What the US thinks It is Number 1 in and its actual rankings . . . June 21, 2025, “Occupy Democrats,” Facebook One could only wish! Various comments on that…

…Netanyahu, goaded on by the Israeli equivalent of neo-Nazis in his cabinet, announced Thursday that he intends to directly occupy Gaza City militarily in preparation for expelling its population once…

…reason, then, for a housing shortage under rent control laws is that more people occupy more housing space than they would in a competitive market. Usually, rent control laws do…

…China in the Arctic. “We’re not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland. That’s what they’re going to do if we don’t. So we’re going to be doing something…

…bargain clearly require that he humiliate himself in public on a regular basis. He no longer acts like a respectable Wall Street insider; now he behaves like a capo helping…

…has long stewed about the fact that women occupy positions of leadership in the U.S. military, and he has hammered on the idea of “merit” as a way of implying that minority…

…members occupy a different space. They are not entirely free—some seek other offices, others hope to maintain influence—but they are freer than they will ever be again. That partial freedom,…

What’s a person to do? or ‘Motivated avoidance’ From the American Psychological Association comes two studies here and here. Individuals are often confronted with information that they do not know…

The American Street Is it possible that my earlier link to the latest and coolest group blog, The American Street, was somewhat self-serving? Visit The American Street throughout the day…

…Alabama, blew the shofar, and churches rang their bells four times. It was at that moment, sixty years ago, a bomb ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham,…