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Mao and Again

It is becoming a cliché that America is undergoing its own version of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Obama’s 2012 reelection strategy unleashed energies reminiscent of those that plagued China from 1966 through Mao’s death in 1976. The most obvious example is the current urge to topple statues of past American heroes, which is reminiscent of the countless attacks on Chinese cultural sites by youthful Red Guards, such as the ransacking of Confucius’ tomb in 1966.

The Cultural Revolution w...

Office Pool 2018

1) In 2018,

the Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives. the Republicans will retain control of the Senate. President Donald Trump will provoke the use of the 25th Amendment by his Cabinet to remove him temporarily from office. the key issue in the congressional races will be whether or not to impeach President Trump.

2) At the end of 2018,

more American troops will be deployed around the world than are today. the United States will be directly involved in a land war in...

Feel Old? Boeing 747, World’s 1st Jumbo Jet

Possibly the most iconic passenger jet aircraft, the Boeing 747 will soon take its last commercially-scheduled flight with a US airline.

First introduced to an awestruck flying public in 1968, the world’s first jumbo passenger aircraft was a technological wonder and, later, became a beloved and dependable workhorse. Although over 1,500 of the storied aircraft were built by Seattle-based Boeing Aerospace, the final US commercial flight will occur Tuesday, December 19 for a Delta Air Lines Seou...

T-Level and Men’s Cancer Risk

When it comes to men’s health, there is much talk regarding testosterone levels. As testosterone levels drop, many changes can occur in men, and some even call this “manopause” because these changes affect men similar to how drops in estrogen affect women in menopause.

Low testosterone can reduce libido, increase weight gain, cause low energy, hair loss, changes in mood, and loss of bone.

On the other hand, as new research outlines, there may be a benefit to low testosterone and it involves m...

South Korea Quick to Warm

On the first working day of 2018, hopeful South Korean officials scrambled to respond to the olive branch extended yesterday by Kim Jong-un. In his customary New Year’s address, the North Korean leader said he wanted North and South to “immediately” meet.

At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Minister of Unification Cho Myoung-gyon proposed a high-level meeting with North Korean officials at the truce village of Panmunjeom in the De-Militarized Zone on Jan 9.

It was not clear who be inv...

Desubsidize Electric Cars

The strangest argument has been put forward in defense of Senate Republicans – who might as well be Senate Democrats – not rescinding the titanic federal subsidization of electric vehicles – i.e., the $7,500 an individual can deduct from his taxes (to be made up for by someone else’s taxes) as a reward/inducement for buying an EV.

The argument is that the car industry must not be rattled by “regulatory uncertainty.” It is used to the subsidization of electric cars; therefore, ending the subsi...

Targeting Bitcoin Users

On November 28, a federal judge ordered Coinbase, a company that facilitates transactions in crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, to comply with an IRS summons to identify more than 14,000 user accounts.

The decision is a victory of sorts for Coinbase, because the IRS originally demanded that the exchange turn over data on more than 1 million accounts. Now, the IRS only seeks user information on accounts that conducted Bitcoin transactions worth $20,000 or more.

It’s certainly understandable why t...

The Incomparable One

Griffin Internet Syndicate,6/4/2009 – Jesus was far from being an old man when his earthly life ended. He was probably well under 40, roughly the age of Mozart, who died at 35, as his genius was still approaching its unimaginable peak.

By contrast, nobody thinks of Jesus as having died prematurely, as if he had been killed before his teaching had been fully developed, and as if it might have ripened into something more profound and interesting had his life span been longer. There is about his...

More Dangerous Than Kim

Now that 2017 has ended with a whimper it is possible to look forward to what the new year might bring. Nuclear armed North Korea is the potential flash point for a new war, but unless leader Kim Jong-un is actually intent on personal and national suicide, it is unlikely that Pyongyang will take the steps necessary to escalate and trigger such an event. Far more dangerous is the Trump White House, which seems to confuse acting tough with acting smart. Every time Secretary of State Rex Tillers...

The Times Rides to Mueller’s Rescue

What caused the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016, which evolved into the criminal investigation that is said today to imperil the Trump presidency?

As James Comey’s FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller have, for 18 months, failed to prove Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Kremlin, what was it, in mid-2016, that justified starting this investigation?

What was the basis for the belief Trump was colluding, that he was the Manchurian candida...