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For the past 2-months, the country has been on a moral bender, intoxicated by fear/panic. As with most benders, the aftermath will be painful.In the middle of my tiny neighborhood on the Connecticut shore, there is a nobbly, plinth-like stone about 2 feet high surrounded by a circle of grass and some simple decorative stonework. On 1-side of the stone is a brass plaque to “the eternal memory” of the 26 men from the neighborhood who fought in World War I, “the great conflict between liberty/autocracy.” On the other side, a plaque commemorates the 17 men who fought in World...

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania is in the news again. Last year, you may recall all the hype about Democrat Connor Lamb narrowly winning a special congressional district election in a district overwhelmingly won by Donald Trump in 2016.Westmoreland County alone, in fact, provided a bigger vote margin for Trump than he won throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which put him over the 270 vote threshold to win the presidency.What they did not tell you is that Lamb's margin of victory came entirely from neighboring Allegheny County, home to the deep blue city of Pittsburgh and that Lamb's appeal was as a...

The Federal Reserve gives us the freedom to buy things now that we would otherwise have to wait for.In looking at the Federal Reserve, it is important to note that this is a money system, not just a group of people sitting in a conference room controlling everything having to do with the US dollar. The Fed is a system just like the government of the US is a system. What that means is that no one controls it, and that it is much bigger than any one person or group of people could ever control. They can guide it,...

I don't know how to tell the Seymour Hersh Crowd this but the terrorists you dismiss as "Bloody Wogs" DO know how to read....and how to do a LOT of things ! Why are you pushing them to prove it ?

The Beast in the Garden,by environmental issues writer David Baron is a true story,which presents the background of the first (known)fatal human/cougar encounter,which took place in the Boulder,Colorado area in 1991. The incident was pretty much "buried" by the national media,because the First Gulf War had just begun,but even the local newspapers relegated it to the inside pages. The residents of Boulder-one of the most liberal cities in the United States-valued wildlife so much,they let deer roam their streets and strip their gardens.When the presence of so many deer brought cougars,they rejoiced ! When the cougars began hunting in the...

<p>Eliminate the Internet bubble, and where is Silicon Valley's economy?</p> <p>By numbers alone, the valley's economy appears to be right where it was in 1999. After the hysteria of the Internet boom, the number of jobs in the valley is back to 1999 levels; sales by Silicon Valley's biggest companies are back where they were three years ago.</p>