CNBC comes to this realization this morning, as it notes: The coronavirus pandemic has led to a new era of inflation inequality, economists warn, in which poor households bear the brunt of rising prices. That’s because a bigger portion of their budget goes toward categories that have spiked in cost. Food is up 6.4% over the […]
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Partisan polarization feels like a fact of life. Media outlets and social media algorithms alike gravitate toward the extremes, so much of what we hear and see confirm this perception. Our political leaders, on both sides of the aisle, appeal to the most radical parts of their base to avoid primary challengers. Common ground is […]
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Democrats Prepare to Own the Coming Inflation
25 Oct 2021
Contrary to the motivational speakers, if you want something bad enough, you’ll do bad things to get it, and get bad results. The Democratic Party is preparing to walk over the cliff with their tax and spend bill, and they will have no escape from the inflationary effects to follow. It won’t matter that this […]
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History doesn’t repeat, Mark Twain said, but it sometimes rhymes. Sometimes the rhymes are so compelling that they cry out for comment. President Biden’s speech on August 31, 2021, on the end of the war in Afghanistan was, for me, one of those times. It recalled to me a speech given on June 4, 1940, […]
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We were told by the White House the president did not have the authority to extend the moratorium on evictions. Instead, it would take a change in the law. Congress, that bastion of limpness, always hoping to be relieved from the burden of legislating, begged the White House to act on its own. Now, like […]
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These days, it just seems that we are thoroughly unable to get through a political week without some inexplicable bout of duncery gracing the headlines of our news feeds. There’s a line from Pirates of the Carribbean in which Captain Jack says, “Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can trust to be dishonest […]
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Trustees or Delegates? Some Debates Never Die
16 Feb 2021
“We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us.” Dave Ball, chair of the Washington County GOP, unloaded on U.S. Senator Pat Toomey’s (R-PA) vote to convict former Pres. […]
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Some Republicans on the 2020 Election Results
07 Jan 2021
“It is over…[Biden] is the legitimate President of the United States.” Lindsey Graham (R-SC) “The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken…If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral.” Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “There is no evidence of significant fraud, conspiracies, or even […]
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Election Post-Mortem: Some Thoughts
10 Nov 2020
Well, it’s election day again…or, rather it’s done. I think; not really sure anymore. Has it been a week already? My how time flies; I’m not really sure anyone can keep track at this point. But, the important thing is that you’re here now, so you’re obviously interested in what I have to say. That […]
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Ginsburg’s Death Eclipses a Remarkable Life
19 Sep 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 87. As a law student, Ginsburg graduated first in her class at Columbia Law, but found it difficult to land a position. Her mentor told a judge friend he would no longer send students to him as clerks if he did […]
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