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Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the damn gummint.
Gutting the Civil Service will put Trump where Garfield ended up
Hey Vlad. You take Europe, I'll take the Americas. Deal?
OK Shitler Show us the wire transfers from China for tariffs
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887
A rebuke from the nation's highest court in his wished-for war with the nation's federal courts could well cripple Mr. Trump's presidency and tarnish his legacy. And Chief Justice Marshall's assertion that it is the duty of the courts to say what the law is will be the last word.
-- J. Michael Luttig/2025 [one can only hope. the Gang of Six may have other ideas]
Mr. Trump also said that during their meeting Mr. Karp had "acknowledged the wrongdoing of former Paul Weiss partner Mark Pomerantz." Mr. Pomerantz had tried to build a criminal case against Mr. Trump several years ago while working at the Manhattan district attorney's office. [my emphasis]
-- Matthew Goldstein, et al/2025
There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024
We are now buddies with the Axis of Evil.
-- Claire McCaskill/2025 [Good News!! Make America White Again]
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887
A rebuke from the nation's highest court in his wished-for war with the nation's federal courts could well cripple Mr. Trump's presidency and tarnish his legacy. And Chief Justice Marshall's assertion that it is the duty of the courts to say what the law is will be the last word.
-- J. Michael Luttig/2025 [one can only hope. the Gang of Six may have other ideas]
Mr. Trump also said that during their meeting Mr. Karp had "acknowledged the wrongdoing of former Paul Weiss partner Mark Pomerantz." Mr. Pomerantz had tried to build a criminal case against Mr. Trump several years ago while working at the Manhattan district attorney's office. [my emphasis]
-- Matthew Goldstein, et al/2025
There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024
We are now buddies with the Axis of Evil.
-- Claire McCaskill/2025 [Good News!! Make America White Again]
I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!>
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!>
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This Week's thought
NATO's enlargement, which, as Rahm Emanuel likes to point out, wasn't a case of the Atlantic Alliance moving east but of the Eastern Bloc moving west out of a well-placed fear of Russia. -- Bret Stephens/2025 [Russian political paranoia is centuries olde, on to Poland!]
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