A report  archived from Johns Hopkins student newspaper: total death statistics aren’t up this year, as increased deaths from the virus are ...

It is a strange place, indeed, where news reporters can editorialize but op-ed editorials cannot.

James via AVI: In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is mer...

This year I’m making just a turkey breast. Quick meal for only three people this year; no holiday travel, either. It’s not that I am virtuou...

I'm a fair hand at calculating odds in common gambling games, but some of you are more skilled at mathematics than myself. Have a look ...

In a particularly grueling miscarriage of justice, retired general Michael Flynn had to be pardoned for a crime of which he was innocent. In...

 

Or, as it is alternatively spelled , “FBI.” ...The evidence shows that the FBI is one of many institutions that no longer belong to the Amer...

First we waited for ... was it Jeff Sessions? Then Barr, then Durham, now Powell , er,  the Kraken , oh, no, it's Rudy Giuliani. Maybe f...

It’s pretty easy to get grants for studies of man-made environmental devastation. So why does this clear case of Soviet destruction not get...

 Justin Johnson covers Lynyrd Skynyrd on an appropriate instrument:

We saved him from a kill shelter back in 2008. I knew I was going back to Iraq, and had been looking for a dog to leave with my family while...

More wisdom from our betters at Politico: Suddenly the allure of safe spaces is tarnished. Who would have thought that wrongthinking peopl...

I've lost count of the articles published in the last couple of weeks about the collapse of the craziest face of the Progressive movemen...

 Thanks to the Army, I've had the MMR vaccine at least three times.  I should be solid. 

Here's a Hank Jr. tune.   I said he wasn't around for the Outlaw Country heyday of the early 70s, but this is 1967 so I guess he pu...

No offense, Reverend, but I've known a fair number of chaplains who would disagree with you here . In fact I own two military-issued Bib...

 There are a number of theories about the election, not all of them equally good. Some should be discarded at once; others merit investigati...

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