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For the second time, Pablo Picasso’s former electrician has been convicted of stealing from his famous employer. During the 1970s, Picasso lived in Mougins, France and used electrician...

Originally posted on orgtheory.net: I am not opposed to scholars being politically active, nor using their scholarly skills to tackle…

Life Expectancy in U.S. Falls for Third Straight Year; Alarming New Trend Toward Higher Death Rate Between 25 and 64 Years of Age; Causes Include Economic Hardship and Despair; Opioids...

Amidst the clamor that surrounds Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) globally, a small but significant triumph panned out in South Africa last month. The country’s Agriculture...

Finally!!! Might as well party.

Its dams are provoking regional tensions, so Beijing needs to reconsider its policy. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Asia, the world’s driest continent in per capita...

There is also a practice of assigning Vishnu Gotra to people who belong to Kshatriya Varna and Jambu Maharishi Gotra to Vaisyas.

Chris Whittle is the Uber entrepreneur of for-profit education. Back in the 1990s, he launched the Edison Project, assuming that George H.W. Bush would be re-elected and would get...

As is often the case, The Daily Show came through this past week.  Former Microsoft CEO and Founder of the USA Facts website Steve Ballmer came by on the November 14 episode.  The website...

By Paul Homewood     h/t AC Osborn Attenborough is on the march again tonight, with his latest load of BS: A polar bear bravely leaped into a pod of beluga whales in a desperate bid to...

Europe’s hypocrite of the week After celebrating at Twitter the passage of the symbolic climate emergency in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday, parliamentarian Sven...

Curmudgucation: TN: Doubling Down on Bad Reading Policy Among the worst policy ideas of the past decades, we have to count third grade reading retention laws. These laws can sometimes...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Where are the Democrats going next? Prior to this past week, for days Adam Schiff had concocted a pretty effective fix. He conducted secret impeachment...

We have reached the naked truth: Bill Barr accepts only those notions that he wants to accept and facts be damned. The post Captain Combover and the Coefficient of Fiction appeared...

Related to my previous post The Optometry Racket with thanks and attribution to loyal reader David Siegel. The post How to Buy Contact Lenses in Lithuania appeared first on Marginal...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This letter appeared in the New York Times on ? To the Editor: A plea from 33 writers: Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand...

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, the California leftist who briefly surged in the polls after suggesting that rival Joe Biden is a closet racist, has dropped out of...

Almost immediately after Le Mesurier’s alleged plunge to his death, reports began to emerge of tampering and the removal of details about the controversial “private security”...

First catch your gannet ... then prepare for a challenge to nose and tastebuds(tags:food birds scotland )That time the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally'...

It seems like ‘No Malarkey’ is Joe Biden’s new slogan. It’s written, big and bold, on the side of his tour bus, which is large enough to do a major rock group proud and probably...