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stated on September 15, 2014 in a post on InfoWars.com:

"The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread" of the virus.

By Derek Tsang • September 19, 2014
Julie Pace
stated on September 11, 2014 in a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest:

The Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of."

By Derek Tsang • September 18, 2014
Amy Klobuchar
stated on September 14, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Children who witness domestic violence are "twice as likely to commit it themselves."

By Derek Tsang • September 16, 2014
Maria Cardona
stated on September 11, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history."

By Derek Tsang • September 12, 2014
Facebook posts
stated on September 11, 2014 in a post on Facebook:

A flight from Atlanta to Houston was canceled due to a "terrorist dry run."

By Derek Tsang • September 11, 2014
Bob Beckel
stated on September 1, 2014 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":

The United States has "the most number of deductions available to corporations" for the corporate income tax.

By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014
Eric Bolling
stated on September 1, 2014 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":

The United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free world."

By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014
Larry Elder
stated on August 20, 2014 in comments on CNN:

"If black America were a country, it’d be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world."

By Derek Tsang • September 2, 2014
Lou Dobbs
stated on August 19, 2014 in comments on Fox News' "America's Newsroom":

Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.

By Derek Tsang • August 21, 2014
Bloggers
stated on August 19, 2014 in stories:

Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.

By Derek Tsang • August 19, 2014
Joy Reid
stated on August 4, 2014 in comments on her MSNBC show:

"So far, the war in Gaza has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead -- the population equivalent to 100 9/11s."

By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 3, 2014 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world."

By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014
Greta Van Susteren
stated on August 2, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas," because Kerry was seen as "supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League."

By Linda Qiu • August 4, 2014
Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 in comments on CNN:

Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."

By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 23, 2014 in comments on his show:

Because of the current immigration crisis, Republicans want to "repeal" a 2008 law that President George W. Bush signed and "want to be on record as not wanting to protect children from ... sex trafficking."

By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Jamie Weinstein
stated on July 18, 2014 in comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

The states that are doing "better" are the ones that have no state income tax.

By Derek Tsang • July 28, 2014
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 in comments on MSNBC:

"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."

By Derek Tsang • July 24, 2014
Stu Burguiere
stated on July 15, 2014 in comments on The Glenn Beck Radio Program:

There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."

By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014
Michael Eric Dyson
stated on July 9, 2014 in comments on MSNBC's "Ed Show":

"Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010 alone."

By Derek Tsang • July 15, 2014
Peter Beinart
stated on July 6, 2014 in comments on CNN:

"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."

By Derek Tsang • July 10, 2014