“Some of these (illegal immigrants) are fantastic people. I’ve been to the border. I was there a few days ago. I met some people. These are fantastic people, and they have great reputations within their communities………The bad ones, they’re gone. They never come back. They’ll never get back into this country. But the good ones, …
In 2015 an all-time record of 52,404 people died from drug overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eclipsing even gun deaths. 80% of these deaths were the result of misuse of opioids: heroin, Fentanyl, Oxycontin and Vicodin. Prescription opioids accounted for 17,536 of these deaths, a majority. Doctors are advised …
Threats from the unexpected. Now it is air conditioning and refrigeration. World-wide the demand for air conditioning is expected to rise by 33 times by the end of the century. By 2050 the world population will use more electricity for cooling than for heating. This will make the planet hotter, because cooling requires the burning …
It is hard not to laugh at Americans’ indignation over Russia’s alleged meddling in the US elections. For at least a century, the US has done everything possible to influence the outcomes of other countries’ elections. After WWII, the CIA lavished money on Italy’s Christian Democrats, inventing sex scandals to discredit left-wing leaders. In Iran …
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One in five Americans is religiously unaffiliated, and the figure is growing. Yet just one of 535 members of the new Congress, Arizona Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, is a declared non-believer. “Unaffiliated,” is defined as people who are atheist, agnostic or who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.” That means only 0.2 percent of …
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