The final version of the new GOP health-care bill will not be presented (if it can even clear a Senate vote) to Americans until after, perhaps well after, the 4th of July. As an independent taking a supporting view on behalf of all Americans, I will read the entire bill as soon as it clears […]
Archives for June 2017
The Impeachment Muddle
President Donald Trump is being roundly criticized for tweeting insults against Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, two MSNBC anchors who make their living insulting him. But Donald Trump did not give up his First Amendment rights when he took the oath of office, James Freeman points out in the WSJ. It’s unclear why the president would […]
Lost 29 Years: This Japanese Comeback will Surprise You
What is old is new again in Japan. Next year Sony will begin doing something it hasn’t done for 29 years. With incredible demand for vinyl records from consumers looking to recapture the excellent analog sounds of their youth, Sony will begin making its own vinyl records once again in Japan. As I wrote earlier […]
Will a Devastating World War III Start in Korea?
Pat Buchanan asks if the United States should be bound to defend South Korea in perpetuity. What vital U.S. interest is being protected in South Korea? Americans have been guarding the Demilitarized Zone since the Korean War armistice in 1953. Will it ever end, or will America be forced into WWIII protecting the South Koreans […]
Breaking Health Care News from Richard C. Young
Dateline Friday June 30, 2017 7:30 AM Please return to Richardcyoung.com at 5:00PM today for the first in a running series from me and the Young Research staff on today’s proposed Republican health care bill. As of this a.m., I think the bill has a shot at eventually garnering the needed Senate votes for passage. […]
Trump Aims to End America’s “Global Mission” Says Cato Institute’s Chris Preble
America has unofficially been tasked with the defense of its allies for nearly seven decades. Despite blowing it big with the debacle that became of Vietnam, and barely making due in Korea, and more recently spending trillions in the Middle East with little to show for it, America has maintained its place as the world’s […]
Is America’s Best Air-to-Air Missile a Dud?
By now you have heard about how a US F/A-18E Super Hornet downed a Syrian Su-22 fighter jet on June 18th. The news spread around media outlets like wildfire as it was the first manned aircraft downed by the US since 1999. Once the smoke cleared we learned the Su-22 “Fitter”, a 30-year-old Cold War […]
Is it “Groundhog Day” in Afghanistan?
In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character, Phil Connors asks Ralph (played by Rick Overton) “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” That about sums up the situation in Afghanistan vis a vis the fight against […]
Will BLM Take Democrats to Task?
Jason L. Riley suggests a better direction for Black Lives Matter (BLM), what he calls a win-win for BLM and black people. Rather than demonizing police, why doesn’t BLM focus on bad schools and job-killing regulations, two areas that are really harming blacks? Remember, BLM got its foothold shortly after George Zimmerman was acquitted for […]
This Critical Piece of the Grid is Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Even before the EMP Commission report, utilities have been trying to harden their infrastructure against the multitude of threats they face. EMP attacks, cyber threats, and even physical attacks like the one in Metcalf, California in 2014 are situations that power stations must prepare for. But at The National Interest, Constance Douris writes that power […]
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