The United States Court of International Trade ruled that President Trump did not have authority to “impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world” and blocked Trump’s prized tariff program. Normally, only Congress can enact tariffs, but Trump had argued that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) gave him the right to […]
Author: whatimnothearing
CAMBODIA’S S.T.E.M. PROBLEM
Let’s face it – STEM education in Cambodia is terrible. First, some statistics: Countries the world are ranked by PISA scores of 15-year-olds in math and science. Of 81 countries measured (Africa excluded), the average score is 472, while Cambodia scores 336 in math and 347 in science – in both cases dead last, far […]
WAS BIDEN TREATED?
First, I should say that I find the many attacks on Joe Biden in bad taste. He is no longer a political threat to anyone, so there is no reason to drag his name in the mud. Let’s just drop the matter. Here’s what I, along with most average Americans, have concluded about the Biden […]
MUST A SYMBOL REPRESENT SOMETHING?
Almost all Cambodian homes have a red cloth talisman, called a yantra (or yo-an in Khmer) hanging in their house. It is covered with all sorts of symbols, the most common of which is a squiggly spiral called an ounalome. Yantra with dozens of ounalome spirals The ubiquitous ounalome is a well-known and revered symbol in […]
WHAT I’M NOT HEARING ABOUT JUDGE DUGAN
Did she obstruct justice or not? The media have been eerily quiet about the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, the judge who ushered a defendant out the back door of the courtroom while ICE agents were waiting to arrest him at the front door. The government then arrested Dugan for obstructing justice. That arrest seems, […]
“He hates the same people we hate.”
Anyone outside the US would think that Trump is in serious trouble. His promise to reduce the price of eggs on day one has backfired, and even his most hard-headed cultists are beginning to see that the tariffs are raising prices, not lowering them. His promise to end the Ukraine war within 48 hours has […]
TRUMP’S TARIFF FORMULA AND CAMBODIA
Trump slapped Cambodia with one of the highest tariffs, because, he claimed, Cambodia poses 97% tariffs on the US. When you look at a list of Cambodian tariffs on US imports, you see meats and food products at 15%, with other products at 7-15%, nowhere near the 97% calculated by the Trump team. So I […]
THE CONTINUING SIGNALGATE COVER-UP
The media continue to focus on trivial questions such as “What is the definition of ‘classified’?” The Trump administration, with media complicity, has done a masterful job of steering discussion away from the central issue — that of posting sensitive information over unsecured platforms. I have yet to hear anyone ask either of the following […]
SIGNAL-GATE — THE REAL QUESTION
I’m quite amused to watch the Trump team squirm to lie, downplay, cast blame, etc., to get off the hook for the egregious leak of secret information. The media are going berserk painting the administration as a bunch of incompetent bumblers. However, the Trump team is craftier than that. They have managed to focus the […]
CREATIONISM DOESN’T MEAN YOU CAN’T EAT PORK
Christians have framed the religious argument as one of creationism versus science. They point to the increasing confusion in science and the weirdness of quantum theory, as opposed to the clear observation that this complex universe couldn’t have created itself. So for the sake of argument, let’s accept that the universe was created. First question, […]