Whenever There is a Truth That You Cannot Tell, That is a Truth You Must Tell!

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My very good friends on the left used to love, when presented with a fact which challenged their assertions, to use the expression, “The plural of anecdote is not data.” I, of course, pointed out that an ‘anecdote,’ if confirmed, actually is a datum. A few years ago, Barry Ritholtz writing in The Big Picture, …

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Whenever There is a Truth You Cannot Tell, That is a Truth You Must Tell!

When you don’t tell an obvious truth, you let the liars win. J K Rowling, the author of the brilliant Harry Potter books, is a stone liberal, one who decided to tell readers that Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, is homosexual. Miss Rowling never mentioned anything about her vision …

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