My column today is all about the nonexistent voter fraud threat, which sounds eerily similar to the nonexistent terrorist threat.
Throughout the previous decade, anyone who claimed that there was no real threat of terrorism was hectored, accused of hating America and temporarily driven out of politics, even though the numbers vindicated them.
According to a study by Nate Silver, your odds of dying in an airplane-based terrorist attack are around one in 10,408,947. Statistically, that's pretty close to zero. Conversely, your odds of dying by suicide are around one in 121. In other words, you're significantly more of a threat to yourself than any terrorist ever.
And yet for the last 10 years, we've spent countless trillions of dollars fighting terrorists while enacting dubious laws like the USA PATRIOT Act, along with warrantless wire taps of American citizens, torture, two wars and illusory airport security measures that include disposing of your potentially explosive bottle of water in a trash bin that sits in the middle of a crowded line of passengers waiting in line. Continue reading here...