Question: The Wall Street Journal Reports: Livestock accounts for as much as a fifth of global emissions, mostly from cows. They burp methane, a greenhouse gas, and their pastures and feed can cause deforestation. Besides fossil fuels, few things do more …
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These Are First World Problems
Here’s an article entitled: “Parents of San Diego Unified (the public school system in the southernmost city in the western U.S.) stress over school holiday schedules.” It begins: “A lot of parents are stressing. What am I going to do …
Let’s Be Honest About U.S. History
It’s fine to be a conservative economist like Thomas Sowell, but it would be even better if he didn’t make gross mistakes like this. From the mid-1930s through the start of the 1980s, the U.S. public sector, with the help …
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The World Is a Bit More Complicated than That
The author of this meme doesn’t understand too much about the world, e.g., how anti-democratic forces around the globe are working to unseat us, how rogue states are working to build nuclear weapons, and how terrorists forces threaten us all. …
America’s Coming “Hurricane”
Given the fragility of the world’s balance of power, anything’s possible for the U.S. and global economy. One thing that’s highly unlikely, however, is that Tucker Carlson knows anything more about it than you or I. When we come across …
Exploring America’s Two-Tiered Justice System
Ultra-right-wing Hillsdale “College” asks the question at left, and writes: Do you think that the Constitution of “We the People” is being replaced by an elite and unaccountable administrative state? Do we live in an era of bureaucratic despotism, ruled …
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If You’re Looking for Something to Upset You, Let Me Introduce Arizona’s Kari Lake
Fortunately, only a small percentage of Americans believe this crap, and it’s fewer every day. By the time Trump’s criminal trials are concluded, especially the one focusing on Trump’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, these numbers will be microscopic. …
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A World Increasingly Divided
At left we find an interesting perspective. There seems to be no doubt that the world is increasingly a) divided, and b) more and more willing to inflict great harm on people on the other side. As has been throughout …
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Why Be Offended When There’s an Alternative?
There’s a valuable message here. Yes, I have to admit that I’m not happy that about one-third of American voters are not very bright, and prone to all manner of racist and xenophobic viewpoints–plus, I have to live among them. …
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The Political Future of George Santos
Anna Kaplan hopes to replace George Santos in Congress. She claims that he’s running again, and says, “I need your (campaign donations) to beat him at the ballot box.” No, Anna, you don’t. Santos has no more political future than …
