Hillary Clinton will not talk about it. Bernie Sanders will not talk about it. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz will not talk about it. But they know. Looming on the horizon of the next presidential administration is the ominous and growing possibility of war with China. For the past year, the United States has been
Boston Scientific is finally facing greater heat over allegations that it used substandard material in its vaginal mesh implants. Federal prosecutors have impaneled a grand jury in Charleston, West Virginia as Boston Scientific faces criminal investigation over counterfeit mesh. It’s about time! The affected mesh has been implanted into thousands of women across the U.S.
Around the world, the poisoning of Flint’s water supply has been known as a “crisis.” And such it has been, a public health crisis of tragic dimension for the residents of the beleaguered Michigan city. But what has happened to the people of Flint is not a natural disaster or even, as Governor Rick Snyder
The subculture of sports is by and large dominated by games played by men, at least in America if not most of the world. There are a few exceptions, however, like figure skating, tennis, and especially soccer in which American women have outperformed the men in both in-game success and in overall popularity. Although Major
The language of the rich is imperious. When crossed or challenged, the powerful assert their strength. “The rich do as they please,” the mighty Athenians tell the recalcitrant Melians in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. “The weak suffer what they must.” When the proud Melians decide to fight for their independence rather than submit
Sad news from Fort Bend County, Texas as Honda and NHTSA announce one more U.S. Takata airbag death. This is the tenth death in the U.S. caused by the defective Takata airbag inflators and the eleventh worldwide. Of the ten U.S. fatalities, nine were in Honda vehicles and one was in a Ford vehicle. The non-U.S. death occurred in July 2014 in Malaysia. The victim in that incident was a pregnant woman driving a 2003 Honda City.
According to NHTSA data, automakers are running behind on Takata airbag replacements. Of the total estimated 29M vehicles recalled for defective Takata Corp. airbag inflators, only about one-quarter have been replaced or repaired. Some automakers are doing better than others, but only one so far has managed to fix more than half of the vehicles it recalled.
The wealthy and their technocrat servants in government do not speak the same language as you and I. The language of the rich, when they speak to us, is one of condescension and manipulation, of cheer and redirection. It reveals its falseness most clearly when it confronts strong emotion in the people. In the face
According to Rob Davis of the Oregonian, health officials in Oregon claim a cancer cluster found near Oregon glassmaker. The “small, statistically significant cluster of bladder cancer diagnoses in two North Portland neighborhoods” is the first of its kind discovered.
A few years back while transitioning careers, I spent a little time driving a taxi on the beaches near Jacksonville, Florida. One of my frequent customers was an elderly gentleman named Calvin who lived in the golf community of Ponte Vedra. We had chatted about all kinds of things during our trips to the store,