uses facts selectively and mixes accurate assertions with misleading spin and an embrace of worst-case scenarios.
Shona Holmes is the Harry and Louise of this year's health care debate, only unlike the fictional folks who memorably trashed the Clinton-era health plan in advocacy ads 15 years ago, Holmes is real.
One of President Barack Obama's health care "horror stories" is about a woman who, he says, lost her health insurance on the verge of breast cancer surgery because she didn't disclose a case of acne to the insurer. That's not what happened.
The change was subtle, but significant. In his speech to Congress on Wednesday night, President Barack Obama gave a more accurate — and less reassuring — account of the impact of his proposed health care overall than he has done in the past. It went by in a blink.
Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed success beyond expectations for the $787 billion economic stimulus, but his glowing assessment overlooks many of the program's problems, including delays in releasing money, questionable spending priorities and project picks that are under investigation.
The judgment is harsh in a new poll that finds Americans worried about the government taking over health insurance, cutting off treatment to the elderly and giving coverage to illegal immigrants. Harsh, but not based on facts.
President Barack Obama has indicated a willingness to drop a government-run health care plan from any overhaul. The White House says that's not a shift. Actually, it is.
Confusing claims and outright distortions have animated the national debate over changes in the health care system. Opponents of proposals by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats falsely claim that government agents will force elderly people to discuss end-of-life wishes. Obama has played down the possibility that a health care overhaul would cause large numbers of people to change doctors and insurers.
President Barack Obama's assertion Wednesday that government will stay out of health care decisions in an overhauled system is hard to square with the proposals coming out of Congress and with his own rhetoric. Even now, nearly half the costs of health care in the U.S. are paid for by government at all levels. Federal authority would only grow under any proposal in play.
President Barack Obama's assertion Wednesday that government will stay out of health care decisions in an overhauled system is hard to square with the proposals coming out of Congress and with his own rhetoric.
Abortion opponents saw their issue take center stage when Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her 12-year tenure with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
President Barack Obama described himself on Tuesday as being "entirely consistent" in his expressions of concern about the disputed Iranian election and the government crackdown that followed street protests. But his language clearly has gotten tougher since his first statement that the suppression of dissent was "of concern to me."
In his first quarterly report on the nation's stimulus package, Vice President Joe Biden uses anecdotes to paint a glowing picture of an economy on the rebound. In reality, the picture is incomplete and the colors far more muted.
"That wasn't me," President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.
Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too — by living longer.
President Barack Obama's plea for patience in the economic turmoil Tuesday fits with the view of most economists that a turnaround will take some time. It doesn't fit quite so neatly with his bullish budget. The president's spending plans and deficit projections rest on the assumption that the economy will post solid growth next year after a mild, further decline this year. Many economists think that's too rosy.
What's more fuel-efficient, a Ford Model T or a modern-day sport utility vehicle? President Barack Obama says the Model T, but his comparison is a stretch.
President Barack Obama says he would lower taxes on 95 percent of Americans now and raise them on the rich in 2011. Republicans say he will increase taxes for all and in the midst of a recession to boot.
Straying from the Facts AP Fact Checker on Palin not much of a check at allOver the weekend, there was a bit of a dust-up between the Associated Press, Sarah Palin, and their respective supporters over the AP's "fact check" of Palin's campaign memoir, Going Rogue.
It's Saturday. I am at work. The weather is gloomy, hence not busy at work, and I am bored. I am curious to know how many viners are out there today and some silly fact about yourself. No good reason. I am just bored.
Obama Faces His AnzioBut while health care won't be Mr. Obama's Waterloo, economic policy is starting to look like his Anzio. Duh???
The Paradoxical Relationship of Religion and Science - Pew Research CenterWhile religion and science usually strive to answer different questions, the battles over issues such as evolution and the study of consciousness show that they also sometimes tread on each other's turf.
Separating myth from fact in debate about flu vaccineSo did you hear? You can protect yourself from swine flu by putting bowls of cut-up onions in every room of your house.
FACT CHECK: Health Insurers' Profits Not So FatI would feel more comfortable with health care reform if the Democrats provided fact based information to support their case rather than demonizing an industry unfairly
The continually declining number of teachers may not only endanger the amount of knowledge humanity retains, but the way we retain it.
34 Deputies Get Speeding TicketsNot only does Arizona have the "Toughest Sheriff" in Mariopa County, there's no impartiality In the Wild Wild West. Not even the Sheriff's Deputies in Pinal County are allowed to slide out of a ticket.
Oprah, Myth, and the Truth/Fact DilemmaClosely related to the division between truth and fact is the subject of myth. Commonly understood to be the stories of ancient Greek gods or the mythology of some obscure people groups, myths are quite common and can relate to any set of words in which a meaning is attributed.
When 'Local' Makes It Big as in Buy LocalWHEN Jessica Prentice, a food writer in the San Francisco Bay area, invented the term "locavore," she didn't have Lay's potato chips in mind.
Trust But VerifyOne of the problems with blogs, viral email, and other political posturing that are so prevalent on the Internet is that many things are written and forwarded without adequately checking to see if what is written is in fact true.
On Today , Matalin baselessly claimed Jindal's "education reform" made Louisiana "one of the top states in the country"Mary Matalin claimed that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal "made more progress in Louisiana in the shortest period of time in the history of the state and probably in the country.
FACT CHECK: Obama's words on home aid ring hollowFact checking Obama, lots that do not square with reality.
10 Healthy Habits That May Help You Live to 100 - Page 2 - MSN Health & Fitness - Health TopicsSome useful tips to live 100 years and beyond,
Since ancient times, human kind has been in the search for the magical solutions to live forever!! Just within a few years ago it was a great surprise to learn that more and more people are living pass 100 years old, today not only people are living pass a 100; the …
Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of EvolutionAs recently as 1966, sheik Abd el Aziz bin Baz asked the king of Saudi Arabia to suppress a heresy that was spreading in his land. Wrote the sheik:
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Latest ExperimentThe newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, is settling into his new job in Washington, D.C., but he's still making waves in his old job as a physicist.
4 Top Science Advisers Are Named by ObamaIn his selection of four top scientific advisers, President-elect Barack Obama has signaled what are likely to be significant changes in policies governing global warming, ocean protections and stem cell research.
Foreign Policy: The List: Five Physics Lessons for ObamaEveryone expects the U.S. president to know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, or understand the causes of the financial meltdown. But in today's high-tech world, many critical issues have more to do with electrons than economics.
"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise." Benjamin Franklin
Obama is not a Muslim and he never has been. And no, Barack Obama does not eat babies' you silly people.
Is Evolution Evolving? Kenneth Miller, a Brown University cell biologist and biochemist, is the author of Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul (Viking, $25.95). He was an expert witness at the 2005 Dover intelligent design trial.
Presidential Debate Fact CheckVideo. ABC's John Berman digs deeper into what the candidates said.
Fact checking the debate [McCain's bluff]MCCAIN: Well -- well, let me give you an example of what Senator Obama finds objectionable, the business tax. Right now, the United States of American business (OOTC:ARBU) pays the second-highest business taxes in the world ...
Scientists Explain Why People Vote For RepublicansEvery election season, commentators trot out the old statistics about how more education makes people more likely to support Democrats, more studies are published on how liberal Daily Show viewers are so well-informed, and various smart people try to explain why anyone would ever …
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