This is Sunday, February 16, 2025.  What has happened in history on this day? First, this is the 47th day of the year, with 318 days left in 2025.  Not a leap year. Donald Trump is the 47th PUS  ( P resident of the  U nited  S tates). According to  Wikipedia . 1796  The British conquered Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. 1923  Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber on Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1937  Wallace Carothers receives a U.S. patent for nylon. 1959  Fidel Castro became Premier, or El Comandante, of Cuba. He served in this capacity for 32 years. 1968  9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service, in Alabama. 1985  Hezbollah is founded in Lebanon. 2006  The last Mash (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is decommissioned. In other words, nothing much happened in history on this day. Watch a  short video of February 6 .  And  another .  By  Dr. Zarr . As of today,  ranking of most famous Genera...

Yesterday I reported on those Israeli pager attacks of the Hezbollah in Lebanon.   A second wave followed .  First, 9 killed and 3,000 injured, and second, 25 deaths and 600 wounded.  As carrying a mobile phone incurs other risks, the Hezbollah must be stymied on how to communicate.  These Taiwanese pagers are fabricated in Budapest, Hungary.  Japanese walkie-talkie devices were apparently also triggered.  Like the Taiwanese, the Japanese-maker, Icom, said someone just copied their product.   The Hezbollah will retaliate in some way.  And what about the Iranian revenge attack that has long been delayed?  The whole region is now a powder keg on the verge of exploding.  Our next two trips will totally avoid that region. Last week I lamented the position of the USA on medical care and costs.  Well, a new report found that the  U.S. ranks as the WORST performer among 10 developed nation in health care .  In preventin...