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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 19, 2010 6 Comments
There was an interesting article today on the Forbes site about the prospects of Tuesday’s census report release. An expanding population in the sun belt, and a decline in the Rust Belt, may reform our elections in 2012 and beyond. “The population continues to shift...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2010 20 Comments
Now that the left-wing blogosphere and Democratic media operatives Media Matters and Think Progress have found the Religion of Context when it comes to Shirley Sherrod … how about finally apologizing for the months long smear in 2009 that Census worker Bill Sparkman was killed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 8 Comments
So stifle the economy and scare employers into not hiring that people simply give up looking for jobs, and therefore are not counted in the unemployment rate. That is what the jobs numbers just released show (emphasis mine): Employers cut 125,000 jobs last month, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2010 2 Comments
Two weeks ago, unemployment numbers were released supposedly showing a jobs recovery, leading the New York Times and others to cheer how we had turned the corner. Steve Benen at Washington Monthly declared that this was a “breakthrough month” (rah-rah). As I discussed at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2010 6 Comments
The jobs numbers released yesterday were nothing to cheer. Strip out the temporary hiring of Census workers, and a weather-related adjustment from February, and there was almost no net job growth. As the stagnant 9.7% overall jobless rate reflected, there was no meaningful job improvement....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2010 6 Comments
A deranged professor killed several fellow professors. The media and nutroots tried to blame the Tea Party movement even though there was no connection. A census worker was killed under mysterious circumstances. The media and nutroots tried to blame the Tea Party movement even though...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 1 Comment
Allison Kilkenny at HuffPo (September 24, 2009 11:34 AM) on the right-wing inspired killing of Bill Sparkman: By utilizing the branding “Fed,” the killers were clearly trying to make a political statement, namely “Obama: Stay Out.” Worst call since the criticism of John Bolton for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 13 Comments
The Kentucky state police announced that the death of Bill Sparkman was an elaborate suicide made to look like a murder so that Sparkman’s son could collect on his insurance policy. Robert Stacy McCain has all the details and updates. I’ll let others delve into...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2009 1 Comment
There is one number about which Harry Reid and the Democrats almost never talk: 255 million. That is the number of Americans who have health insurance, according to the September 2009 Report released by the Census Bureau (at page 20). The vast majority of those...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2009 17 Comments
Alan Grayson, Democratic Congressman from Florida, is building his claim to fame on the accusation that 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of health insurance. Grayson even has started a website to count the dead. Grayson bases this number on a study released by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2009 19 Comments
We do not know how or why Bill Sparkman — a part time Census worker — was killed in Kentucky. Let me repeat this, since this is the internet and lower case lettering does not carry any meaning: WE DO NOT KNOW HOW OR WHY...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2009 9 Comments
During the 2008 campaign, there were serious concerns that al-Qaeda would attempt to disrupt the elections in the United States as it had disrupted the elections in Spain. Warnings about the threat of terrorism gave prominent left-wing bloggers an excuse to accuse the McCain campaign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2009 0 Comments
A study reported in today’s New York Times suggests that the practice of sex-selection, commonplace in Asia, continues in subsequent generations of immigrants to the United States: The trend is buried deep in United States census data: seemingly minute deviations in the proportion of boys...
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