Editors at Issues and Insights highlight efforts to downplay disappointing crime numbers. The closer we got to the midterm elections, the more desperate Democrats have been to either downplay the…
Since July 2020, the NC Threat-Free Index has provided contextualized looks at North Carolina's Covid-19 numbers that have been lacking from media and government updates. All of the statistics generated…
Here are several recent graphs of COVID-19 data in NC related to deaths and hospitalizations.
New cases are high, but so are new tests. The percent of tests returning positive is still stable. That means the problem is, as we've already shown before, the denominator.
Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online focuses on the “canard” of American institutional racism. About twice as many white people as black people are killed by police. In fact, in…
The reason we had the "highest one-day number of cases" was because we had the highest one-day number of tests, the highest by far. At 26,358 tests, it was over…
David French of National Review Online ponders the U.S. Department of Education’s recent report on the number of school shootings across the United States. [A]long comes the Department of Education…
Fixing the Currently Biased State K-12 Education Rankings by Stan J. Liebowitz and Matthew L. Kelly of the University of Texas at Dallas is your “must-read” study of the day.…
Earlier this month, the National Education Association (NEA) released their annual “Rankings and Estimates” report. In addition to North Carolina’s surge in average teacher pay, NEA researchers estimated that North…
The Hoover Institution’s Thomas Sowell takes no prisoners in his column about the “gender pay gap.” It is a statistical fraud when President Obama and other politicians say that women earn only…
View in your browser Welcome Late last week, the National Education Association (NEA) released their annual "Rankings and Estimates" study. I suspect that you will be hearing a lot about…
Those who posit that the Obama administration cooked the books to get an official unemployment rate below 8 percent might want to ponder an electoral history lesson from Gene Epstein…