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The Banned Books From School
Sep 6th
The Banned Books From School. By Rassilons Shorts - This is from the AARP Bulletin. The list of books banned by American schools and libraries includes many of the classic. Here’s our list, prepared to coincide with the American Library Association’s annual Banned Book Week, Sept 25-Oct 2.This is not all the books that are [...]
PolitiFact’s Fall TV Preview
Sep 6th
Labor Day weekend marks the kickoff of the fall TV season -- not sitcoms and reality shows, but campaign ads. To help make sense of the impending avalanche of ads, we present the Message Machine Fall TV Preview, part of a PolitiFact-NPR partnership to factcheck the 2010 campaign. PolitiFact has a unique perch to watch the TV ads. Our six state partners (in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Rhode Island and Wisconsin) are fact-checking claims in their states, and our national staff is checking commercials in many others. We"ve seen candidates from both sides rely heavily on party playbooks and, in ... >>More
Republican Party of Texas: Jim Dunnam "has not lived in the district he represents for years now."
Sep 6th
The Truth-o-Meter says: Barely True | Republican Party says Democratic House leader, Jim Dunnam, has not lived in his district for years
When the chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus goes home, does he stay in the Waco-area district he represents? That’s turf covered -- actually, re-plowed -- by the Republican Party of Texas in an Aug. 30 e-mail blast saying state Rep. Jim Dunnam "has not lived in the district he represents for years now." The party chairman, Steve Munisteri, had earlier levelled the same charge in a Waco press conference. We wondered what was what, and where. Some background: Article 3 of the Texas Constitution says House members must ...
>> MoreAnnouncing PolitiFact Wisconsin
Sep 5th
The Truth-O-Meter has arrived in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today is launching PolitiFact Wisconsin, our sixth state site. Like our other partner sites in Texas, Georgia, Florida, Rhode Island, and Ohio, PolitiFact Wisconsin is integrated with our national site and uses the Truth-O-Meter to rate the accuracy of statements by candidates, elected officials and political parties. The St. Petersburg Times launched PolitiFact three years ago. Since then, we've rated more than 1,500 claims on our Truth-O-Meter and tracked more than 500 of President Barack Obama's campaign promises. The Wisconsin team is headed by Greg Borowski, the senior editor for ... >>More
Inside Top Secret America
Sep 4th
washingtonpost.com A major investigation reveals the extent of America’s vast and heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment. August 28, 2010 In July, the Washington Post published the Top Secret America project — a sweeping portrait of America’s heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment. Lead reporter Dana Priest calls it the “vast and hidden apparatus of the war on terror.” [...]
Social Security Cutters, Watch Out
Sep 4th
BY PROGRESSIVE BREAKFAST AUGUST 12, 2010 Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement sec Major Social Security Poll To Be Released Today Pollster Stan Greenberg, Campaign For America’s Future and [...]
Mitch McConnell, John Boehner And The Republicans’ Blood Oath Against America
Sep 4th
Opednews.com According to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader John Boehner: 1. Americans don’t want affordable health care for all citizens and they don’t want to close the Medicare prescription drug Part D doughnut hole that requires seniors on fixed incomes to pay the full cost of the pharmaceutical industry’s obscenely high [...]
Michael McCaul: Says the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid will disburse $803 billion in benefits this year, making "it larger than all but 15 of the world's economies."
Sep 4th
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Rep. Michael McCaul says CMS will disburse $803 billion, making it larger than all but 15 of the world's economies
Republicans balked at President Barack Obama's July decision to appoint the top federal administrator for Medicaid and Medicare without a congressional hearing, saying Congress deserved the chance to quiz the appointee, Donald Berwick, on how he intends to manage the federal behemoth called the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Later that month, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, chimed in with a financial reason he wishes Berwick had undergone a public grilling: "The CMS will disburse $803 billion in benefits this fiscal year, which makes it larger than all but 15 of the world’s economies." The U.S. Senate ...
>> MoreMichael McCaul: Says the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid will disburse $803 billion in benefits this year, making "it larger than all but 15 of the world's economies."
Sep 4th
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Rep. Michael McCaul says CMS will disburse $803 billion, making it larger than all but 15 of the world's economies
Republicans balked at President Barack Obama's July decision to appoint the top federal administrator for Medicaid and Medicare without a congressional hearing, saying Congress deserved the chance to quiz the appointee, Donald Berwick, on how he intends to manage the federal behemoth called the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Later that month, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, chimed in with a financial reason he wishes Berwick had undergone a public grilling: "The CMS will disburse $803 billion in benefits this fiscal year, which makes it larger than all but 15 of the world’s economies." The U.S. Senate ...
>> MoreMailbag: ‘Glenn Beck rules, PolitiFact drools.’
Sep 3rd
We got lots of reader feedback on our recent work. Here's a selection, edited for length and style. The New York mosque controversy We got a lot of reader criticism for our rating of Al Hunt's statement, "This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area." We rated that False. We said it's imprecise to simply refer to the New York project as a mosque, but the center's organizers and backer regularly describe the project as including a mosque. Readers disagreed. "This has to be one of the worst ratings you've done in evaluating Al ... >>More
