ICR’s Column Project team recently finished work on the European continent, including Turkey and the area surrounding the Caspian Sea. We have now compiled stratigraphic data across four entire continents: North and South America, Africa—including the Middle East—and Europe. For Europe alone, we compiled 499 stratigraphic columns using oil industry wells, outcrops, and seismic data and published cross-sections across the...

By: Daniel A. Bell – wsj.com – March 16, 2023 For a Chinese leader to have white hair would be a sign that he has left politics, either by force or voluntarily. When former Politburo member Zhou Yongkang appeared in court in 2015, the highest-ranking victim of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, his jet-black hair had turned completely white. Former...

You may think President Joe Biden is a dreamer, always reaching for more powers, laws and regulations he can’t possibly believe Congress and the courts will give him. And that’s true on one level. But on another level, he’s an incrementalist, willing to settle for a foot in the door that he will later use to barge in.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – March 14, 2023 Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the Bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of standing in the line of such literary giants as Dante, Chaucer, and Goethe, Shakespeare is to be...

Government imposes a million rules. Americans seem to want more! Leftists want new gun laws and bans on single-use plastics, gas stoves, fossil fuels, gas-powered cars, nuclear power.  

She would not discuss specific indictments in the special grand jury’s report but noted that its recommendations were “not going to be some giant plot twist.”

It is, in fact, a rejection of the history of black American freedom, not an embrace of it.

This coming week a new House select subcommittee will hold its first hearing on the FBI and the possible “weaponization” of government agencies.

By: Spencer Brown – townhall.com – January 26, 2023 As House Republicans finalize the rosters for committees and announce initial hearings for the 118th Congress, it’s clear that the House GOP is gearing up for aggressive oversight of the Biden administration’s actions over its first two years — specifically the partisan weaponization of the federal government — and the Biden...

The annual march, which was started in 2017 as a reaction to the election of President Donald J. Trump, this year focused on abortion rights.