President Trump Government officials’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic shows perhaps more than ever before why people can’t depend on them, and need to think for themselves. I refer not just to President Trump’s speculation that ingestion of cleaning agents might kill the virus, or his early declaration that the pandemic was a hoax, or that it would go away quickly, or that he first praised China’s handling of the outbreak so as not to harm trade negotiations and then placed

TouchPoint Press I’ve never thought of my authorial activities as a business, but here I am blocked by the same impediments that most enterprises are facing these days due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. (I had to look up the “novel” part of that phrase to discover its meaning in this context, because I was darned sure COVID-19 wasn’t fiction.) Authors everywhere who have been readying to launch a book are stuck on hold. While my new novel, the legal thriller BLOOD ON THEI

Brian Williams Leading voices in the media are probably more dismayed by former NBC-TV news anchor Brian Williams’ misrepresentations of his exploits covering the Iraq War than are the general population. Would that the media were that concerned over their reporting about GMOs and other health issues. They hew to the positions of recognized government and private agencies and organizations, almost ignoring the findings of independent entities that go against the official line

GMOs are safe? Researcher shows GMOs dangerous GM forces discredited the study. But after he presented his results to the European Parliament, manufacturers agreed to keep GMOs out of their European products. More dangers revealed The U.S. media paid little attention, and ignored other important findings: a Russian National Academy of Science study showing that a horde of rats fed GM soy died shortly after birth; the deaths of 10,000 sheep in India a few days after grazing on