Melinda and Bill Gates in 2016
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As you have read, Bill and Melinda Gates are getting a divorce. This is personal a matter for the couple and their family but I can’t help thinking it’s a blow to society, too. Bill and Melinda Gates have been such an important couple. They have set a standard in philanthropy not just in the
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Divorce is a contagion. Everybody wants to get in on the act. It is an underrated evil, as I see it. (This is not to say that divorce is not sometimes, or often, called for. Think of cases of abuse.)
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The fate of Western Civilization may hinge on the great debate now raging within Washington’s beltway, virtually unnoted on nightly news and unknown to most Americans, over whether to replace the nation’s 400 obsolete Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a new ICBM or unilaterally eliminate all U.S. ICBMs.
My report “Surprise Attack: ICBMs and the Real Nuclear Threat” (October 31, 2020) warned: “A Biden Administration or future Democrat Congress is likely to unilaterally abolish U.S. ICBMs … to the grave detriment of U.S. national security.”
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An effective defense must be coupled with deterrence to enhance security
Stanley Orman and Maj. Gen. Eugene Fox (ret.) January 8 A first lieutenant with the 321st Missile Squadron missile combat crew prepares to perform a simulated key turn of the Minuteman III weapon system at a missile alert facility in the 90th Missile Wing s missile complex of Nebraska on April 11, 2017. (Staff Sgt. Christopher Ruano/U.S. Air Force) Few people now will recall when U.S. President Ronald Reagan introduced missile defense in his Strategic Defense Initiative speech in March 1983, that it was met with worldwide criticism. Despite the false claims that he was starting a new arms race and was undermining mutual assured destruction, he succeeded in establishing a program that has spent over $200 billion in the past 37 years. Despite this, it does not yet provide the level of protection envisaged by the president, and recent changes to the program outlined by Patty-Jane Geller will not get m