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http://bit.ly/4rMUzO - From time to time we come across bits of political malarkey or other items that don’t quite rate a full article. Starting today, we’ll collect these tidbits in a new, occasional feature we call "Extras."

http://bit.ly/90spp7 - GAO found almost 4,000 reports that showed jobs created or saved but no money received or expended. Those reports represented more than 50,000 jobs. Recovery.gov’s total job count is 640,329.

http://bit.ly/3ArkIN - We were pleased to see that the Associated Press had decided to fact-check Sarah Palin’s new memoir, "Going Rogue." Putting 11 reporters on the task strikes us as overkill, but that might just be because it’s four more than our entire staff. St...

http://bit.ly/KPwQV - A: This is another false e-rumor. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was merely an audience member at some public events of a university-sponsored group that offered unsolicited advice to the new administration.

http://bit.ly/ZGv47 - The Obama administration’s Recovery.gov Web site is supposed to compile data on actual, real-life jobs filled by companies and states that have received real money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (a.k.a. the stimulus). ...

http://bit.ly/Kde7o - We’ve received a number of queries about a photograph purporting to show President Obama at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, listening to the national anthem without his hand over his heart.

http://bit.ly/3ClpxZ - This week, readers sent us comments on the federal health plan, our Just The Facts! vidcast and the H1N1 vaccine.

http://bit.ly/290RgQ - Experts say the House bill's employer mandate would have a small impact on jobs.

http://bit.ly/1ntosp - A: Both House and Senate bills would levy a tax on persons who refuse to obtain coverage. Willfully evading that tax could result in jail time under the bill passed by the House – but not the bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee.

A: No. This claim in a chain e-mail is false. Neither Congress nor President Obama has proposed legislation to that effect. http://bit.ly/2nWRxZ

http://bit.ly/cn9QE - The AFL-CIO is running a print ad this week arguing that "the House bill gets it right" on health care. The Senate bill? Not so much, says the labor federation...

http://bit.ly/xMw9U - The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, has released a new ad that uses the H1N1 vaccine as the crux of its argument against health care overhaul legislation.

http://bit.ly/3s6hz6 - The claim that the House bill would amount to "government-run health care" suffered a blow last week, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the so-called "public plan" in the revised bill wouldn’t offer much in the way of competition to private insurers. ...

http://bit.ly/27doD2 - A: Yes, but claims that this is an effort to instill panic in the American population show a misunderstanding of what such a declaration actually means.