“When the Next Crisis Begins…” JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon | Wolf Street
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Summary: The USMC has lowered the requirements in its 13-week Infantry Officer Course, following more drastic measures in the other services. More women to
— Read on usdefensewatch.com/2018/04/will-feminizing-the-marines-win-wars-uh-no/

Not likely

Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon has said.
— Read on www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/05/lead-surgeon-london-hospital-war-zone-two-slaughtered-overnight/

More diversity

In the campaign against the corn laws, he helped to establish free trade as a popular principle which no politician would dare to interfere with for years to come. His stand with Cobden against the Crimean War inspired a later generation of liberals to follow the idea of non-intervention. Opening up Parliament to the scrutiny of ordinary people marked an end to the high-handed government of earlier times. In these, as in many other issues, John Bright, as a consistent and principled defender of individual liberty, imparted a widespread and lasting acceptance of liberal politics.
— Read on fee.org/articles/john-bright-was-the-voice-of-victorian-liberalism/

There’s no way to sugar-coat it. Social Security is going to fail. There are, of course, ways to possibly extend its life for a few years, or even decades, but ultimately, like all Ponzi schemes, it will collapse. By the federal government’s and the Social Security Board of Trustees’ own admissions, the Social Security program will be paying out more than it takes in in just 4 years. At current rates (and assuming the federal government fully pays back the more than $5 trillion it “borrowed” from Social Security’s accounts), the program will be completely out of money in about 17 years. What does this situation mean for current working Americans? Is there any way to solve this problem? Join Antony Davies and James Harrigan as they discuss this and more on this week’s episode of Words and Numbers.
— Read on fee.org/articles/social-security-is-doomed-now-what/

More than a million undocumented immigrants have received California driver’s licenses from the State of California, the Department of Motor Vehicles announced Wednesday. The state has been issuing licenses to the immigrants since 2015.
— Read on www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article207939584.html

More democratic voters

Eyeing the midterms, Trump is making clear the distinction between the parties on illegal immigration.
— Read on patriotpost.us/articles/55171-trump-deploys-troops-to-border

Yes

UK is circling the drain

After rotating over hot coals, kürtőskalács unravels in sugar-coated rings.
— Read on www.atlasobscura.com/foods/kurtoskalacs-chimney-cake-romania-hungary

“Russia seeks to change the international order, fracture NATO, and undermine U.S. leadership in order to protect its regime, re-assert dominance over its neighbors, and achieve greater influence around the globe.” — U.S. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti,
— Read on www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12116/military-schengen-zone