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Immigration officials tight-lipped about detainee release. What is known?

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - Here are the basics about the detainee release – from the terminology that immigration officials use to a glimpse into the kinds of people who have been released. ...

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Pregnancy Centers Gain Influence in Anti-Abortion Fight

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:05:00 -0800

New York Times - By By PAM BELLUCK - Jan. 05 - Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times Amber Jupe, right, attended a session conducted by Margo Shanks at a Care Net facility; the program addressed signs of fetal alcohol syndrome. WACO, Tex. — With free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, along with di

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The $10,000 Degree

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

National Review - By Katrina Trinko - Dec. 13 (Special Report) - As college costs rise rapidly in most places, Texas and Florida are trying to implement something that has become a radical notion: a degree that costs only $10,000.

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Texas Republican Party Calls For Abstinence Only Sex Ed, Corporal Punishment In Schools

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Laura Hibbard - Jun. 27 (News Report) - The position causing the most controversy, however, is the statement that they oppose the teaching of "higher order thinking skills" -- a curriculum which strives to encourage critical thinking -- arguing that it might challenge "student's fixed beliefs" and undermine "parental authority."

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Texas Republican Party Platform Calls For Repeal Of Voting Rights Act Of 1965

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:54:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jun. 27 - The Texas Republican Party has released its official platform for 2012, and the repeal of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of its central planks . "We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not re

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Mitt Romney's poor judgment is undermining his candidacy

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - Apr. 15 - Finally, Obama's opponent has been confirmed, but can the Republican nominee mount an effective challenge? I doubt you will ever find a politician more desperate to believe Nietzsche's aphorism that whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger than Mitt Romney. With former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum announcing that he is suspending his presidential campaign, it ensures what many political observers have assumed for quite some time – that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for president this autumn. Only 26 other men have achieved this goal, so congratulations to Romney are in order. But a larger view of Romney's political situation takes some of the bloom off this particular rose. Have the past 12 months of campaigning – while certainly not killing him – really made Romney stronger? So far the evidence is not very good. Only 34% of Americans have a positive view of Romney, which makes him at this point in the presidential campaign one of the least popular presumptive ...

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Editorial: South Carolina’s Divisive Message

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:19:58 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 22 (Opinion) - Newt Gingrich took an extremist approach to the South Carolina primary, and the state’s Republicans followed.

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Editorial: The Republican Contest

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Editorial - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - From Iowa’s social conservative fight to New Hampshire’s economic fantasies, the presidential hopefuls are deluding themselves and trying to delude the voters.

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Indecision 2012 - Romspringa

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Jan. 04 (Comedy News) - Republican voters go through a rite of passage wherein they desperately explore every possible option before ultimately and unhappily voting for Mitt Romney.

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Winning Ugly, but Winning

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Jan. 04 (Opinion) - Mitt Romney's narrow victory in Iowa looks ugly on the stat sheet, but it accomplished quite a bit when you consider the broader context. The two most important things that Mr. Romney accomplished are as follows: First, Mr. Romney eliminated Rick Perry from the nomination contest. Of course, Mr. Romney got a lot of help from Mr. Perry himself. Maybe we should use the passive voice — Mr. Perry was eliminated from the nomination contest. The conclusion is the same: the man who once looked like Mr. Romney’s most formidable rival has suspended his campaign. The result was not unexpected based on late-stage polling — in fact, the polling average nailed Mr. Perry’s share of the vote almost to the decimal point.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Good Newt

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bill Keller - Dec. 11 (Opinion) - At least on one issue — immigration — Newt Gingrich gets it.

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Fact checking the CNN national security debate

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 23 (Fact Check) - Hello, “Steve Gates.” While Rep. Michele Bachmann may have trouble living that blooper down, here are some of the more dubious assertions and facts we heard at the fascinating CNN debate Tuesday night, organized with the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. We examine 15 statements in all, and as is our practice, may come back to do a deeper look in the coming days.

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Rick Perry says Barack Obama thinks Americans are lazy

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Meghan Ashford-Grooms - Nov. 21 (Fact Check) - In a 30-second television ad airing across the country, Texas Gov. Rick Perry lashes out at President Barack Obama by using the president's words. The ad, which debuted Nov. 16, 2011, opens with a video clip of Obama saying, "We've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades." Perry then appears, saying: "Can you believe that? That's what our president thinks is wrong with America? That Americans are lazy? That's pathetic."

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Fact checking the South Carolina debate

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 14 (Fact Check) - The GOP candidates met for a debate Saturday night sponsored by CBS and the National Journal, with a specific focus on foreign policy and national security. In foreign policy, there is often no right or wrong answer; the results of a policy are often ambiguous and its effectiveness is usually only determined by history. Still, there were a number of statements made by the candidates that were factually challenged, exaggerated or lacking context. Read full article ...

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Fact checking the CNBC debate

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 11 (Fact Check) - Well, we’re glad we don’t have to fact check the number of federal agencies Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to eliminate. Though the CNBC debate may only be remembered for the very awkward moment when Perry could only name two of the three on his list, here are some of the more dubious facts we heard last night — some of which were suggested by readers using #factcheckthis on Twitter or our Facebook page. As always, we may look deeper at some of these issues later in the week.

