Opinion

On Nov. 13, outgoing Pres. Joe Biden and incoming Pres. Donald Trump met in the While House for two hours.  Afterwards, both said they would cooperate to make the transition as smooth and easy as possible.  Lots of people were relieved when they heard that - but there was one problem.  Despite those assurances, the two teams were not cooperating.  In fact, some political observers said the Biden Administration was trying to sabotage Trump’s plans even before he was sworn into office.

Election 2024 is finally over, and no one could be happier than President Trump.  When the final votes were tabulated, he must have been thinking, how sweet it is.

In 2016, he was accused of conspiring with the Russians, subjected to vicious personal attacks ever since, was the victim of unprecedented lawfare, armed government agents breaking into his Mar-a-Lago home, and two assassination attempts.  The list goes on, but as it says in Tehillim (75:8), “Hashem is the Judge, one He humbles, and one He raises.”  And Hashem decided to raise Trump.

If RFK Jr. is as good as his word, all of us will be hearing a lot about MAHA: Make America Healthy Again.  And it can’t come a minute too soon.  The number of people developing serious illnesses is increasing, literally, day by day and has reached a point that is truly frightening.  Kennedy is facing a bare-knuckles brawl, and he’ll have to go toe to toe with industry powerhouses and their lobbies.  

Have you ever heard of Stanley Druckenmiller?  He’s one of the movers and shakers on Wall Street, the former head of the Duquesne Capital hedge fund, and a multi-billionaire who has been called one of the best investors in the world.  He worked alongside George Soros in 1992 on a trade that nearly bankrupted the Bank of England and netted his firm more than $1 billion in a single day.  To paraphrase the old advertisement: When he talks, everyone listens. 

What comes to mind when you hear the word “shoplifting”?  Mobs of looters?  Starving migrants who clean out supermarkets?  The hundreds of drug and other stores that have been forced to shut down because of theft?  Certainly these are a part of the problem, but there’s another side to it that is often ignored: the numerous people who have good jobs and walk around with money in their pockets, and yet shoplift regularly.  This is a very complicated issue.  

Fluoride is believed to be an effective, cost-effective, and safe way to reduce tooth decay.  Most people accept that it’s effective and cost-effective – as for it being safe well, that’s a different issue.