Two must-reads from John Lott

In this one, he provides evidence that, contrary to pro-abortion rhetoric, abortion is linked, most likely causally, to increases in illegitimacy. Go figure; tell Dad he doesn't have to marry the girl he impregnates, and he's not going to stick around.

In this one, he takes on the liberal idea that the death penalty doesn't deter crime, and exposes a very nasty bait & switch on the part of death penalty opponents. Instead of using a real metric (executions per # of murders or murderers), they've used executions per # of prisoners. Given that most prisoners haven't committed capital crimes, it's no surprise that this wrong metric doesn't show anything.