John Lott Makes a Mistake. Again. News at 11.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, John Lott released a working paper showing that illegal immigrants in Arizona “are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans.” I didn’t bother reading it or reporting on it because Lott is spectacularly dishonest and unreliable…
Dodge Freaked Out When Someone Made a Video of What MLK Really Thought About Capitalism
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During last night’s Super Bowl, Dodge aired a commercial that used an excerpt of a powerful Martin Luther King Jr. speech over images of working Americans to, you know, sell trucks. Within hours, Current Affairs, a politics magazine, reedited the video overlaid with a different excerpt from…
Raw Data: Inflation Rate for Different Products
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t have any special reason to post this. I just felt like it. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks overall inflation, of course, but they also track inflation for specific types of products: cars, medical care, computers, etc. Here are the inflation rates since…
Supreme Court Clears Way for Pennsylvania to Draw New Congressional Map
Protesters for fair elections gathered outside the US Supreme Court as the court heard arguments about partisan gerrymandering on October 3.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into a battle over Pennsylvania’s Republican-friendly congressional map, clearing the way…
Nunes Now Planning to Shower America With Memos
Prince of Darkness Sidney Blumenthal.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jonathan Swan says that Devin Nunes isn’t done. Apparently he was so thrilled with the response to his memo about the FBI that he’s planning to write about other agencies too: Republicans close to Nunes say there…
Hey Orange County Residents: What Is This?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of odd contrails in the sky, and today I got some pictures with my phone. Here’s what the path looks like at the start of their flight: I’m pretty sure airplanes don’t take off at a 45 degree angle.…