THANK YOU, SPINSANITY: My favorite fact-checking website, Spinsanity, hadn't been updated since just after the election, and I was afraid that they might be considering ending it. The announcement finally arrived:
We want to let you, our readers, know that we have decided to stop updating Spinsanity. Since March 2001, we've poured vast amounts of our time into this site, writing more than 400 articles as well as a book. It has been a rewarding but exhausting process, and after much reflection, we have decided not to continue the website. We will make sure our complete archive remains online as a resource for citizens and journalists, and have completed a final update of our topical index that presents an annotated guide to our body of work.
Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan did an outstanding job and provided an excellent resource of factual, objective political analysis. It was hard work, and it's certainly understandable that they are ready to pursue other things. Best of luck to each of them . .
| Author/ Affiliation |
Title/ Date |
words | PI | Partisan References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mona Charen Creators Syndicate |
No lack of vision thing 21 January 2005 |
843 | 94 | 15R+,1R= George W.: George W. Bush Now, by: President Bush Impossibly grandiose?: the president Freedom, the: the president, the president, the president, George W. Bush Doubters will: the president, the president, the president Rarely has: president, Republican Guiding everything: President Bush, the president, the president, George W. Bush |
| Paul Krugman New York Times |
The Free Lunch Bunch 21 January 2005 |
814 | 71 | 5R-,2R= Did they: Administration, Republicans, Bill Thomas, Bush President Bush: President Bush That, once: Bush There are: Bush |
| William Safire New York Times |
Bush's 'Freedom Speech' 21 January 2005 |
886 | 60 | 3D+,15R+,2R= Bush's 'Freedom: Bush On his: President Bush In the: Michael Gerson, president, Bush Yesterday's strongly: the president I rate: Bush In Bush's: Bush, J.F.K., Bush The change: Bush It takes: Bush, F.D.R. , Truman Bush has: Bush The president: The president, Nixon That's thinking: Bush Evidence that: Bush, Bush |
| David S. Broder Washington Post |
Big Goals, Unshakable Faith 21 January 2005 |
928 | 35 | 3D-,8R+,4R-,5R= In his: President Bush On this: president, Bush But it: Bush In interviews: Bush, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Karl Rove But it: Bush Skeptics may: Bush But that: The president What was: Bush In effect,: Bush This suggests: Bush In his: Bush He said: administration |
| Charles Krauthammer Washington Post |
Tomorrow's Threat 21 January 2005 |
840 | 33 | 1R+,2R= Where are: Bush administration The great: administration First, the: Bush administration |
| E. J. Dionne Jr. Washington Post |
Visions in Need of a Little Realism 21 January 2005 |
897 | 11 | 5R+,7R-,7R= President Bush: President Bush The president's: The president, administration Every American: the president, the president But Bush's: Bush Repose? Sabbatical?: Bush "Some, I: Bush But the: the president Iraq so: the president, the president, the president I loved: the president, Bush, the president And then: The president, the president Many who: the president I pray: the president |
| Peggy Noonan WSJ OpinionJournal |
Way Too Much God 21 January 2005 |
1614 | 5 | 4R+,5R-,12R= Was the: the president Laura Bush's: Laura Bush, Bush The staff--kindly,: James Baker The inauguration: the president There were: the president The inaugural: George W. Bush, the president A short: the president No one: the president It was: President Bush, Bush The administration's: administration, the president, administration, Bush administration The president's: The president, president It seemed: White House, The president This is--how: White House |
| David Ignatius Inactive |
Worrisome Hubris 21 January 2005 |
1006 | |
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| Ellen Goodman Washington Post Writers Group |
Pensions and pacifiers 21 January 2005 |
868 | 0 | |
| Bob Herbert Inactive |
Dancing the War Away 21 January 2005 |
872 | |