‘No, Not That Evidence’

FACT-CHECKING JOURNALIST TROPES

THIS OBVIOUSLY REPRESENTS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY: New House: More Democrats from California than from 36 other states combined.

I BET YOU CAN GUESS WHY:  In the U.K., 58% of burglaries occur while someone is home.  In the U.S.A., the figure is only 28%.

REALITY, WHAT A CONCEPT: Pelosi tells DHS Secretary Kirsten Nielsen, ‘I Reject Your Facts.’

‘No, Not That Evidence’

Mind the Marriage Gap: Voters Split on Kavanaugh by Marital Status, Not Gender

FACT-CHECKING JOURNALIST TROPES

Good Samaritans in experiments

Been advocating THIS for years TOO!  Forget the Polls. Listen to the Gamblers: New at Reason

I was reading this guy when he STARTED .... because it's was kinda when I started:  Paul Zimmerman, Dr. Z, Dead at 86

THE PROPER NUMBER IS ZERO. THE ACTUAL NUMBER IS… How Many Non-Citizens Vote in U.S. Elections? 

Dana Milbank’s Absurd Filibuster Propaganda

ANOTHER TAKEAWAY FROM THAT WAPO POLL THAT DESERVES MORE ATTENTION: “Democrats have lost considerable ground on this front. The 28 percent who say the party is in touch with concerns of most Americans is down from 48 percent in 2014 and the biggest drop is among self-identified Democrats, from 83 percent saying they are in touch to just 52 percent today.”

Only 28% of Americans think Democrats are in touch with the concerns of most Americans. And remember, 2014, when the number was 48%, wasn’t exactly a banner year for Democrats.

HUH. I WONDER WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM AND THE COUNTIES THAT HAD A LOT OF MURDERS? Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders. 

Which Countries Destroy the Environment the Most (and Least)?

THE MEDIA REDISCOVERS MANIPULATION OF STATISTICS: Passive Aggression and Selective Statistics.

Four Key Charts for a Climate Change Skeptic

It seems the most privileged students in the country are also the most fragile. Highly expensive, elite college campuses are more likely to play host to the kind of censorious madness on display at Middlebury College two weeks ago.

That's according to data compiled by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and crunched into chart form by the Brookings Institution's Richard Reeves and Dimitrios Halikias. Reeves and Halikias put it all together in a format that makes the trend obvious

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: “There were between 80,000 and 120,000 Jews in Egypt up until the mid-20th century…Today, the Jews of Egypt are estimated to number 18, with 12 of them in the coastal city of Alexandria.”

and hopefully we've opened the correct envelope!

 FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Hit All-Time High In 2016 (Up 26% From 2015). Will President Trump Make American Citizenship Great Again?

FAKE NEWS IN THE WASHINGTON POST! Do Whites Benefit Disproportionately from Welfare?

LEGACY: Graph” How Much Debt Did Each President Leave The Country? Well, in this sense, Newsweek’s comparison of Barack Obama and FDR works. This one is stunning.  From the Founding to Lincoln.  From the Civil War to the"Progressive" Era.  And then to today.

Four key charts for a climate change skeptic

DAVID HARSANYI: Democrats are more likely to believe the Russians installed Donald Trump into the presidency than Republicans are to have ever believed Barack Obama was a Muslim.

Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?  From a New York Times article:

(Another end-of-year fact-check, while we’re at it: Mr. Trump claimed during the campaign that the homicide rate in his new home in Washington rose by 50 percent. In fact, it fell by 17 percent in 2016.)

Then-candidate Trump said, in July 2016:

Homicides last year increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent.

“Last year” as of July 2016 — 2015 — homicides in D.C. did rise by 54 percent, from 105 in 2014 to 162 in 2015. They then fell in 2016 to 135, which is to say they were down 17 percent from 2015, but up 28 percent from 2014.

So, really, Trump correctly stated (not just “claimed”) that the homicide rate in D.C. rose by 50 percent from 2014 to 2015. “In fact,” it did rise by that much. But some of that decline turns out to have gotten reversed in 2016, so that the homicide rate in D.C. rose by only 28 percent from 2014 to 2016.

WHEN IT BECAME POLITICALLY INCONVENIENT FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Why Did the Bureau of Justice Statistics Stop Publishing the Data on Interracial Crime?

 FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Hit All-Time High In 2016 (Up 26% From 2015). Will President Trump Make American Citizenship Great Again?

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: It’s Official: Clinton’s Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California.

 FAKE NEWS: Nate Silver: ‘Narrative-driven coverage’ ignored election data. “Data was clear that white noncollege voters were overrepresented in swing states, helping Trump in [the Electoral College]. Narrative-driven coverage ignored it.”

SCIENCE: Study Reveals Social Isolation of America’s Urban Elites.

DAVID HARSANYI: Democrats are more likely to believe the Russians installed Donald Trump into the presidency than Republicans are to have ever believed Barack Obama was a Muslim.

Why are Democratic constituencies such cesspits of paranoia and outdated beliefs?

SOMETIMES THAT’S THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE AN AFFIRMATIVE: Michael Barone: “Double negative” voters decided election.

CHANGE: How America decided, at the last moment, to elect Donald Trump.

There’s a simpler explanation. Voters found Trump’s “Make America Great Again” more inspiring and relatable than Clinton’s “It’s My Turn to Rule You Idiots.”

 INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Outside California, Clinton Is A Big-Time Popular Vote Loser.

JAY COST: The Butcher’s Bill: Democratic losses in the age of Obama.

HILLARY’S SUPPORT COMES FROM “THE LOSER STATES:” The Blue State Depression:

When I say the blue states are in a depression, I don’t mean the collective funk they are in because they lost the election to Donald Trump.

I’m talking about an economic depression in the blue states that went for Hillary. Here is an amazing statistic. Of the 10 blue states that Hillary Clinton won by the largest percentage margins — California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut — every single one of them lost domestic migration (excluding immigration) over the last 10 years (2004-14). Nearly 2.75 million more Americans left California and New York than entered these states.

They are the loser states. They are all progressive. High taxes rates. High welfare benefits. Heavy regulation. Environmental extremism. Super minimum wages. Most outlaw energy drilling. The whole left-wing playbook is on display in the Hillary states. And people are leaving in droves. Day after day, they are being bled to death. So much for liberalism creating a worker’s paradise.

Now let’s look at the 10 states that had the largest percentage vote for Donald Trump. Everyone of them — Wyoming, West Virginia, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Dakota, and Idaho — was a net population gainer.