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Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.
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Did Frank Gaffney compare Muslims to termites?
This metaphor is commonly used. From the Wikipedia article White anting
White-anting is an Australian term for the process of internal erosion of a foundation. It is often used in reference to gro …
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Is there as many media staff as protestors in Ferguson? [closed]
In Media making up the mob: Journalists amid protesters in Ferguson, Mo. in the Washington Post, it's claimed there's as many media staff as protestors in Ferguson:
Early Wednesday, Lowery estimat …
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Do 3400 Americans die from household firearms every five weeks?
From Neil deGrasse Tyson
3,400: Americans who died by Terrorism since 2001
3,400: Americans who died by household Firearms since five weeks ago.
Several users have since asked for a source, …
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Are Americans more likely to be monolingual?
From a comment on English Language & Usage, also mentioned in Wikipedia, and Chad Fowler's book The Passionate Programmer (Related blog post by the author: How Learning a Second Language Changed My Li …
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Does West Virginia have higher literacy rates than states like New York, California and New ...
In response to Bette Midler saying that West Virginia is moving backward, and is poor, illiterate and strung out, (she apologised but didn't retract the statement as untrue) it's been claimed that Wes …
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Was there ever a cable channel called The Puppy Channel which broadcast for three years?
The Wikipedia article has since been deleted, with one user citing Puppy Channel Is Dog Tired, written in 2005, suggesting that the channel never existed:
Last week, an e-mail promoting the Puppy …
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Was there ever a cable channel called The Puppy Channel which broadcast for three years?
Ages ago, I heard about something called "The Puppy Channel" - a channel in the United States that broadcast nothing but puppies.
On Reddit's TIL (Today I Learned), there's a Reddit post, with over 30 …
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Did World War II propaganda posters tell people to "Speak American", rather than languages o...
The book "Our House Divided: Seven Japanese American Families in World War II" by Tomi Kaizawa Knaefler, published in 1991, had the following:
The government posters said, "Speak American. Don't S …
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Has ESPN removed broadcaster Robert Lee from a game, citing the name of a confederate general?
From Fox News ESPN pulls Asian-American announcer from Virginia football game because he has a Confederate general's name
In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Va., ESPN decided to
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Did Trump call Belgium a village in Europe?
According to a quote on NDTV from European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, Donald Trump said that "Belgium was a village somewhere in Europe".
Once Called Belgium A European Village, Donald Tru …
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Did Trump call Belgium a village in Europe?
From the right-wing Daily Caller Trump: ‘Belgium Is A Beautiful City’ [VIDEO], we can see that he called Belgium a "beautiful city", and that it wasn't a verbal slip he immediately corrected.
So B …
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Did World War II propaganda posters tell people to "Speak American", rather than languages o...
Wikimedia commons entry, claiming a citation to "Una Storia Segreta" by Lawrence Distasi. The licensing metadata from the picture claims that it is a "work prepared by an officer or employee of the …
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Did a cop get fired after stopping police abuse?
From https://twitter.com/PolicePoliceACP/status/546020531665772544 (1754 retweets, 705 favorites)
Cop Stops Cop From Choking a Handcuffed Man, She Was Then Beaten/Fired
Read more >> http://bi …
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Are right-wing extremists a bigger terrorist threat than islamic extremists in the USA?
The New America Project says that there are 95 Jihadist deaths, 67 Far Right Wing deaths, and 8 Black Separatist/Nationalist/Supremacist, in the US since 9/11. Jihadists lagged behind Far Right Wing u …
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Do an overwhelming majority of rapes not involve relatives?
From a tweet thread started by https://twitter.com/VocalFriez/status/1046487752429072384 , a citation is made of RAINN (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), saying that the overwhelming majorit …
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