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The big news in my neck of the woods a couple weeks ago was the victory of self-affirmed socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City's Democratic primary…
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DEI's Demise
Ponder, if you will, that Trump has been President for less than six months.
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Culture Clash or Common Sense?
The Trump administration just scored a win in the cultural clash over trans persons in women's sports.
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Fine China
Can you believe that it's been fifteen years since columnist Thomas Friedman, then and now a columnist for the New York Times, coughed up his infamous…
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Plunder Politics
Just under a decade ago, The History Channel offered us Vikings, a historical drama set in the late eight century AD.
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Let Us Aspire
Yesterday was Independence Day here in the USA.
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The Parties Of Big Government
As Trump's Big Beautiful Bill plods along to eventual enactment, I find myself reminded - again - that the GOP talks a great fiscal responsibility game…
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“No More Billionaires!”
Ponder this meme.
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June 2025

Laws, and Laws
I often criticize binary thinking on this blog (and elsewhere), but I also recognize that it's often useful to sort things into two categories.
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A Dangerously Stupid Idea
New York City Democrats recently voted to select their party's next candidate for Mayor.
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Stealing Legacies
Imagine you own a motel in some major metropolitan area.
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Nuclear Reality
A mere four years after the morons who ran my home state shuttered the Indian Point nuclear plant, because global warming climate change climate…
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