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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
Michael Hayden
stated on September 14, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors, and so on."

By Steve Contorno • September 14, 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