A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty

In Texas alone, about 30 communities could run out of water by the end of the year, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Nearly 15 million people are living under some ( Read more... )

Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided

It's funny how the U.S. government can find the money to create a surveillance apparatus the Stasi would be envious of, but they can't find the money to harden our infrastructure against something that would end civilization as we know it, and is statistically guaranteed to ( Read more... )

Ruthless Mexican drug cartel recruiting in U.S.; Los Zetas looks to prisons, street gangs

Remember, diversity is a blessing.

Heather Macdonald's recent article on stop-and-frisk in NYC contains a mindblowing fact.

But for the last decade and a half, anti-cop advocates and their political allies have assailed discretionary stops as racist because the vast majority of stop subjects are black and Hispanic. This argument ignores the reality that the vast majority of ( Read more... )

I am very happy to see Egypt having another revolution. Too many people think of "order" as the primary goal of foreign policy. But too often, order results in stable states that are miserable. Too many people also think of American foreign policy as a choice between isolationism and dictatorial control over empire ( Read more... )

I was reliably informed that I was an idiot for investing in solar, because cheap natural gas was going to lead to equally cheap electricity.

Electricity Prices Highest on Record for May

Polygamists Celebrate Supreme Court’s Marriage Rulings

I've said it before, I'll say it again: In logic, slippery slope is a fallacy. In politics, it is a certainty.

And polygamy is toxic to any culture that tries it.

Western civilization is the historical and geographical exception to the rule, and it is founded on creating a broad middle class ( Read more... )

And my respect for them has gone up immensely.

China's Central Bank Is Engineering A Liquidity Crunch To Tackle The Shadow Banking System

In their attempt to clamp down on the massive, and growing, shadow banking system, the new administration has pushed total social financing dramatically down, from $410 billion in March to $200 million in May, ( Read more... )

The Court Ruling That Could End Unpaid Internships for Good

If the competition for those unpaid positions is so fierce, then they're not fields that can absorb a lot of workers at higher levels either. The majority of interns will be disappointed, and it's economically more efficient to disappoint them early, so they can move on to other things. ( Read more... )

One of the standard tactics of pit bull apologists is to claim that there is no such thing. That there's nothing especially dangerous about them. It's just a label ignorant people use to describe a whole bunch of different dogs who can be trained to be violent or not, depending on the owner. That's when they're talking to critics. When they're ( Read more... )