Statements we say are Pants on Fire!
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."
There are "high administrative costs" when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site.
A recent Obama executive order could "lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials."
President Obama "doesn't ... want to admit we're at war."
A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."
Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
"In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs."
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.
Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."
The Obama White House is renaming Christmas trees "holiday trees."
"For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment)."
Photo of "tea party" protests shows crowd sprawling from Capitol to Washington Monument
Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.
Schoolchildren across the nation "will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president."
"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."
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