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May 2023
While We Concentrate on Biden-Trump, the States Are Eating Our Lunch
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie has a most excellent column in a recent issue on what he calls “sharp new limits on the rights and privileges of…
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Jim Freeman
Are We Moving Quickly Enough—And Breaking Our Culture Sufficiently in the Process?
“Move fast and break things” is the mantra of our technological age. It’s the operative motto for Zuckerberg’s Facebook ( now named Meta) and he claims…
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Woke Is a Hell of a Long Way From Awakened
Woke is the new derogatory term for anyone with an interest in the past or a hope for the future. I guess that pretty much precludes any argument about…
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The Inflation Reduction Act—Another Case of Public Utilities Gone Private
Let me tell you a story about Chicago and its experience with a public utility gone private. It was December 1, 2008, the first time the Chicago City…
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Whether He Stays or Goes, a Reputation and a Legacy Are Destroyed
Confidence in the fairness of our legal systems must not only be maintained, but it must be perceived to be maintained. Unfortunately, we are way beyond…
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April 2023
Tucker Carlson Will Run for President
Don’t blame it on me. It wasn’t my idea, but the cards as they’re laid out are telling me that’s what’s likely to happen. Consider the present situation…
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The Tucker Carlson Firing May Have Longer Legs Than It Seems
I might be wrong, who would know, but I smell a larger story. Tucker is the biggest earner by far in the cable news world Last year, Tucker Carlson…
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Someone Always Gets Stuck With the Check After an Expensive Meal
It would be hard to find a table large enough to seat the major Silicon Valley startups these days, but the gluttony has been underway for twenty and…
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Allies (mostly America) Diddles While Ukraine Burns
Not exactly Nero in the days of the fall of Rome, these current chiefs of state, but close enough to rhyme. Mark Twain famously said “history never…
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A Paul Krugman Editorial
From time to time someone writes a column that strikes such a pure note with me that I feel obligated to share it. Paul Krugman has done just that. I…
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ChatGPT Is Out of Pandora’s Box and the Question Is, Will Writers Survive?
ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue. The language model can…
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