12+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1003+ words) AI is not a departure from mankind’s toiling in the garden of natural knowledge but an extension of that knowledge. Source In the course of these hebdomadal reports, I have often had occasion to mention Charles Mackay’s 1841 masterpiece Extraordinary Popular…...

13+ hour, 34+ min ago   (492+ words) The busybody has always played an important, eternal function. This was not a cinematic rescue as we see on Netflix these days, with no swelling music and no female superheroes. Just a concerned woman citizen getting involved. There were no…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (595+ words) Ryan Reynolds has issues. Deadpool gave a deadpan opinion, whining about his childhood. Every human being has issues they should be facing in their time. One would think that the last issue on his mind would be his thoughts on…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1088+ words) Last Wednesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent FBI Director Kash Patel a letter demanding every document connected to an operation codenamed Round River. If […] Source Last Wednesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent FBI Director Kash Patel a letter…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (340+ words) More than 62,000 people were arrested in Britain for communications offenses over a five-year period, according to a new civil liberties report warning that the country’s increasingly broad speech restrictions are having a chilling effect on free expression. Big Brother Watch…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1363+ words) The 9/11 Commission highlighted Iran's complicity in the attacks on pages 240-241 of its final report. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said recently that Iranian assets seized by the U.S. Treasury could be held for the Iranian people or be distributed to victims of…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (533+ words) The university increasingly resembles a medieval guild: a protected inner circle surrounded by a much larger population hoping for admission. In 2011, I went to New York to cover Occupy Wall Street. Among the protesters I met was a young man…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (388+ words) Britain’s government learned to manage riots. Now, as anger over mass immigration boils over, it may be discovering that public fury is no longer so easily controlled. In August of 2011, the British government—a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition led by David…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1236+ words) The Women’s National Basketball Association has recently brought a lot of absurd troubles on itself because its own leaders are unable or unwilling to state […] Source The Women’s National Basketball Association has recently brought a lot of absurd troubles on…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (258+ words) Americans’ dissatisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the U.S. has dropped to 32 percent, a new low in Gallup’s 27-year trend and down 11 percentage points over the past two years. According to Gallup News, the trend appears to be…...