You’re No Abe Lincoln
If there's one thing you can give Trump credit for, it's chutzpah. OK, it's easy to laugh at his claim to be the best president for blacks since Abe Lincoln. But some of his specific ....
Category: Geography/Economics/Politics
Fact Check – 2nd Presidential Debate
It hardly seems worth fact-checking Trump anymore considering his notorious record of dishonesty compared to other politicians, but I couldn't resist taking a look at the standard fact-checking sites after the Second Trump-Biden Debate. Since ....
Letters to a Trump Voter – III Do You Think Tribal Hatred is a Bug or a Feature?
9 October 2020 PDF of letter: lettersHate1Download Dear Dad, The President’s many, many attempts to drum-up racial, national, religious, and political hatred is one of the most enduring themes of his political life. When people ....
Letters to a Trump Voter – II His Contempt For Truth
3 October 2020 PDF version of letter: lettersLies1Download Dear Dad, Since you always taught me that it was important to be honest, I continue to be surprised by how little Donald Trump’s contempt for truth ....
Trump’s Greatest Hits (Against the Truth)
chartLies.pdf - File with quotes, facts debunking the quotes, and references.Download Donald Trump is a notorious liar, but I continue to be surprised by people who claim that his reputation is just the product of ....
Letters to a Trump Voter – I
PDF version: letters1.pdfDownload 24 September 2020 Dear Dad, I have voted in every presidential election since 1984, and I am pretty sure that I never voted for the same candidate as you. In all that ....
What’s Unique about US COVID Deaths?
How Are We Doing? How has the United States fared in the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other countries? As the country passed an estimated 200,000 deaths from the virus this week, news reports repeated the ....
We can reshore Manufacturing Jobs, but Trump Hasn’t
Article by Robert E. Scott, Economic Policy Institute, 10 August 2020 Summary by Barry A. Klinger “President Trump’s erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric. ....
My Size/Intensity Technique Shows Up in Washington Post?
For a few years now, I have been experimenting with a way to display demographic, economic, political, and other data via "size/intensity" or "box" plots. The idea is that if you want to compare some ....
Book Review: Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson’s essential One Person, No Vote tells how the Jim Crow era prevented African Americans from voting, offering some surprising facts about a story we thought we knew. It goes on to describe how ....