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A longtime Newsmax contributor, #1 rated morning radio host for over 20 years, and throat-cancer survivor, Gerry Callahan calls it like he sees it and offers sharp commentary on the news of the day. With an emphasis on politics, Gerry also brings his unique takes on major sports stories and cultural issues. He has covered The Olympics for Sports Illustrated, numerous World Series and Super Bowls and he offers conservative political opinions from Boston, the belly of the liberal beast.
108 claims
Can’t tell40% confidence8 sourcesAug 4, 2026The current Hamtramck city council, mayor, city manager, and police chief are all Muslim and male.Said by ASources from 2025 support that the council and mayor were all Muslim and all men, and that the police chief was Muslim and male at that time, but they do not establish who held the city manager and police chief posts on 2026-08-04 or their religion and gender. The city manager was terminated in June 2026 and an interim manager (Aamir Ahsan) was named, but no source states that person's religion or gender, so the claim cannot be graded for its full 2026 scope.Can’t tell50% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Hamtramck school board leadership consists of President Abdul Malik Al Shahim, Vice President Murtada Obaid, and board members Chihan Yash and Salah Hadwan, all of whom are Muslim.Said by AThe post lists Chihan Yash and Salah Hadwan as "previous board leadership," but the claim presents them as current board members, so the claim departs from the passage and is graded as unverifiable. Sources also show Obaid as current vice president and Algahaim (the likely "Al Shahim") as president, but the 2024 and 2026 board records do not place Hadwan or Yash on the current board, and religious affiliation is only inferred.Can’t tell30% confidence3 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Hamtramck police department runs recruitment ads in Arabic.Said by ANone of the provided sources addresses whether the Hamtramck police department ran recruitment ads in Arabic as of 2026-08-04. The claimant's passage is not evidence, and the city's employment page and other local sources are silent on the language of any recruitment advertising.Can’t tell20% confidence8 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Hamtramck police department posts traffic law awareness signs in Arabic.Said by ANone of the provided sources mention Arabic traffic law awareness signs posted by the Hamtramck police department, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The claimant's own passage cannot corroborate it, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post's wording.Can’t tell30% confidence7 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Hamtramck police department posts Eid Mubarak greetings featuring female officers wearing hijabs.Said by AThe only source that mentions this is RAIR TV (a 2026-04-28 advocacy piece), which simply repeats the claim without any independent record, and the claimant's post is not evidence. No authoritative source confirms or disputes that the Hamtramck police posts such greetings, so the claim cannot be graded. The extraction is faithful to the passage, and the claim is about the present state as of 2026-08-04.Can’t tell40% confidence7 sourcesAug 4, 2026Governor Maura Healey spent 4 billion dollars on accommodations for illegal aliens in Massachusetts.Said by BThe sources document Massachusetts spending on migrant shelters, with about $1.3 billion spent from FY2024 through early 2025 and estimates of roughly $1 billion a year. None of them gives a $4 billion total or covers the hotels, Ubers, doctors, interpreters and meals the post lists, and the sources describe migrants rather than illegal aliens. The claim's figure cannot be confirmed or refuted on these sources, and the documented total through early 2025 is well below $4 billion but may have grown since.Can’t tell50% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026An ESPN reporter was in a romantic relationship with a coach for years.Said by BSources show photos of Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel at a resort and describe an alleged years-long relationship, but The Athletic's review explicitly reached no conclusion about the nature of the relationship and did not find it romantic. Sources also place Russini at ESPN only from 2015 to 2023, before her Athletic tenure, so the claim's 'ESPN reporter' framing is not clearly supported for the relationship period.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Dow Jones Industrial Average has set a record for the 23rd time.Said by BThe sources support that the Dow set a record close around the time of the post (CNN's fast facts list a record close of 54,085.88 on August 4, 2026), but no source counts record closes or mentions a 23rd record, so the claimed count is unaddressed. The passage itself says 'It's up for the 23rd time,' so the extraction is faithful, and the claimant's own words cannot corroborate the count.Can’t tell45% confidence9 sourcesAug 4, 2026Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary centers on Abdul El-Sayed’s alliance with Hasan Piker and the party’s growing socialist wing.The claim faithfully reproduces the post's sentence, but the sources do not show the primary centering on El-Sayed's Piker alliance or a socialist wing. The Piker controversy is documented mainly after the August 4 primary, in general-election coverage, while the primary itself is described as a contest between El-Sayed and Stevens. As of 2026-08-04 the framing is interpretive and the sources neither confirm nor refute it.Can’t tell40% confidence3 sourcesAug 4, 2026ICE agents arrested a convicted child sex offender in Massachusetts.Sources show ICE Boston arrested people with child sex-crime histories in Massachusetts around this period, but none clearly confirms that a convicted child sex offender was arrested by ICE in Massachusetts on or about 2026-08-04. The Boston Herald's 2026-08-03 case involved a man facing charges, not a conviction, and the later roundups fall after the claim date or are low-credibility. The claim also drops the post's Moulton context, which is fine as a faithful paraphrase.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026Migrants are feeding and waving in invaders in Ceuta, Spain, as an invasion.Said by BThe extracted claim says migrants are feeding and waving in the invaders, but the passage attributes the waving-in and feeding to locals ("locals waving in the invaders... they're feeding them"), so the claim departs from the post and cannot be graded as the poster's statement. Sources do show that migrants were fed by NGOs and charities and that locals sometimes obstructed aid, but none addresses the waving-in scene the post describes, and the sources' own framing of the crossers is contested rather than settled.Can’t tell45% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026Democrats are letting noncitizens and illegal aliens stay in the country and protecting illegal alien criminals.Said by BThe post's passage is a rhetorical question about Massachusetts Senate candidates Moulton and Markey ('Who is going to do more to protect illegal alien criminals?'), not a statement that Democrats as a party are letting noncitizens stay in the country, so the extracted claim departs from the passage and widens its scope. The sources describe Democratic sanctuary policies and immigration positions, mostly through Republican-authored material, but none addresses the Massachusetts debate or the claim's whole-party framing as a checkable fact, and the broader characterization is political opinion. As of 2026-08-04 the sources do not settle the claim as stated.