The Sky Is Not Falling

Truth Update

• As the IRS sits in the hot seat, we check tax facts
  It’s not April 15 any more, but the Internal Revenue Service is all over the news anyway. The agency is reeling from the news that officials had been giving extra scrutiny to conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. We recently looked at two claims about how the IRS and tax law work, by one Republican lawmaker and one Democrat. • In a Fox News intervie […]
• Fact-checking Michele Bachmann on the IRS and the health care law
  During a recent interview with Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., raised the specter of the Internal Revenue Service -- an agency currently under fire for appearing to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status -- collecting a database full of "intimate" details about Americans. "So now we find out these people are making deci […]
• Mailbag, Facebook edition: 'Stick to the definition of investigation'
  We receive lots of lively feedback from readers on Facebook, where we post all of our fact-checks. Here are Facebook comments on some our most popular recent items. Comments are edited for style and length. You can view our Facebook page aT http://www.facebook.com/politifact. Martina Navratilova on discrimination protection for gay people We can take it to t […]