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The FBI has quietly changed 20 years of homicide data from 2004 to 2023. Professor John Lott has published an article showing the FBI’s revised homicide data for 2022 and 2023. The previous numbers fed Biden/Harris administration talking points. A close look at the data shows the FBI “adjusted” the homicide data from the last two decades, not just the last two years. The largest adjustment outside of 2021 and 2022 happened to the data from 2005. As of 2006, the total number of homicides reported by the FBI for 2005 was 16,740 for 2005 and 17,034 for 2006. In...

I have long felt that the bureaucrats' number manipulations usually result in garbage. I therefore look for the "not seasonally adjusted" numbers. The BLS Employment Situation report for July 2012 included the ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-1b. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail, not seasonally adjusted [In thousands] While the seasonally adjusted numbers issued by the BLS said there were 163,000 new jobs... The Table B-1b indicated that there were 1,200,000 jobs lost! Noting that was quite an adjustment, I was eager to see what the Table B-1b showed for today. Search as I might I...

Paulson: Bailout Plan 'Adjusted' To Reflect CrisisTreasury Secretary, Fed Chairman Defend Bailout Management Nov 18, 2008 11:15 am US/Pacific WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress Tuesday he opposes tapping a $700 billion taxpayer-funded pool to help struggling U.S. automakers as he and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended their management of the bailout program, just one week after the administration abandoned the original strategy behind the rescue. Although having a U.S. auto company fail during such a fragile time for the economy would not be a "good thing," Paulson told the House Financial Services Committee that he...

October 20, 2004 Making Choices: Exploring The Tax Issue by Chris Edwards Chris Edwards is director of tax policy at the Cato Institute. Whether one supports or opposes President Bush, his policies are easy to understand because he chooses a course of action and sticks to it. Americans certainly know where Bush stands on taxes -- his string of five tax cuts in four years is unprecedented. Ronald Reagan is remembered as being a big tax cutter, but he only cut taxes once, in 1981, then enacted a series of tax increases in following years. Bush's tax cuts have provided...