PEREGRINE PULP

All in the same week: The public learned that America's hatemongers were, for decades, being financially supported by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And they learned specifically that the white supremacy rally in Charlottesville (which resulted in dozens of injuries, three fatalities, and millions in damages) an event that looks like the cornerstone of the Democrat and their supporters' playbook for the last decade) was likely staged, or at least made possible and amplified

Imagine you’re driving in your truck with your nephew, towing a camper through California’s Los Padres National Forest in the hills between Bakersfield and the sea. You’re on amphetamines and been sipping whiskey as you drive (it’s 1965). Nearly to LA, you stop along the side of the road in the Sespe Creek Wilderness for some air. There you start a little fire to keep warm. The fire quickly gets away from you. (“Only YOU can prevent forest fires.”) It builds into a tremendous

There’s this local MD I like and whose research and publications I follow because of his good work on some issues I care about. Today he was curiously highlighting a new study about fluoride and noticing that there was never any serious question about its safety. I responded by asking for comment on evidence for the value of fluoridating the water supply to prevent tooth decay? The information I’ve been working with, and have written about at length in the past, comes from th

A couple of months ago I was noticing how it looked like both Republican candidates in the California governor race seemed far more popular than any of the legion of Democrats they were up against. The leading Democrat candidate to this point was a fellow who made a previous presidential run: Eric Swalwell. Swalwell, a former prosecutor and current Congressman for California, since 2013, was endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jefferies, and 20 other members of cong