Cedric's Rantings

President Trump can strike a blow against the political correctness he deplores and reassert the noble heritage of the party of Lincoln by confirming Harriet Tubman on the new $20 bill.

Source: Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill would be smart for the president, his party and the nation | TheHill

The tinderbox that is the Middle East threatens to explode again.

Source: The next Mideast explosion: An all-out war between Iran and Israel is approaching, and Trump has no strategy – NY Daily News

Source: Donald Trump Ordered Syria Strike Based on a Secret Legal Justification Even Congress Can’t See

Source: In North Korea, ‘Surgical Strike’ Could Spin Into ‘Worst Kind of Fighting’ – The New York Times

Source: How to Deal With North Korea – The Atlantic

Source: Trump breaking torture taboo, global laws threatened: U.N. rights boss | Reuters

Source: Unsealed 75 years after the Battle of Midway: New details of an alarming WWII press leak – The Washington Post

Source: The Space Review: The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 1) (page 1)

Roger Cavazos considers two bounded cases of an artillery attack on Seoul. The question is pertinent since it bears on whether there is conventional stability on the Korean Peninsula. If there is…

Source: Mind the Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality | Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

Source: Twenty-five million reasons the U.S. hasn’t struck North Korea – The Washington Post