The Nunes Crew Is Neck-Deep in the Ukraine Scandal
J. Scott Applewhite/AP During the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings last month, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the panel’s ranking member, angrily decried the process. He called the proceedings a “drug deal” concocted by the Democrats for TV ratings and claimed Donald Trump had done nothing wrong in his attempt to get Ukraine to launch investigations…
GOP-Led Voter Purges in Wisconsin and Georgia Could Tip 2020 Elections
Demonstrators rally at City Hall in Milwaukee against Wisconsin’s new voter purge on December 16.Fight For 15/Twitter Republicans are intensifying efforts to aggressively purge the voter rolls in Wisconsin and Georgia before the 2020 elections, potentially giving their party a crucial advantage by shrinking the electorate in two key swing states. On Friday, a state…
Geoengineering and Ocean Acidification Off the Coast of California
One of the possible solutions to climate change is geoengineering. Various types of geoengineering have been proposed over the years, but the best studied of them is to simply release vast amounts of aerosols into the atmosphere. The aerosols reflect light and thereby reduce the amount of solar heat that reaches the surface of the…
Bribery Explained Using Boolean Logic
The Democratic report on impeachment accuses President Trump of, among other things, criminal bribery. What’s up with that? Wasn’t it really extortion? Allow me to Boolesplain: Extortion: If you don’t announce an investigation of Joe Biden then I won’t approve your military aid package. Bribery: If I do approve your military aid package then you…
How Are the Unrich Doing These Days?
David Leonhardt says we shouldn’t believe the GDP numbers that are released every quarter. It’s not that they’re inaccurate, it’s just that they show only a national aggregate. What we should be interested in is how various income groups are doing. It’s all very well to say that GDP has gone up 2 percent, but…
California Bullet Train Continues Its Hallucinatory Ways
This is an artist’s conception. It will be a very long time before California has anything more than that.California High-Speed Rail Authority The California bullet train, which is so far behind schedule that it can hardly be said to have a schedule anymore, is nonetheless going forward with a contract they don’t have the money…