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CNN is reporting two insider sources who state that Ohio Governor John Kaisch, Donald Trump's last opponent in the race for the GOP Pres...

CNN reports that Ted Cruz has dropped out of the Presidential race, leaving only Trump and Kaisch left in the race that it is mathematically...

UPDATE TWO: Trump looks like he will win all 57 delegates from Indiana.  If he matches expert expectations everywhere but California , he n...

A popular Five Points bagel shop that opened in 2014 was destroyed in a fire that started in a second floor apartment where a body was foun...

[John] Boehner’s comment is illustrative of how well past time it is to adjust our mythologies to reflect our realities. [Ted] Cruz’s fail...

Contrary to popular perception, cannibalism is not an efficient use of scarce resources .  If we want to maximize planetary carrying capacit...

Brigham Young University is a Mormon educational institution. This means that it applies religious values rathe than secular morality. S...

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kaisch are all continuing to seek the Republican party nomination for President to face presumptive Democrat...

As I will explain below, there is something like a 98% chance that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Party's nominee for President ...

Secular Parenting One of the things that makes me most proud is that my children, who have been raised non-religiously, have each been pub...

Teen birth rates are lower now than they have ever been in the history of the United States, although they remain high by the standard of ot...

A very constructive guest post at Charlie's blog discusses some of the most common causes of writer's block (and it very often doe...

The primary in the race to be the Republican candidate to oppose incumbent Democrat Michael Bennett will have just two candidates : * Dary...

A truly brilliant bilingual Klingon-English amicus brief argues that no one can claim a copyright in the constructed Klingon language. Some...

A lengthy blog post mentioned at Marginal Revolution recounts the really stunning capacity of scientists and engineers to relentlessly cont...

Between this blog and its sister blog, Dispatches at Turtle Island, including this post, I have now made 8,000 blog posts since July 3, 2005...

It isn't unusual for the engineers who design military equipment to reference science fiction.  For example, a whole line of sniper det...

The following was recently posted at the Legal Theory Blog: David A. Strauss (University of Chicago Law School) has posted  The Supreme...

* Clinton need just 18% of the remaining uncommitted delegates (pledged and super) to win the Democratic nomination.  Almost all of the Dem...

When I took macroeconomics in college, we assumed that interest rates would always be positive. Who would buy a government bond with a negat...