Wash Park Prophet

Steroids, blood doping, and probably other unnatural means like hormone treatments, prosthetics (a.k.a. bionics, a.k.a. cyborgs), mechanical...

Despite immense public rhetoric by Tea Party types, the truth of the matter is that there is bipartisan indifference to the deficit as a na...

Partisan politics in the United States is largely confined to an agenda for state and federal government policy, with a disproportionately h...

Lamarck wasn't all wrong. A parent's experiences can be passed onto a child. In particular, a mother's drug use, even if disc...

They days, a Greyhound bus station is a symbol of those down on their luck. Denver's fills a block between 19th and 20th Street between...

Razib Khan has a fine blog affiliated with Discover Magazine, that is worth your time to read on a regular basis. A recent post, for exam...

This post looks at better way to cut domestic spending. Previous posts looked at the interest on the national debt and tax policy, and cuts...

This post looks at better way to cut the defense budget to reduce the deficit than those suggested by the leaders of a national deficit comm...

What would I do to cut the federal deficit? I'll take the issue on in three parts, (1) the interest on the national debt and tax policy...

The President's bipartisan deficit reduction panel's top Democrat and top Republican have given the panel a "starting point...

We've been anticipating the day for a while. I predicted it would happen now, plus or minus a few months, about three years ago. Today...