BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON

Did you know that 11 states now have more people on welfare than they have employed?

Really? Yeah, swear to God. It was on the Internet.

Well, that piece of gossip is just not true. It was concocted from statistics contained in a magazine article.

I know that because I read FactCheck.org. In fact, when I get stuff like that forwarded to me, I send it to my good friend Brooks Jackson to find out what is true, half-true, or untrue. He would always send me a link to an article on the FactCheck.org site which had, what else? The facts. Continue reading →