Francis Menton

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  • Apr 6, 2026
    Back in May 2024, I had a post titled “So How Are Things Going In China?” The post was inspired by a New York Times article of April 15 of that year that had reported...
  • Mar 19, 2026
    Word is that things are a little rough down in Cuba right now. In my post of February 23 , I reported that Cuba had become the first nation in the world to achieve the climate...
  • Mar 17, 2026
    New York certainly has its problems, and I write frequently write about many of them. But is it really awful living here? I believe in keeping these things in perspective. New York...
  • Mar 4, 2026
    In today’s world, there are 193 countries in the UN. The large majority of those countries will vote consistently against the United States on measures that come before the...
  • Feb 24, 2026
    There it was on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times : with a small assist from the United States, the island nation of Cuba has almost entirely ended the use of fossil...
  • Feb 6, 2026
    My last two posts have been about the new Federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, just out (December 31) from the Federal Justice Center. The Chair of that Center is U.S....
  • Feb 2, 2026
    It is truly remarkable how easy it is to fool the smartest people. And especially when you tell them they are helping to save the world. So something called the Federal Judicial...
  • Jan 28, 2026
    “Affordability.” That’s the new political mantra of Democratic politicians. Or maybe it’s one of two mantras, the other being that deporting illegal aliens makes ICE the...
  • Jan 23, 2026
    Over the past couple of years, I have had several posts here expressing skepticism about whether electric vehicles (EVs) were really the wave of the future. Most recently, I had a...
  • Jan 21, 2026
    Here in the U.S., the second Trump administration has largely pulled the plug on the suite of crazy energy policies marching under the banner of “fighting climate change.” But...