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…

By 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…

By 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…

By 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…

By 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…

By 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. …

By 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…

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…

By 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. …