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Questions tagged [united-states]

Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.

The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, the States, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district.

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Are women in burqas never strip-searched by the TSA?

An article falsely attributed to Jeff Foxworthy has been doing the rounds: US Message Board The Political Insider Truth of Fiction Above Top Secret It makes various claims and one of the claims are is that women in burqa are not strip searched out…
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Did Thomas Jefferson say it would take "a thousand years" to settle the Mississippi Valley?

The earliest source I can find for this claim through Google Books is a 1910 geography textbook, which gives a date for the quotation (1803), but no further sources for it. A social studies journal at the University of Minnesota published the same…
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What percentage of white people owned black slaves in the US?

I recently read a French post on Facebook saying that only 3% of white people owned slaves of African descent in the United States. Here is a part of a debate in French quoting a twitter post about the initial claim. Some more examples: Jim Goad,…
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Did Seal Team Six fire more rounds in one year than the entire Marine Corps's ammunition allowance?

In season 2, episode 7 of Black Ops, the narrator asserts that In one year, Seal Team Six fired more rounds than the entire Marine Corps ammunition allowance. Thats a pretty impressive statistic, but it kind of comes out of the blue and has no…
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Could we buy every homeless person a house with the money spent on the F-35?

I've come across a number of articles that suggest that if we took all the money that we spent on the F-35 jet, every homeless person in the US could have been given a $600,000 home: With the vast amounts spent so far on the aircraft, the United…
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Is there evidence to support that Area 51 was just a cover-up for a much larger operation?

Area 51 is frequently mystified in popular movies, stories, alien investigations, and sometimes, even the media. If the US really wanted to keep this a secret, why would they allow the media to mystify it so much. Is there any evidence to support…
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Does a lack of hand-washing by health-care workers cause 100,000 deaths per year in the USA?

Tweet by PostSecret, with 203 retweets and 85 favorites: 100,000 deaths in the US alone could be avoided each year if health care workers washed their hands more, according to the CDC. Do 100,000 deaths in the US occur per year which could be…
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Did Texas ban tampons and diabetes supplies from the Senate Chamber while allowing guns?

From an article on Forward Progressives: The Texas Department of Public Safety forced women to hand over their tampons and pads before entering the Senate chamber today. Not only that, but they were also forcing diabetics to hand over sugar…
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Are guns in the USA used 80 times more often to protect life than to take it?

I came across this American Gun Facts web-site recently: Every year, guns are used over 80x more often to protect a life than to take one!* [...] Based upon Kleck & Gertz estimates of 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year (see source #2). A…
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In the USA, do supporters of the Republican party make more charitable donations than supporters of the Democrats?

Republicans argue that those that benefit more from capitalism and want the government to do less to help others would be more likely to give that money away. ABC's 2020 is one source of this claim. They claim that, It turns out that this idea that…
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Is Tagg Romney the owner of a company that makes Ohio voting machines?

This photo is circulating across Facebook: The new owners [sic] of Ohio's voting machines under the brand name HART Intercivic is none other than Tagg Romney. We may not be able to buy this election, but we can buy the company that does the…
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Is it, in some parts of the U.S., easier to get a rifle than to register to vote?

I've seen claims in several places that in some parts of the United States of America, the bureaucratic procedure to register to vote is more difficult/complicated than to get a permit to buy a personal firearm. Two examples of these claims are as…
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Are teachers in the United states paid poorly?

At the last "Save Our Schools" rally, Matt Damon said: So you think job insecurity is what makes me work hard? I want to be an actor. That’s not an incentive. That’s the thing: See, you take this MBA-style thinking, right? It’s the problem with ed…
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Is the US Army Field Manual 30-31B a forgery?

Wikipedia describes content of the US Army Field Manual 30-31B: It identifies a strategy of tension involving violent attacks which are then blamed on radical left-wing groups in order to convince allied governments of the need for…
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Is the United States the fattest country in the world?

It is often said that the United States is the fattest country in the world. Is it? Does it depend on how one measures fatness?
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