Social Security and Medicare are Ticking Time Bombs

This editorial ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Politicians  will do nothing until it’s too late.  According to the CBO, Social Security and Medicare will be insolvent in ten years. Millions of Americans face losing their monthly checks, and politicians aren’t doing anything about it. Social Security was founded in the 1930s as a universal …

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Gallup: School Parent Safety Concerns Remain High in the U.S.

I do not understand how, if 38% of parents fear for the safety of their kids, they would still send them to government schools.  STORY HIGHLIGHTS 38% fear for child’s physical safety at school Down slightly from 44% reading last year after Uvalde shooting 14% of parents say child has expressed safety concerns to them …

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Chicago News Crew Robbed At Gunpoint While Reporting On String Of Robberies

You just cannot make this up.  Today in “too sad to be ironic” news, a Chicago television news crew doing a report on a string of robberies this week wound up getting robbed at gun point themselves by three armed men wearing ski masks.  A reporter and photographer for spanish-language station Univision Chicago were filming around …

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The Rise of the BRICS

From Statista:  Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed a profound shift in the global economic and geopolitical landscape, as the rise of the BRICS nations has introduced a growing counterweight to the traditional dominance of the G7. Starting on Tuesday, leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are meeting in Johannesburg, South …

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The US States Losing & Gaining Population The Fastest

Florida and Idaho are America’s fastest-growing states, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Their populations increased by 1.9 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively, causing them to rise to 22.2 million and 1.9 million from July 2021 to June 2022. The two are followed by South Carolina, Texas and South Dakota. While Texas …

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OdEd: The Erosion of America’s Military Might

In today’s editorial in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News,  I explore the decline in military recruitment and the erosion of trust in the U.S. armed forces. I argue that factors such as DEI policies, special treatments for certain groups, and political mishandling are betraying the military’s core values and undermining its essential function: winning wars and …

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Retrospective Approval of JFK Rises to 90%; Trump at 46%

I have to wonder if this is the RFK Jr. effect.  STORY HIGHLIGHTS Kennedy’s retrospective approval rating reaches 90% for first time Most former presidents rated positively by majority of U.S. adults Ratings of Kennedy, George W. Bush, Nixon improve modestly since 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. — John F. Kennedy remains the most highly rated former …

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These Are The US Cities With The Most Vacant Offices

There is no soft landing from this.  Long story short, more and more offices in major U.S. cities are empty. As Visual Capitalist’s Avery Koop details below, at the end of March 2023, the national average vacancy rate of U.S. offices had climbed as high as 18.6%.

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