When President Bush and Vice President Cheney claimed that reversing their tax cuts would hurt many small businesses, the fact-checkers of the press zinged them for exaggerating the impact. Most small businesses, they pointed out, would not be affected. Good for the media: Journalists ought to inform the public when their leaders are making false or misleading statements.

But they ought to do so whether the politicians in question are Republicans or Democrats, and whether the claims help liberal or conservative causes. Last night, President Obama said that his liberalized policy on funding for embryonic stem-cell research would aid the search … Continue Reading

The AP repeats a common myth in their March 10, story “UC Merced gets $4M for campus stem cell project.” From the item:

The University of California-Merced will be getting a boost from President Barack Obama’s lift of the ban on embryonic stem cell research.

In fact, President Bush never banned stem cell research that destroys embryos. Scientists were free to conduct that research throughout the Clinton and Bush administrations. They could do so with all the state and private funds they could get their hands on. And Bush didn’t even ban taxpayer funding of the controversial practice. In fact, he … Continue Reading