The false notion that undocumented immigrants affect federal elections has a long history. But this year, due in part to rising migration at the U.S. southern border, the idea could have new potency.

A thing he and I have in common: Some people talk with their hands? We think with ours. One thing he drummed in was the notion of false economy, second cousin to sunk-cost fallacy.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s argument that removing Confederate statues is erasing history is based on a false notion that removing honoring of historical figures removes them from the historical record.

One false notion about his career that has somehow survived is the claim that he was merely a "sidekick" to Shaquille O'Neal for the first three of his five NBA championships.