By any stretch of the imagination, life in colonial America was hard, demanding, and cruel. Many European settlers did not survive their first few years in North America thanks to disease, starvation, the harsh climate, and violence. Many recognize these truths, and yet few have fully comprehended just how daunting a task it was to […]
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On a dark winter’s night, there’s nothing quite like a cozy English ghost story. Wait, did we say “cozy”? We meant terrifying. The home of The Hound of the Baskervilles and Charles Dickens’s creepy signalman is no stranger to blood-curdling terror . . . and that’s just the fiction. This week, we’re locking the doors […]
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The left is now totally losing it. https://t.co/hfMRYEm0Ch
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 19, 2016

Maybe one of the most valuable lessons we’ve learned this year is that no matter how stupid things look, they can always get much, much stupider.
Case in point:

Opinion: The electoral college is thwarting our ability to battle global warming https://t.co/bxFdXQoQ50
— Post Green (@postgreen) December 19, 2016

Welp…

What a coincidence that on the same day the Electoral College made Donald Trump the next president, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders both declared that the Electoral College either has to be changed or done away with completely.
As an elector, de Blasio found himself inside the belly of the beast Monday, and the process made him “heartsick.” Then again, he takes it personally when New Yorkers patronize Chick-fil-A against his wishes, too…

Public funding is backing a new immunotherapy treatment, but the bulk of any profits will go to a private company. So are taxpayers getting a good deal?

Dr. Wilkins, who studied dentistry at a time when few women did, wrote an influential textbook in 1959 that is still used worldwide.

In the era of the great monarchies, the royal families of European nations were people of dignity and culture, above the low and filthy lifestyles of the poor. At least, that’s what they wanted people to believe. The reality, though, is a bit different. There was enough inbreeding between the monarchs of Europe to spark […]
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So many of our habits and the little things we have in our homes have been around for far longer than we ever have. Some of the things we take for granted today went through some incredible changes. And some of them, when they first came out, were used for the exact opposite purposes that […]
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Well, Michael Moore’s desperate last-minute desperate plea to Republican electors didn’t work, and Donald Trump has well over the necessary 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
But Moore is undaunted:

He's not president for four and a half weeks. Next idea?
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016

That’s even sadder than usual, right?
Here’s a quality suggestion:

Planes are flying to Cuba until he takes office…

The United States is the pillar of health aid to poor countries, but experts are uncertain about the focus of the new Trump administration.