by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) The Trump administration has begun a pullout of immigration enforcement agents from Minneapolis. Seven hundred agents of “Operation Metro Surge” have been [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) Since the beginning of his second term, President Donald Trump has been consistently increasing the temperature of his rhetoric about annexing Greenland to [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) Last weekend the military powers of the United States flew into Venezuela, attacked its capital city, and arrested its president, Nicolas Maduro, [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) After a day of hearing and reading news reports and other people s commentary on them, I have some thoughts of my own [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) In the United States, almost 50 million tons of plastic becomes trash every year. Worldwide, the figure approaches ten times that much, [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) Over one-third of working-age Americans have 401(k)-type investments to fund their retirement years. The term “401(k)” applies to only one of the [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) As I write this, an idea is being bruited about that Elon Musk, famous rich person and supporter/confidant of President-elect Trump, might [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) As the 2024 Presidential election process grinds on, it seems clear that the Democratic Party has a problem. Their candidate, the current [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) [Note: This is an update of a post from 2018, which you can read here.] One does not attend a sporting event [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) On December 19, 2023, the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado handed down a ruling that disqualified former president Donald Trump [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) As I write this, it is July 2023 and this has been the hottest month ever recorded, and probably the hottest in [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) The United States narrowly avoided a crippling railroad strike just before Christmas, a season heavily dependent on efficient transportation of cargo. Although [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) From the mid-1950s until the early 1970s, the left side of the American political spectrum was predominant. Since then, it’s been downhill [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) In previous posts, this blog has addressed the issue of firearms safety several times, including a four-part series covering the gun issue [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) On September 1, 2021, the Texas Heartbeat Act became effective. Enacted by the State’s legislature and governor the previous spring, the law’s [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) The title of this essay poses a question which many people answer by simply saying, “More.” By and large, that answer is [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) There is an odd fear coursing through American athletics today. It is borrowed from the zeitgeist already controlling the political sphere, and [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) The recent death of Britain’s Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, seems to have provoked surprise in some observers. This is not [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) I recently exchanged ideas with a friend who advised me that he had had an argument with a Jewish person about controversial [ ]
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) [Note: this post has been updated to account for the 2020 Census.] When the Framers were putting the Constitution together, they were [ ]