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It's Finally Time to Follow Australia
In April 1996, some lunatic opened fire in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, killing 35 and wounding 23. Port Arthur involved only a single shotgun and a single deranged individual. Yet, Australians were sensible enough to just say... Read →
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Open Season
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s latest charges that Russia did indeed play a major and invasive role in the 2016 Presidential Elections, are finally incontrovertible evidence that Russian operatives did everything they could to take... Read →
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Where is My Roy Cohn?
Donald Trump, at a moment of great insecurity, was heard recently to exclaim, "Where is my Roy Cohn?" It was, at the same time, unsettling and telling. Unsettling because it revealed much about Trump when he is most... Read →
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The US to Go Down the UK’s Horrible Infrastructure Path
I lived in London in 2000 and 2001 and worked for a consultancy that pushed so-called public-private partnerships (“PPPs”). As an American and as an entrepreneur, I became personally disgusted by the concept of PPPs. The... Read →
Dell, VMWare and the Biggest Investment Mistakes I Have Ever Made
The biggest investment mistakes that I have ever made all have one thing in common, whether they have involved being long a stock or failing to be long a stock, or shorting a stock. And, that one thing has been to stay with an investment... Read →
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Immigration Policy is Badly in Need of Change – And Neither Party Understands or Uses Hard Data
The Democrats are painting themselves into a corner over a too extreme position in favor of a very liberal immigration policy. In the current environment, the Democrats will have to give some. The Republicans, on the other hand, are just... Read →
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Giant Pharmaceutical Companies Abandon Research on Alzheimer’s Disease, Leaving Millions Without Hope
For years now, those suffering from Alzheimer’s, their families and their caregivers have been holding their collective breaths awaiting announcements by big pharma of a breakthrough on major research and development to find a cure... Read →
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A Physical Exam Without a Test for Dementia
Trump will soon have his first full physical exam since entering the White House. There has been much concern expressed, given the explosion of questions about his mental state, that he will not be having any tests for dementia as part of... Read →
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The Pendulum Swing
A lot of very positive things have happened in the last months, all of which have given important visibility to sexism in our daily work lives and to the still very much unfinished work of equal rights in every thing and everyway for women.... Read →
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Basket of Deplorables
America is in a bad place, at home and abroad. In fact, there is considerable consensus within the country, among Republicans and Democrats alike, that the country is in trouble. Each side is pointing fingers at the other, but the reality... Read →
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Dreamers No More
It’s entirely possible that America’s 800,000 Dreamers will actually get expelled from the United States and sent to countries they know absolutely nothing about and speak not a whit of their language. These are Americans in... Read →
Door Finally Opens to Taxing Non-Profits in 2018
The new Trumpian Tax Law just passed by Congress did a lot of very unfortunate things, most especially handing out disproportionate tax cuts and advantages to the most wealthy individuals and companies at the expense of everyone else. In... Read →
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Turning a Blind Eye Again on Nursing Home Abuse
The last place anyone wants to be, and the one place many if not most end up, is a nursing home. Nursing homes are famous for turning a blind eye, even abusing those under their care. With only rare exceptions, they tend to be shabby,... Read →
Hard to Believe!
It’s just plain hard to believe that Apple would intentionally engineer the slow down of the operating systems of older iPhones for any reason whatsoever, least of which would be to get users to discard their old phones and to buy new... Read →
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