Striking from the Dark, Jaish al-Islam fires Iranian Zelzal-2 rockets
Long-lasting mental health isn’t normal. I don’t think most people needed a study to figure this out.
WATCH: Your Ears Can Actually Tell the Difference Between Hot and Cold Water
Getting Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Baseline Right. An update on an earlier post.
China’s Capital Outflows Just Reversed, Bad News For Global Real Estate
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How Many Foreign-Born Terrorists?
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Engineered to fail: Are IT recruits untrainable because they cheat in college?
U.S. oil exports are blowing past expectations
Assad’s Control Erodes as Warlords Gain Upper Hand
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Puerto Rico’s Daunting Fiscal Math (My View)
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What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders?
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Fake News, Exposed. Just a reminder, but it should not surprise you.
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Alabama Committee Passes Bill to Eliminate Marriage Licenses, Nullify Federal Control in Practice. I don’t think the “nullify Federal Control” thing will work. But otherwise, it is the right way forwards. It will be interesting to see if it passes.
Ordering kiosks coming to 1,000 Wendy’s. Amusing how the article is careful to never mention minimum wage laws.
China considering offering financial incentives for second child. To late for that, but it is a sign that at least some people in power see the brick wall coming.
Superbug infections rising rapidly and spreading silently in kids. My money is that they are getting them at school. It is the best place after a hospital to get any other kind of bug so why not the super kind?
Two Fights: Pistol Defender vs. Multiple Rifles
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Nothing for Today.
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Not really much different then the story trailer, but it is the launch trailer. That is the real news.
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New malaria vaccine is fully effective in very small clinical trial. Big news if it pans out.
Since its first meeting, the Coffin Club has helped hundreds craft their own caskets.
NHS staff ask ‘least bad’ patients to sleep in corridors amid hospital demand crisis
A Politician and an Ex-Hitman Take on Philippine Leader
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North Korea Warned to Cooperate over Killing of Kim Jong Nam With Nerve Agent
French human rights ‘at tipping point’ as state of emergency continues, says Amnesty International. It is things like this that you should remember when people tell you that Trump is a threat to the world order. France is already doing what Trump can never even dream of doing and it is all right because the right people are doing it.
Most scientists ‘can’t replicate studies by their peers’
Documents Indicate Germany Spied on Foreign Journalists
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How Left-Wing Media Overstates Number Of ‘Mass Shootings’ By Factor Of 10
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A.T.F. Filled Secret Bank Account With Millions From Shadowy Cigarette Sales
Update on lack of Chinese Residential Real Estate Buyers
Geert Wilders Follows the Trump Twitter Trail
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Nothing for today, because I am sick of them.
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After 32,000 Years, an Ice Age Flower Blooms Again . That is if you believe the Russians. I would like an outside opinion before I get to excited.
Why Polls Differ On Trump’s Popularity
Poll: Americans overwhelmingly oppose sanctuary cities
A rant offered for your amusement.
Non-Zionist Israelis Struggle Against New Draft Law
No One Can Figure Out What’s Behind a Mysterious Radiation Spike Across Europe. Nothing to get excited about as the article makes clear.
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The Life and Death of Wasil, the Taliban-Hunting Child Warrior. I am not sure how much of this story is true and how much of it is tall tale told to the credulous. But to a certain extent, it does not matter to me. Even the tall tales told to credulous Westerners are sometimes more informative then bland narratives told to us by people safe in their hotels and using press briefings as their primary source of material.
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Why has Trump been so slow to confront anti-Semitism? Several answers suggest themselves, none of them good. Every time I think they can’t surprise me, they do. My mouth dropped open when I saw Google headlines today full of stories about how Trump was too slow to condemn antisemitism. First the story is that he is giving his Jewish son-in-law too much of a say in government and then it is all how he is an anti-Semite. I wish they could at least keep their stories straight.
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Mercedes-Benz is letting 20 customers drive an electric semi truck for a year
Bird flu strain hitting China may be getting more infectious
Replenishing the Stocks: Russian deliveries of T-62Ms and BMP-1s reach Syria
Giant ‘Rivers in the Sky’ Are Causing Widespread Chaos in California
It’s Not Just ‘Strangelove’ —Today’s Bombers Rely on America’s Weakest Nuclear Links
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America’s New Mandarins. An old essay. But nobody paid attention to it at the time and so now we have Trump.
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