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A Ukrainian airstrike in the Donetsk region is getting a lot of attention today. Here's a map of the location published by the Guardian. The strike didn't happen in the city of Donetsk but in a sister city called…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 

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…

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…