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Busy day for the New York Times where several articles reveal huge mistakes made here and abroad due to the incumbent’s inability to competently handle the job of POTUS.

 

While fighting still rages in an out of control Gaza, abandoned by the incumbent’s administration, and Syria, Iraq, North Korea, China and Ukraine among others all present festering overseas problems, Afghanistan is once again showing signs of significant unrest.   

 

The Times reports that, “Taliban fighters are scoring early gains in several strategic areas near the capital this summer, inflicting heavy casualties and casting new doubt on the ability of Afghan forces to contain the insurgency as the United States moves to complete its withdrawal of combat troops, according to Afghan officials and local elders.

 

The Taliban have found success beyond their traditional strongholds in the rural south and are now dominating territory near crucial highways and cities that surround Kabul, the capital, in strategic provinces like Kapisa and Nangarhar.”

 

Until now, the Taliban “advance has gone unreported because most American forces have left the field and officials in Kabul have largely refused to talk about it. The Afghan ministries have not released casualty statistics since an alarming rise in army and police deaths last year.”

 

However, foreign policy isn’t all that’s suffering due to the administration’s misguided policy-making. The nation’s economic condition is also going backward rapidly. 

 

In Business Day on nytimes.com Anna Bernasek headed a column: “The Typical Household, Now Worth a Third Less.”

 

Ms Bernasek writes that, “Economic inequality in the United States has been receiving a lot of attention. But it’s not merely an issue of the rich getting richer. The typical American household has been getting poorer, too.

 

The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36 percent decline, according to a study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. Those are the figures for a household at the median point in the wealth distribution — the level at which there are an equal number of households whose worth is higher and lower. But during the same period, the net worth of wealthy households increased substantially.”

 

Consequently, an administration that sold voters on the idea that the “rich” were enemies of those less fortunate economically and were going to be dealt with tirelessly, has in actuality done the complete reverse. Because, not only have those despised for their financial success not suffered at all, those in the middle have lost more than a third of their worth to boot.   

  

Ms Bernasek’s conclusion says it all succinctly: “The reasons for these declines are complex and controversial, but one point seems clear: When only a few people are winning and more than half the population is losing, surely something is amiss.”

 

And speaking of things being amiss, that certainly seems to be the case for the global-warming alarmist crowd.

 

Several times over the past twelve months, mentioned been made here of the polar vortex as well as the sun’s magnetic field reversal, both of which can lead to cooling temperatures. 

 

According to NASA Science News: “The sun's magnetic field changes polarity approximately every 11 years.  It happens at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun's inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself.  The coming reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. Half of 'Solar Max' will be behind us, with half yet to come.”

 

Which may be why the Real Science website headlined an article yesterday: “Coolest Summer On Record In The US.”

 

The text says, “The frequency of 90 degree days in the US has been plummeting for 80 years, and 2014 has had the lowest frequency of 90 degree days through July 23 on record. The only other year which came close was 1992, and that was due to dust in the atmosphere from Mt Pinatubo.”

 

So, it isn’t only the economy, foreign policy, the military, national security and immigration that the administration is incapable of understanding and managing. It’s also picked a subject as its premiere objective, combatting “global-warming,” which doesn’t even exist.

 

That's it for today folks.

 

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