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Category Archives: Politics and Economics
Responding To Radical Jihadist Terror – I
The coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th have become the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back in a way that similar, but less emotive, assaults on a Russian airliner in Egypt’s Sinai, in Beirut, and earlier in … Continue reading
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Deflation
Well. Switzerland, home to sound money, shocked the financial world yesterday. The news even hit the Endurance Nation triathlon forum, where someone noted he had to cut his morning workout short because, Swiss National Bank. Deflation is the big fear … Continue reading
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A Festivus For The Rest of Us
…you don’t want to suppress or exclude somebody else, keep them feeling ostracized, so the way to bring them in is find the common ground, not have two separate celebrations. Then we can all join in, and be stronger together. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Politics and Economics
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FDR’s Second Bill of Rights
We need a powerful voice in the mold of proud liberals such as FDR and the Kennedys, winners of the economic race who recognized that a richer polity, a stronger nation, is best created through the efforts of all its people. And those efforts are not possible when one is struggling simply to eat, find shelter, and stay healthy. Continue reading
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I’m Mad As Hell, and I’m Not Going To Take It Anymore
We have put in place many “car controls” and “tobacco controls” to successfully reduce car- and tobacco-mediated deaths without banning cars or cigarettes. We can and must take the same approach with guns. Reducing such deaths by 25% would save 7,500 lives a year. Why should we just abandon those folks to their fate? Continue reading
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Safety in Sports
Judging other people for their choices is something I try to avoid. But helping people make better choices – that’s something that does have value. Continue reading
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The South Is Always Different, Part II (Django Unchained)
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll shudder in revulsion, and, most important, you’ll think about just what makes America such a mélange of good and evil. Continue reading
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The South Is Always Different
“The South is always different” – Mr. Dibble, first day of Sociology 101 in college I’ve been in 47 different states, 42 by the time I left high school. For some reason, my father never wanted to visit the Deep … Continue reading
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Now IS The Time
Those of us who think even one life lost to a bullet is wrong must keep the conversation going, to provide the same level of moral suasion that changed attitudes about drunk driving, or in an earlier era, about racial segregation. It can be done, it just requires concerted, systematic, repeated emphasis on what we should all agree on – that we don’t want any more mass killings in public places, be it of school kids, movie goers, any of us Continue reading
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Comeback Kid
2-3 years from now, we may begin to realize that the US economy has much more resilience, innovation, and growth potential then we’ve been assuming since the housing bubble burst here. And China, for all its size, its monolithic state capitalism, and aggrandizement of manufacturing expertise, may just find itself running out of steam, just as Japan did 25 years ago. Continue reading
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