Quality work from Politifact that shows the depth of the organization's attention to the health care debate. My only quibble is that there's no narrative or theme stringing these Truth-O-Meter ratings together.

This interactive, well-sourced column features checks of statements from across the political spectrum, including viral email, TV ads and movie directors in addition to politicians. The Truth-o-meter graphic gives a general sense of where the statements fall, and links underneath go to other pages which provide the big picture. Nicely done. A good resource (which goes on for pages and can be continually updated).

The magazine look to this website enhances the over all expeerience. the writing could not be any moe concise.

While it's a basically good article, some of its judgments are questionable. One example is Obama's statement about Clinton being willing to garnish wages. They take Clinton's statement regarding the enforcement mechanism as disproof. To me, if she says it might be that, that's willingness. Another example is the cost assessment of effectiveness of preventive care. Studies often measure only tertiary prevention, i.e., the person already has disease, often severe disease, and "preventive" measures, which may or may not be followed, do not prove to be cost effective. Primary prevention, often as little as suggesting that a person stop smoking, is more difficult to quantify, but the decrease in smoking after one sentence is ... More »