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On Perry's Statement: Romneys health care law killed jobs

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Lori Robertson - Sep. 28 (News) - The Perry campaign has been pushing a questionable claim that the Massachusetts health care law, signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, “killed 18,000 jobs.” But that number was churned out by an economic model used by a conservative think tank, and it’s unknown whether the figure is accurate.

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Fact checking the GOP debate in Orlando

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Sep. 23 (Fact Check) - Another lengthy presidential debate, and more bogus claims and counterclaims to check. Let’s see what the candidates got wrong this time at last night’s debate in Orlando, Fla., hosted by Fox News, Google and the Republican Party of Florida.

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More Perry Tales

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Jim Hightower - Sep. 21 (News Analysis) - Once again, the Texas-governor-who-wants-to-be-your-president is flitting hither, thither and yon — spreading little "Perry Tales" about his record. The bonny prince is trying to make it to the big White House in Washington. It's a bit of a strange quest, because he calls the Capital City "a seedy place," and he tells the commoners in the land that he hates — nay, deeply loathes! — the very government that he wants to head. With his tea party hat carefully positioned atop his bounteous crop of perfectly coifed hair, Prince Rick warns the commoners that big government is bad, bad, bad — because it intrudes into their lives, forcing things like Social Security and Medicare on them.

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Michele Bachmann says HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson - Sep. 16 (Fact Check) - After criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls, Rep. Michele Bachmann added some scary charges: She claimed to have just met a woman whose daughter suffered mental retardation from the vaccine, that it has "very dangerous consequences" and that it puts "little children's lives at risk." In the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa on Sept. 12, 2011, Bachmann blasted Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls to guard against human papilloma virus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. The vaccine can prevent the virus, but the virus is sexually transmitted, which makes ...

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Texas poverty figures challenge Rick Perry jobs record

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Harris - Sep. 15 (Fact Check) - Republican frontrunner Rick Perry has put his economic record as Texas governor at the heart of his presidential nomination campaign, but a report has painted a stark picture of rising unemployment and spiralling poverty in the state. The policy paper, published by the Austin-based non-partisan Center for Public Policy Priorities, said poverty in Texas was currently higher than the rest of the US and was growing faster. The paper said poverty rates in Texas had jumped from 17.3% in 2009 to 18.4% in 2010, and compared them to figures for the US of 14.3% in 2009, rising to 15.1% in 2010. That suggests there are currently around 4.6m Texans living in poverty, which is currently defined as an income of $22,113 a year for a family of four. Frances Deviney, one of the CPPP co-authors of the study, said the figures showed Texas's recent economic policies were not improving the lot of many ordinary Texans, even though some segments of Texan society did well at high income levels.

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Rick Perry's Next Controversial Execution Comes Thursday

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Sep. 15 (News Analysis) - Prosecutors firmly established Buck's guilt, but to secure a capital punishment conviction in Texas they needed to prove "future dangerousness"—that is, provide compelling evidence that Buck posed a serious threat to society if he were ever to walk free. They did so in part with the testimony of a psychologist, Dr. Walter Quijano, who testified that Buck's race (he's African American) made him more likely to commit crimes in the future (Quijano answered in the affirmative to the question of whether "the race factor, [being] black, increases the future dangerousness for various complicated reasons.")

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Fact Check: Did Rick Perry Double Texans' Taxes?

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Amy Bingham - Sep. 14 (Fact Check) - The Republican presidential debate started to look more like a Texas showdown Monday night when Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, accused his governor and fellow GOP candidate Rick Perry of doubling his taxes. “I’m a taxpayer there. My taxes have gone up. Our taxes have doubled since he’s been in office,” Paul said in response to the question about whether Perry should get credit for Texas’ job growth. ”So I would put a little damper on this but I don’t want to offend the governor because he might raise my taxes or something. ” But while Paul’s taxes have gone up in the decade Perry has been governor, the increase seems to have resulted more from the rising value of his house than policies handed down from the State House.

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Fact-checking the CNN/Tea Party Express GOP debate

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair - Sep. 13 (Fact Check) - The CNN-Tea Party Express debate in Tampa on Monday night was dominated by talk about Social Security and the need for government to balance its budget. Mitt Romney led the attacks on the Republican frontrunner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, by saying that Perry didn't support the retirement program. "In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that … by any measure Social Security has been a failure," Romney said. We checked Perry's book and found Romney was right. We rated the claim True.

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Fact Check: Social Security, Health Care and More

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Cooper, KITTY BENNETT, TRIP GABRIEL, NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., JOHN M. BRODER, RYAN MURPHY - Sep. 13 (Fact Check) - As Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was assailed by some rivals for the Republican presidential nomination at Monday night's debate for his misleading claims on Social Security, he also seemed to be debating himself at times.

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Fact checking the CNN and Tea Party Express debate in Tampa

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Sep. 13 (Fact Check) - (Reuters) The Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla., co-hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express, was feisty and provocative, with many of the candidates relying once again on bogus “facts” that we have previously identified as faulty or misleadin

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