Heat City has a hilarious post about outgoing state superintendant Tom Horne, now a candidate for attorney general.

He’s been going around saying a fence would work along the U.S.-Mexico border because Israel’s fence in the West Bank has “totally put a stop to terrorism.”

There are of course about 19 differences between the two situations that render the comparison risible.

Nick Martin takes a look at just the issue of stopping terrorism, and finds that Israel is still chronicling scores of acts each month. Martin called Horne for a response and relates this exchange:

“I think that was pretty common knowledge,” Horne said. “It’s been all over the newspapers.”

Asked which newspapers had reported it, Horne could not name one.

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But instead of changing his mind after hearing the facts, Horne stuck to his story. He said he remained certain of his claim’s accuracy despite what the Israeli government reported.

“I’ll stand by it,” he said. “I’m talking about something that there is pretty common knowledge about.”

Full post here.