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The author transcribes a set of headlines from the current press and lets the reader make her/his own connections and conclusions. On the personal order he concludes that the spirit of…
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Today, as the suicide trends show, the injuries of class are hardly hidden. They are open sores, belying all pretensions to an American Dream or to a Great Society.
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Dark Capital is a big reason there is never enough tax revenue around to rebuild infrastructure, to reinvent industry, to bear the cost of transitioning to a green energy paradigm, and…
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That sorry bunch, the Cuban Mafia or the Cuban Con Artists, call them what you will, were left out of the conversation because their intention was to prevent any conversation, or even…
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They say that Minerva’s owl flies at dusk—wisdom comes too late. But sometimes Minerva’s owl flies at first light, and being among the first to perceive has its cost too. The Sunday New…
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President Obama crossed the Rubicon when he rejected the notion that the interests of the Cuban people should or can be defined by the United States. That, in itself, is a legacy, one…
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Marco Rubio, who came into the campaign as a lion and exited as a lamb once predicted that Donald Trump would destroy the Republican party. That might be the only honest thing Rubio has…
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A study released last week found levels of the radioactive isotope tritium in bay water at levels 215 times normal. This poses a threat not just to the ecology of the bay and its…
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The Republican party is imploding. They sense this and are anguished. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.
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Hillary Clinton’s crushing defeat of Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary signals the end of his noble quest to become, as the title of his book states, “an outsider in the…
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