Both of these can be true, at once: 1. Boeing should be doing better work on their airplanes. 2. Commercial air travel is significantly safer than it was as little as 20 years ago. And both of them a… (View Post)

biggles said: "I cannot see any version of the next five years that doesn’t end with war with Iran." For years I have been arguing that we are already in a low-level war with Iran, fought m… (View Post)

Someone asked for a more recent Iowa poll. Here you are: "A poll released Thursday of Iowa voters found that, among Republicans, former president Donald Trump maintains a dominant lead in the da… (View Post)

Off topic: MoonRabbit - If you are interested in Lincoln and the US Civil War, may I suggest that you read some of the classic works on it, for example, Sandburg's biography of Lincoln, or Bruce Catt… (View Post)

Measuring US crime rates. We aren't very good at it. There are two main measures; both have problems. And sometimes they contradict each other: "The United States has two primary ways of measuri… (View Post)