Today we cover four headline issues: (1) gun laws post-Parkland shootings (“Republicans, Trump cave on guns”); (2) two health reports; (3) the latest in the Russian collusion narrative (“Mueller plagiarizes Russian journalists”); and (4) pipeline cooperation between frequent enemies Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Gun laws post-Parkland shootings Despite the advice of the Wall Street Journal‘s mainstay […]
School schootings, SpaceX reactions, trade war threat
Three important developments clamor for discussion since our previous issue: the policy recommendations, foolish and sound, in the wake of the Parkland, FL school shootings; the delayed reactions to the successful flight of the SpaceX Falcon rocket; and the trade war threat of the Commerce Department’s recommendation for steel and aluminum tariffs and import quotas. […]
Mainstream media are lying about Mueller’s indictment of thirteen Russians
As usual the mainstream media are lying today about the implications of Special Counsel Mueller’s indictment yesterday of thirteen Russians for interfering in the 2016 presidential elections. The Washington Post is one of the most flagrant of the lying media. Here are the headlines and subheads of its two front page articles on the subject […]
Our military and intelligence establishment is not using its tax dollars well
The most important opinion piece published today is by Angelo Codevilla and addresses the disturbing reality of how poorly our military and intelligence establishment are performing relative to the taxpayer dollars Washington has been throwing their way. He concludes: It behooves all Americans, but especially those on the right, no longer to pretend that the […]
Mindfulness, sugar & Alzheimer’s, Medicaid & opioids, ibuprofen & men
Readers’ physical and cognitive health is as important to us (and no doubt to them) as their political well-being. That is our justification for today’s focus on four recent health reports of interest: on mindfulness, sugar and Alzheimer’s, the hitherto unsuspected contribution of Medicaid to the opioid epidemic, and the dangers to men of prolonged […]
