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"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
"If the United States moves ahead by itself [on cap-and-trade]... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than one percent."
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.
During a town hall meeting on health care, "ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired."
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II -- more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."
Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
Reason magazine uses Obameter to analyze Obama
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We've decided to delete a duplicate promise on the Fair Pay Act
A sharp-eyed reader alerted us that Promise No. 413 is essentially the same promise as No. 411. Both have to do with helping women and ...
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Obama sings backup on new PolitiFact song
Forgive our bias on this one, but we've done some research on the new version of the PolitiFact song Gimme the Truth and have made ...
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Tracking Obama’s promises
PolitiFact will be tracking Barack Obama’s promises during his presidency and will be rating the progress of each one. >>more
Promises we have rated recently
No. 492:
Phase out incandescent light bulbs
No. 405:
Create White House performance team and chief performance officer
No. 462:
Make buildings more energy efficient
No. 258:
Simplify the application process for financial aid
No. 430:
Pressure Sudan to end violence in Darfur
Of Obama's 514 promises, most are still rated No Action. Here’s a random sampling of five of them:
No. 488:
Require energy conservation in use of transportation dollars
No. 213:
Work for the release of international dissidents
No. 356:
Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area
No. 25:
Establish a small business initiative for rural America
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