Everyone Knows Memory Fails as You Age. But Everyone Is Wrong. - The New York Times

I’m 62 years old as I write this. Like many of my friends, I forget names that I used to be able to conjure up effortlessly. When packing my suitcase for a trip, I walk to the hall closet and by the time I get there, I don’t remember what I came for.…

Jacques Bopp

The Fall of Donald Trump’s Fixers - WSJ

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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal attorney, stands behind the Republican presidential candidate during a campaign stop at a church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Sept. 21, 2016.…

Jacques Bopp

Byron Wien and Joe Zidle Announce Ten Surprises for 2020

#Finance #Byron Wien

NEW YORK----Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman together with Joe Zidle, Chief Investment Strategist in the Private Wealth Solutions group at Blackstone, today issued their list of Ten Surprises for 2020.…

Jacques Bopp

Unprecedented, Not Yet

#Global Warming

The total area burnt in New South Wales and Victoria is now approaching the area burnt in Victoria back in 1851. Temperatures this summer in Australia may get as hot as they did back in 1938-1939.…

Jacques Bopp

Pompeo Champions the Faithful - WSJ

#Politics #Islam

Global View: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes to make religious freedom the centerpiece of American human-rights policy in order to protect Christians and others of faith around the world.…

Jacques Bopp

The New War Against Africa’s Christians - WSJ

#Islam

A Nigerian Pentecostal Christian, director of a nongovernmental organization that works for mutual understanding between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, alerted me to it.…

Jacques Bopp

The Deep State Resistance Terrorized Innocent Americans, Including Me | The Daily Caller

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Ever since Donald J. Trump was elected to Make America Great Again, the self-declared #Resistance has terrorized him and many innocent Americans.…

Jacques Bopp

Faschismus: Die Medien warnen vor ihm – wenn es passt

#Politics #Racism

Droht in der Welt ein neuer Faschismus? «Ja», lässt der ehemalige Chefredaktor des «Tages-Anzeigers» Res Strehle einen emeritierten Professor für Geschichte in Zürich hauchen. «Es ist gefährlich», fügt dieser beinahe unhörbar an.…

Jacques Bopp

The Incredible Shrinking Impeachment - WSJ

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Democrats on the Judiciary Committee will vote as early as Thursday on the text of the two articles they unveiled Tuesday, and then they will rush it to the floor next week.…

Jacques Bopp