Today's news? I'm still figuring out what happened last year!
I watched President Biden's State of the Union address this week and the Republican response given by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. Biden came out against a number of threats to America. He talked about fighting ....
Given the need to isolate Russia, a major exporter of fossil fuels, let’s take a look at US production of fossil fuels in recent decades. The big picture: through three presidential adminstrations, we’ve been producing ....
We hear a lot about the inadequacies of the US response to Covid-19 and the unnecessarily high death rate, but how do we compare to other countries? Here, I plot a comparison of Covid deaths, ....
Why Think About the Question? In school we learned about the Growth of Democracy. The ancient Greek city-states invented it, but most societies were too primitive to be governed in this way. It was not ....
Comparing Economies With talk of open warfare between Russia and Ukraine lately, now is a good time to look at a strategic snapshot of Europe. The figure shows all the countries of Europe (excluding those ....
Mainstream Media, Academia, Government Says Covid Killed almost 800k Americans The mainstream media claims that Covid is a dangerous disease which is so deadly that the government has to intrude into private citizens’ lives to ....
The CDC reports that, based on a survey of health data from regions comprising about 30% of the total US population, in August vaccinated people had six time’s smaller chance of testing positive for Covid ....
Latest picture I'm using for a screen background. This started as a blurry photo I took through a moving car's window as we were driven around the Dalmatian Coast a few years ago. It shows ....
Since I, my family, my friends, and a majority of people here in the DC region are vaccinated and mask mandates have come down, I've been feeling pretty post-pandemic. But the latest numbers are a ....
1. What is the Limit to Taxing the Rich? There has been a lot of talk lately of the government spending huge amounts of money on new programs. There is also talk that perhaps some ....