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Author Archives: Brooks Jackson
Huckabee’s Attack Ad Runs After All
Summary The ad Huckabee said he decided not to run has now appeared at least three times in Iowa anyway. It accuses Romney of being "dishonest" but shades the facts in the process. Update, Jan. 4: The ad ran at least 10 times on four different stations in Davenport and …
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Romney’s Ridiculous Hyperbole
Summary Romney says in a TV ad that the U.S. will see more change in the next 10 years "than in the last 10 centuries." More than since the Dark Ages? More changes than the advent of the printing press, railroads, constitutional democracy, penicillin, electricity, telecommunications and the Internet all …
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The Whoppers of 2007
Summary The year 2007 wasn’t a good one for political honesty. Though not even technically an election year, it provided a bumper crop of falsehoods and distortions nonetheless. Presidential candidates kept us busy: Republican Rudy Giuliani made false claims over and over about his record as mayor of New York, …
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Tagged adoption, crime, energy, FairTax, immigration, Iraq, medicare, methamphetamine, National Guard, Tax Cuts, whoppers
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More Mitt Malarkey
Summary Romney’s latest ad attacks McCain in New Hampshire with false and misleading claims: It claims McCain "voted to allow illegals to collect Social Security." That’s untrue. Nobody who is in the country illegally could be paid any Social Security benefits under McCain’s immigration bill. It implies McCain supported "amnesty" …
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Tagged illegal immigrants, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Social Security
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Congressional Pensions
Q: Does a United States senator receive his full pay upon retiring? A: No. A member of Congress can’t receive more than 80 percent of his or her final salary upon retirement, and the average is much less.
Supreme Court to Define ‘Well Regulated Militia’?
Q: Is the Supreme Court going to define "well regulated militia"? A: Perhaps so. It is considering a gun-control case in which it might choose to rule on what the Second Amendment means.
Presidents Who Owned Slaves
Q: Who was the last U.S. president to own slaves? A: Zachary Taylor owned slaves while in office. U.S. Grant owned a slave he freed in 1859, long before becoming president.
Republicans Debate in Iowa
Summary In the Dec. 12 Republican presidential debate in Des Moines: Arizona Sen. John McCain promised to make the U.S. “oil independent” within five years, a goal experts say can’t be achieved. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claimed American students score in the bottom quarter among industrial nations, but they …
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Tagged Duncan Hunter, Iowa, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani
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Bush: The Constitution a ‘Goddamned Piece of Paper’?
Q: Did President Bush call the Constitution a "goddamned piece of paper"? A: Extremely unlikely. The Web site that reported those words has a history of quoting phony sources and retracting bogus stories.
