Chip Tuthill

Position: Mancos

Immigration and Obama's carbon reduction claims

Two senators opposed to the Gang of Eight immigration bill are telling only half the story with their claims that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office warned the bill would be bad for wages...

DATE: July 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact check: AP investigation

The Associated Press revealed that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of reporter and editor phone records from the spring of 2012, the latest and most illustrative example of the...

DATE: June 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Fact check

President Obama said that a review board headed by former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen and veteran diplomat Thomas Pickering "investigated every element of this. And what they...

DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact Check

Sen. John McCain exaggerated when he claimed that about 25 percent of prisoners released from Guantanamo have returned to terrorist activities in "leadership positions." Sixteen percent of all the...

DATE: May 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact Check Presidential debate check

On May 1, 2013, the New England Journal of Medicine published a landmark study with important implications for President Obama's health care law. It was specifically designed to compare health...

DATE: May 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact Check Information about 'chained' CPI and climate change

CHAINED CONSUMER PRICE INDEX Using a more accurate cost-of-living adjustment for federal benefit payments and tax brackets would cut the federal deficit by perhaps $300 billion over the next 10...

DATE: April 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact Check

Critics of Section 753 of the budget bill claimed that it "requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as...

DATE: April 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Fact Check - Chuck Hagel

On Jan. 7, Obama formally tapped Hagel to run the Pentagon. The move quickly set off a wave of opposition ads from pro-Israel groups. Hagel, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former Republican...

DATE: Jan. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact check - Fracking Reports

During 2011 and 2012, the Energy Institute of the University of Texas at Austin conducted a study that led to the preparation and release of a report entitled, "Fact-Based Regulation for...

DATE: Dec. 11, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact Check — Fiscal Cliff II

Tax Increases: In an Oct. 1 report on the fiscal cliff, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that the scheduled tax increases, if allowed to take effect, would net an additional $536 billion...

DATE: Dec. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Debate check

Romney used the number “$90 billion” five times in the first presidential debate, claiming, “In one year, (Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world ... into solar and wind,...

DATE: Oct. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fact check

President Obama is falsely claiming his administration’s policies are responsible for “about 10 percent” of the deficits “over the last four years.” The cumulative deficit during that time is...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

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