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Making sense of the insensible by telling malicious truths, challenging my own assumptions, and reflecting on the passing scene.
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The Language of Deception (opens the original)
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The English language is a marvelous instrument. Not only are there multiple words to describe the same activity or condition, such as…· dine, nibble, graze, feast, ingest, and others that all speak to eating· damp, moist, soaked, drenched, soggy, etc., that address levels of wetness…there are also euphemisms often used to avoid calling things what they really are. One of those is democratic socialism, whose adherents will henceforth be referred to as DemSocs, an ideology presented to a frustrate
Welcome to the War Economy (opens the original)
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What is the level above global cop? Because that’s where America is headed. It’s not just the massive, proposed increase in defense spending – from $900 billion annually to $1.5 trillion – it’s also the new default approach of addressing every international issue that exists through military means. Ironically, these adventures have nothing to do with democracy, national security, terrorism, or freedom. They are motivated by far more crass goals.Venezuela, Russia, Iran, and another front you have
The Problem with Other People’s Money (opens the original)
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Apparently, people around the world are dying or will die, and the American taxpayer is to blame. More specifically, one American taxpayer is at fault – Elon Musk, the man who drove the DOGE initiative that exposed USAID as an expensive cesspool of corruption and misuse of money, and
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