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Mainstream media are lying about Mueller’s indictment of thirteen Russians

February 17, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein

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 […]

Filed Under: 2016 elections, News  Tagged: Byron York, interference in 2016 presidential election, Washington Post

Our military and intelligence establishment is not using its tax dollars well

February 16, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

F-35 fighter plane: expensive white elephant?

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 […]

Filed Under: education, intelligence funding, military funding, Policy  Tagged: affirmative action, Angelo Codevilla, charter schools, Common Core, faculty diversity, FBI, freedom of speech, overlong schooling, school shooting

Mindfulness, sugar & Alzheimer’s, Medicaid & opioids, ibuprofen & men

February 14, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

Mindful meditation practitioner

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 […]

Filed Under: Health  Tagged: ibuprofen, Medicaid, Mindfulness, opioid epidemic, sugar and cognitive decline, teststerone

China is gaining on the United States. What is the US doing about it?

February 13, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

Unarmed Trident missile launcheds from Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Maryland

This very concerned strategic assessment — “China is gaining on the United States. What are the US doing about it?” — was written by an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) analyst after the Trump administration’s first National Defense Strategy was released by Secretary of Defense Mattis — but before the sequester was set aside and increased […]

Filed Under: military funding  Tagged: abaya, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Constitution, discretionary spending, Egypt, Israel, Joseph Bosco, mandatory spending, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of Defense Mattis, South Korea, tactical nuclear arms

Despite export boom, US tax cuts and deficit will increase imports over exports, threatening ill-considered administrative protectionism

February 12, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

Emblem of the US Trade Representative

Trade correspondent LC’s weekly report The probability that the trade deficit will continue to grow presents a danger for US trading partners. The recent US tax cuts and government spending hike will likely increase US demand, keeping US savings lagging consumption and attracting even more imports, pushing the trade deficit up. Strong demand abroad should […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: American Insstitute for International Steel (AIIS), Canada, China, European Union (EU), protectionism, Robert Lighthizer, safeguards, Section 232, Section 301, South Korea, Taiwan, US Chamber of Commerce, US International Trade Commission (ITC), US Trade Representative (USTR), World Trade Organization (WTO)

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