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January 2017

January 07, 2017
There's a lot of chatter about how Republicans are going to repeal Obamacare and replace...
January 07, 2017
Put simply, is it ethical to own a dog to provide you with companionship, even...
January 06, 2017
Man, oh, man, is Gaza a mess. I wrote pessimistically about this region? territory? geographical...
January 04, 2017
Late last week, the Washington Post reported that "Drinking is killing twice as many middle-aged...
January 02, 2017
And, mind you, "introvert" carries with it a bit of "somewhere, somebody is probably secretly...

December 2016

December 27, 2016
Yes, three states. It goes like this: Israel engages in land swaps to some reasonable...
December 26, 2016
Obligatory link to context:  Ann Althouse (with links in her own post), BBC (containing the claim that...
December 25, 2016
Plural. Some years ago, I attended Catholic mass on Christmas Day for the first time, and...
December 23, 2016
And by segregation, I only partly mean racial segregation.  I also mean those various other...
December 21, 2016
So says the New York Times in its editorial earlier this week. The article doesn't...
December 20, 2016
This is a post I've been sitting on for a while, as the situation in...
December 12, 2016
Lost in all the pre-election reporting was a report about a potential new male contraceptive...
December 10, 2016
The latest report, from all the usual news sources, is that the CIA believes that...
December 06, 2016
"How to Make Abortion Rarer" -- that's the title of an article in this week's...
December 05, 2016
Here's a piece of legislation which got pretty much zero coverage at the time it...

November 2016

November 30, 2016
That's a question I posed on my facebook page yesterday.  In hindsight, I should have...
November 26, 2016
So last week I wrote about a very-statistically-credible German-conducted effectiveness study for sympto-thermal NFP that...
November 24, 2016
tell me your stories! Conservative blogs and commentary sites have been full of reports lately...
November 22, 2016
We've never had this situation before, have we?  A president(-elect) who is simultaneously the owner...
November 21, 2016
Not news, but worth discussing:  an article on CNN, "'I have to text my rapist':...
November 20, 2016
So, raise your hands if you've seen the reports about the speech that a Hamilton...
November 17, 2016
Since I’m thinking about constitutional subjects, and yet do not want to address the stupidity...
November 16, 2016
"Wait, what?" is my 13 year old son's favorite line when something surprises him, and...
November 15, 2016
Here's Article 5 of the Constitution, in its entirety: The Congress, whenever two thirds of...
November 14, 2016
For my eighth grade son.  Requirements:  should be someone fairly contemporary, and "relatable."  But not,...
November 12, 2016
Came across this today: By nature, people show favoritism toward those they perceive as part...
November 12, 2016
Why do we have such a convoluted mechanism as the Electoral College? Here's how Alexander...
November 11, 2016
So that's what Trump and Congress claim they're going to do.  What do they mean?...
November 11, 2016
Folks, just a few words of perspective: November 8th was the election, and, yes, many...
November 10, 2016
More to come, but I have to start work. . . Here are the numbers,...
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