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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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Can a US veteran who died after their discharge from the service be buried in full military honors?

warning, minor spoilers for the HBO series True Blood... In the 9th episode at the 6th season of True Blood, Life Matters, one of the characters is buried. The character buried was a US marine with a rank of "private" who served in Iraq and has…
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Do international laws require the detention and extradition of suspects?

Barack Obama has said following: My continued expectation is that Russia or other countries that have talked about potentially providing Mr Snowden asylum recognise that they are a part of an international community and they should be abiding…
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Did former president Woodrow Wilson extensively rely on Napoleon Hill's work during the World War?

In the best-selling book Think And Grow Rich, author Napoleon Hill claims that: This secret was extensively used by President Woodrow Wilson, during the World War. It was passed on to every soldier who fought in the war... This is one of the first…
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Destruction of WTC: is this version somehow substatinated?

Possible Duplicate: On 911, was Building 7 destroyed in a controlled explosion? Recently I read an article that claimed that WTC in reality was blown up rather than fell due to fire. In discord with various conspiracy theories the source claims…
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Does the Defense establishment have plants in vast majority of Congressional districts?

One of the commonly cited reasons for the ratcheting of defense spending in the United States is that it's an easily justifiable kickback (tugging on patriotic heart strings) to representatives' districts. A recent Howard Dean opinion piece has him…
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Has the internet caused significant job losses since 2008?

"Layoffs too often became permanent, not part of the business cycle. And these changes didn't just affect blue collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the…
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Are there members of Congress who have tried to seize 401k plans?

In February, the White House released its “Annual Report on the Middle Class” containing new regulations favored by Big Labor including a bailout of critically underfunded union pension plans through “retirement security” options. The radical…
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Did Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird ignore direct orders from Nixon during the EC-121 crisis, as Henry Kissinger alleged?

It's mentioned in a paper on the Vietnam war that (contemporaneously): When [... in 1969] a North Korean jet shot down a U.S. EC-121 surveillance plane, Laird again acted on his own as he ignored a presidential order and limited American actions…
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Did the 1937 single issue magazine "Rising Tide" include the "Rules for Revolution"?

The New York Times 10 July 1970 article Communist ‘Rules’ For Revolt Viewed As Durable Fraud inaccurately states: The earliest publication of the “rules” turned up in search was in The New World News of February, 1946. Many who reproduce the…
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Did a pro-Ukraine group blow up Nordstream pipeline?

A recent NYT post claims that "Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say". How true is this claim?
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Who would really be paying for the proposed property tax cuts that the state of Texas is considering?

Quoting State of Texas: Budget plans leave billions of available funds on the table: In his inauguration speech, Abbott touted Texas’ pro-business stance and unveiled some plans for the state’s largest budget surplus in Texas history. “We will use…
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Did Michael McCaul claim intel briefers told him Tucker Carlson is a Russian agent?

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson just said this on the Tulsi Gabbard Show: Second thing, Michael McCaul […] I got into an argument with him once last year on the phone. He had told somebody that I was a Russian agent or something. […] He said “Whoa whoa…
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Did Alex Jones warn of an attack on the United States by Osama Bin Laden in July of 2001?

I was listening to a podcast by Jordan Klepper in which a conspiracy theory researcher is interviewed, and explains that Alex Jones was responsible for a lot of the 9/11 conspiracy theories as he reported on Infowars in July 2001 that the US was…
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Are there more Pit bulls than German Shepherds in the USA?

According to MyGermanSheperd.org: In the USA alone there are about 78.2 million dogs, and about 4.6% of all AKC registered dogs are German Shepherds. This gives over 3.5 million German Shepherd dogs in the USA alone! Meanwhile, according to Dog…
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Are these claims about the changes in the economy during Obama accurate?

An image was recently posted on politics about how the economy changed under Obama. While that question was not asking about the validity of the claim itself, instead focused on the validity of trying to infer the successfulness of a presidents…
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