Here’s what a professor of theology at Georgetown University told me when I was young, when I happened to have asked him about his career, and his life more generally: Most people work 50 weeks of the year doing something …
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The Challenge in Closing the Gap Between Rich and Poor
Since my college days almost 50 years ago, I’ve believed that the United States is experiencing the unsustainable end game of unbridled capitalism, i.e., that we were seeing winners win and the losers lose. I graduated in 1977, just before …
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Margaret Thatcher Got This Completely Wrong
What Margaret Thatcher said here is completely untrue. There are numerous government investments that add jobs (thus adding to the tax base) and make our country more competitive on the global stage. This why it’s such a disaster that the United …
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Understanding U.S. Energy Independence
From senior energy analyst Robert Rapier: Every time someone says “Trump made us energy independent, and we lost that under Biden” — I ask them to back that up. The most important thing is to get them to define energy …
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Making Life Difficult
It seems like we’ve forgotten what makes life pleasant for the common American. Between the end of World War II and the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, taxes on corporations and the ultra rich were very high, and those …
The Only Real Focus of Government Spending Is Explosives
This has been a feature of life in the U.S. for as long as I can remember, but admittedly, it’s getting worse. If you want money for destroying people and their property, no one questions it for a second. Try …
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Boycott Amazon
As far as I’m aware, there’s nothing you can buy on Amazon that you can’t on Ebay. In any case, I haven’t shopped on Amazon in the many years since it became apparent how poorly it treats its employees, and, …
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Mexico’s Grid-Mix Features Fuel Oil
Leaving tomorrow for five days in Mexico. Was concerned about blackouts, but then realized that Mexico’s grid-mix includes fuel oil, and they have plenty of that. In terms of stability in record-breaking temperatures, they’re in better shape than we are.
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The Consequence of the Rich Getting Richer
The illustration here depicts a great many important changes that have taken place in America since 1960, among them our religious observances, formality of dress, and use of technology. The author of the meme makes an even more important point, …
China’s Plan Is Brilliant, and It’s Being Executed with Laser-Like Precision
It seems that all our concern about China’s military expansion is simply needless worry. The Chinese are on a path toward world domination, but it doesn’t involve violence; it’s being accomplished by harnessing the stupidity of the United States and …
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