1. Mark Tapson: The Compassionate Left and the Cold-Hearted Right
2. Michelle
Seiler-Tucker:
Amazon Enters Yet Another Market
3. Jeff Ferry: Civilian Drone
Industry - USA is Missing the Boat
4. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: Trump, Jr.’s
Non-Russian Collusion
5. Daniel Greenfield: How CNN Took on
President Trump and Lost
The Compassionate Left and the Cold-Hearted
Right
By
Mark Tapson
There
is a common misperception of conservatives as
unfeeling, greedy monsters who hate the poor, the sick, the underprivileged,
the nonwhite. Progressives assume they are normal, decent, compassionate human
beings while the right is inhumanly and incomprehensibly cruel, almost a
completely different species; and that struggling to thaw a conservative’s
frozen heart is a lost cause. It isn’t that conservatives are heartless, of
course; we simply have a different (not to mention effective) philosophy about
solving such ills as poverty, joblessness, and lack of affordable health care.
Unlike the left, we look for solutions that actually help instead of just
compulsively throwing more of other people’s money into failed programs with
compassionate-sounding names, and we also look for solutions that encourage the
needy to help themselves instead of keeping them trapped in demeaning cycles of
dependency. It’s the difference between the proverbial giving a man a fish and
teaching him how to fish. [more...]
Amazon Enters Yet Another Market
Amazon recently announced that they will be
providing their own version of Best Buy’s Geek Squad service, which offers
in-home product installations and repairs. The new “Amazon Smart Home Services
Store” on its website lets users book appointments for installations and free
consultations. Company experts will answer questions and set up products like
smart lights and thermostats as well as Amazon’s line of smart-home devices.
Best Buy’s Geek Squad was about the only unique service provided by Best Buy;
and with Amazon entering the race, Best Buy is expected to lose ground to Amazon
and that has already started to show. Best Buy stock prices plummeted more than
7% after the announcement came in. This is equal to about a $1 billion decrease
in value. [more...]
Civilian Drone Industry - USA is Missing the Boat
By Jeff Ferry
At last month’s Paris Air Show, China showed
off its latest military drone, an unmanned intelligent computer-controlled
vehicle called the CH-5. Military experts were impressed. The CH-5 has a
range of 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles), and can stay aloft for up to 50
hours. “You can just imagine a drone carrying eight missiles and watching you
from above non-stop for 24 hours,” boasted Shi Wen, described by Motherboard magazine as the “chief
designer” of the aircraft. The CH-5, nicknamed Rainbow, has a superficial
resemblance to America’s leading-edge military drone, the MQ-9 Reaper. The
Reaper can carry a payload 50% greater than the Rainbow. However, Chinese
executives claim the Rainbow has a significantly greater endurance (time aloft)
due to a more energy-efficient engine. The Chinese also claim to have equipped
the Rainbow with wall-penetrating radar, more advanced than any system on any
U.S. drone. [more...]
Trump, Jr.’s Non-Russian Collusion
Donald Trump, Jr. was lured to a meeting with
a Russian lawyer presumably because they might have some negative information
on the Clinton presidential campaign. It turns out that there was no negative
information on the Clinton campaign to share with Donald Jr. Instead,
apparently the Russian lawyer wanted to lobby for the repeal of the 2012
Magnitsky Act that punishes Russians who violate human rights by seizing assets
and denying entry in the U.S. (Note: Putin had responded to this act by cutting
off baby adoptions.) The bottom line is simple: it’s yet another story about
another non-event. [more...]
How CNN Took on President Trump and Lost
Before President Trump called out CNN as fake
news, its new boss had already turned it into fake news. But that was a
different world. Obama was in the White House. Hillary was going to succeed
him. Nothing interesting was going to happen in the world of politics. CNN
could just focus on infotainment. And then Trump emerged and everything
changed. Suddenly CNN was going to have to do news again and Zucker, the
gimmick guy who had bet big on reality shows on NBC and then on CNN, was
completely out of his depth. He understood entertainment, but he didn’t have
the faintest clue about journalism. In the summer of ’16, he had ridiculed
BuzzFeed as not being a real news organization. That gave BuzzFeed a whole lot
in common with CNN. By October, he had hired on Andrew Kaczynski and his
BuzzFeed team of trolls. And it’s that team of trolls that is now at the center
of CNN’s latest scandal. CNN had already lost 3 reporters from its
investigative unit over a fake news Trump-Russia hit piece. Instead of
enmeshing President Trump in scandals, its investigative unit is deeply
enmeshed in scandal. [more...]
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