Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Barack Obama says a “wide majority of NRA households” supported gun legislation

By Louis Jacobson

April 19, 2013

A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.

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Barack Obama says, ‘The NRA used to support expanded background checks.’

By Louis Jacobson

April 18, 2013

"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."

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Gabby Giffords says Americans “overwhelmingly” support expanding background checks

By Louis Jacobson

April 18, 2013

Polls show that Americans "overwhelmingly" support "expanding background checks."  

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Rep. John Duncan Jr. says 90 percent of felons grew up in fatherless households

By Louis Jacobson

April 18, 2013

"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."

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GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions says gun prosecutions have declined under Barack Obama

By Louis Jacobson

April 16, 2013

Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've…

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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says fewer now working than any point since 1979

By Louis Jacobson

April 12, 2013

"We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."

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Ted Cruz says expanding Medicaid will “worsen health care options for the most vulnerable”

By Louis Jacobson

April 8, 2013

"Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."

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Ex-Sen. Fred Thompson says Obamcare could raise premiums enough to pay for a new Ford Explorer

By Louis Jacobson

April 3, 2013

Says that under President Barack Obama’s health care law, "your insurance" premiums could go up by 200 percent and cost "as much as a new…

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Attorney in same-sex marriage case says ‘very few men outlive their own fertility’

By Becky Bowers , Louis Jacobson

March 28, 2013

"Very few men outlive their own fertility."

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Does earning $500,000 in Manhattan make you middle class?

By Louis Jacobson

March 27, 2013

An annual income of $500,000 "in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class."

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Harry Reid says deficit has been reduced by $2.5 trillion in past two years

By Louis Jacobson

March 21, 2013

"In the last two years, we have reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion."

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Michele Bachmann says Alzheimer’s disease could be cured if not for government regulation, taxes and lawyers

By Louis Jacobson

March 20, 2013

"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."

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