United States Annual Budget, Part I
Some day I’d like to write an Owners’ Manual to the United States with a summary of how our country operates – things many of us know hazily but can get easily confused on the ....
Author: bklinger
Veteran Protesting Police Brutality Killed by Soldier – and Texas Governor Approves
Looking for a Victim The Austin Chronicle has an informative article about a recent murder trial. "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters." -Daniel Perry "I might have to kill a few people on ....
Campus Attacks on Free Speech
How much is freedom of speech on campus under attack? Here I’m referring specifically to the freedom for someone affiliated with the university to invite a speaker to give a talk on campus. This freedom ....
Russia Will Not Be Appeased
Recent History Shows that the Problem with Ukraine is Russian Imperialism Guest post by David M. Klinger Satellite view of Novoazovsk and surroundings Ukrainians and Ukrainian The best way to understand modern Ukraine - and, ....
America Made Me Do It
Distorted Accounts of the Failure of Ukraine-Russia Negotiations in April 2022 A leader shuts down the free press in his country, murders and jails opposition leaders, declares that countries that have been independent for 30 ....
Terrain Maps Lack Depth
Capitol Hill. The Seven Hills of Rome. The streets of San Francisco. The Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. Variation in elevation is a major feature of the Earth’s surface, and so I often look ....
Where Are Those Eight Billion People?
With the UN estimating that the world population reached eight billion people on 15 November 2022, now is a good time to look at where those people live. The World in 2020 First let’s look ....
States, Race, Politics, & Murder
When homicide rates spiked in 2020, Republicans and Democrats pointed fingers at each other. Republicans accused Democrats of being soft on crime, and Democrats pointed to high homicide rates in Republican-leaning states. I want to ....
Five Years of Recent History
So much has been going on lately in the news that I created a chart to keep track of all (that is: some) of it. Right before the election seemed like a good time to ....
Virginia Voters Face Clear Climate Choices in Congressional Races
The US is on the cusp of cleaning up our economy in order to avert dangerous levels of climate change, but the hour is late and what our political leaders do now is critical. As ....