A drone attack on Saudi Arabia has destroyed 50% of their oil-production capacity. The consensus is that Iran was involved. President Trump has stated that America is “locked and loaded” and ready to respond. This would be a mistake. Thanks to the President’s policies, we are now energy independent. We do not need the Middle East’s oil and there is no reason to become involved in a conflict we cannot win. Iran and Saudi Arabia are fighting a proxy war in neighboring Yemen. The history of this region is more complex than a Rubik’s Cube, but basically, it has consisted of nomadic tribes that have been at each other’s throats for millennia. England colonized southern Yemen after World War I, calling its port city Aden. As the British Empire unraveled after World War II, Yemen gradually united, becoming a country in 1990. Unfortunately, it remained one of the planet’s most impoverished areas and self-government has been problematic. In 2015, a group called the Houthi, with … [Read more...]
No Senator Warren – Doctor and Nurses are not Racists
The mortality rate for black mothers is about three times higher than those of white mothers and Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren knows why. While speaking at Texas Southern University, a historically black college, she stated the following: “The best studies that I’ve seen put it down to just one thing: prejudice. Doctors and nurses don’t hear African American women’s medical issues the same way as they hear the same things from white women.” In other words, Senator Warren believes that that we doctors and nurses deliberately give black patients inferior care. Let’s look at the stats. According to both the United Health Foundation and the World Health Organization, the maternal death rate per 100,000 is for 47 for blacks, 18 for whites and 38 for American Indians. To put this in perspective, the rate in 1900 was 900 (there is no data on different races at this time), so overall, the situation has improved tremendously for all women since the dawn of modern medicine. … [Read more...]
Politicians Like Ned Lamont are Why Donald Trump is President
Anyone who wonders why the general public was so outraged that they put Donald Trump in the White House has only to look at the behavior of our new governor Ned Lamont. Taking a page from the playbook of his fellow Greenwich plutocrat, Lowell Weicker, Lamont deliberately misled the voters by promising to place tolls only on incoming trucks, just like Weicker misled the voters in 1990 into believing he would not initiate a state income tax. Like Weicker, Lamont knew that if he had been honest, he would have lost. We witnessed the usual kabuki theater that precedes a middle-class fleecing, as Governor Lamont assembled a team of business leaders, Goldman Sachs cronies and reached out to Republican leaders for input. We saw learned men and women with furrowed brows pondering the complex dilemma of responsible stewardship. It was a huge scam of course. Lamont had every intention of imposing tolls. As a scion of the J.P. Morgan fortune (his great grandfather was a partner in Morgan’s firm) and a respectable entrepreneur in his own right, he knows how to read a balance … [Read more...]
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