1 day agoMember-onlyInflation Reduction Act is the motherload of bad policy ideasBy Kent R. Kroeger (August 9, 2022) From elementary to high school, I was a short and skinny kid who was frequently subjected to various forms of socially acceptable peer group torture, the most common of which was the noogie headlock. A guy wraps his arms around your neck from…Inflation7 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyBoth the Democrats and GOP have some good ideas, but never call me a ‘Centrist’ or ‘Moderate’By Kent R. Kroeger (August 5, 2022) I get this question all the time: If you don’t love the Democrats or the Republicans, do you consider yourself a centrist, undecided, independent or moderate? Not only is the answer, no, but I couldn’t be further from the ‘centrist,’ ‘undecided,’ ‘independent’ or…Ideology3 min read
6 days agoMember-onlyInternational law is a fictionBy Kent R. Kroeger (August 3, 2022) International law consists of rules and principles governing the relations and dealings of nations with each other, as well as the relations between states and individuals, and relations between international organizations. (Cornell Law School) The overarching goal of this blog is to highlight…International Law4 min read
Aug 2Member-onlyBeware of causal fallacies in the hunt for COVID-19's originBy Kent R. Kroeger (August 2, 2022) With the formal release of two studies offering strong evidence that the initial epicenter of large-scale COVID-19 transmission centered on the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, many in the news media and scientific community declared the end of the lab-leak theory in…Covid 195 min read
Jul 26Member-onlyBiden won in 2020, but absentee voting remains a tangible threat to U.S. electionsBy Kent R. Kroeger (July 26, 2022) Regardless of what we hear today in the national news media, the potential for voter fraud has been and remains a critical issue in U.S. elections, even though past U.S. elections have not experienced widespread voter fraud (including the 2020 presidential election). One…Election 202012 min read
Jul 17Member-onlyTraditional news still towers over us like a colossus, but here comes RoganBy Kent R. Kroeger (July 17, 2022) The following essay uses only open source data and is available — along with computer scripts used for data transformations and index constructions — on Github (here). As always, all errors remain mine. “Americans’ confidence in newspapers and television news has plummeted to…Joe Rogan8 min read
Jul 6Member-onlyThe U.S. healthcare system cost many lives during the COVID-19 pandemicBy Kent R. Kroeger (July 6, 2022) Cross-national data analyzed in this essay can be found on Github==>Here “Pandemic or not, America has the best healthcare in the world,” declared a 2020 cross-national study of COVID-19 survival rates by the Acton Institute, a free-market-promoting think tank. …Covid 199 min read
Jun 15Member-onlyThe Three Pillars of Gun ViolenceBy Kent R. Kroeger (June 14, 2022) [Data used in this essay can be downloaded from GITHUB.] Last month’s Buffalo supermarket and Uvalde (Texas) Elementary School massacres that killed 31 people in total has rekindled what is now a recurring ritual in our country: Democrats lamenting that substantive gun control…Gun Control13 min read
May 16Member-onlyWhere is our next Joe Strummer?By Kent R. Kroeger (May 17, 2022) Nearing the 40-year anniversary of the mostly forgotten US Festival concerts (which were held in 1982 and 1983), I am reminded of one of the bands that performed in the 1983 concert… “The only band that matters.” That was The Clash’s moniker among…The Clash11 min read
May 13Member-onlyWishful thinking and medical research are a dangerous mixBy Kent R. Kroeger (May 13, 2022) Disclaimer: I am statistician by training, freelance writer by choice, and an auditor at Amazon out of financial necessity. All grammatical errors and factual inaccuracies in this essay are mine alone. …Covid 1910 min read