Latest Fact-Checks By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

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Budgets from Ferguson, Mo., don’t support Rand Paul’s claim on the city’s reliance on civil fines

January 29, 2016

"A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines."

Bernie Sanders says he polls better against GOP candidates than Hillary Clinton

January 26, 2016

"Almost all of the polls that have come out suggest that I am a much stronger candidate against the Republicans than is Hillary Clinton."

Mike Rogers says Trump appeals to Democrats as much as Republicans

January 21, 2016

"Donald Trump is appealing as much to Democrats as he is to Republicans."

Spot check of Hillary Clinton’s Senate record fails to support bipartisanship claim

January 20, 2016

"Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced (in the U.S. Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor." 

Hillary Clinton: ‘We now have driven costs down to the lowest they’ve been in 50 years’

January 18, 2016

"We now have driven (health care) costs down to the lowest they've been in 50 years."

Marco Rubio super PAC says Chris Christie imposed an Internet tax in New Jersey

January 14, 2016

Says Chris Christie "instituted an Internet sales tax."

Pelosi wrongly says before nuclear deal, Russia, China had never voted with U.S. on Iran sanctions

January 13, 2016

Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."

High school graduation rates are at ‘new highs,’ says Obama in State of the Union

January 13, 2016

We've "lifted high school graduation rates to new highs."

Hillary Clinton’s Syrian airstrikes claim against Marco Rubio ignores difference in strategy

January 7, 2016

"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."

Donald Trump’s first TV ad shows migrants ‘at the southern border,’ but they’re actually in Morocco

January 4, 2016

A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over "our southern border."

ACLU says profits from traffic cameras go to private companies — not government

June 14, 2015

"The profit [from automated traffic enforcement cameras] is going to the private corporations, not to the city or state."  

Does becoming a prostitute mean you’ve only got about 7 years to live?

May 31, 2015

"Once a woman enters into the sex trade, her average life expectancy is seven years."

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