Notes on the President’s May 3rd “Town Hall”
Fox News presented a “virtual Town Hall” program last evening featuring President Donald Trump answering videotaped questions for two hours. For those who have been catching the President’s daily news…
Lessons from Crises Past
The unprecedented shutdown of much of the US economy that has been ordered by federal, state, and local governments is understandable given the need to slow the coronavirus’s spread. Too…
The Hospital Crisis of Our Making
We had to destroy the hospitals to save them. You could be forgiven for thinking that’s the upshot of the coronavirus lockdowns that have suspended elective surgeries and generally discouraged…
AS AMERICANS GROW RESTLESS, THE POLITICAL CLASS IS TRYING EVADE ACCOUNTABILITY
The COVID-19 crisis has taken America to places no one thought possible. The social lockdown ordered by so many governors to “flatten the curve” has turned into a kind of…
Will America 2.0 see a revaluation of labor?
Entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Cuban has coined the term, “America 2.0” to designate the new realities Americans will face as a result of the COVID-19 quarantine. One of those realities has been the…
Cashing in on the COVID Crisis
The American people usually put their differences aside in troubling times, pull together, and keep moving forward. The COVID crisis has proven the exception. Whether it’s because it set upon…
California Law Limiting Independent Contractors is Hindering Coronavirus Response, Experts Say
Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday rebuffed calls to suspend a controversial labor law that experts say hinders the state’s pandemic response and hurts vulnerable workers. State and federal…
Millions Shelter To Protect The Elderly, But Biden Advisor Thinks Old People Should Just Die
NBC News and MSNBC recently announced that Ezekiel Emanuel, the chief Obamacare architect and brother of President Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has been hired as a “medical contributor.”…
What will happen on Main Street?
The total shut-down of American activity will soon be drawing to an end, one area at a time. When we look around us at the world of shutters and silence,…
Giving More Control to China Won’t Fix the U.S. Economy
Pre-coronavirus, America’s economy was booming. Now we have an economic pandemic but some proposed cures could be worse than the disease. The economic stoppage has been as drastic as chemotherapy…
The Hubristic People’s Republic Of China
Since the citizens of the People’s Republic of China had emerged from their Mao Zedong induced obsessive poverty slumber and have started to follow Deng Zhi Ping’s dictum about enriching…
Coronavirus Makes The National Security Case For Rebuilding U.S. Maritime Power Compelling
When Rear Admiral Mark Buzby, head of the U.S. Maritime Administration, testified before Congress last year about strategies for bolstering the maritime industry, a striking fact was embedded in his…
Coronavirus Authoritarianism Is Getting Out of Hand
It’s reasonable to assume that the vast majority of Americans process news and data, and calculate that self-quarantining, wearing masks, and social distancing make sense for themselves, their families, and the…
The Second Masked Ballot
As Bernie Sanders exits stage left, the general election begins. Where do things stand? Our unprecedented president—the first to win office without prior government or military experience—confronts an unprecedented situation:…
WHO’s Anti-Israel Bias Raising Questions About Organization’s Direction
The World Health Organization’s decision-making body has a history of singling out Israel for criticism, fueling concerns of bias as the United Nations organization faces criticism of its response to…