In an online chat, a Trump voter (a trumpette) stated that America had the best voting system in the world (I think the word ‘electoral’ was beyond him). I laughed…
A few days ago, from the U.S. Department of Defense twitter account, came the following tweet: “Social media postings sometimes provide an important window into a person’s #mentalhealth. Know what…
The term ‘trickle-down’ economics started as a joke by American comedian Will Rogers who was poking fun at President Herbert Hoover’s Depression recovery efforts, when he stated that the “money…
During the presidential campaign between Clinton and Trump, PolitiFact checked the statements of both candidates. 26% of Clinton’s statements were deemed to be false, while 70% of Trump’s were deemed…
Nate Silver, in a commentary on FiveThirtyEight, undertook a statistical analysis of who voted for whom in the recent US election. To do this, he compiled data from all 981…
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal….