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The last moments of President Obama's press conference last week have gotten the most attention, and some of the president's supporters have wondered whether his big-footed interference in the Cambridge professor's melodrama has overshadowed Obama's push for health care reform.
But the president's response to Gatesgate actually sheds a lot of light on his approach to health care and other issues, for this reason: Obama adopts his positions before knowing what he is talking about. To be fair, Obama admitted as much, at least as far as Gates was concerned. "I don't know all the facts," he acknowledged, before...
Mr. Oblivious to Evidence
About 28% of all persons arrested for all reasons in the US were African American.
29% of all persons arrested for burglary were black.
39% of all persons arrested for violent crime were black.
33% of all persons arrested for rape were black.
50% of all persons arrested for murder were black.
The percentage of arrests of black americans under the age of 18 for violent crime are even higher.
According the Census African Americans make up not quite 13% of the population.
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