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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Mandatory Public Service
Q: Is Congress creating a mandatory public service system? Are participants not allowed to go to church? A: The national service bill does not mandate that youth must participate nor does it forbid anyone who does participate from going to church.
Illegal Backyard Garden?
Q: Would a new bill in Congress make my backyard organic garden illegal? A: A House bill proposes to split the Food & Drug Administration, creating a separate entity to oversee food safety. It’s aimed at food sold in supermarkets and doesn’t say anything about organic gardening, pesticides, farmers’ markets …
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Obama’s Prime Time Pitch
President Obama sometimes strayed from the facts or made dubious claims during his hour-long evening news conference March 24. He said his budget projections are based on economic assumptions that “are perfectly consistent with what Blue Chip forecasters out there are saying.” Not true. The average projection by leading …
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Tagged AIG, budget, economy, military, President Obama, Prime Time Speeches
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FDR’s “Voluntary” Social Security
Q: Did FDR promise that Social Security would be voluntary? Did Democrats end tax deductions for Social Security withholding? A: Social Security has never been voluntary and taxes paid to support it have never been deductible from federal income taxes. A widely e-mailed "history lesson" gets nearly all its facts …
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Plane False
The conservative Web site Judicial Watch has made public e-mails to and from the Department of Defense regarding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s travel requests. The organization claims in a press release that these e-mails show Pelosi "issue[s] unreasonable requests for military travel" and "treats the Air Force like …
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More Upstate Insults
The campaign to fill the vacant House seat in New York’s 20th congressional district is the race that keeps on giving – giving false and misleading ads, at least. Two new spots, one from Democratic businessman Scott Murphy and another from his foe, Republican state Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco, both …
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Tagged economy, Jim Tedisco, jobs, Scott Murphy, special election, TV ads
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Guns for Pilots
Q: Is it true that Obama is dropping the federal safety program that allowed pilots to carry guns? A: No, the program is not being ended, according to the Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the largest airline pilots union. In fact, TSA says the program is …
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