[In the UK, a-k-a 'evil yet Logical empiricists'] 'Lord Howard, who was Conservative leader between 2003 and 2005, said [in urgent Lords' debate today that] the [Internal Market] bill would damage the UK's "reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law". 'He said Northern Ireland Secretary ...

The default Brexit position is a "hard border" betweeen Northern Ireland & the Irish Republic. So, today the Guardian has an Opinion article by an Irish Times writer pointing to the USA Congress - Representive Neal, chairman of the Ways & Means committee, September 8th issued a statement denouncing ...

Adding to the above: The amendment to the US Constitution which allowed Prohibition, the illegality of alcoholic beverages, the resultant crime waves, notoriously Al Capone and the rise of the American mafia, the disrespect for the law (e.g., speakeasies - even Franklin D. Roosevelt had a private st...

Fabian Socialist "small" steps ? In no particular order, remedies and complex problems: Legalization of marijuana, outlawed by federal legislation in the US, with the several states allowing medical/recreational use. (Historical footnote: One US state governor afflicted with cancer refused marijuana...

Have I missed the alleged poisoning of Arafat hereinabove?

It may be pointed out that many if not most hospitals suffered bomb damage in World War II, & the Labour government found it thus expedient to implement the NHS.

In Detroit Michigan the New Year is greeted w/ gunshot

Speaking of barrels: An ancient Roman oligarch bequeathed to his heir 10K barrels of wine.

Oil went negative on Asian markets last night

Broader picture: Ancient Roman/Italian peasant farmers dispossessed of or not owning land. Land which was snatched up by the governing class of the day, the Optimates - the (Senatorial) consulars. Following Sulla's return to Rome, his army veterans were awarded arable, or some not so valuable, land....

Parnell - did he ever suggest injecting or drinking Kool-Aid or Lysol ?

@orathaic: The price of crude oil - barrels, May futures market: "Owing largely to a quirk in the way that oil prices are set, the May benchmark actually fell into negative territory, suggesting people who had oil to sell were willing to pay people to take it off their hands. "The problem is that th...

1. Democrats won the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives in 2018 2. Postal police inspectors will monitor mail handlers and window tellers, so if 22cents is stolen, it's a federal case 3. The death tax had of late been for multimillinaires; the Republicans swept it away 4. Business...

@orathaic:
Oil is at US$18.12 a barrel as of close of business April 17th.
Russia/Saudi OPEC triple whammy economy in this Great Depression deja vu

Putin rules; the UK monarch reigns. The US president asserts executive powers not granted explicitly in the US Constitution from time to time; Theodore Roosevelt pushed further along thses lines than his several Republican predecessors. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democrat and T.R.'s cousin 5X remove...

About the age of 10 or 11, our instructions included "First Aid." Snakebite - we live in an area with only introduced or pet venomous snakes. One thing standing out was that "A dirty bandage is better than a dead patient." Most of the other First Aiding has been superseded, especially CPR. The instr...

"[J]ewellry survives" La Vielle Russie, a Fifth AVE shop devoted to Russian antiquities of worth, including those Eggs & other favorites of the Tsar's extended family and the landed aristocracy -. the shop has gone the way of all flesh, it appears. The demise of the storefront, near famed Pierre & P...

In USA some parties urging closure of remaining open gun stores as apparent Looting and other Crimes occur, anecdotal and web info indicate. This is 3rd hand data of course. But look for the Harvard Man in charge of Handing out Vital things as well as Tiddlywinks to urge the Wharton Man (aka Command...

@ orathaic. It's call triage. Used in WWI and Korean Conflict etc. Saves on the morphine. Nueva York itself allows certain 'essential' categories of stores to remain open in the Lockdown: e.g.: Liquor stores, "Convenience stores (i.e., tobacco and vaping products) & supermarkets (AI machines have co...

Aside from B. Tuchman's address to the War College, dip fans may want to ponder Russell F. Weigley. THE AGE OF BATTLES: The quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana U.P., 1991). Modern warfare, according to Weigley, begins with Gustavus Adolphus ...