Trump – What Happened?

A lot of people are now asking “Trump – what happened?” President-elect Donald Trump’s victory certainly shattered the world for a lot of people, me included. It raised a lot of questions, and I pose some of them below with reflections. What happened to the vaunted Hillary Clinton ground game? All the way during this…

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The Economy is like a Mexican Standoff

I was trying to find a way to describe the current U.S. economic situation simply, and what I came up with was a Mexican standoff. You could just call it a stalemate, except I when I think of a Mexican standoff I usually think of buffoonish characters, like those below. And that seems more accurate…

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Questioning Obama Birth Certificate is Wasting Valuable Time and Money

Its hard to believe that anyone spends any time, much less money, questioning President Obama’s birth certificate. Yet, there is a whole campaign to erect billboards to this effect. Now, on top of it, along comes Donald Trump, prospective Republican contender. (See this excellent article by Christopher Byron for background on that!) What’s instructional about…

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The US Recession is Over–That’s a Fact, Not an Opinion

A week or so ago, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) put out announcement stating that the recession had ended in June 2009. Subsequently, numerous articles were written with titles like, “For Many of Us, the Recession Lives On” and “Recession Not over for Most People.” Although I get the point that a lot…

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Genocide in Darfur

The genocide in Darfur is staggering: Since February 2003, as many as 200,000—and possibly as many as 400,000 people—have been murdered in Sudan’s Darfur region. More than two million victims have been displaced and many of these victims are women and children. In addition, thousands of women have been raped, and it is reported that…

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