March 27, 2022

State Department map shows pretty much every country is too dangerous for you to visit

The U.S. State Department is not yet prohibiting American citizens from going overseas, but its advice regarding international travel generally discourages visits to foreign countries and makes absurd categorizations regarding which countries are lea...

April 15, 2021

Examining the Relationship between COVID Death Rates and Population Density

Calculation of simple rates for new COVID cases and deaths has revealed that mask mandate states have performed no better than states in which masks have been voluntary.  Advocates for the mandate are looking for a confounding variable that...

April 10, 2021

Masks Mandates Counterproductive. How Much More Data Do We Need?

On March 17, American Thinker posted an article entitled "Mask Mandates Do Not Save Lives." By comparing COVID death rates in states with no mask mandate to states in which masking was mandatory, the article was able to show that, on a...

March 17, 2021

Mask Mandates Do Not Save Lives

Although some studies have concluded that masks help stop the spread of COVID-19, usually they have failed to replicate real-world situations.  A common approach is to evaluate the effectiveness of mask material at stopping the expulsion or...

December 26, 2020

COVID-19 and Resisting Government Malfeasance

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the governments of the United States have mistreated the citizens of the country by destroying their means of making a living and limiting their freedom of movement.  Government powers have been used to...

April 8, 2020

Give Hydroxychloroquine a Chance

Controversy swirls around whether hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin ("H&A") should be used to treat people who have the Wuhan virus.  Setting aside for now all the qualifications that for good reason are used whenever discus...

April 3, 2020

Don't Count on the Model Prediction for Coronavirus Deaths

For the first time in decades, Americans who hear the word "model" are more likely to visualize a graph than a woman on a runway.  Now, in the era of the coronavirus, we all are morbidly fixated on the projections that the experts...

September 9, 2019

Time to Put an End to the Climate Cult

The climate cult has gotten out of hand.  It now threatens to prevail in politics by convincing the ignorant that the science is settled. Anybody who has a basic understanding of the science knows that it is not settled.  A num...

June 2, 2019

How a Special Counsel Disgraced Himself and the US Government

In his recent public statement, Robert Mueller admitted he was on a witch hunt.  He didn't mean to do so, but his own words reveal as much: And as set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the ...

May 23, 2019

Let's Make Sure 'Obstruction of Justice' Is Properly Defined

A line must be drawn.  No longer can the phrase "obstruction of justice" be allowed to mean something obscenely different from what any fair-minded, free person knows it was intended to mean.  In the minds of most, the p...

April 26, 2019

Mueller Is Circling the Drain

Certain aspects of the process whereby Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel challenge the legitimacy of the entire undertaking.  To understand them, we must dip into the legalese surrounding the appointment process, but at least tha...

April 1, 2019

How to Combat the Green New Deal

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal is well positioned to fend off the many powerful objections being raised against its practicality.  Here is why. The Green New Deal offers a unifying sense of purpose to the two youngest gene...

March 18, 2019

Republicans Are Finally Starting to Distrust Democrats

Whatever the reason, the last presidential election appears to have destroyed any confidence that the Democrats had in the idea that Republicans are merely misguided.  A currently growing cleavage within the Democratic Party itself cannot h...

February 26, 2019

Fun with Statistics and the Gun Control Debate

Gun control advocates often contend that more gun deaths occur when guns are abundant in society.  The statistics they use to make the case are not persuasive.  The most commonly cited evidence for the linkage is that the states wit...

January 13, 2019

If you love free speech, get acquainted with the Lindsay Shepherd case

A great many people – including many strong advocates of free speech – have only a passing acquaintance with the Lindsay Shepherd matter.  This lack of awareness is unfortunate, because nothing more chillingly reveals the way in...

May 24, 2018

Islam and the West Are Incompatible

We are living in a time when groups of Muslims are engaged in a war against Western civilization.  These groups are numerous and widespread, and although they constitute only a sliver of the larger Muslim population, they rely for their str...

May 4, 2018

A Reality Check for Those Who Deplore the Nuking of Japan

In the decades immediately following World War II, American public opinion generally supported President Truman's historic decision to unleash nuclear weapons on Japan.  Everyone accepted that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a...

February 20, 2018

The Feminist Delusion of Toxic Masculinity

Just as the phrase "climate change" fails to capture the fundamental nature of a theory that was originally labeled "global warming," the commonly heard phrase "toxic masculinity" substitutes similarly imprecise language...

December 16, 2017

How many of Robert Mueller's lawyers gave money to Democrats?

Since June, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating whether the Russian government and the Trump campaign colluded in an effort to swing the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favor.  To help with the task, Mueller assembled...

October 9, 2017

To Win the Second Amendment War

Whether or not bump stocks end up banned is a trivial matter.  The war over the Second Amendment will not hinge on the outcome of this particular battle.  Both sides know this; the importance of the issue is entirely psychological. For p...

December 5, 2016

Measuring Sea Level Is a Suspect Art

A catastrophic rise in sea level is one of the calamities anticipated by those who believe in climate change.  The believers and the skeptics can carry on a scientific discussion about this matter only if they actually know what the current sea ...