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Author Archives: Lori Robertson
Abortions: Comparing Catholic and Protestant Women
Q: Do Catholic women get abortions more frequently than Protestant women? A: Catholics are slightly more likely to get an abortion than Protestants, according to a 2000-2001 survey.
Romney on Huckabee II
Summary Romney launched another negative ad in Iowa this week, where the Republican presidential candidate has been battling the new front-runner, Huckabee. This time, Romney attacks Huckabee’s record on methamphetamine laws and the clemencies he granted as governor of Arkansas. We found that: The ad says Romney "got tough on …
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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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Lost in Translation?
Summary The Republican presidential candidates met Sunday evening in Florida for a forum hosted by the Spanish-language media company Univision Communications. We found a few missteps in what the candidates had to say to Spanish-speaking voters: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made some incorrect and questionable claims about Americans who …
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The Sanctuary Spat
Summary In a Nov. 29 article we faulted former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for saying flatly that New York "was not a sanctuary city" for illegal aliens. We pointed out that the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service listed the city among 32 that followed "sanctuary policies" and placed it under …
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Bush’s False Claims About Children’s Health Insurance
Summary President Bush gave a false description of proposed legislation to expand the 10-year-old federal program to provide health insurance for children in low-income working families. He said it "would result" in covering children in families with incomes up to $83,000 per year, which isn’t true. The Urban Institute estimated …
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Tagged George W. Bush, SCHIP, State Children's Health Insurance Program
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Operation Iraqi Gloss-Over
Summary President Bush played loose with the facts in his address to the nation Thursday night as he tried to convince the American public that the surge in U.S. troops in Iraq has made the country more stable. He said "36 nations … have troops on the ground in Iraq." …
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Richardson Flunks Two Subjects
Summary Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, has claimed again and again U.S. students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are ranked 29th in the world in math and science. He claims they used to be No. 1, too. But none of that is true. The two leading …
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