Effects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations
…that people gain by migrating to the United States. Gross domestic product (GDP) per person, which is the most common way to compare living standards across nations, is: 3 times…
Read moreClimate Change Fears of Teen Activist Are Empirically Baseless
By James D. Agresti October 17, 2019 At a recent United Nations summit, 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg claimed that the Earth is on the brink of destruction and that older…
Read moreThe New York Times Regularly Publishes Falsehoods That Spur Violent Unrest and Civic Dysfunction
…by facts from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Slandering the United States According to the New York Times: The United States…
Read moreWhat Will Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations Cost and Achieve?
…greenhouse gases with minimal sacrifice, a 2011 report of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change bluntly declares that “in the end ‘no regrets’ methods won’t be enough to…
Read moreAOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”
…to religious groups, many of which serve the poor. A 2016 study of 24 nations by the Charities Aid Foundation found that the people of the United States are most…
Read moreThe U.S. is a Democratic Constitutional Republic, and Yes, It Matters
…Republic of China or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It also clashes with the agenda of many people in the United States, including some of the nation’s most prominent…
Read moreThe Nation of Kiribati Is Growing, Not Sinking
…country’s 110,000 residents live, could soon be substantially underwater.” To support these predictions, Keating quotes a 2015 report that the administration of Kiribati’s former president sent to the United Nations….
Read moreLack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society
…and is rampant in the nations that send the most immigrants to the United States. For instance, a 2009 Pew survey found that 51% of Mexicans had in the past…
Read moreGenuine Facts About Omicron, Delta, Naturally Acquired Immunity, and Vaccines
…the FDA and its counterparts in Canada, Australia, China, France, Mexico, Japan, Nigeria, India, and other nations—declared in November 2020 that placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials for C-19 vaccines “should proceed…
Read morePoll Reveals Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues
…by Conquest Communications Group, a professional polling firm located in Virginia. The responses were obtained through live telephone surveys of 700 likely voters across the continental United States on December…
Read moreHow Hard and Effectively do Americans Work?
…low-wage earners who live in nations with high levels of productivity have much better living standards than their peers in less productive nations. There are many ways to demonstrate this,…
Read moreThe Associated Press on Greenhouse Gases, the United States, and the Kyoto Protocol
…the CO2 emissions of the signatories that are not ex-Soviet bloc nations track those of the United States almost exactly. Also note that the former Soviet bloc nations have experienced…
Read moreInsecticide Ban, Not Global Warming, Accords With Outbreak of Disease-Carrying Insects
…many” types of insects from the 1940s through the 1970s.” Per a 2000 article in the British Medical Journal: DDT was successfully used to eradicate malaria from some nations (United…
Read moreAOC’s Pitch for the Green New Deal Is Unhinged From Reality
…electricity, compared to 9% in the United States. Those percentages are not for the nations’ total energy—just their electricity. The costs of getting to AOC’s 100% figure would be multiplicatively…
Read moreIs President Trump’s Border Wall an Outdated, Ineffective Strategy?
By Daniel Marulanda and James D. Agresti May 7, 2018 The border between the United States and Mexico stretches for 1,960 miles, parting two major regions of the world with…
Read moreSocial Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide With Leftism, Not Racism
…is the media’s fixation on just a few of the 16,000 murders that occur every year in the United States. The editorial board of the New York Times recently accused…
Read moreVital Facts About Covid-19
…the United States have been diagnosed with Covid-19 as of 4:00 PM EST on March 26, 2020. The U.S. population is 329 million people, which means that one out of…
Read moreReporters Distort the Truth About Government Spending
…stamps, foreign aid, and United Nations support (“A Primer on BEA’s Government Accounts,” page 34). Going back to at least 2010, commentators such as Paul Krugman of the New York…
Read moreSolar Energy Costs and Impacts
…require economic sacrifices. For example, a 2011 report of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change stated that the costs of cutting greenhouse gases “can carry an economic sting,”…
Read moreDid Bush Lie About Weapons of Mass Destruction?
…Trump’s claim by reporting: A 2005 report from United Nations inspectors found that by the time Bush sent U.S. soldiers to disarm Saddam Hussein, all evidence indicated there was nothing…
Read moreThe Hard Facts on Covid-19 Science Denial
…unemployment, social isolation, delayed medical care, depression, and anxiety: The United Nations reported that C-19 lockdowns are creating lethal mental health problems through an array of mechanisms like separating people…
Read moreVisa Overstays Don’t Negate the Benefits of Border Barriers
…Americans—while illegal border crossers are not. This lack of screening allows known criminals and others who are likely to harm people to enter the United States, such as the hundreds…
Read moreWhite House Pledge on Deportations Belied by Official Data and Actions
…treatment for “unaccompanied alien children” from nations that don’t directly border the U.S., such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The law states that when such children are “apprehended at…
Read moreMyths about School Choice and Betsy DeVos
…income declines, and the children of poor families—who are often racial minorities—typically end up in the nation’s worst schools. Contrary to popular perception, funding is not the primary cause of…
Read moreMain Study Used by FDA to Approve Covid-19 Vaccine Found No Significant Effect on the Risk of Death
…called the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities. This group includes the FDA and its counterparts in Canada, Australia, China, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Nigeria, India, and other nations. In…
Read moreDo Large National Debts Harm Economies?
…new working paper exposes calculation errors in the famous paper, critiques its methodology, and presents competing findings. Liberals have latched onto these findings to argue that nations should be less…
Read moreMaximum Facts About the Minimum Wage
…GDP,” or the nation’s inflation-adjusted gross domestic product. This is the standard measure of nations’ economic output and has broad implications. As explained in the textbook Microeconomics for Today, “GDP…
Read more2017: The Year in Facts and Falsehoods
…an average of $50,000 for every household in the United States. This money is distributed as follows: 61% on social programs, like income security, healthcare, and education 14% on debt…
Read moreWhat the $20 Trillion National Debt Means to You
…of the U.S. government surpassed the milestone of $20 trillion, reaching exactly $20,162,176,797,904. To personalize that figure, it amounts to an average of $61,889 for every person in the United…
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…The United Nations Security Council, which is supposed to be responsible for maintaining international peace and security, is structured so that China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United…
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Who led the conference that created the charter of the United Nations? 5 The secretary-general of the conference that created the charter of the United Nations was Alger Hiss. Hiss…
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Which of the following nations has the highest average real household income, including the government benefits they receive minus the taxes they pay? 3 In 2018, the United States ranked…
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Which of the following nations has not sanctioned a Russian billionaire who owns a company which builds drones used to bomb Ukraine? 3 A Russian billionaire named Vladimir Yevtushenkov has…
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Does the United Nations consider Taiwan to be a legitimate nation? 2 After Soviet-backed communists took over China in 1949, the previous government fled to Taiwan and matured into a…
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