Book on presidential facts is flawed
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"Oval Office Oddities: An Irreverent Collection of Presidential Facts, Follies, and Foibles" (Harper Paperbacks. 352 pages. $13.95), by Bill Fawcett: It's time again for presidential candidates to drag bones or worse from each other's closets and chirp endlessly about their cures for all that ails us.
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Tycho: Sorry about that. Kiko digests the audio files for that, and I forgot that there President's Day was a holiday that people took seriously. Before today, I was not aware just how seriously Kiko took the concept of presidency. Also, I fixed an offensive and aggressively stupid typographical error in the post above. Now, it's only aggressively stupid in the ways I originally intended.(CW)TB
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Both sides of the political spectrum twist the truth in their media briefs, according to a website that's tracking the spin. The system of half truths make it hard for ordinary folks to become informed.
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U.S. News & World Report - One way to assess the 2008 presidential campaign is in terms of the mistakes made by the candidates--and there have been plenty of them, according to Republican pollster Bill McInturff. He says the failure of any candidate so far to bring the GOP together as a party is partly a result of these errors.
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Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday confronted one of the persistent falsehoods circulating about him on the Internet.
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As if the 2004 campaign for the presidency has not been dirty enough -- get ready for a 700-page book by America's most famous tabloid biographer that alleges illegal drug use and other youthful misdeeds by President Bush.
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Journalists applying to the Commission on Presidential Debates for credentials to cover the presidential debates are being asked to provide their racial data, a move that has some upset.
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The Bush administration is funding abstinence education curricula that teaches &quot;false and misleading information,&quot; says a report released yesterday by a House Democratic leader.
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Liberal critics periodically complain that federally funded "abstinence only" sex-education materials are full of false or misleading statements about the effectiveness of condoms and other issues.  Now the Bush administration is firing back, charging that programs that endorse condom use also are...
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Attempts by Balarus&#39; president to change the constitution to allow him to run for a third term have been dubbed flawed by a poll observer group.
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Almost every U.S. president complains about bad press. But history sometimes can be even nastier. Princeton University's James McPherson holds some well-informed opinions about the worst (and best) occupants of the White House. He edited To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents.
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Former President Bill Clinton says his comment about Barack Obama telling a "fairy tale" about opposing the war in Iraq has been misconstrued as a criticism of the senator's run for the Democratic nomination.
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By Mark Niquette and Jim Siegel, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 21--Fact-checking Republican J.
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Two new books offer correctives to evasions and distortions of the Riefenstahl myth.
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Strategy+business concludes that a controversial new book on the strategic value of information technology is flawed--but correct.
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Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd's campaign said Monday that Hillary Rodham Clinton is misstating the facts when she argues that she voted to step up diplomacy with Iran.
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Recently we have seen dis- cussions by the president and first lady and two op-ed pieces about stem cell research, one on Aug. 12 by Richard Cohen and one on Aug. 15 by Michael Kinsley. Only the column by Mr. Kinsley came anywhere close to presenting the ...