by Guest Author | Aug 23, 2017 | Rod's Blog, Tech Blog
by Patrick Cox August 23, 2017 For decades, studies have been showing sperm counts falling. Not everyone believed them, and that includes me. But a new study provides powerful evidence that male fertility is, in fact, falling fast all over the world. This is not just...
by Guest Author | Aug 22, 2017 | Politics Blog, Rod's Blog
by Brian Domitrov August 22, 2017 So we always hear that the rich should pay taxes more, that our tax rates aren’t high enough. If only we raise taxes we can solve a lot of our problems – inequality would go down and maybe we’d even have more economic...
by Guest Author | Aug 20, 2017 | Politics Blog, Rod's Blog
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay by Dr. Jack Wheeler August 20, 2017 Once upon a time in days of long ago when kids in school were actually educated, they all knew the story of Horatio at the Bridge. Winston Churchill committed all 600...
by Guest Author | Aug 18, 2017 | Politics Blog, Rod's Blog
Editor’s note: On Aug. 14, nearly two months after the original publication of this article, reports surfaced that North Korea received Soviet-era technology from a facility in Ukraine that expedited the construction of its intercontinental ballistic missiles. As we...
by Guest Author | Aug 16, 2017 | Politics Blog, Rod's Blog
by George Rasley August 16, 2017 The fruits of the failures of the past three American presidents to break-up the axis of anti-American missile and nuclear weapons proliferation have finally come home to roost in the announcement that North Korea has miniaturized a...
by Guest Author | Aug 14, 2017 | Featured, Politics Blog, Rod's Blog, Tech Blog
by George Friedman August 14, 2017 Summary There’s scarcely a reason to point out how geopolitically important energy is. Energy, particularly oil, is a source of geopolitical power. Every country needs it, but only some countries have the resources to procure...
by Guest Author | Aug 13, 2017 | Faith and Culture Blog, Rod's Blog
by Matt Sliger August 13, 2017 When Jesus said, “I’ll make you fishers of men,” do you picture an individual sitting on the edge of a pier with a rod and reel? Or do you imagine a group of fishermen, each one leaning over the side of a boat holding their part of a...
by Guest Author | Aug 12, 2017 | Featured, Rod's Blog, Tech Blog, Video
by Sandy Ikeda August 12, 2017 Will workplace automation make the rich richer and doom the poor? That could happen soon, warns Paul Solman, economics correspondent for PBS NewsHour. He’s talking to Jerry Kaplan, author of a new book that seems to combine Luddism with...
by Guest Author | Aug 12, 2017 | Politics Blog, Rod's Blog
by George Friedman August 12, 2017 What happens in North Korea implicates all of East Asia. The United States may be the arbiter of the coming confrontation – so vested is it in the balance of power of the region, so threatened is it by the existence of a rogue...
by Guest Author | Aug 11, 2017 | Politics Blog, Rod's Blog
by George Rasley August 11, 2017 What would you say if Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council, who discovered the Obama-era unmasking of the names of Donald Trump associates whose communications were perhaps illegally...
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