The cost depends on what level the allowance is set. It could be fiscally neutral if reduced appropriately. (View Post)

Yes, but the compensation went to slave owners not to the slaves. Indeed it gave them capital at a critical time in the development of the Industrial Revolution, putting the former owners in the driv… (View Post)

Nothing new there. I remember having a valuable camera stolen in a burglary in 1991, I checked the secondhand camera shops in town, and one of them had it. It had been brought in by the thief and the… (View Post)

The best Christmas film. Even better than Die Hard. (View Post)

Mendel demonstrated in his pea experiments that if a gene is dominant then the F1 generation will be all tall peas, but the F2 generation will be a mix of 75% tall and 25% dwarf peas. There are no mi… (View Post)