Category Archives: Health
Let The Olympic Games Begin
Let the Ri0 Olympic games begin.
Here’s Jonathan Turley in USA Today:
Rio is the IOC’s most signature moment: games held in a lethally polluted area with some athletes who are viewed as equally dirty. Dirty air, dirty water, dirty games.
Rio Olympics
Rory Mcllroy quit the Rio Olympics over fear of the Zika virus. Other golfers, March Leishman of Australia and South African Charl Schwartzel, had already done the same. As had American cyclist Tejay van Garderen.
Rio Olympics
Last week the Russian track and field team took the easy way out – doping.
However, there were worse things than the Zika virus for olympic mascot Juma the jaguar. Juma got off her leash at an Olympic torch ceremony and was shot dead.
Separation of Powers
In January 2014 President Obama decided to go it alone. He said he had a pen and a phone and if Congress wouldn’t act he would.
Congress refused to act to allocate funds to reimburse insurance companies for Obamacare costs. The president used his pen to sign an executive order to disburse the money anyway. The House of Representatives sued.
Separation of Powers
In House v. Burwell, Congress argued that the executive branch violated the Constitution’s separation of powers. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer agreed. The case will be appealed.
Meanwhile the president is allocating school bathrooms.
Just Say No
Here’s a good example of a cartoon gone bad.
On Monday the NYT ran a story about the heroin epidemic spreading across the cities of America.
The Times editors chose to place that story on the front page, right next to Nancy Reagan’s obituary. That would be Nancy “Just Say No to Drugs” Reagan.
Considering that prescription drug abuse is soaring and pot is sold openly in Colorado and other states, it’s pretty clear that, 30 years after Nancy’s “Just Say No” campaign, quite a few Americans are saying “yes” to drugs.
Being a sucker for irony, I drew a cartoon and rushed it off to the syndicate. Only then did I stop to look at what I had drawn. I was perplexed by my own cartoon. It was true, but it was crass. Mrs. Reagan was devoted to President Reagan and the White House. I wasn’t thinking about dumping on her the day after her death but that’s the message my image conveyed.
Fortunately, I had failed to stick Muhammad in the picture so I would live to draw another day. 
I asked the syndicate to withdraw the drug cartoon and dashed off the one above.
I guess this story is an example of the peculiar power of a picture.
Anyway, should you come across this cartoon, just say no.
Government War on Women
Now that women are eligible for combat, top army and marine generals said last week they must register for the draft.
Government War on Women
Later in the week the CDC piled on in the government war on women. It ordered fertile females not to drink unless they’re on birth control.
Update: Here’s a column by David French in National Review on why it would be “barbaric” to draft women into combat.
