Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Trey Gowdy said the United States was ‘the last flag flying in Benghazi’

May 16, 2014
"We were the last flag flying in Benghazi."
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Chain email overstates tax increases, incorrectly says they all stem from Obamacare

May 14, 2014
"No Republicans voted for" recent hikes in the income tax, payroll tax, capital gains tax, dividend tax and estate tax. "These taxes were all passed…
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Does Oregon have 100,000 more jobs today than it did when John Kitzhaber was elected?

May 13, 2014
"Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected."
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Prior to Benghazi, were there 13 attacks on embassies and 60 deaths under President George W. Bush?

May 12, 2014
"During the George W. Bush period, there were 13 attacks on various embassies and consulates around the world. Sixty people died."
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Does a $10.10 minimum wage get you out of poverty?

May 8, 2014
If you work 40 hours a week at the proposed minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, "you get out of poverty."
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Social media meme says lawmakers will get $2,800 raise in January 2015

May 6, 2014
"Every single one of the 41 Republican senators who just blocked a raise in the minimum wage will receive a $2,800 cost-of-living adjustment on January…
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Rand Paul says 40 times more Kentuckians have gotten health-insurance cancellation notices than signed up for Obamacare

May 5, 2014
"For every Kentuckian that has enrolled in Obamacare, 40 have been dropped from their coverage."
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett attacks Democratic rival Tom Wolf over taxes, job losses

May 2, 2014
"On (Tom) Wolf’s watch, taxes were high, killing 100,000 PA jobs."
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Barack Obama says ‘the average minimum wage worker is 35 years old’

April 29, 2014
"The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old."
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Social media meme says 300,000 suicides are attributable to foreclosures

April 25, 2014
"Over 300K home owner suicides attributed to foreclosures."
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Chain email says Barack Obama wants U.S. to join International Criminal Court

April 24, 2014
"The President wants the U.S. to sign on to the U.N.’s International Criminal Court."
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Chain email says ‘more than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in the last 27 months’

April 24, 2014
"More than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in the last 27 months. This is more than the combined total of the…
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