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Recounts use the paper ballots
Says there won't be a recount in Alabama because a Democratic judge said "we're going to erase all the computer files ... on Wednesday morning."
— PunditFact on Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Old claim resurfaces, still wrong
"Rubio: ‘Rape victims should be in custody if there is suspicion that they’re planning abortion.’ "
— PunditFact on Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Conventions not applicable domestically
The ammunition used in the Orlando shooting "is banned by Geneva Convention. It enters the body, spins & explodes."
— PunditFact on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Voted for two major bailout measures, against another
"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, October 15th, 2015
Numbers right, but comparison imperfect
"The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe."
— PunditFact on Thursday, August 20th, 2015
The man he cites says he got it wrong
Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York."
— PunditFact on Monday, August 17th, 2015
Ghost soldiers
When President Abraham Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation, "there were over 300,000 slaveholders who were fighting in the Union army."
— PunditFact on Monday, July 27th, 2015
That was then. This is now.
Says Donald Trump "has supported a Canadian-style universal health care system."
— PunditFact on Friday, July 24th, 2015
Many releases ordered by the courts
"134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years."
— PunditFact on Thursday, July 16th, 2015
Update: The Trews responds
"The American murder rate is 50 times that of any other developed nation."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
No boycott talk
Say Apple’s Tim Cook "will not do business with Indiana."
— PunditFact on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Funding a student study does not a regulation make
"EPA wants to regulate … the family BBQ."
— PunditFact on Thursday, March 26th, 2015
More in theory than in practice, at least so far
Homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy "have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
A reckless distortion
"Sheriffs Call For Obama’s Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators"
— PunditFact on Monday, February 9th, 2015
A flawed comparison
There were more people on welfare than working in 2013.
— PunditFact on Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
Writer corrected column
The United States has "more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
At least they didn't confuse her with Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe."
— PunditFact on Monday, November 10th, 2014
Cuts not for the faint of heart
Says Sen. Rand Paul’s 2011 budget "included a big cut in the CDC."
— PunditFact on Monday, October 27th, 2014
Truth is the best disinfectant for this rumor
"According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
It's both worse and better
Based on current trends, "15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children."
— PunditFact on Monday, September 29th, 2014