Month: May 2019

The media, in its push for ever stricter gun control, loves to trumpet every instance of a school shooting in which large numbers of people are killed. Those instances are trotted out as typical examples of US gun culture run amok. But the media is often curiously silent when active shooters are stopped from committing […]

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably never heard of the Latin Monetary Union (LMU). The LMU was a monetary union established in the 19th century to unite the currencies of several European nations into a currency union somewhat analogous to the current Eurozone. The LMU countries adopted the French franc as their standard currency, […]

For over a hundred years, the biggest debate among handgun shooters has been: 9mm or .45? American soldiers were issued revolvers in various .45-caliber cartrdiges such as .45 Colt from the 1870s onward. But in 1893 those single-action revolvers were replaced with the double-action Colt M1892, which was chambered in .38 Long Colt, which featured […]

Agrochemical behemoth Monsanto was never been very popular among environmentalists and advocates of healthy nutrition. Its key role in developing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and its marketing of pesticides throughout the world have made it for many people a prototypical example of corporate greed. It’s not for nothing that it gained the nickname “Monsatan.” But […]

Global health officials and medical professionals have sounded the alarm that global alcohol consumption continues to increase. Per capita levels of alcohol consumption have increased significantly over the past 30 years, and the trend is set to continue increasing over the next few decades as well. Perhaps most interesting is the finding that alcohol consumption […]