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Summer heat brings out global warming enthusiasts, their Russian allies, and carbon tax Republicans

August 5, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Trent Lott after retiring from the Senate has become a lobbyist for Russia's Gazprombank, Gazprombank, a Russian majority state-owned bank targeted with sanctions over the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. He also leadsa pro-carbon-tax coalition.

Summer heat waves predictably bring out swarms of insects, global warming enthusiasts, and their Russian allies. They are now being joined by Republican advocates for a carbon tax. The Green Republicans are marching counter to a major deregulatory move by the Trump administration: “The Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department released a plan…to ax the […]

Filed Under: Energy  Tagged: carbon tax, Green environmentalists, Gregory Mankiw, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Paris Agreement, Russia, solar wind / cosmic ray theories, Trent Lott

President’s Space Force strongly endorsed by Angelo Codevilla

July 5, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

President Trump directs the Department of Defense and Pentagon to establish a Space Force as the sixth military branch

Missile-defense expert Angelo Codevilla has endorsed President Trump’s call for the formation of a new, sixth military branch, the Space Force. The President, fed up with slow-walking by his military chiefs and their bureaucratic underlings at the Pentagon, announced his proposal on national tv and backed it up subsequently in a Fourth of July message […]

Filed Under: Space Force  Tagged: Andrew Bacevich, Angelo Codevilla, Brookings Institution, David Ignatius, Jed Babbin

Promising Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research and the diabetes link

June 9, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Alois Alzheimer, whose medical research led to the first characterization of the disease now named after him

A promising development toward the prevention and cure of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease has been published in the past week. We briefly review this development below. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease: the insulin clue The causation of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has stumped medical researchers for decades. The dominant causal factor was assumed to be the amyloid […]

Filed Under: Health  Tagged: Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, insulin, Parkinson's disease

President Trump refutes “big bark, little bite” predictions; angers allies

June 4, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

United Steelworkers Building, Pittsburg. The union has members in both the US and Canada. It opposes the Trump 25% steel tariff on Canada

Trade correspondent L.C. reports: US trade policy announced over the past week has answered the key trade question of the past sixteen months of whether President Trump is “big-bark–little-bite” and would ultimately back off from acting on his protectionist trade policy preferences and his peculiar understanding of how the trading economy works: No. Mexico, Canada, […]

Filed Under: News, Trade  Tagged: NAFTA, Section 232, steel and aluminum tariffs

Why does atheist China have Muslim and Buddhist allies?

May 19, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

A persecuted Kazakh Muslim describes how Chinese officials sought to brainwash him into repudiating his Islamic faith

Why are Muslim and Buddhist countries allies of an atheist China that murders their co-religionists? Key Muslim-majority countries allied with China include Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Yet Chinese persecution of its Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang is disgraceful and extreme. Key Buddhist-majority countries allied with China include Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. But China’s persecutions […]

Filed Under: China  Tagged: Cambodia, Iran, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Turkey

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