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Mattis's Mistake
General James Mattis is a man of extraordinary accomplishments, genuine intellectual heft, and impressive wisdom, and his experience and mindset is distinctly North American and shaped by years of experience in the American military. He... Read →
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The Joke is on Me and Lots of Others
Georgia's election outcome and the Brian Kemp systematically disenfranchised votes shows that Georgia is not everything we had hoped.
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Long Island City Gets Amazon; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Protestors Misguided
I live in New York and have for many years. I have been a big beneficiary of the fact that this City, under Michael Bloomberg’s and Bill De Blasio’s leadership, has attracted Google and now Amazon to make major investments... Read →
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The Caravan – Tragic but Brilliant
While the Republicans make noises about deep-pocket Democrats seeding dissent and organizing protests in Central America, imagine for a moment what is really happening. And what is happening is very simply one of the most well planned and... Read →
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Amazon Is Getting on My Nerves
It’s been a year since Amazon began its “secretive” review of a location for its second major operating headquarters. And, it has now reached the absurd. At first it was fun trying to psych out the location and then... Read →
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Being A Woman Does Not Alone An American Hero Make
It’s understandable that we look to women now to take us out of the current crisis in America . There is no question that men, holding the vast majority of positions in the two houses of Congress and in the Administration, are feeble... Read →
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Senate Confirmation of Kavanaugh is a Huge Victory for Democrats
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation to the Supreme Court is a tremendous defeat for democracy and probably a serious low point for our country. At least it is a low point in terms of things we have done to ourselves. Pearl Harbor... Read →
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Amarin Shows Vascepa Is A Mega Blockbuster
Tiny little Amarin Corporation, an Irish pharmaceuticals company, just released the results of the reduce-it trial today. Amarin was testing the effect of epa - one of the components of fish oil - in patients with a history of heart... Read →
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The New York Times – All the News That’s Fit to Print -- and Then Some
The New York Times did a very, very stupid thing, either because they themselves – like most Americans these days – are pretty stupid, or because they were bending over backward (foolishly) to show how impartial they... Read →
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American Women, American History will Not Forget!
#MeToo and all of the strides women have made in recent years are about to fall for want of two women in America on whom so much rests and who now appear not to have the ”cajones” to save contemporary women’s rights, roles... Read →
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Ignore the Know-Nothings Pushing Emerging Markets Now More than Ever
Every couple of hours, CNBC brings in a money management type to ask them what they are buying (and selling). Anyone who has been watching CNBC for more than a decade knows that this is a good time to hit the mute button. Sometimes,... Read →
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The US Economy Is Outperforming the Rest of the World, but Europe Will Be the Renewables Technology Leader in 20 Years
Technology is what has made the US great. It is what has made us more affluent as a society than any society in the history of mankind. And, over the last 20 years, the most extraordinarily innovative and influential companies like... Read →
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NY Times Op-Ed Author is A Woman, Maybe Kellyanne Conway
It won’t be long before the heroic author of the anonymous Op Ed in yesterday’s NYT is known. She knew she would be identified, even though she tried to hold her cover for a while – for example, by the diversion tactic of... Read →
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Woodward Book is the Latest Media Talking Point, but Won’t Change Anything
The media is going crazy trying to make hay of the revelations in Bob Woodward’s latest book. Much of what he says in his book have been said already. Somehow, the fact that these same things have been written by the journalist who... Read →
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