In fairness, the most famous practitioner of this genre went on to be President twice. Nina Navajas Pertegás, assistant professor and resea...

Some CDC figures on overdose deaths , which are up 25%. 

 From Marty Makary in the WSJ : Some medical experts privately agreed with my prediction that there may be very little Covid-19 by April but...

Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili. His uncle, a priest, is supposed to have taught him this say...

The final book of the Laws   has the feeling of a miscellany. To some degree that has been true of earlier books as well, but at this point ...

 ...is on the ground and transmitting imagery. Eric Hines

This will be the final post on Book XI . There is a lot covered here, but I've decided that mostly we don't need to delve into it be...

 I'm already reading inanities about hotcoldwetdry (is there anything it can't do?) to explain why global warming results in arctic ...

This Cathy Young contribution to the Slate Star Codex drama makes more sense to me than most, and one heck of a lot more than the incoheren...

Glenn Greenwald continues to buck the trend: One can — and should — condemn the January 6 riot without inflating the threat it posed. And ...

I first heard of Rush Limbaugh from a left-wing teacher, who was animated about him even in the early 1990s. I started listening to his show...

Joe Biden gave an interview last night in which he was directly asked about the genocide against the Uighur being conducted by the People...

An article at National Review today addresses the general collapse of trust in news reports. Andrew Cuomo, the Emmy Award–winning governor ...

My little coastal county doesn't fare well in extreme cold. We do have Yankee transplants here, but there's no accounting for citiz...

All right, so after Aggie mentioned it in the comments on Friday night, I decided to extend this series long enough that we could do this so...

In case you want it for comparison, or just to see how cold it really is out there.

Some of you may have followed a long discussion at AVI's place on the validity of weather models. I learned quite a bit about what weat...

The calls for gun control were always expected, because disarming the American people has been at or near the top of the to-do list for the...