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Mayor Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore reacts to rising murder rates there…
…by firing the police chief: Rawlings-Blake said her motivation for replacing Batts was a spike in murders during the past month and not a police union report criticizing her and Batts for the April riots after Freddie Gray was fatally … Continue reading →
Iran talks: on and on and on they go…
…and where they stop, nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure it won’t be anyplace good. I’ve written a lot about the current Iran negotiations, but don’t take the fact that I haven’t written about them lately to mean … Continue reading →
Psychopaths who murder their parents
Now, there’s a pleasant subject, you might say (sarcastically, I hope). But I take the topic up as a public service. Let me explain how I came to research this. Sometimes when I’m working, either on the blog or around … Continue reading →
Stressed out?
Try this. If you’re sensitive to the f-word, avoid it. But I especially love the way the narrator manages to get the tone of voice exactly right. When I went through my many years of chronic pain, I had a … Continue reading →
HUD’s heavy hand
The Obama administration is going forward with its plan to engineer local neighborhoods through the executive branch. I wrote about this before at some length, here. It’s a policy that would be highly unlikely to pass Congress, so it’s being … Continue reading →
China stock market crisis
The Chinese stock market is in big trouble, and no one seems to quite know why. And although it’s always nice to have some company when you’re feeling ignorant, it’s not nice to have this much company. The question, as … Continue reading →
EU to Greece: well maybe we’ll bail you out, if…
Will Greece get another chance?: Merkel and French President Francois Hollande worked together on a plan to save Greece from plunging into economic turmoil and possibly having to ditch the euro. This involved a medium-term conditional program and a short-term … Continue reading →
Right-to-die bill stalled in California
Religious opposition has blocked the advancement of a right-to-die bill in the very liberal state of California—at least for now: The authors of the right-to-die bill did not present the legislation to the Assembly Health Committee as scheduled because it … Continue reading →
Peter Singer and the trap of logic: Part II
[NOTE: Part I, which was posted about two weeks ago, can be found here.] Not only has Princeton bioethics professor Peter Singer advocated infanticide for profoundly disabled infants if parents request it, he also has done a lot of writing … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →The battle of Castle Itter
Here’s quite a story—a description of one of the very last battles at the close of WWII, one in which the Wehrmacht and the Allies fought together against the Waffen-SS.
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