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Obama reverses on release of abuse photos
PolitiFact - May. 15, 2009 (News Analysis)
President Barack Obama announced his administration was reversing course about the release of photographs depicting the abuse of foreign prisoners. We're rating this the first ...
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First 100 Days: Obama's two biggest promises
PolitiFact - by Bill Adair - Apr. 29, 2009 (Editorial)
For the final installment in our coverage of President Barack Obama's first 100 days, we decided to look at the 514 campaign promises in our Obameter database and choose two ...
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First 100 Days: Obama and the big picture
PolitiFact - by Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan - Apr. 28, 2009 (News Analysis)
President Barack Obama's first 100 days have at times seemed a blur of activity, but he mostly has stuck to a blueprint outlined in his presidential campaign, according to an ...
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First 100 Days: Obama's Promises Broken
PolitiFact - by Angie Drobnic Holan - Apr. 27, 2009 (News Analysis)
As the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, President Barack Obama has broken six promises, according to a PolitiFact analysis. That's a small portion of the 514 ...
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First 100 Days: Obama's Promises Kept
PolitiFact - by Robert Farley - Apr. 23, 2009 (News Analysis)
Barack Obama promised change -- lots of it. And in his first 100 days, a PolitiFact analysis finds he has already fulfilled 27 promises and begun work on 61 others that we've ...
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The Obama White House vs. the Truth-O-Meter
PolitiFact, St. Petersburg Times - by Bill Adair - Apr. 23, 2009 (Special Report)
President Barack Obama and his top administration officials have faced the Truth-O-Meter 21 times since they took office, and they can claim a small victory: They haven't ...
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Sorting out the truth about guns in Mexico
PolitiFact - by David Adams, Robert Farley - Apr. 17, 2009 (News Analysis)
With growing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border fueled by powerful drug cartels, officials from both countries have been repeating a shocking statistic to suggest this isn't ...
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No proposal to end taxes for seniors making less than $50,000
PolitiFact - by Angie Drobnic Holan - Apr. 16, 2009 (News Analysis)
President Obama's campaign pledge to end taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 has fallen off the radar. It wasn't part of the tax cuts in the economic stimulus bill, ...
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The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises
PolitiFact, St. Petersburg Times - Apr. 15, 2009 (Special Report)
PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the ...
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Not a radical group, and Ayers didn't run it
PolitiFact - Oct. 13, 2008 (News Analysis)
In short, this was a mainstream foundation funded by a mainstream, Republican business leader and led by an overwhelmingly mainstream, civic-minded group of individuals. ...
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Your guide to the cap-and-trade estimates
PolitiFact - by Catharine Richert - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
With Congress considering a sweeping cap-and-trade bill to limit carbon emissions and slow global warming, there have been a perplexing array of cost estimates. We can't tell ...
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The distortions cometh
PolitiFact - Aug. 18, 2008 (News Analysis)
We think it's misleading to cite an editorial from one of the country's most conservative large paper editorial boards and present it as "the press."
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Fact Check - Thompson's gun claim low on ammo
PolitiFact - by David Baumann - Aug. 30, 2007 (Special Report)
The debate over the possible relationship between guns and crime rates has kept researchers in business for decades. In a posting on his Web site on Aug. 21, Thompson provided ...
Overview
| Media | Online |
| Audience | (English) |
| Scope | National |
| Political Viewpoint | Neutral viewpoint |
| Story Formats | News Analysis (20), Special Report (4), Editorial (1) |
| Story Authors | Angie Drobnic Holan (6), Bill Adair (4), Robert Farley (4), Alexander Lane (3), David Adams (1), Rob Farley (1), David Baumann (1) |
| Story Topics | Obama Administration (17), John McCain (11), Presidential Election 2008 (11), Media and Politics (7), U.S. Economy (3), Taxes (3), Money and Politics (3), Foreign Policy (2), Joe Biden (2), Oil and Gas (2), Democratic Party (2), War in Iraq (2), Lobby Reform (1), Republican Party (1), U.S. White House (1)... |
Research
| Related Publications | St. Petersburg Times, Congressional Quarterly |
| Location | 490 First Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL, 33701, US |
| Search Sites | Google | Yahoo | Technorati | Wikipedia | del.icio.us |
Editorial
| Edited By | Kaizar Campwala |
| Last Edit | Apr 17, 2009 - 8:40 AM PDT |
