Thursday, September 27, 2012

Romney Ad on China Mangles Facts | FactCheck.org

More lies from the Romney campaign, this time on the Obama Administration's record on China:

"A Romney ad strains the facts when it suggests the Obama administration’s refusal to “stand up to China” and label it a currency manipulator has cost the U.S. 2 million jobs. The jobs figure is unrelated to currency manipulation. It is an International Trade Commission estimate of jobs that could be created if China enforced U.S. intellectual property rights."

Obama’s Executive Orders | FactCheck.org

Q: Has President Barack Obama signed 900 executive orders, some of which create martial law?

A: No. Obama’s executive orders do not create martial law. And so far he has igned 139 executive orders — not 900.

Read more at FactCheck.org.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Become a Mentor | iMentor

I recently signed up to serve as a mentor through an organization called iMentor.

Mentors are partnered with a New York City high school student in the program. At this time they are urgently looking for 200 more men to join (mentors and mentees are partnered by gender.) If you're interested, please sign up at iMentor.org and help make a difference in a kid's life.

Thanks!

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Our Clinton Nightmare | FactCheck.org

This is the reason Bill Clinton is awesome:

"Former President Bill Clinton’s stem-winding nomination speech was a fact-checker’s nightmare: lots of effort required to run down his many statistics and factual claims, producing little for us to write about.

Republicans will find plenty of Clinton’s scorching opinions objectionable. But with few exceptions, we found his stats checked out.
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Read more from FactCheck about how Clinton's speech was factually accurate, unlike a certain Republican Vice Presidential candidate.