To those who are already planning for the 2012 elections: if challenged by a reporter to back up your claims, simply say, "The issue isn't about facts. It's about starting a necessary discussion."

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual. Thomas J...

Part of the project of climbing out of the deep, deep pit George W. Bush tossed our nation into has a geeky quality. We need to learn to stop using computers to lie to ourselves.

As we said before, committing physical violence against someone who holds a different opinion from your own is reprehensible and not to be tolerated under any circumstances.

If any member of Congress personifies a willingness to sell out his constituents' economic interests for the sake of special interests, it is Robin Hayes.

That nagging AP poll hints at something that has bedeviled the Obama campaign from day one, and that's the inability to put McCain away. How could that happen?

This is a compilation of statements and allegations made by McCain or campaign surrogates that have been refuted, supported by the proof that they are mostly, partially, or completely false.

Sarah Palin makes vague claims to have gay friends -- and no one can find any of them anywhere, alive, dead or in print.

As we close in on the 2008 election, the increasingly desperate Republicans will do what they have learned to do best: court the sincere but misinformed Evangelical voters by lying to them.

Barney Frank just demolished Falafel Bill O'Reilly on "The Factor." It was a thing of beauty from the start, and peaked when Frank told O'Reilly that...

John McCain lurches from plan to plan, from statement to statement, from action to action. His behavior reminds me of my most manic patients when I w...

Sarah Palin may lie, but numbers don't. Her record speaks for itself: 2007: the year in which Sarah Palin first obtained a passport (Source) 312: th...

Our safety depends on us acting together. And our shared action depends on a basic shared understanding that it is far too soon to claim "never again."

One function of a free press in a self-governing society is to tell the truth, which is why those who embrace a strategy of political lying make a concerted effort to denigrate the credibility of the press.

Her performance was so strong and so well focused that it would be foolish not to immediately send her out on the campaign trail and/or to as many television interviews as she can squeeze into her schedule.

This assertion from the McCain/Palin campaign is demonstrably false, based on U.S. government sources. It's been debunked several times. And yet they keep repeating it.

The strategy of tying a culture of lying to failed policies tears asunder the connections McCain-Palin lies are making with the electorate.

Mark McKinnon quit the McCain campaign when Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination because of his respect for Senator Obama. Now we know why he felt the need to do so.