Well, that’s quite a headline! My left-wing readers may have smiled at it, pleased I’ve come around, perhaps even developing a Strange New Respect for me. So let’s start this off by making sure this post makes nobody happy: I … Continue reading
Trump’s current approval rating is pretty similar to the approval rating for both Obama and Reagan at this point in their respective presidencies. (Trump 43%, Obama 45%, Reagan 43%.) Reagan’s recovered sharply over the course of the election year, and … Continue reading
Four years ago, I wrote a piece for this blog analyzing proposed military strikes against Syria. Back in 2013, ISIS didn’t really exist in Syria yet; the major rebel group was the al-Nusra Front, affiliated with al-Qaeda. The President was still … Continue reading
I am not a fan of President Trump’s controversial Executive Order on immigration. I think it contains good provisions, such as prioritizing the resettlement of religious-minority refugees who are at the greatest risk of being killed in their homelands, and … Continue reading
Fact-checking is a decadent industry. Mainstream fact-checkers at the Washington Post and PolitiFact rate politicians’ claims on multi-point scales ranging from “Pants On Fire” to “The Geppetto Checkmark.” To manage these multi-point scales, fact-checkers must resort to subjective measurements of “relevant … Continue reading