2021 Archives

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Is Donald Trump becoming more irrelevant or more dangerous? — Probably the biggest question not now being asked in the American media right now is, “How did 15,000 Haitian migrants from Brazil, many of them people who had lived there as much as a decade, all end up in the same place at the same time on America’s southern border last week?” — Ken Burns suggests the situation in America is as polarized as just before the Civil War. — While the media is constantly pointing out the price tag of Joe Biden‘s agenda and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that contains most all of it, they’ve done a very poor job of educating Americans about what’s in it. — Everybody assumed the only goal of the so-called pro life movement was to end abortion in the United States, but now Texas has moved to criminalize morning-after pills and is considering legislation to extend the death penalty to women who get abortions. — Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been putting together a master class on how a group of wealthy oligarchs in the United States have succeeded, over the past 20 years, and packing our courts. — The American healthcare system is badly broken, as the couple who thought they were fully insured when mom gave birth and their baby subsequently died in the hospital were than hit with a $257,000 bill. — When it comes to the Covid pandemic, America is rapidly fracturing into two countries, one Red areas where Covid is killing people left and right and the other Blue areas where the virus is being brought under control. — Geeky Science: Massachusetts General Hospital and Science Daily are reporting out a new study that concludes: “Cutting 20 percent of sugar from packaged foods and 40 percent from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S. over the lifetime of the adult population…” — Crazy Alert! Florida governor and wannabee 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis invited a man to speak at one of his events who told the audience that the Biden administration has “grabbed” the nation’s Ivermectin supply.