May 2022 Abortion Rights Rally
I saw a few advertisements for the 14 May day of action in support of abortion rights. In the wake of the leaked Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade, I thought the rallies ....
Category: Geography/Economics/Politics
No to Violence in the Name of Abortion Rights
The movement to outlaw abortion is threatening the freedom of women in America. Those of us who support the right to abortion are angry that the same people who demand the freedom to destroy the ....
Covid Deaths 2x Higher in Red Counties
In November, I showed that Covid deaths were lower in states that had higher vaccination rates, and that vaccination rates go up strongly with percentage of Democratic vote (State Covid Rates Decrease With Vaccination – ....
Illustrating the Growth of the Divide on Supreme Court Picks
A chart showing forty years of Senate confirmation votes for Supreme Court justices illustrates the growing divide in America. The path to today’s divisions has a complex history. The First Fights Back in the 1980s, ....
Dangerous & Crazy at 570 kHz
Did you know that Biden was a corrupt traitor selling out the country for his pedophile son? That's what I heard when I tuned into AM radio yesterday afternoon on the way home from campus. ....
Do You Hate Democrats More Than You Hate Putin?
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 ....
US Energy Independence
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 ....
US Deaths Slightly Worse Than EU
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, ....
Mommy, Where Do Democracies Come From?
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 ....
Europe: Strategic Snapshot
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 ....