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Everything Has Tolerances (opens the original)
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Manufacturing teaches a lesson society often forgets: change the inputs far enough, and eventually you change the output. By Michael Smith · October 1, 2026https://patriotpost.us/articles/1001490-everything-has-tolerances I had a quick chat with a friend this past week about a measurement challenge his company faces with a product. It felt surprisingly good to talk about capability studies, repeatability and reproducibility, set masters, certification of standards, establishing limits, controlli
Truth Versus Rhetoric (opens the original)
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These are two very different things, and people have forgotten the differences, if they ever knew them. By Michael Smith · September 9, 2026https://patriotpost.us/articles/1000771-truth-versus-rhetoric I’ve spent the last few years observing how politicians, pundits, and “reporters” frame their questions to people they like and don’t like. Based on my entirely partisan bias, I have to say that the Left is treated significantly differently from the Right. There are far fewer aggressive approaches
The One-Way Social Contract (opens the original)
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One group of capable adults transfers responsibility for maintaining themselves to another group of capable adults, with the government acting as the collection agency. By Michael Smith · September 2, 2026https://patriotpost.us/articles/1000607-the-one-way-social-contract We ought to apply a fairly simple test to every political ideology and every government built upon one. It requires no elaborate economic model, no appeal to Marx, Locke, Rawls, Hayek, or anybody else. It does not even require
A Malevolent Nexus (opens the original)
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Our problems seem to begin and end with the internalizers and externalizers. America was designed for discriminating attributors, and none other. By Michael Smith · August 26, 2026https://patriotpost.us/articles/1000393-a-malevolent-nexus There seem to be three broad kinds of people in the modern Western world, distinguished less by politics or class than by where they locate the causes of what happens to them and others. The first internalizes nearly everything — these are the chronic internali
The WNBA Is Caught Between Two Millstones (opens the original)
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Postmodernism cannot reconcile the contradictions it creates. In the case of the women’s basketball league, those contradictions are absurd. By Michael Smith · August 19, 2026https://patriotpost.us/articles/130031-the-wnba-is-caught-between-two-millstones-2026-08-19 Even I have fallen prey to calling an event “the most important” of our lifetime. As sure as the sunrise, something else immediately ratchets up the stakes. The truth is, we are all descendants of King Sisyphus, each day pushing a bo
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