Rand Paul | Political Correction

Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto today where he was asked about his position on a potential deal that would extend unemployment benefits as well as a package of Republican-favored tax cuts. Paul railed against an extension of the benefits, criticizing their cost and suggesting that they encourage unemployment. However, economists and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office have concluded that these benefits have a marginal effect on the duration of an individual's period of unemployment and actually are one of the most cost-effective ways of stimulating the economy.

November 22, 2010 1:38 pm ET filed under Blog

Rand Paul On President Obama: The Tea Party "Isn't Against Him Personally"

November 17, 2010 6:06 pm ET filed under Blog

Rand Paul's Lost Interview With Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones

November 15, 2010 10:05 am ET filed under Blog

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - November 14, 2010

November 15, 2010 9:58 am ET filed under Fact Check

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - November 14, 2010

This week's Sunday shows were all about ducks and pork. The fight over pork-barrel earmark spending is largely a matter of opinion, though, so the falsehoods were limited to the tax and spending fights expected in the lame duck session that starts this week. On Fox, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) repeated long-discredited talking points about "small businesses" and tax cuts, and exaggerated the tax rates American companies actually pay. On NBC, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) suggested keeping tax breaks for the rich would help the economy despite the evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, Rand Paul (R-KY) and Newt Gingrich each claimed that government workers are overpaid because they make more on average than private sector workers, but neither man acknowledged that the pay gap reflects differences in skills and education levels between the two groups. And on ABC, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he can't vote for the New START Treaty because of concerns about "modernization" and missile defense systems, even though President Obama upped the budget for modernizing our nuclear arsenal, and the general in charge of missile defense says the treaty will actually make his job easier.

November 14, 2010 4:44 pm ET filed under Blog

Rand Paul Claims Retirees Are Job Creators

November 08, 2010 11:32 am ET filed under Blog

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - November 7, 2010

November 08, 2010 11:19 am ET filed under Fact Check

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - November 7, 2010

The Sunday shows were crowded with naked falsehoods yesterday. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) claimed on Fox News that President Obama "has killed jobs" despite the fact that a resurgent private sector has added 1.1 million jobs so far this year. On CBS, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) claimed that 750,000 small businesses pay income taxes in the top two brackets, but that number only works if you include massive corporations like Bechtel and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which play accounting games to avoid corporate tax rates, in your definition of "small businesses." Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) absurdly claimed on NBC that Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) entitlement-slashing debt reduction plan requires more sacrifice from bureaucrats than from average Americans. Worst of all, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) claimed on ABC that tax cuts for the wealthy are good for the economy and don't increase the deficit. In the real world, of course, Pence is wrong on both counts.

November 03, 2010 1:56 pm ET filed under Blog

Rand Paul Credits Thomas Jefferson With Quote From Thoreau

October 26, 2010 5:43 pm ET filed under Blog

MoveOn Head-Stomper's Accomplice Organized Online For Anti-Obama "Machine Gun Shoot"

October 26, 2010 9:33 am ET filed under Blog

Rand Paul Supporter Assaults Volunteer From MoveOn

October 14, 2010 6:47 pm ET filed under Fact Check

The Real Republican Pledge To America

The Republicans' real agenda can be found in the positions of their candidates. Republican candidates for federal and statewide office have publicly taken all of the positions listed below. Herein lies the real Republican pledge to America.

October 07, 2010 9:17 am ET filed under Blog

Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics Get Pro-Rand Paul Ad Pulled In KY

October 04, 2010 3:06 pm ET filed under Blog

Rand Paul Says Tax Cuts Aren't A Cost, But Counts Them In Cost Of The Recovery Act

October 04, 2010 11:14 am ET filed under Blog

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - October 3, 2010

October 04, 2010 10:43 am ET filed under Fact Check

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - October 3, 2010

This week, Fox News Sunday hosted an informal debate between Kentucky's Senate nominees, Rand Paul (R) and Jack Conway (D). Paul has mostly avoided the national media, and this debate suggests part of the reason why: in less than a half-hour, Paul was flagrantly dishonest a half-dozen times, about everything from economic policy to recent history to government policy. For a finale, Paul argued that Kentucky gets a raw deal in its financial relationship with Washington, when in fact Kentucky gets a dollar-fifty back for each dollar they send to D.C.

July 14, 2010 5:12 pm ET filed under Blog