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Ian Jannetta is a senior at George Washington University and an intern with PolitiFact.

Featured Statements

Chain email
stated on November 1, 2009 in an e-mail circulated to many people.:

You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.

By Ian Jannetta • November 2, 2009
Democratic National Committee
stated on October 9, 2009 in an e-mail to reporters:

"Only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore."

By Ian Jannetta • October 16, 2009
Sarah Palin
stated on September 23, 2009 in a speech to investors in Hong Kong:

"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."

By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009
Thomas Sowell
stated on September 8, 2009 in a column in Investor's Business Daily.:

The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."

By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009