Commentary

The trade talks appear to be reaching final stages, with little impact on the trade deficit, but a probably beneficial outcome for the US economy.

New research gives a much lower estimate of deaths averted by CV-19 vaccines.

Another study revealing the evils of gender dis-affirming care and sexual mutilation.

How this can be when we are told the planet is on fire is mystifying, but weather-related deaths are at an extreme low in the first half of 2025.

An exceptional day of bad journalism even for the abysmal Star Tribune.

A review of the interesting research in a recent issue of Health Affairs.

The local news is just nothing but crime and fraud.

A slow week in US debt auctions.

More critiques of the anti-Trump garbage regularly published in our only and by far worst newspaper in Minneapolis.

Another large study shows no association between vaccines and autism or other health issues.

2026 looks like a year with large health care cost increases, which will translate to higher health insurance premiums.

Another hysteric scientific scam busted--how CO2 levels are measured and what they were historically.

A new analysis examines competition at the county level for Medicare Advantage plans.

As wildfire smoke drifts across much of the northern US, the hysterics use misleading info to try to link it to climate change.

A long-time environmentalist provides a very rational approach to climate issues and debunks the hysteria.