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Tag Archives: chain e-mail
Obama’s auto team & “the laws of physics”
Q:Did the Obama auto team tell a Michigan engineer the government should change "the laws of physics"? A: This is another Internet tall tale. The supposed source of the story says he has not even met with the Obama task force.
Obama & Naval Academy swords
Q: Did Obama order a "swordless graduation" at the U.S. Naval Academy? A: This Internet scuttlebutt is false. Graduating midshipmen have gone without swords at graduation for decades, even when Bush and Cheney spoke.
Privately Owned Gun Tax?
Q: Would Senate bill 2099 put a yearly $50 tax on each privately owned firearm? A: There is no such bill. A chain e-mail containing bogus claims refers to a bill that died more than eight years ago.
Georgia Arms
Q: Did the Obama administration shut down a Georgia ammunition supplier? Is it trying to create an ammo shortage? A: Georgia Arms still is doing a booming business in reloaded military cartridges. The Pentagon quickly reversed a move to stop selling spent casings.
‘Godless Dollars’
Q: Did the government issue new dollar coins without the words "In God We Trust"? A: Congress ordered the words to be stamped on the edges of the coins, but an unknown number of "Godless dollars" were produced by mistake.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged chain e-mail, Congress, First Amendment, mint, social issues
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Oklahoma’s Conservativism
Q: Is Oklahoma as defiantly conservative as a chain e-mail says? A: The state is one of the most Republican in the nation, but the message exaggerates Oklahoma’s laws on religion, immigration and guns.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged chain e-mail, Guns, illegal immigrants, immigration, Oklahoma, social issues
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Soldiers’ Private Guns
Q: Is the Army demanding information about soldiers' privately owned firearms? A: This is another false Internet rumor. A memo from one commander of a small unit in Kentucky was an isolated mistake that was quickly corrected; it wasn't Army policy.
Michelle Obama’s Salary
Q: Did Michelle Obama make $317,000 a year while working part-time at the University of Chicago Medical Center? A: This allegation in a chain e-mail is wrong: Obama’s reported income was $103,633 in 2007, the year she reduced her work schedule to part time.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged chain e-mail, First Lady, Michelle Obama, University of Chicago Medical Center
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