Latest Fact-Checks By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

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Immigration enforcement advocate Terry Gorman says giving undocumented Rhode Island high school graduates a college tuition price break will still make them unemployable

May 13, 2012

"When these [undocumented] students graduate from college, they're still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job."

Sheldon Whitehouse said $47 billion raised over 10 years by passage of the Buffett rule tax on millionaires could generate 611,000 jobs

May 6, 2012

"If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."

U.S. Senate candidate Barry Hinckley says Obama administration gave $1.5 billion to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

April 27, 2012

President Obama gave Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood one and a half billion dollars.

Catholics for Choice president says only 14 percent of Catholics agree with Vatican’s position that abortion, under all circumstances, should be illegal

April 19, 2012

"Only 14 percent of Catholics agree with the Vatican's position that abortion should be illegal."

Mike Huckabee says President Obama’s refusal to issue offshore drilling permits is one reason gasoline prices are soaring

April 12, 2012

President Obama's refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring.

Consultant says his efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida

April 8, 2012

Says his reform efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida.

E-mail says having an all-Democrat congressional delegation increased federal stimulus allotment by $460 per person

April 3, 2012

"Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per…

Rhode Island state Sen. Beatrice Lanzi says 1 in 4 young people are victims of dating violence

March 4, 2012

"One out of four of our young people say they are victims of this (dating) violence."

American Atheists President David Silverman says there are twice as many atheists in U.S. as Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined

February 26, 2012

"There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled."

State Rep. John Edwards, quoting Rhode Island DOT, says 40 percent of Sakonnet Bridge traffic is from outside the state

February 20, 2012

"They're saying that 40 percent of the traffic that goes over [the Sakonnet River Bridge is from] out of state."

Rhode Island director of administration Richard Licht says Rhode Island isn’t only state cutting back on spending for public television

February 14, 2012

"We aren't the only state cutting back on public television."

Rhode Island Right to Life executive director Barth Bracy contends that more than half of Americans say they are ‘pro-life’

February 12, 2012

The polls "show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life."

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