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Illinois supreme court halts end to cash bail
On New Year's Day, a dangerous but hilariously misnamed new law was set to take effect in Illinois. The "SAFE-T Act" was scheduled to alter the state's handling of criminal prosecutions in ways that would…
Three governors’ races to watch in 2023
There are three governors' races to watch his off-year election cycle. There are two with sitting Democrat governors, Louisiana and Kentucky. The third is Mississippi, with a Republican governor. Governor John Bel…
This is The Science™ in our decade
It's easy to roll one's eyes at the sheer idiocy of academics, but it would be a mistake to dismiss their cultural power. The academia to established practice pipeline isn't 50 or 100 years now, but a decade or…
Last Generation: Blocking traffic and angering commuters spreads to Germany
We've seen lots of this sort of thing in the UK and a bit here in the US. Basically the idea behind these stunts is to block traffic as a way to raise the profile of climate change as an issue. Various environmental…
Controversy surrounding New York’s new “human composting” law
Typically, when a loved one shuffles off this mortal coil, the family begins a process of working with a funeral home to prepare the body for burial in a cemetery. Other decedents may opt for cremation. But another option…
Dystopia: Soylent Green 50 years later
The 1970s was a pessimistic decade. America's mood was foul. If you asked almost anybody what the future held, the answer would be: decline.Read More
The January 6 committee’s witch hunt against Ginni Thomas turned up nothing new
Talk about an overreach. The January 6 committee, consisting of Democrat partisans and two Never-Trump Republicans, targeted Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Democrats were hoping to smear Justice…
RIP, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, 1927-2022
The modern two-pope era drew to a close this morning at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger and who went on to an impressive career as a post-Vatican II theologian before…
Santos reportedly won’t run for a second term
Congressman-elect George Santos has rapidly emerged as the least popular person in Congress and he's actually not even in Congress yet. The message seems to have finally begun to sink in for him, however. The local ABC…
Maldives at risk?
I got a bit of pushback on my post regarding The Lancet study that showed that deaths from excessive cold are 9x higher than from excessive heat.Read More