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1151 verifications
Statements Related to The constitution of the Confederate States of America included a provision that limited the Confederacy's ability to appropriate money for intrastate improvements
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The Fed is creating money at an unprecedented rate
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The United States military planned to fabricate violence apparently perpetrated by Cubans in order to create public support for attacking Cuba
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News networks demand that Fox News be included in White House Press Conference for Pay Czar Ken Feinberg
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Candidate Obama made three core promises to America
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President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan
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Drug money saved the world economy
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Over the past two decades, U.S. states have increasingly liberalized their gun restriction laws
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The US deploys drone planes in South America
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Sarah Palin abandoned the Alaska governorship to make money
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The militia of the United States consists of all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45 (and any female members of the National Guard)
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Bill Bradbury, Oregon Dem Gubernatorial Candidate, proposes moving the state's money to local banks to spur lending opportunities to local businesses
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There are racially-derived significant differences in a person's athletic ability
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Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States
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Senator Patrick Moynihan, D-NY, introduced and passed a tax law that seriously inhibited the ability of computer programmers to work as independent contracters, all in order to give IBM a tax break for its overseas operations
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The US Civil War was fought to return the seceded confederate territory to the Union
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Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery
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Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery
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The cause of the US civil war was states' rights
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Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause
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During America's financial crisis, 1 in 6 Americans is impoverished
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Eighteen states in the U.S. have enacted barriers to either make it difficult or impossible for communities to build publicly-owned networks
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An oil and manufacturing company Koch Enterprises, the second largest private company in the United States, has secretly spent $50 million over ten years to support climate change denial
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The sixteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution was never ratified
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The United States cannot lawfully impose an income tax upon citizens
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The slave-holding states explicitly and solely relied upon their fear of the abolition of slavery as justification for their secession
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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that no law would be passed to deny or impair property in slaves
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Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war
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Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh
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The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights
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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that any state added to the Confederacy would be a slave-state
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The Federal Reserve refuses to reveal to which institutions it lends money out of a fear of a run on those institutions
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In 1797, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously in favor of a treaty that explicitly described the United States as not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion (Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796)
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The United States' racism against minorities provides justification for other countries to criticize U.S. policies and sincerity towards democracy
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Current technology is incapable of creating earthquakes, except maybe limited ones with nuclear weapons. "Electromagnetic waves" is certainly not the way to do it.
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President Obama is capable of leading the United States military.
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The occupation of Afghanistan is not a multilateral operation; the United States is the only country interested in remaining there.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was obsessed with white prostitutes and used church money to throw sex parties where he sometimes abused the women
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Adherants of the "sovereign citizen" theory have killed 8 law enforcement officers in the United States between Jan. 2008 and Dec. 2010
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Pubmed is the United States National Library of Medicine's online database for medical articles
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The donation of food hurts communities because it impairs local farmers' ability to make a living
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Wealthy nations should not donate money to third-world countries except in the case of disasters where infrastructure can be easily replaced by aid
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Sarah Palin quit the governorship of Alaska to make more money
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The U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1, protects a citizen's right to film police officers performing their duties
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The nineteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920
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Symbiotic bacteria on human skin enhances its ability to heal
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The U.S. government does not save money by using third-party contractors
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The United States comprises 11 cultural nations
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Southeast asia uses bonded labor to provide plentiful cheap shrimp to the United States
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The ability to distinguish real from imagined memories correlates with the size of the brain's paracingulate sulcus
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86% of Groupon investor's money was paid to earlier investors and insiders, including 42% to Eric Lefkofsky
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Increased patent filing fees in the America Invests Act (AIA) are a tax on innovation
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Cell phone companies make a lot of money from text messaging fees
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Americans spend a large amount of money on Chinese goods
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Ambien can revive persons from vegitative coma states
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America has historically practiced white affirmative action programs
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Standardized tests are objective measures of a person's intellectual ability
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