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 […]
Promising Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research and the diabetes link
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 […]
President Trump refutes “big bark, little bite” predictions; angers allies
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, […]
Why does atheist China have Muslim and Buddhist allies?
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 […]
Google’s blatant bias shown in search engine comparison
Many readers have doubtless noticed bias in results returned by Google’s search engine when the topic is political. Today our editor decided to do a controlled experiment. He entered the following search string in each of the leading search engines: China “Cold War” “trade war” Founders By the very specific nature of the search string, […]