Patrick Cockburn discusses Iraq’s increasingly desperate economic outlook as oil prices remain at historic lows. Iraq’s economy, like many of those in the Middle East, is hugely reliant on oil, with millions directly on a government payroll that depends...
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No Evidence That Domestic Violence Is Rising Due To COVID-19
A media blitz declares domestic violence (DV) is soaring during COVID-19 because stay-at-home orders have trapped women and children in close proximity to abusive men. Flawed evidence and assumptions underlie this claim but, with the panic of the crisis, it could be...
Supreme Court Rules Against Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court handed down another opinion eroding the Fourth Amendment in a case that should have never gone to the federal court. Kansas v. Glover revolves around a traffic stop by Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Mehrer. He pulled Charles Glover over after...
Cops Kill Lady
Well see, the "criminal interdiction squad" was breaking into a woman named Breonna Taylor's house in the middle of the night to serve a search warrant -- looking for drugs -- that was connected to an arrest warrant for a man who had already been arrested 10 miles...
Zinc-Hydroxychloroquine Found Effective in Some COVID-19 Patients
No. You don't say, huh? Haven't these doctors been instructed on the party line? The patent has expired and the president has said it's good, so it's not. Period.
Ukrainian Police Official Requests List of Jews in Western City of Kolomyya
Seems like just the other day I got in an argument with a guy about whether the U.S. had backed a Nazi street putsch in Kiev in February 2014. Sure looks like it to me. At least Andriy Parubiy isn't the speaker of the Parliament any more.
News Roundup 5/12/20
US News Meet the Press issued an apology to Attorney General Barr for deceptively editing an interview of him. [Link] The FDA reports that nearly 200 meat inspectors have tested positive for Covid. [Link] Mexico is requesting the US to turn over all information...
Cuomo’s Wager
Pascal's Wager is a familiar idea. It goes something like this: regardless of what you may think about the existence of God, rational cost-benefit analysis says you should sign on. After all, if you do and you're wrong, what have you lost? But if you don't and you're...
5/8/20 Aaron Mehta on the Unresolved Problems with the F-35
Aaron Mehta talks about all the issues with the F-35 fighter jet, a plane that has been in development for 20 years and still can’t do many of the things it was designed for. Mehta describes his long investigation into the F-35 project, which upon initial...
5/8/20 Jeff Deist on America’s Bubble Economy
Scott talks to Jeff Deist about the economic ramifications of the coronavirus, including both the virus itself and the government’s fiscal and monetary response. Deist certainly expects that we could be in for a severe recession, but is mainly of the view that...
