Links for 10-11-24
how reliable are FBI crime statistics?
🇺🇸 The Federalist’s 2024 battleground state elections guide. From: The Federalist. Here’s all the information you need to understand the election process in swing states throughout the country this cycle.
Are FBI crime statistics reliable? From: Jeffrey H Anderson/City-Journal. The agency’s process is shrouded in mystery, and its numbers are often inconsistent.
🔎 John Stossel: Universal Basic Income shows why giving people ‘free money' doesn't work. From: Creators. According to recent data, people work less—and actually end up deeper in debt.
The DOE is stonewalling on residential energy costs and Its electrify everything push. From: Robert Bryce. The agency is required by law to publish residential energy costs every year. It hasn’t done so in 2024. Why not?
🚩 The progressive threat to Constitutionalism. From: John O McGinnis/Law & Liberty. Today, progressivism stands as the gravest threat to the rule of law in our constitutional democracy.
Kamala Harris says she owns a handgun — despite fighting to ban others from doing the same. From: Billy Binion/Reason. Journalists should be interested in interrogating this contradiction, should the 2024 presidential candidate continue giving interviews.
🙄 Kamala Harris’s irresponsible proposal to expand Medicare. From: Michael F Cannon/CATO. It is difficult to overstate the irresponsibility, corruption, and insanity of this proposal. The cost of such a benefit could reach $500 billion per year.
DEI is transforming the National Science Foundation. From: Rupa Subramanya/The Free Press. Government-funded grants favor research exploring ‘white supremacy’ and ‘non-normative forms of gender and sexuality' according to new analysis.
🎯 The left is using bogus COVID-19 research to censor their opponents. From: Isaac Schorr/NY Post. By grading a number of news outlets and then knocking conservative users for sharing links to sites the researchers themselves deemed were “low quality.”
Tim Walz is spreading misinformation about free speech. He's not fit for office. From: Phillip Derrow/The Columbus Dispatch. "Today, while comfortably shielded by our Constitution, those ignorant of history and impatient for change seek to weaken its protections.”
🤪 Another knucklehead move by Walz. From: John Hinderaker/Powerline. Tim Walz, speaking at a fundraiser in California, said, “I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go.”
Google caught censoring FBI whistleblower in attack on religious freedom. From: Washington Times Editorial Board. Critics of the Biden-Harris administration are being silenced.
⭐️ NY high school students will participate in statewide walkout against trans athletes competing in girls’ sports. From: Carl Campanile/NY Post. High school students across New York plan to participate in a walkout later this month to protest transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports.
EV demand crumbles — what’s pushing buyers back to hybrids? From: Elijah Nicholson-Messmer. Fully electric vehicles have lost market share for the first time in years. With hybrids, you get the virtue signal and get to run on gas.
🔥 Florida officials warn of EV fires sparked by Hurricane Milton. From: Chase Smith/Epoch Times. Florida officials have urged electric vehicle owners to park on higher ground as Hurricane Milton’s floodwaters threaten to cause EV battery fires.