Fact Checking for Partisan Fun and Profit

Who will fact check the fact checkers?  How about you and me? Take a PolitiFact story last week out of Iowa, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is the current Republican front-runner as the state's Feb. 1 presidential caucus approaches. Earlier this month, Sen. Cruz told a Cedar Rapids crowd, "The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."

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AP FACT CHECK: Clinton on guns; Sanders on wage inequality

Bernie Sanders persisted in using shopworn stats on income inequality and Hillary Rodham Clinton glossed over the well-heeled donors to her campaign in the latest Democratic presidential debate. --Some of the claims in the debate Saturday night and how they compare with the facts:CLINTON: "Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns. Two hundred children have been killed. This is an emergency." She said that in the same period there have been 21 mass shootings, "including one last weekend in Des Moines where three were murdered."

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AP FACT CHECK: Clinton, Sanders revise history in Dem debate

Hillary Rodham Clinton revised history in the Democratic debate when insisting she's not a flip-flopper on a trade deal she promoted as secretary of state but turned against as a presidential candidate. Bernie Sanders overstated the share of wealth being taken by the richest Americans, a subject that goes to the core of his campaign. A look at some of the claims in the debate among Democratic rivals Tuesday night and how they compare with the facts:

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Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain

Donald Trump appears to have gotten under the skin of not only Democrats, but also fellow Republicans and the news media. Has that subjected Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, to unfair and/or inaccurate reporting? --An article in the Washington Post today is headlined, “Trump slams McCain for being ‘captured’ in Vietnam.”

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