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The Vagus Nerve Healing Bible: Master Your Nervous System in Just 10 Minutes a Day
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‘Israel Did It; Prove Me Wrong’

The title of this column is the same as the title of a video analysis of the murder of Charlie Kirk on the Macintosh Team YouTube channel. Here is a transcription of that video along with my comments.

Everybody wants to know: Did Israel kill Charlie Kirk?

“No, no, no, don’t be ridiculous. A lone gunman did it.”

Always a lone gunman.

“A young man, unstable, angry, looking for attention. His own father turned him in; case closed.”

That’s the script. That’s the headline. That’s the truth we’re all ...

The Unwise Man

This week, I saw this headline:

Washington, DC, Superlawyer Bob Barnett Dead at 79 | CNN Politics

Mr. Barnett advised many Washington insiders including the Clintons, Obamas, Bushes, Cheneys and other household-name politicians on both sides of the aisle/swamp. Some people consider this impressive. But representing those who’ve climbed to the top of the political heap doesn’t mean you understand biology, the economy and society such that you can sensibly assess how to react to a respiratory viru...

Has America Reached the Point of No Return?

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Trump’s National Guard Deployments Centralize Power and Undermine Federalism

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has deployed—or threatened to deploy—National Guard troops in at least five American cities, including Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Many of Trump’s supporters have cheered this, claiming that it is the responsibility of the president to send federal troops wherever he determines they are needed.

In some cases, deployments have occurred over the objections of the governments in the states where the troops are deployed. This has led to ...

The Silent Leadership Crisis

Every year, leaders step down. Some leave their roles quietly, chalking it up to exhaustion or “new opportunities.” Others implode publicly, and their fall becomes a public cautionary tale. From the outside, it’s easy to assume they burned out because of the relentless pace of leadership or the weight of expectations.

But if you study the pattern, you see something deeper.

Most leaders don’t collapse because of what they were doing. They collapse because of what they stopped doing.

They poured i...

Musing About Trump’s Recent Moves

U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing his country into an uncomfortable direction. What might be the reasons for him to do so?

His recent address to a gathering of all military commanders included the demand to fight the ‘enemy’ within the country:

He did, however, speak with great moral clarity about certain classes of Americans whom he views as a grave threat:

The American left: “They’re really bad. They’re bad people.” Again, he’s talking about Americans here.His own domestic political o...

Late-Night Losers

Could the massive gathering for Charlie Kirk’s funeral become a turning point for the silent majority? I sure hope so but doubt it very much. Let’s look at the problem without our happy glasses, the ones that only see what pleases us. The 200,000-person crowd at his funeral doesn’t mean a thing to the mainstream media; the latter looks upon them as misguided Christian fools at best, as dumb and ignorant white fascists at worse. The mainstream media sees those who have twice elected Trump preside...

Coach Bibi Leaves a Mark

Average Americans are concerned about the command relationship between the US and Israel.  There is a growing awareness of the US funded and armed slaughter in Gaza.  In 1967, over 50 years ago, Israelis created an open air concentration camp on the Strip.  It held 2.3 million people by 2023, that number today reduced to around 1.5 million, with the population of Gaza City now killed or removed. Palestinian survivors are crowded into a tiny militarized area in the south without food, water or sh...

Will AI Crash the Economy?

The lines of dominoes being toppled run through every nook and cranny of the economy.

As we all know, the problem with euphoria is the inevitable collision with reality and the resulting disillusionment. But wait–it gets worse.

The new love of your life, your savior who is going to make everything right again, is not just impossibly flawed–they’re a con artist. Now that really hurts. They not only stole your heart, they stole your money.

Which brings us to the AI Boom / Bubble. The euphoria is l...