The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill that congress approved last summer will cut approximately $1 billion in Medicaid from the poor people of West Virginia.   Linked above is an op-ed from Dr. Dan Doyle (pictured), a physician who has been treating these folks for the last 45 years.

Helen Hicks Baker writes, “For several years, it was my honor to serve on a rural health committee with Dr. Doyle. He’s an impressive guy, and absolutely right on health care policy.”

We can keep raising our defense budget, current just under $1 trillion annually, spent by the Pentagon that has failed seven consecutive audits.

We can provide enormous tax breaks to our nation’s billionaires.

All the while, we’re sentencing the poorest of the poor to short and painful lives.

The Closing of Rural Hospitals and the Destruction of Individual Health Care in West Virginia

From the Huffington Post:

A senior FBI officer struggled to answer basic questions about antifa, despite characterizing the organization as “the most immediate violent threat” the US faces.

Raw Stupidity: Yet One More Reason that Trump Must Go

When I came across the meme at left, I was instantly reminded of a guy who called me from Baltimore, MD about 15 years ago, anxious for me to hunt up investors in an invention he had created.  I was having a hard time understanding the concept he was describing, and so he told me, “Think of it as a river in a box.”

“Ah! Now I get it. You have a box full of standing water. You add energy to it to get it moving, and then our extract energy from the moving water.  And you think that you can extract more energy than you put into it.”

“Yes!” he said excitedly.

I calmly told him that this violates the laws of physics, specifically the first and second laws of thermodynamics, but he wasn’t “having it.” I wished him a pleasant good night and asked him to let me know when he had built a working prototype.

I’m still hoping to hear from him again.

Hydrokinetics Gone Awry