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The Californization of America - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Steve Kettmann, New York Timesimage from articleExcerpt:California’s raw economic power is old news. What’s different, just in the past few years, is the combination of its money, population and...
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Howard Stern for Director of The Broadcasting Board of Governors [BBG]!
[On somewhat passé"shock jock" radio host Stern (who might be looking for a new job), see]From a Facebook comment [on the BBG -- The Broadcasting Board of Governors -- see (1) (2)]:John Brown I am...
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The Mexican Revival of Small-Town America - Note for a discussion, "E...
Alfredo Corchado, New York Times; original article contains linksImage (not from article) from. under the headline: "Kennett Square’s Mushroom Drop One of State’s Top New Year’s Eve...
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America 2.0: The Threat of Neotribalism (image & text): Note for a...
Jason Gots, bigthink.com; article [date not cited] contains a video, "Marilynne Robinson on tribalism and openness in American society."Article Image: What's the Big Idea?The gridlock in Washington...
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An Angle on the News, May 31-June 3
--"Obama did not like persuading people to do what they didn’t want to do. And that is the definition of politics. He wanted them simply to do what he had ascertained to be right." Maureen Dowd, New...
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The best kind of book reviewer ...
J.C., "Bog standard,"The Times Literary Supplement (May 18, 2015), p. 36image fromExcerpt:[Anthony] Burgess was almost forty before he published a novel, Time for a Tiger (1956); he wrote another...
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Punctuation ...
J. C., "Bog standard,"The Times Literary Supplement (May 18 2018), p. 36image fromExcerpt:Words being more or less forbidden, you can always fall back on punctuation. But, "be careful with periods!"...
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Full employment in the USA
image fromAs a complete non-economist totally ignorant of the dismal science (I am gradually understanding why interest rates rise when bond prices go down -- or is it the other way around?), I was...
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Quick, make an offer! 5 cities where homes sold fastest, and the 5 slowest
usatoday.com(Photo: Feverpitched, Getty Images/iStockphoto)Buying a home has turned into a game of Jeopardy!: If you don’t act with lightning speed, you lose.U.S. homes that sold in April – meaning...
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Blue bins overflow with Amazon and Walmart boxes. But we're actually...
Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY(Photo: Elizabeth Weise)SAN FRANCISCO – Walk down the street on garbage day in many towns, and evidence of our love affair with online shopping is plain to see. Recycling bins...
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Trump Talking Points on Trade (from his White House adviser) ...
Peter Navarro, New York Times; original article contains links[Peter Navarro is assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing policy.]image fromJune 8, 2018President Trump arrived at the Group...
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Colleges Grapple With Where — or Whether — to Draw the Line on Free Speech -...
By Alina Tugend, New York Times, June 5, 2018image from articleHigher education is struggling to balance the demand by some students to be protected from offensive speech while guaranteeing freedom of...
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If There’s a Red Wave Election in 2018, This Will Be Why
Christopher Buskirk, New York Times, June 8, 2028image (not from article) fromExcerpt:Republicans have long criticized Democrats for dividing the country into competing grievance groups. Some now...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Note for a...
goodreads.com; see alsoAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswoldimage fromPrize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on...
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How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World
Bettany Hughes, New York TimesSt. John Chrysostom image from articleTHE DARKENING AGE The Christian Destruction of the Classical World By Catherine NixeyIllustrated. 315 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt....
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A Multidimensional Religious Story
John J. Miller, Wall Street JournalIn Edwin A. Abbott’s ‘Flatland,’ a 2-D square discovers there’s more to the universe than up, down, left and right.image from articleExcerpt:Welcome to the...
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‘The World as It Is’ Review: A Witness to Hope and Change - Note for a...
Martin Peretz, Wall Street Journalimage fromAs Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes was a White House myth shaper. His memoirs codify the myths for posterity. Martin Peretz reviews...
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An Asian-American Awakening: Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Wall Street JournalA racial minority fights discrimination from elite schools and universities.PHOTO: CHUNYAN LIByWilliam McGurnJune 11, 2018 6:20 p.m. ETHave progressives poked a sleeping giant? A...
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"The core divide in our politics" -- Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
David Brooks, "Donald Trump Is Not Playing by Your Rules," New York TimesImage fromExcerpt:[I]n the low-trust Trumpian worldview, values don’t matter; there are only interests. In the Trumpian...
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Opinions: It’s time for Sally Hemings to show us the unvarnished Thomas...
By Melody Barnes, Washington PostHemings image fromJune 15 at 5:49 PMMelody Barnes is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the Compton Visiting Professor in World...
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