Commentary

The Trump/Musk rupture was inevitable and came even faster than I expected. RFK, Jr. will be next, as I also predicted. Too much risk of a real health disaster with…

An irregular round-up of CV-19 research. More to come.

The latest job opernings and labor turnover report has mixed data.

Our debt issue is driven by "entitlement" programs that are riddled with waste.

Book ban hysteria ranks up their with climate, illegal immigrants, and government funding cuts in the whacked progressive pantheon on non-existent terrorism.

Multiple weeks of lies and misinformation from the Strib--which just reflects its standard operating procedure.

Hurricanes are not becoming more frequent or more powerful.

The week's debt auctions generally went off pretty well, but at higher yields.

Elon Musk sadly departs any official role in trying to keep the country from going completely bankrupt.

A research letter notes that the US had excess deaths compared to other high-income countries before, during and after the epidemic.

RFK, Jr. is apparently seeking to undermine the gold-standard source of data on drug and vaccine safety.

An excellent post indicates that there is no "global" warming and again shows the unreliability of climate models.

George Floyd was a scumbag criminal, a drug addict and died of a drug overdose, while Derek Chauvin and other officers got railroaded in a show trial.

Same old, same old at the worthless local paper.

A bad US debt auction should be a stark warning to Republicans about the need to prioritize spending cuts.