News Story of the Day: is there something seriously wrong with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health? Perhaps it is more than just a bruised ego after losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump.
According to the New York Post, Clinton suffered a minor injury at her hotel and sprained her wrist.
From the newspaper:
The head of an Indian hospital says Hillary Clinton was briefly treated there after suffering a minor injury at her hotel.
Suresh Goyal, the CEO of Goyal Hospital in the city of Jodhpur, says she arrived in the hospital early Wednesday and “was here for about 15-20 minutes.”
He declined to say what she was treated for. An employee of Jodhpur’s Umaid Bhawan Palace hotel, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, says Clinton had stayed there and had sprained her wrist. He said, however, that she was not injured at that hotel.
This occurred a few days after Clinton fell down some stairs, before slamming Trump supporters as poor, racist folk and appearing to advocate votes based on GDP (SEE: The arrogance of Hillary Clinton on full display in India).
Chart of the Day: Quartz has produced an excellent chart that looks at the history of import tariffs in the U.S over the last 200-plus years. It has been just above zero percent for the last few decades, and the nation has become more prosperous as a result. Here is the chart:
Illustration of the Day: Wal-Mart is usually the target for progressives and liberals – even some conservatives slam the company because of its imports from China. But the most fascinating part is what it is highlighted in the meme below: you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Quote of the Day: are the Irish the greatest immigrants the U.S. has ever had? The Wall Street Journal provides some sublime insight into the history of the Irish coming to America. If you want to play the identity politics game and compare who had it worse, then be sure to use this has one example!
The peasants fleeing Ireland had a shorter life expectancy (19 years) than slaves in the U.S. (36 years), many of whom enjoyed healthier diets and better living quarters. Most slaves slept on mattresses, while most poor Irish peasants slept on piles of straw. The black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that freed slaves were poor by American standards, “but not as poor as the Irish peasants.”
The Irish who left for America were packed into the unused cargo space of wind-driven ships returning to the U.S., and the voyage could take up to three months, depending on weather. These cargo holds weren’t intended to carry passengers, and the lack of proper ventilation and sanitation meant that outbreaks of typhus, cholera and other fatal diseases were common. Emigrants slept on 3-by-6-foot shelves, which one observer described as “still reeking from the ineradicable stench left by the emigrants of the last voyage.”
In 1847, 19% of the Irish emigrants died on their way to the U.S. or shortly after arriving. By comparison, the average mortality rate on British slave ships of the period was 9%. Slave-owners had an economic incentive to keep slaves alive. No one had such an interest in the Irish.
The 19th-century immigrants from Europe usually started at the bottom, both socially and economically, and the Irish epitomized this trend. Irish men worked as manual laborers, while Irish women were domestic servants. But not all ethnic groups rose to prosperity at the same rate, and the rise of the Irish was especially slow. They had arrived from a country that was mostly rural, yet they settled in cities like Boston and New York, working “wherever brawn and not skill was the chief requirement,” as one historian put it. In the antebellum South, the Irish took jobs—mining coal, building canals and railroads—considered too hazardous even for slaves.
Tweet of the Day: have you ever played Statist Bingo? It’s a fun game!
— YALiberty (@YALiberty) March 16, 2018
Video of the Day: one of the best features on the Reason TV YouTube channel is Andrew Heaton’s “Mostly Weekly.” It is hilarious, informative, and a hindrance to productivity. Unfortunately, the series is coming to an end. Here is the finale, concentrating on Creative Destruction:
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