Don't take the politician's word for it...

Whether you are liberal or conservative or somewhere in between, there comes a point in time when you just want the truth. Well, we may never get the complete truth, but there are some places we can go to get closer to the facts.

Peggy Garvin recently wrote an article called "The Government Domain: Political Fact-checking websites". It details several sites we can go to for fact-based answers to our questions about politics. While no one can be completely unbiased, these resources actually document their claims. Garvin goes into some detail about the sites and lists some of my personal favorites, such as:

The Fact-Checker - this blog is written by Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post. He takes statements made by or about politicians and points out the facts of the matter. While I don't always agree with his interpretation of the facts, he does a good job of revealing interesting points.

FactCheck.org - this site is run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. Again, they specialize in verifying statements made by politicians and political groups. They seem to address political advertisements more than the other sites, also.

For a more complete list and discussion of fact-checking sites, see Peggy Garvin's article here.