My fears of my Cadillac Medical Insurance coming to an end is beginning to happen.

How big is $65 Trillion? Imagine spending $10 million a year, every year for the rest of your life, and you still wouldn't be able to spend $1 billion. $65 Trillion is 65 Thousand Billions.

The western media likes to sell its sanctions policy on moral or humanitarian grounds, but that's a joke.

Two Fridays ago, I was driving home from dropping my wife at the hospital to get her retinas photographed to deal with cataracts, when my cell phone rang through the car's communication system, and I punched the button on the dashboard to answer the call. A voice mispronounced my name and proceeded to recite my street address and then ask if I lived there.

Every Empire Falls

It is a long litanty of fallen empires including Greek, Roman, Mongol, Spanish, Dutch, and British. Now, it is the US turn to experience the loss of it primacy. It is easy to see the decline of America in the last couple of decades. Some historians point to patterns of decline. This author suggest seven common signs: fixation on their ideology, absorption in amusement and entertainment, government corruption, degrading public health, nutritional stratification and food challenges, over expansion, and constant war.