Time magazine wants you to believe scientists have brought dire wolves back from the dead. Popularized by the HBO series Game of Thrones, dire wolves are the larger, whiter cousins of the modern-day gray wolves. They once roamed North and South America from approximately 150,000 to 10,000 years ago. According to Beth Shapiro, chief science […]
Liberal activist Kyle McDaniel might be an ideologue, a thief, and a cad, but give him this: He’s no hypocrite. McDaniel’s former employer has sued him for embezzling company funds and spending them on personal indulgences including strip clubs. But this melds pretty well his record in politics. When McDaniel was sworn in for his […]
Someone missed the space travel invite, and she doesn’t seem happy about it. Actress Olivia Munn recently ripped into the all-female crew set to take an 11-minute flight through the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday in a Blue Origin rocket. “There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs,” Munn complained on TODAY with Jenna […]
In a recent column, I wrote about my friend, Lt. David Pingenot, who joined the U.S. Navy in 1965 partly to see a body of water larger than the Iowa stretch of the Cedar River. Pingenot became a technician for the sound surveillance system, which utilized a system of hydrophones that monitored sound channels in […]
“The slower you do things,” a very wise person once told me, “the more time you seem to have.” This is excellent advice. I tend to rush through things — meals, museums, writing columns — on the mistaken belief that if I can just do everything faster, I’ll have more time for other things. It’s […]
President Trump's trade war with China was escalated once again Friday morning, after Beijing hiked tariffs on U.S goods to 125 percent. This time, however, China's Ministry of Finance said the new import tax rate would be final and it would no longer engage in the revolving door of tariff hikes. The updated tariffs are...
On the menu: Tillis draws a top Dem opponent; Paxton, Cornyn headed for brutal battle; old is out for Dem challengers; fat suits; sign of the times Politics is like investing or shooting skeet: You don’t want to be on the target, you want to be just ahead of it. In our crazy, fugazi, reverse-engineered...
During World War II, the United States used the Alien Enemies Act and Executive Order 9066 to undercut civil rights and imprison innocent people and families in squalid camps. Using the Alien Enemies Act today to usurp our existing immigration laws and scapegoat immigrants repeats this shameful chapter.