Japan recently went through a national general election for its House of Representatives. While the opposition parties insisted that they would defeat the ruling Jimintō Party (LDP), the election yielded few surprises...
Author - Tim Patrick
Tim Patrick
Does the Right to be Wrong Have Limits?
One great thing about the American system is that it provides the freedom and space to challenge the mainstream. Not every belief has merit, but we nonetheless extend a lot of leeway to groups that espouse some of the...
Should COVID Breakthrough Cases Worry Us?
It seems like just a few weeks ago that we had a handle on this pandemic thing. And then the coronavirus had to mutate itself and ruin the illusion for everyone. Infections are back up, and while they are nowhere near...
When Did Religious Conservatives Become So Afraid?
Throughout 2020, I watched in horror as a seemingly routine variation of an earlier SARS-type sickness took over the world. The death count from COVID-19 soared past four million souls a few weeks ago, a staggering...
Why This is (Probably) My Last Political Article
This is probably the last political article I will write on this web site. I’ll wait a moment for the cheers to die down. You might think it strange that a site created to discuss current events and politics would stop...
How to Read a Newspaper Article
The literacy rate in the United States sits around ninety-nine percent, but sometimes you have to wonder about the accuracy of that metric given the type of stuff that passes for reading material. I am, of course...
Am I a Voter Fraud Enabler?
I don’t know if you’ve been reading the news lately, but one of the presidential candidates this time around thinks the election wasn’t on the up and up. “Voter fraud” is on everyone’s lips, whether they’re insisting it...
What Went Wrong with the Republican Party?
With the Electoral College victory of Joe Biden, yet another sitting Republican president has gone down in defeat and shame. Back in the 1970s, President Ford recognized that the nation had passed through a “long...
Time is Running Out to Commit Voter Fraud!
The 2020 presidential election is just a week away, which means you are almost out of time to activate your voter fraud strategy. Given the distributed nature of elections in the Unites States, where each of the over...
How to Read Coronavirus Stories Without Freaking Out
The coronavirus situation seems to get worse each day. The six o’clock news used to start off with moderate predictions of impending doom: “Santa Claus is coming to town. Is your family at risk?” But now it’s wall-to...