Headlines

British poll: Brexit-distracted Torres lose voter trust on core issues

The stock market is poised to overtake its record high set last September

Dems know they need white male voters ...

Democrat Beto O’Rourke calls Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu a ‘racist’

Homeland Security chief Nielsen is out

Michael Avenatti dumps 41-pages of documents alleging Nike bribed basketball players

UK to have toughest internet laws in the world ...

Stacey Abrams: Georgia fetal heartbeat bill is ‘evil’

90% of voters want infrastructure legislation passed

UK faces Brexit reckoning with no-deal deadline just days away

Impossible challenge of tracking visa overstays ...

E.U. launches ‘fact checker’ to combat populism ahead of elections

Fact Checker

The Washington Post disputes Donald Trump's assertion that illegal immigrants have a higher crime rate than native-born Americans ... awarding him four Pinocchios after a obfuscating and wandering set of often-biased statistics and tables ... see: Wsshington Post Story. (For instance switching back and forth between legal and illegal immigrant categories.) If you can follow the logic of this rambling put-downs, then you probably also appreciate Hillary Clinton's way of (not) answering questions.

However, there is a much more lucid analysis of the real numbers which I have previously referenced in another blog (Trump d'Oeil) ... wherein I presented a short analysis of same by John Hinderaker in the Powerline blog ... see: Donald Trump Was Right. Somehow the Washington Post never found its way to these very revealing statistics from the U.S. Sentencing Commission that Hinderaker quotes. I can't help but wonder why?

Also I suggest that other Republican candidates, the Republican establishment, and media pundits also try to digest these numbers before they lash out at The Donald. (However there may be one flaw in Hinderaker's analysis ... and that is that he assumes that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in this country. If this number is 20 or 30 million, then the proportion of illegal immigrants who are criminals is a little more understandable ... but still unnerving.)

The real question is ... who fact checks the fact checker?