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The Daily Chart: Immigration and Crime in Europe

Featured image From MSN: Report Shows Higher Conviction Rates for Muslim Immigrants in Denmark Compared to Natives Recent revelations based on data from Statistics Denmark shed light on a concerning trend: immigrants and their descendants in Denmark were convicted of violent crimes at a significantly higher rate than individuals of Danish origin between 2010 and 2021. The statistics paint a stark picture, particularly for young men from predominantly Muslim nations in the »

The Daily Chart: The U.S. Nuclear Deficit

Featured image I once asked a French acquaintance how it was that France managed to build over 5o nuclear power plants over the same time period that the U.S. built virtually none, and his answer was basically that France didn’t pay any attention to Jane Fonda.  Actually his explanation was more colorful (and accurate). Read this with a French accent in your mind: “Ah, but it is simple you see: In France, »

The Daily Chart: Vote Rich, Cash Poor?

Featured image At the moment polls look good for Republicans across the board for the November election. But there is one aspect of this year’s cycle where things aren’t looking as good—campaign cash. From Bruce Mehlman’s useful weekly Substack update: »

The Daily Chart: Offshore and Out of Mind

Featured image We always hear a lot about the expense and difficulty of decommissioning nuclear power plants, but we seldom hear about the cost and difficulty of decommissioning wind mills, which only last half as long (if that much) as nuclear plants. Especially offshore wind, which is much more expensive to begin with.  Here’s one estimate of the future problem: JOHN adds: Offshore wind is possibly the stupidest way to generate electricity »

The Daily Chart: What Real ‘Resistance’ Looks Like

Featured image The left loves to talk about being “The Resistance.” But the real “resistance” to our domineering leftist cultural and educational institutions can be seen vividly in this chart: And it seems more parents are not placing their children in pre-school, which is where wokism gets a head start (partly through Head Start, a federal program that repeated studies find is ineffective): Chaser—no wonder Democrats are in a panic right now »

The Daily Chart: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

Featured image We’ve posted up several times before various measures of the ideological gender gap, all showing women are more liberal than men at just about every age cohort, but especially younger demographics. Another reason to repeal the 19th Amendment if you ask me. Anyway, here’s the latest trans-national comparison of younger people from The Economist. And once again the gender gap is worst in the U.S. (Sigh. At least Australian women »

The Daily Chart: Hollywood Inequality Persists

Featured image As anyone who suffers the Academy Awards nonsense knows, the new mandate in Tinseltown is “diversity.” There have to be “people of color” in every nomination category now. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice that women keep getting the short end of things when it comes to scripts of Best Picture winners.  (I haven’t seen data for the last eight years, but I doubt there’s been much change.) »

The Daily Chart: COVIDiocy Confirmed

Featured image One of my favorite exchanges from “Yes, Minister” between Jim Hacker and the subversive career bureaucrat Sir Humphrey Appleby is when Hacker, the junior minister for administrative affairs, asks Sir Humphrey about whether he (Sir Humphrey) believes government policy should be carried out “even if it is wrong.” Sir Humphrey responds “Well, almost all government policy is wrong. . . but frightfully well carried out!” This came back to mind »

The Daily Chart: Another Corner of the Diversity Racket?

Featured image These data, albeit a decade old, are a real head-scratcher. I am not sure how to explain it. It has been subject to some vigorous discussion lately on the social media site Formerly Known as Prince (as I have decided to call it). Ron Unz took a whack at it in The American Conservative ten years ago. One excerpt: But before we conclude that our elite media organs are engaging »

The Daily Chart: Framing Air Frames

Featured image Right now it seems the airlines (and especially Boeing aircraft) are suffering an epidemic of equipment failures and mishaps. Count me somewhat skeptical. I suspect the Alaska Air door frame blow out a few weeks ago, along with the tire falling off a United 777 the other day, has put the media on high alert, and now many episodes of mishaps and irregularities that might have gone unnoticed or unreported »

The Daily Chart: Haiti—Less Violent Than Chicago?

Featured image So Haiti is back in the news. As I mentioned yesterday, I thought the Clinton Foundation had fixed the place! Or Colin Powell in the 1990s. Or something. How soon until Biden sends in American troops? Or lets 500,000 Haitians come to America? Anyway, Haiti is in the state of nature right now, with gangs and mobs rampaging. And yet, as a smart left-leaning friend of mine (I do have »

The Daily Chart: A Different Kind of Femme Fatale

Featured image Our pal Mark Perry reminds is that today, March 12, is “Equal Pay Day” that falsely assumes how far into 2024 the typical woman has to work to earn what her alleged male counterpart earned in 2023. Funny how feminists never consider something like “Equal Job Safety” or “Job Risk” day (Mark proposes “Occupational Fatality Day”), because the data looks like this and the “gap” would take years, not months, »

The Daily Chart: Why We Have a Border Problem

Featured image As mentioned here before, Democrats used to be fairly robust in their opposition to open borders and unchecked illegal immigration, as recently as the Clinton years. But then someone got the bright idea that since immigration had helped to flip California from a red state in presidential elections to a blue state across the board, imagine how much power Democrats could grasp if the California story was repeated across the »

The Daily Chart: Sick Transit Gloria Mundi?

Featured image I am sure many readers have noticed how bike lanes are taking over American urban roadways, especially downtowns, often killing a lane for cars, and reducing streetside parking. And I almost never see anyone biking in the lanes. How did this come about? Has there been a massive populist campaign for bike lanes? Has “we need more bike lanes everywhere” been popping up in public opinion polls of top issues »

The Daily Chart: SF Voters Say Poop to This

Featured image As you may have heard, San Francisco voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed initiative measures to make policing easier and require drug testing for welfare. The horrors! Too bad they didn’t put reparations in the ballot, as I have a hunch how the vote would have turned out. In any case, even progressives, naturally slow learners, are finally figuring it out. And I know everyone has seen San Francisco’s famous “poop »

The Daily Chart: Deaths of Despair

Featured image The term “deaths of despair” has caught on in recent years, brought out into the mainstream from academic and specialized literature such as Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. And the problem of drug overdose deaths was already becoming an issue on the campaign trail as far back as the Obama years. And yet the problem has only gotten worse: »

The Daily Chart: White House Hypocrisy by the Numbers

Featured image One of the central totems of the modern left and its women’s auxiliary (the feminist movement) is the alleged “wage gap” between men and women. You know the cliche—women only earn 80 cents for every dollar a man earns. This cliche has been exploded countless times, but it refuses to die because it retains endless utility for grievance-junkies who run the Democratic Party. You know the Biden White House will »