What's Better Or Worse In The News About Pot's Effects, Too Expensive Dollar Stores, And Changing Iraqi Over-Kill

    Much has been in the news about the dangers of marijuana with even our Dear Leader saying pot is less dangerous than alcohol. Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, the founder of Phoenix House, has just said that the most important fact about marijuana is its destruction of brain structures that deal with memory and reasoning. This is called the "working memory" because it includes remembering phone numbers and solutions to everyday problems. It keeps you from having to constantly reinvent the wheel. This negative marijuana-induced effect was discovered only last month at Northwestern University.
    People are not going to Family Dollar as much because they can't afford the bottom-tier department store. The only thing that is lower is run by charities, primarily churches, such as food pantries and free thrift stores. Is this the next step under Obama for the poor?Although there is a rising economic tide, the tide is not lifting lower-income boats. The poor are plainly under stress from poor job growth, wages that are not rising, bigger payroll taxes, and shrinking government programs such as food stamps.
    The better news is that the U.S. military is apparently asking itself "What then?" after forces brutually demolish buildings and kill innocents. What happens then is that the killing and destruction only attracts more young men who are eager to fight the crusader-infidels. Realizing that this is no way to win World War IV - the war against the Islamofascists- the U.S. is now asking the Iraqis to give up large military sweeps and the huge use of force that cause indiscriminate killings and tears apart buildings (thus destroying more of the Iraqi economy and standard of living). The U.S. military is slowly giving up the way of the tank and embracing the way of the Seal. It is emphasizing to the Iraqis targeted raids and specific counter-insurgency offenses to keep the killing and structural destruction highly specific.
    These commentaries are based upon news found in the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper.
    Peter Nickerson. Neither a Republican nor a Democrat but an Evidentist.