Years ago, a neighbor told me a story that changed how I thought about pornography and girls. While I was writing my first read-aloud book for kids, she described an 8-year-old who had just had “the talk” with her [...]

Over the weekend the Pentagon announced that four more US soldiers have been killed in President Trump’s war on Iran. That brings the total to 17, but many believe the real number of dead US servicemembers is much higher [...]

The 50% tariffs on many Canadian imports are based on the long-defunct Section 338 of the notorious Smoot-Hawley tariff act. --- NA Today, Donald Trump announced plans to impose 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports to the United [...]

Self-described socialist Andy Burnham promised to establish a “new economic model” as he officially became the prime minister of the United Kingdom on Monday.  Burnham said in his first speech as prime minister that he would seek to implement [...]

The implicit notion–extant on both ends of the Accela Corridor—that the present financing arrangements for the $31 trillion of publicly held US Treasuries represent the natural order of things in the financial markets is just damn nonsense. And that’s to say [...]

The E.U. pulls ahead of the U.S. in the creepy international automobile surveillance race. --- Give the world's control freaks credit where it's due: No matter how creepy their proposals are, there's always another nanny someplace eager to double down with [...]

California local governments of every size are crying poor as they struggle with budget shortfalls. --- California local governments of every size are crying poor as they struggle with budget shortfalls amid what many officials predictably call a "perfect storm" of [...]