White House Chronicle 8012

March 24, 2016 by White House Chronicle Leave a Comment

White House Chronicle, Show #8012

Air Date: March 18, 2016

Run Time: 29:00

Host: Llewellyn King

Guest: Colin Woodard, Author

Topic: A discussion of “American Nations,” Woodard’s book that shows how America divides into 11 distinctively different nations.

Look Up! The Age of the Delivery Drone Is Dawning

Llewellyn King

Here a drone, there a drone. Everywhere a drone. Drones, the light ones, not the big military ones that chase bad guys around the Middle East and elsewhere, are beginning to do heavy lifting. Consider: Packages are already being delivered by drone in Canberra, Australia’s capital. In Rwanda — unsophisticated Rwanda, known more for its […]

Go Green on the High-Tech Bandwagon

Llewellyn King

The newly seated Democrats in the House have lessons to learn, but none more than not to tell people what you’re going to take away from them. That was the great mistake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made when she laid out her Green New Deal. It sounds like big stick from big government. She said everything should […]

The Deadly Hurt of Loneliness — It Kills

Llewellyn King

For some Valentine’s Day is a day not of love but of profound, despairing loneliness. The candies, cards and flowers from kind people can sometimes serve to open a void of despair, a black hole of unhappiness for them. They are people made lonely through disease. Some lonely for life. And loneliness kills. That is […]

New Tech Bonanza Will Be the Digital Takeover of Cities

Llewellyn King

Benjamin Franklin was the first to deploy street lighting. He put candles in a four-sided, glass case for his lights. The engineering took a giant leap forward in England, when William Murdoch lit his home with coal gas lights in 1792. Today street lighting is taken as a given, like waterborne sewage. But it’s also […]

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