America’s isolationist movement before World War 2 that failed to preserve the peace or keep the United States out of the war. Trump is the most significant recent proponent of isolationism. If elected to a second term, he would have pulled the U.S. out of NATO, let Russia walk over Ukraine, a[...]
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Why America has an incurable doctor shortage
America has a doctor shortage that even qualified medical school graduates can’t fill. That’s partly because of a residency bottleneck. Residency is an essential part of a practicing physician’s training. But in 2021 there only 35,194 first-year residencies available for 42,508 new[...]
March 25th, 2022 - 1:41 am § in Law and Courts, Misc.
America’s machinegun plague
Auto sears, aka “switches,” are small (see photo), cheap, easy to install, and work frighteningly well. They convert popular handguns like the Glock, and rifles like the AR-15, into machineguns that indiscriminately spray bullets at high rates of fire. Some are imported from China, other[...]
March 13th, 2022 - 10:39 pm § in Economics
Chart: Americans return to work
The chart below shows the number of people in the U.S. workforce. The abrupt drop in March 2020 is largely due to the pandemic closing businesses, and most of those workers left their jobs involuntarily. There’s a quick rise in summer 2020 as many businesses reopen and some of these workers re[...]
How Trump changed America’s nuclear strategy
America’s 14 Trident subs, 8 operating in the Pacific out of Bangor, Washington, and 6 in the Atlantic, are now armed with some low-yield “tactical” warheads. This warhead, dubbed the W76-2, has about one-third to one-half the explosive power of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. De[...]
March 10th, 2022 - 6:06 pm § in Law and Courts
The 500,000 lives lost to America’s other health crisis
“For the first time,” Huffington Post reports (here), “victims of opioid addiction and families who lost loved ones to OxyContin addiction were able to directly confront members of the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical company was responsible for a crisis that has cost at least [...]
March 8th, 2022 - 1:29 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
The saga of an American journalist’s hasty departure from Russia
She’s out now, having caught a last-minute flight to Istanbul, Turkey — an exit gateway for many people fleeing Russia right now. Molly Schwartz was there on an exchange program, her visit cut short by Putin’s war against Ukraine. She says while Ukrainian refugees are “leavin[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 9:20 pm § in Health
Most Americans believe Covid-19 is nearly over, but is it?
You really can’t answer “yes,” because Covid-19 hasn’t gone away, and isn’t likely to. But most experts, “with some reservations,” think “in the US and much of Europe, the most destructive waves of Covid-19 are” behind us. (See article here.) In [...]
March 3rd, 2022 - 7:32 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
CDC releases 90% of Americans from mask tyranny
“Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Covid-19 levels have dropped significantly enough that more than 90 percent of people in the United States can go without masks,” NBC News reported on Thursday, March 3, 2022 (read story here). “Th[...]
January 21st, 2022 - 2:44 am § in Foreign Affairs, Law and Courts
“Does this mean we can’t come to America?”
Of course they can. They’ll even be invited to stay for a while, although trips to Disney World won’t be on their itinerary. “The US has charged four Belarusian officials with aircraft piracy over the diversion of a passenger plane to Minsk last May,” BBC reported on Friday, [...]