Reading through my daily news, I was struck by how many times political candidates (and John McCain in particular) use the phrase, “the fact is…”. If you have to explicitly state that something is a fact, it probably isn’t. For a nice list of all those crappy weasel words/phrases, wikipedia has a good page for why and how to avoid them in wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words.