2014 State of the Union address: on Homeland Security

Green Party: Promise to close Guantanamo has no real plan to achieve it

President Obama began painting a rosy picture of the economy on the rebound, unemployment dropping and healthcare on the mend, based on narrow, selective examples. By failing to paint the full picture, he paints a false one.

On issue after issue we see the same false description of reality followed by proposals that do not solve the real problems: the green light to environmentally damaging fracking that will worsen the climate crisis, the promise to close Guantanamo--a promise repeated several times in previous years--again with no real plan to achieve it, the promise that the healthcare law is working, already saving money when in fact it is resulting in people getting worse healthcare coverage and not going to the doctor when they need to because out-of-pocket costs are so high.

Cathy McMorris-Rodgers: FactCheck: Iran's nuke program is set back, but not "halted"

FactCheck: Obama is right that the international community is getting a level of access to Iran's existing nuclear facilities it has never had before, including daily visits by the IAEA. From there, though, the situation gets more murky.

While Iran is reducing its stockpile of 20%-enriched uranium and won't build more advanced centrifuges while the deal is in place, it's program isn't completely "halted," as Obama suggested.

And although Iran is required to shut down its advanced centrifuges, it doesn't have to get rid of any of them. In addition, Iran can build an unlimited number less sophisticated centrifuges even while the temporary deal is in place.