Statistics, they say, is the art of torturing numbers until they confess. If so, they must have a rack built somewhere in the White House.
Consider how the administration presents its regulatory record. Stung by criticism that a flood of new regulations is stunting economic recovery and job creation, President Barack Obama decided the best strategy was to manipulate the facts: In his latest State of the Union address, he claimed to have approved “fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his.”
