Latest Fact Checks By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

Home “sales tax” e-mail surfaces again

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

February 7, 2012

"If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it."

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U.S. Senate candidate Barry Hinckley says Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will have added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt during his first term

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 31, 2012

"Sheldon Whitehouse's failure of leadership, the adding of almost $8 trillion in debt in his first full term, is shameful..."

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Republican Travis Rowley says Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 29, 2012

"Martin Luther King was a Republican."

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Rhode Island Democratic party says Republican Brendan Doherty flip-flopped on abortion in a little over a week

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 19, 2012

"[Mitt] Romney and [Brendan] Doherty certainly have a lot in common, like flip-flopping on abortion -- in Doherty's case, in a little over a week."

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Talk radio host John DePetro: The American Civil Liberties Union and atheists demanded that the National Football League stop Tim Tebow from praying on the sidelines during games

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 18, 2012

"[The] ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop [Tim Tebow] from praying on the sidelines."

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Harvard Law professor says early Congress mandated health insurance for seamen and gun ownership for most men

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 13, 2012

"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required…

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Columnist Thomas Sgouros Jr. says federal E-Verify system unfairly denies job to 1 in 7 applicants

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 10, 2012

"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is…

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U.S. Rep. David Cicilline says Providence made full pension contributions six of eight years that he was mayor

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 6, 2012

"I think with the exception of the last year or maybe the last two years, we were at 100 percent" when it came to contributing…

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Chain e-mail claims that when baboons congregate, it’s called a ‘congress.’

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

January 2, 2012

"What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!"

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U.S. Senate candidate Barry Hinckley says the nation’s tax code is 80,000 pages

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

December 27, 2011

"Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages."

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Rhode Island activist says the state has the highest rate of foreclosures in the nation

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

December 20, 2011

"Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures."

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Chain e-mail claims top executives of veterans organizations receive no pay for their good deeds

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

December 11, 2011

While CEOs of some large charities have big salaries, the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free.

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