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Science and Technology
Cancer researcher home-brewed a beer that works as a vaccine
“Christopher Buck is fermenting a vaccine in his kitchen. You can too,” reports Reason Magazine. “And he’s publishing the process so…
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Media
Cesar Chavez was a serial rapist, New York Times investigation finds
A New York Times investigation found that Hispanic labor leader Cesar Chavez was a serial rapist. Many streets are named…
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Business
Ban on flavored vapes should end, to reduce smoking rates and curb the black market
“The Food and Drug Administration recently signaled that it’s planning to let e-cigarette companies sell a broader range of flavors…
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Foreign Affairs
Bloody civil war now afflicts South Sudan, where thousands fleeing the civil war in neighboring Sudan went
Civil wars afflict many African countries. Over 400,000 people have died in a 3-year-old civil war in Sudan, one of…
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Sports and Culture
Why there are seven days in a week
In our society, as in almost all cultures, a week has seven days. But in some past cultures, a week…
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Foreign Affairs
Hundreds die in drone attacks since March 4
More than 250 civilians have been killed since March 4 in drone strikes in Sudan, in that country’s Kordofan region…
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Business
Maple syrup makers turn to automation as demand grows
“As demand for syrup has surged in recent years, Quebec’s maple industry is evolving too, adding millions of new taps…
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Education
Student leaders pledge solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran
Student leaders at the University of Maryland’s main campus have “introduced a new resolution pledging solidarity with the Islamic Republic…
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Law and Government
17 progressive attorney generals sue Education Department over admissions transparency order
17 progressive state attorney generals sued the Education Department on March 11 “arguing that its new order demanding voluminous piles…
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Law and Government
Justice Department charges man for selling gun to ISIS-inspired shooter at Old Dominion University
A man was charged today for selling a stolen gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who used it to kill one…
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Law and Government
Jury convicts 8 on terrorism charges over shooting at Texas immigration facility
“A federal jury on Friday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that…
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Law and Government
State likely to add more job-destroying licensing regulations
“Louisiana, a state notorious for high occupational licensing barriers and below-average household median income, may soon create one of the…
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Education
Teacher suspended for telling rowdy kids that they were ‘acting like monkeys in a zoo’
“An Indiana elementary school teacher has been suspended after telling his fifth-grade class late last month that it was ‘acting…
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Politics
Democrat flips seat from GOP, in New Hampshire special election
In New Hampshire, Democrat Bobbi Boudman “flipped a Republican-held seat in the state House in a special election on Tuesday…
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Law and Government
NEH cancels federal grants studying LGBTQ and ‘multiethnic’ comic books
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced that it canceled a Florida professor’s grant to write about LGBT cartoonists and…
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Education
Colleges eliminate swim tests, sometimes citing racism
Many colleges used to require students to be able to swim, to graduate. But in recent years, most of those…
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Business
Anthropic sues Pentagon to be removed from national security blacklist
Today, Anthropic filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, part of the…
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Foreign Affairs
Iranian capital ‘engulfed’ in ‘smoke and acid rain following strikes’
“Tehran’s residents woke up to a skyline shrouded in black smoke and acid rain clouds after Israeli airstrikes set ablaze…
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Economy
Iran war will cause lasting oil price spike even if it ends soon, and could reduce farm output
The Iran war will cut oil production in the Persian Gulf a lot this year, even if it ends soon.…
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Foreign Affairs
Iran threatens the U.S., strikes desalination plant
Iran threatened the U.S. after striking a desalination plant in the pro-American country of Bahrain, “stoking fears of attacks on…
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Foreign Affairs
An unconstitutional war with Iran?
Some U.S. presidents launch wars, without admitting they are wars, and without getting Congress to declare war. That violates the…
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Law and Government
Jury awards $10 million to professor falsely accused of killing four students
An Idaho jury awarded $10 million in damages to a University of Idaho professor who was falsely accused of killing…
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Education
‘Death to America’, says coalition of student groups at Columbia University
“An anti-Israel student organization coalition at Columbia University in New York City posted a message reading ‘Death to America’ in…
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Education
Supreme Court blocks California law hiding student gender transitions from parents
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that “California’s gender transition policy for public schools, which requires teachers to hide from parents…
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Science and Technology
FDA keeps blocking life-saving drugs for rare diseases, due to obstructionist officials like Vinay Prasad
The FDA is blocking the approval of some drugs for lethal, rare diseases, because the FDA has put “the persnickety…
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Unyielding
Giant sinkholes spread in Turkey, killing farmers and swallowing up their land
Turkish farmer Fatih Sik was drinking tea “when he heard a rumbling sound outside that grew to a loud boom,…
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Law and Government
A portrait of suicidal empathy
“In 1996, Travis Lewis broke into the Snowden family home in Arkansas during a burglary and murdered 75-year-old Sally Snowden…
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Education
Academia is a ‘Trojan horse’ to advance Marxism, professor says
“A Villanova University professor called academia a ‘Trojan horse’ to advance socialist politics during a Saturday Zoom event celebrating’ a…
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Law and Government
Fairfax County prosecutor lets killers escape justice through insanity defenses
The chief prosecutor of Fairfax County is letting some killers escape a conviction by accepting insanity pleas that would almost…
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Business
Both sides loot capital city in bloody civil war
Seven million people once lived in and around the capital city of Sudan, Khartoum. But much of the population left…
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Education
Education Department stops limiting scholarship to minorities after being sued by Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty
The U.S. Department of Education has agreed to revise “the exclusionary race-based eligibility rules of a federal student scholarship program,…
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Economy
Real wages increase, outpacing inflation, despite dumb government policies
“The resilience of the American worker is one of the most underreported stories of the 2020s. From red tape to…
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Law and Government
Legal advice from AI platform is not protected by attorney-client privilege, court rules
About a third of all lawyers are so bad they are no better than what artificial intelligence can provide, in…
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Education
University of Utah economics department is ‘center of Marxist thought’
Marxism is hostile to economics, teaching nonsensical concepts such as labor theory of value (which falsely says an object’s value…
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Law and Government
Murderer gets only 5 years for stabbing girlfriend 288 times until she died
Recently, “One of the most insane verdicts ever in the Netherlands was delivered.” “Arnold O. murdered his ‘girlfriend’ — a…
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