Author: admin

[Subtitle] Andy Kim, Senator Andy Kim, Korea, Koreans, the United States, and the Constitution of the United States of America.

Andy Kim was elected as the first Korean American Senator in the United States. As Senator Kim already knows, or as he must, may, or can know, we strongly recommend that he should not intentionally, deliberately, calculatively, or conspicuously try to help the Republic of Korea . All that he has to do is to just continue showing his allegiance to the United States Constitution.

The writer, editor, and publisher of this newspaper (The American Newspaper) are also a Korean immigrant here in the United States. The only difference between Sen. Kim and the publisher is that Sen. Kim is the second generation of the immigrants, and the publisher is the first generation. That means that both of them have Korean roots and are descendants of Korean ancestors.

When the publisher decided to immigrate to the United States and voluntarily, proudly, and with dignity decided to become one of the core members, participants, contributors, and eventually patriots here on this soil, he decided to respect and perform the pledge of allegiance, loyalty, and fidelity to the U.S. Constitution.

That is the desirable, mature, wise, and legal way in which the Korean immigrants or their descendants not only contribute to this American society, but also truly help, requite, or make requital to their native soil, where they came from, the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

An Editorial of the American Newspaper.
www.americannewspaper.org

Published: January 17, 2025, Friday (01/17/2025) at 2:10 P.M.

References:

1. Wikipedia(the free encyclopedia), Andy Kim (politician), “Andy Kim”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kim_(politician).

2. The American Newspaper, https://americannewspaper.org, (The American Newspaper = “Media Service for the Opinion Leaders in the United States of America”).

[Subtitle] Regarding Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing.

Mr. Pete Hegseth(born in 1980) has been nominated on or about November 12, 2024 by President-elect Donald J. Trump(born in 1946) to serve as United States Secretary of Defense(“War”) in his second cabinet. Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 14, 2025 for the confirmation hearing.

Mr. Hegseth was born in Minneapolis in the great State of Minnesota. It’s said that Hegseth has been active in conservative and Republican politics since his undergraduate days at Princeton University. His senior thesis at Princeton was titled “Modern Presidential Rhetoric and the Cold War Context”.

Hegseth joined the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at the university. He was a National Guardsman. He was deployed in Cuba, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He worked as a capital markets analyst at Bear Stearns. He was a political commentator for Fox News, and a weekend co-host of Fox & Friends. He is the author of several books.

The President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. And the Article II. Section 2. Clause 2. of the United States Constitution says, “and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law”.

It is said that the United States Department of Defense (USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

U.S. Department of Defense is, according to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, the second largest employer in the world, with over 1.4 million active-duty service personnel, including soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen, and guardians. The Department of Defense also maintains over 778,000 National Guard and reservists, and over 747,000 civilians, bringing the total to over 2.91 million employees. Its annual budget is said to be about or more than $842 billion in the fiscal year of 2024.

The Department of Defense is headed by the Secretary of Defense, a cabinet-level head who reports directly to the President of the United States. The legal roles and powers of the Secretary of Defense are mentioned in the federal law which is the title 10 U.S.C. § 113.

Continue reading “[Editorial] Should Pete Hegseth be United States Secretary of Defense? (January 14, 2025).”

[Subtile] State Farm Insurance in the United States (January 9, 2025).

Founded in 1922, State Farm is, according to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, the largest property, casualty, and auto insurance provider in the United States. State Farm is said to be ranked 39th or 42nd in the 2024 Fortune 500, which lists American companies by revenue.

The encyclopedia says that Michael L. Tipsord is the Chairman, and Jon Farney is the President & CEO (Chief Executive Officer) there.

Mr. Tipsord was born around June 20, 1959, and raised in Illinois. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. degree in 1981 from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, and magna cum laude with a J.D. degree in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tipsord replaced Edward B. Rust Jr. as chairman on September 1, 2015.

Mr. Jon Farney received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Illinois State University, Normal, and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Farney joined State Farm in 1993 and has served in a variety of executive leadership positions, including Assistant Vice President – Securities Products, Assistant Vice President – Planning & Analysis, Vice President – Financial Operations, and Operations Vice President – Underwriting.

These individuals were and are the CEOs of the company on record. They were and are George J. Mecherle (1922–1937, 14 years), Raymond Mecherle (1937–1954, 16 years), Adlai Rust (1954–1970, 15 years), Edward B. Rust Sr. (1970–1985, 14 years), Edward B. Rust Jr. (1985–2015, 29 years), Michael L. Tipsord (2015–2024, 9 years), Jon Farney (2024–present).

Michael L. Tipsord (Chairman) and Jon Farney (President & CEO) should explain why State Farm has been so widely hated in the United States. State Farm is arguably one of the most hated, detested, disliked, or despised companies by the general public in the United States.

The American Newspaper Editorial.
www.americannewspaper.org

Published: Thursday, January 9, 2025, (01/09/2025) at 8:58 A.M.

(Links).

[Link] State Farm (Wekipedia).

[Link] Michael L. Tipsord (Wikipedia).

[Link] Jon Farney, President and Chief Executive Officer, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. (Business Roundtable)

[Link] State Farm® announces new leadership (official website).

[Link] State Farm Insurance (official website).
(www.statefarm.com)

Nuclear weapons, ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), martial law, impeachments, South Korea, North Korea, China, the United States, the 1950 Korean War, espionage & spies, the 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit, the 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, music, indirect invasion, chaos, and instability – what do these words have in common?

Mr. Yoon Suk Yeol has served as the 13th and current President of the Republic of Korea – commonly known as “South Korea” – since 2022. President Yoon declared martial law in South Korea on December 3, 2024.

The National Assembly passed an emergency motion nullifying declaration of the martial law several hours after Yoon’s speech. The impeachment process is underway. Furthermore, the motions for the impeachment of other government officials have already been passed by the National Assembly.

The North Korea’s INDIRECT (emphasis added) approaches, strategy, and invasion were not well known to the world or to the general public in South Korea (arguably both innocent/naive and deceived). However, these approaches proved to be highly effective – so effective, in fact, that they succeeded in deceiving many individuals in South Korea.

All of this instability and chaos seems to originate from the North’s political and military will to invade and conquer the South someday in the (long) future. This basic and simple strategy of North Korea has never changed since the end of the Korean War in 1953. However, its tactics have continued to change, and have evolved dramatically.

In a nutshell, indirect invasion is, or appears to be, the origin of the political and social chaos in today’s South Korea. This strategy and these tactics have produced, are producing, and/or will produce very destructive and chaotic results in South Korea because the strategy, devices, tools, agents (or secret agents), and proxies are being chemically and successfully fused with the OCHLOCRACY(emphasis added) within South Korea.

The American Newspaper Editorial.
www.americannewspaper.org

Published: January 7, 2025 (01/07/2025).

The process and the result of the 2024 presidential election showed that the current status of the modern politics in the United States arguably has some elements of ochlocracy.

According to Wikipedia, ancient Greek political thinkers regarded ochlocracy as one of the three “bad” forms of government (tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy) as opposed to the three “good” forms of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.

Those thinkers distinguished “good” and “bad” according to whether the form of government acted in the interest of the whole community (“good”) or in the exclusive interests of a group or individual at the expense of justice (“bad”).

Ochlocracy appears to be in opposition to the ideal version of democracy.


The American Newspaper Editorial.
www.americannewspaper.org

Published: January 6, 2025 (01/06/2025).