October 28, 2022

Will Pelosi’s attacker get no-bail pretrial release?

Like most, I am saddened, shocked, and take no joy in the scary attack on Paul Pelosi, but I must ask, will his wife, Nancy, support his alleged attacker’s immediate release with no bail? California’s 2018 law, SB 10, according to Califor...

October 2, 2022

‘Never Again’ is now

Some say the Nazis are back marching. But this time they're not in Charlottesville.  This time they're setting up shop -- openly and proudly -- in Berkeley. They come from the left.  As you may have heard, student grou...

September 2, 2022

A two-prong attack on King Biden's student debt order

Let me state at the outset what this article is not about.  It is not a detailed analysis of how and why President Biden's executive order forgiving billions in student debt by a stroke of his pen is likely illegal....

September 15, 2021

How bad is COVID now? A tale of two charts

This is the image the government — and its media maidens — broadcasts: a red-hot map of COVID community spread gone wild.  One look at it, and it rightly evokes panic.  Five-alarm fire.  Run — or at lea...

August 30, 2021

Our Taliban partner: 'Very scrupulously good'

This is what General Kenneth McKenzie actually said to the world shortly after our 13 soldiers and more than 100 Afghans were killed by suicide bombers at the Kabul airport: It was a failure by the Taliban to operate with varying degre...

May 7, 2021

Chicago's Feel Good Hypocrisy: Renaming Lake Shore Drive

Have you heard? Chicago is set to rename its legendary Lake Shore Drive to DuSable Drive, in honor of Jean Baptiste Point duSable.  DuSable, an African American, is credited with being Chicago's first permanent settler. The move, of cours...

May 1, 2021

Don’t Confuse an Accident with a Crime

For those who think now-former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter should be charged with a crime – let alone murder – I have a simple question: if a surgeon accidentally nicks an artery and kills a patient when she mistakes the sca...

March 4, 2021

The Seuss ruse

Even Dr. Seuss, could not write this, He'd be remiss, hiss hiss, caught in an abyss. "Read Across America," a day chosen in his honor, Until now, had always been just a yawner. But irony of ironies, instead of celebrating his na...

February 20, 2021

The Bachelor, Racism, and Frogs

What just happened on The Bachelor is more a reflection of American life today than what happened in Washington with former President Trump's impeachment trial.  Yes, I am talking about The Bachelor, the (mostly ridiculous) television show I...

April 18, 2020

Open the schools!

Fact: hundreds of kids die each year nationwide from the flu while none - or close to none - die of corona. Kids’ risk is mainly as carriers, meaning they can infect grandma or teachers.  But they do that each year with the flu - which ...

April 14, 2020

Ventilators: Do they save or kill Covid patients?

Doctors are now wondering if ventilators actually accelerate death or kill Covid patients.   And with death rates of 80% or more for those put on ventilators, they surely should wonder.  Anything that results in death 80% of the time should...

April 11, 2020

When Setting Pandemic Policy, What About Tomorrow’s Victims?

If our goal is to maximize collective lifespan -- which it should be -- then our models need to account for all lives, not just the ones we save today, but the ones our policies may cause to die tomorrow. First, some cold facts and context. The...