There is no question that the world needs a bumper crop of peace-makers, rather than a few more billionaires demanding tax cuts at the expense of the common man. But how could this possibly come about? In particular, who are …
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Limitations on DOGE
It’s funny, my wife and I were just talking about this. It’s only a matter of time before a DOGE guy wants to enter a private business or residence and it is met with an armed fellow who explains, “If …
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In What Sense Is the Economy “Rigged?”
What has happened to the economy over the past half century? Well, here are a number of things that are provable: Almost all new wealth has wound up in the hands of the top 1%, which has driven the demand …
Tell Us How You *Really* Feel
The weird thing about Trump is that about half of voters agree with Robert DeNiro (though we might not express ourselves quite like he does), while the other half believe the president was sent by God to make America great …
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We Need an Economy that Works for Everyone
Yes, that’s true. But that would a be a lot easier to achieve if we had fewer hateful, uneducated people who vote for Trump.
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Trump and an Unstable Civilization
An old friend sent me this article that deals with an instability that Team Trump is sewing into human civilization. The real problem of course, is that people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump don’t rely on 401(k)s to provide …
Boycotting Tesla
Tesla sales were sliding long before Musk was appointed to be the lead executioner for essentially everything that the federal government does to serve the American people. Bumper stickers like the one below began to show up as soon as …
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Reforming the Democratic Party
I trust Bernie Sanders, and I’d like to believe he’s right here, but I actually don’t. In 2024, a plurality of voters elected Trump, consisting of perhaps 20% amoral rich people and 80% uneducated morons. These people absolutely adore what …
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**Some** Americans Are Embarrassed About What Our Nation Has Become
Let’s be honest. The American people elected this SOB just a few months ago, and he was hardly an unknown quantity. We need to deal with the fact that almost half of U.S. voters approve of ignorance of basic economics, …
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Another Website for Climate Deniers
As shown at left, the people who want to muddy the waters on climate change (Big Oil?) are at it again. In truth, there were occasional articles in the early 20th Century that (correctly) asserted that the emissions from burning …
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