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I’m with Jonathan Adler and Ann Althouse: it’s shocking when the tiny bit of governmental advertising designed to encourage us to lead healthier lifestyles is a tenth as dishonest as the huge amount of food-industry advertising that encourages us to lead less healthy lifestyles. Althouse says she “avoid[s] government propaganda.” I suppose private propaganda is [...]
Archive for the ‘Lying in politics’ Category
October 30th, 2010
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Posted: Saturday, October 30th, 2010 at
5:20 pm
40 Comments »
October 27th, 2010
by Jonathan Zasloff
Meg Whitman refuses to take down her negative ads before next Tuesday’s election. She’s right.
Posted: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at
1:52 pm
2 Comments »
October 20th, 2010
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Why did Clarence Thomas’s allies fight to keep his video-rental records from becoming public? Almost certainly because they would have included a film starring “Long Dong Silver.”
Posted: Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 at
7:54 am
41 Comments »
October 18th, 2010
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Drug Policy, Lying in politics
Here are the most recent data available from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, which address drug-related deaths in Portugal. Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001, and these factually accurate data can be used to prove that Portugal’s policy has been a complete success or a complete failure, assuming the analyst has [...]
Posted: Monday, October 18th, 2010 at
2:09 am
Tags: drug decriminalization, drug legalization, Portugal
22 Comments »
October 13th, 2010
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Lying in politics
The responses on this are so uniformly good that I am siding with the DoDo Bird and as promised, publicly endorsing every ludicrous statistical claim made as a fact, even though I know that four out of three statistics are made up on the spot. I am outraged that no one in Washington is concerned [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 at
3:33 pm
4 Comments »
October 13th, 2010
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Lying in politics
Maia Szalavitz has a nice piece at Time showing how those Dr. Van Helsings at RAND have finally put a stake through the heart of a “vampire number”, this one being that 60% of the Mexican cartels’ revenue comes from marijuana. (Input your best Vincent Price or Boris Karloff imitation here, with creepy organ music [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 at
5:14 am
31 Comments »
October 1st, 2010
by Michael O'Hare
Sorry, readers, and sorry Ms. Whitman: the post previously in this space jumped the gun . The SSA letter Allred released apparently responds to a W-2, which implies taxes were paid on Diaz’ salary. My bad.
Posted: Friday, October 1st, 2010 at
7:17 pm
2 Comments »
September 21st, 2010
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Drug Policy, Lying in politics
Heritage, not satisfied with all the true and valid arguments against a bad piece of legislation, guilds the lily.
Posted: Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at
3:27 pm
11 Comments »
July 22nd, 2010
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Lying in politics, Political Science, Politics and Leadership, Post-disaster reflections, Public management, The Obama Presidency
Wow, is the Breitbart/Sherrod/Vilsack story a Golconda of learnable moments, or what? Let us count the ways: (1) At some point, USDA was justifying firing Sherrod by proudly pointing to its “zero-tolerance” policy on racism. ‘Zero defects’ is a management slogan with some utility as a goal in quality assurance, actually a restatement of ‘continuous [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at
9:23 am
11 Comments »
July 5th, 2010
by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: David Vitter, Lying in politics, Moral philosophy, Popular Culture, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
John Edwards is caught in an affair. He is now disgraced, somewhat pathetic, and basically unemployable. Newt Gingrich is caught in an affair. This follows him serving his first wife with divorce papers when she was in the hospital with cancer. He is a bestselling author, conservative savant, multimillionaire, and potential Republican presidential candidate. Discuss. UPDATE: [...]
Posted: Monday, July 5th, 2010 at
9:42 am
21 Comments »
