Month: October 2014

Back in May 2009, when Barack Obama was still a freshly minted president, he said that no prisoner had ever escaped from one of our Supermax prisons. There’s no definitive definition of what constitutes a...

Blows away the earliest conclusion of “instant death” for passengers and crew in downing of MH-17. Australian MH17 crash victim ‘had time to put oxygen mask on’, says Dutch foreign minister One of the...

Brendan is off visiting family. Martin has lots to do for the Washington Monthly, some of which will likely be posted here at some point. Me? My brain is fried. So what to talk about? I’ve got nothing new to say about...

This is a follow-up to my post last night regarding the enormous methane hotspot over the Four Corners area in the Southwest. The EPA estimates of methane emissions from oil and gas drilling are compiled using the industry’s own...

I don’t know how old you are, but if you were a sentient human being living in the United States during the 1980’s, then you know that the crack cocaine epidemic in our cities was a much bigger problem than the...