Just after 3:00 a.m. on March 19, 2016, Flydubai Flight 981 was attempting to land in at Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Captain Aristos Sokratous and First Officer Álava fought with the strong and unexpected wind as they attempted their descent. Captain Sokratous, convinved the plane was pitched high in the air, dove the plane down as his …
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Growing up in Montana, a common explanation for the sometimes idiosyncratic nature of politics is that “Montana is a libertarian state.” Right off the bat, I am always skeptical of people and places with a supposed ‘libertarian streak.’ In my experience, these people support ‘small government’ whenever regulations threaten to affect them personally, and large …
It goes without saying that the global response, and especially the domestic response, to COVID-19 was and is disastrous. Correctly assigning blame for the myriad failures that transpired would take more time and effort than anyone reasonably has. One undisputed aspect of the spread, however, was incredibly misguided public health information during the beginning of …
On the third day of the Endless Election of 2020, Washington Post congressional reporter Erica Warner reported Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s conversation on an internal Democratic Caucus call:
