Author: CapitalGainsFund

Mar 20

Trump-appointed Social Security Administration officials test Biden’s ability to forge new agenda

Donald Trump and Joe Biden. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP) President Biden is facing increasing pressure to remove two Social Security Administration officials appointed by his Republican predecessor, a standoff that could test the limits of his ability to undo Donald Trump’s legacy. The brewing controversy surrounds Andrew Saul and David Black, the agency’s […]
Mar 19

Both Fox News and Russian state media are trying to get Biden to debate Putin

National Review Iran Probably Already Has the Bomb. Here’s What to Do about It Washington’s policy-makers are being misled by the intelligence and defense communities that are grossly underestimating the nuclear threat from Iran, just as they did with North Korea. Washington’s mainstream “worst-case” thinking assumes Iran does not yet have atomic weapons, but could […]
Mar 19

China says ‘strong smell of gunpowder’ sensed in US talks

BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday a “strong smell of gunpowder and drama” resulted from talks with top American diplomats in Alaska, continuing the contentious tone of the first face-to-face meetings under the Biden administration. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, speaking in Beijing, said American officials at the Alaska meetings had provoked Chinese officials into […]
Mar 18

In the ‘cancel culture’ debate, the battle over a Black high school named for a KKK grand wizard still resonates

In the debate over so-called cancel culture, conservatives like Fox News host Tucker Carlson warn that if monuments to Confederate soldiers are taken down, or schools named after those historical figures who participated in the institution of slavery are given new ones, the entire history of the country will be subject to erasure. “If we’re […]