Category: America Now

Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cancer diagnosed in the United States today. This year an estimated 101,000 new cases of colon cancer and 44,000 new cases of rectal cancer will be diagnosed. Because of their location, these cancers if not caught soon enough can be devastating. Over 50,000 people are expected to die this […]

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a development and trade strategy that was first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013. The strategy identifies several vital trade and investment corridors and looks to build them up through investments in infrastructure. The initiative is obviously China-centric, focused on trade corridors into and out of China. […]

It should probably come as no surprise that New Zealand’s government is engaging in hypocrisy of the highest order. Most governments do the same thing. But the hypocrisy of bleeding heart leftists who claim to have compassion for innocents turning around and subjecting other innocents to injustice is particularly galling and deserves a sound rebuke. […]

More and more people today understand the necessity of creating a go bag, or a bug out bag. When you need to get away in an instant, having everything you need to sustain yourself for several days conveniently stored in a single bag can literally be a life-saver. While people like to tailor the individual […]

The Federal Open Market Committee voted last week to keep its target federal funds rate steady at 2.25 to 2.50%. Even more importantly, the FOMC voted to stop the Fed’s winding down of its balance sheet at the end of September of this year. And as of May of this year the Fed will halve […]

With online retailers such as Amazon continuing to grow exponentially, to many people the age of e-commerce is finally here. It’s been over two decades since most people were introduced to eBay, Amazon, and online shopping, but the real growth has occurred in just the past few years. In just the past five years e-commerce […]

With the demise of the half dollar as a circulating coin, the quarter dollar coin became the workhorse coin of American commerce. That made the George Washington quarter the most widely used and most recognizable coin produced by the US Mint. But very few people realize that the quarter used to be minted from silver, […]

The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 earlier this month has raised significant questions about the reliability of the aircraft. The aircraft in question, the second MAX 8 to crash within 5 months, was delivered to Ethiopian on November 15, 2018, meaning that it had seen less than four months of service. A […]

Headlines last week were full of the news that wealthy, privileged parents had engaged in bribery to gain admission for their children to colleges they otherwise would have had difficulty getting into. Among those indicted was Lori Loughlin, known to millions of Americans as Aunt Becky on Full House. While the reaction to the scandal […]

While it looks unconventional to modern eyes used to the Remington 870 and Mossberg 500, the Winchester 1897 shotgun was once one of the most popular shotguns in the country. Produced from 1897 to 1957, the Winchester 1897 was the first commercially successful pump shotgun and one of the first shotguns built to withstand the […]