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by Dakota Smith and Doug Smith, ''Los Angeles Times'', 15 July 2018 | by Dakota Smith and Doug Smith, ''Los Angeles Times'', 15 July 2018 | ||
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-ban-fact-check-nyt.html How a 9-year-old boy’s statistic shaped a debate on straws]<br> | [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-ban-fact-check-nyt.html How a 9-year-old boy’s statistic shaped a debate on straws]<br> | ||
by Niraj Chokshi, ''New York Times'', 19 July 19 2018 | by Niraj Chokshi, ''New York Times'', 19 July 19 2018 | ||
Revision as of 21:33, 31 July 2018
Quotations
Forsooth
“That means then that criminal aliens are committing 28 percent of the crimes in the United States. And so that means 28 percent of the murders, 28 percent of the rapes, 28 percent of the violence and the assaults and battery, first- and second-degree murder and also manslaughter attacks are committed by criminal aliens.”
-- Representative Steve King (R-Iowa), quoted in: Fact-checking President Trump’s numbers on the ‘human toll of illegal immigration’, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
Counting the homeless
More sidewalk tents, but fewer people living in them? The 2018 homeless count's new math
by Dakota Smith and Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2018
Plastic straws?
How a 9-year-old boy’s statistic shaped a debate on straws
by Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 19 July 19 2018
Alzheimer's drug study
Why the latest Alzheimer’s drug study has so many people confused
by Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 30 July 2018