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Here come the campaign ads

By Bill Adair, PolitiFact Editor Saturday, September 4, 2010 Labor Day weekend marks the kickoff of the fall TV season — not sitcoms and reality shows, but campaign ads. To help make sense of the impending avalanche of ads, we present the Message Machine Fall TV Preview, part of a PolitiFact-NPR partnership to fact-check the 2010 campaign. PolitiFact has a unique perch to watch the TV ads. Our ...

Making Change Happen Every Day: Q&A With GSA's David McClure

The U.S. government spends $80 billion annually on information technology. The U.S. General Services Administration is directly involved in nearly 25 percent of federal IT procurement activities through its Schedule 70 acquisition program, including nearly $9 billion directly for information technology investments. GSA has emerged as a leader in guiding federal investments for information ...

Jen's World: Smells and memories of the first day of school

Earlier this summer — weeks and even months before stores had any right to be selling school supplies — I made a quick Target trip for 24–cent crayons and came home with a bag full of markers and erasers and notebooks and pencil sharpeners. And then I dumped them all out on the floor in my office, buried my face into the pile, and breathed deeply.

What are you really celebrating on Merdeka?

Many Malaysians saw their birthright being questioned from time to time yet kept voting into power the architects and engineers of their plight. You can't be more self-destructive and idiotic than that.

Why Abortion Rate Among Asian-American Women Is So High

One day five years ago, Kuping Pan’s 28-year-old daughter, Christine, came home wearing a quizzical expression. Christine had just visited a Vietnamese fortune-teller who looked deep into her face and proclaimed: Your mother has five children.Christine was puzzled. She knew...