You’ve been busy this holiday season and so have we. PolitiFact Virginia got an early present in the form of last week’s debate between Republican George Allen and Democrat Tim Kaine, the two leading candidates in the 2012 race for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Jim Webb, D-Va. The 90-minute exchange [...]

AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota By Warren FiskePublished on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 2:36 p.m. The first step in reporting a Truth-O-Meter story never changes.We always call the person who made the claim and ask where he or she got the information that his or her statement was based [...]

Virginia Republicans were quick to criticize President Obama for recently urging Israel to seek peace with Palestinians by using borders that existed prior to the Six Day War in 1967 as a start to land negotiations. In a barrage of news releases, several state Republicans twisted Obama’s comments. *”President Obama’s call for Israel to return [...]

It’s 19 months to Election Day and the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign already has us swamped. The Truth-O-Meter and the Flop-O-Meter went into late-October mode last week when former Gov. Tim Kaine announced he would run for the seat being vacated by fellow Democrat Jim Webb. George Allen did not take the announcement lightly. Allen, [...]

Republican George Allen says the United States has plenty of fossil fuel resources and that the president should allow more exploration and excavation of them. “We are blessed to be number one in the world in energy resources; Russia is number two,” Allen, a Republican, said during a Dec. 7 debate with Democrat Tim Kaine. [...]

U.S. Senate candidate George Allen wants to drill here and now. The Republican has repeatedly reminded voters that the U.S. has the largest fossil fuel reserves in the world and faulted President Barack Obama for not aggressively developing them. Allen brought up the issue again in a Dec. 7 debate against Democrat Tim Kaine, who [...]

Republican George Allen is promising his unrelenting effort to curb federal spending if he’s elected to the U.S. Senate next year. He says he’ll bring to Washington the same kind of “sweeping reform” he brought to Virginia as governor from 1994 to 1998. His campaign web site says that when Allen was governor, “He challenged [...]

George Allen says the United States has plenty of energy resources and that the president should allow more exploration and excavation of them. Allen, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, said during a June 14 speech that America’s energy resources outpace those of any other nation. [...]

Sara Palin cleared the air and ended speculation that she might run for President in 2012 when she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday November 16th and said that she does not see herself running for President in 2012. Palin appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show as part of her media blitz pushing [...]

The Herman Cain smear campaign is starting to take off. Now the top three GOP candidates running for the 2012 nomination are involved one way or another. What is going on here? Is this bad for the GOP? Politico ran the story that has changed the landscape of the GOP debate for the time being. [...]