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I think I was in college when I saw Ted Koppel interview Ferdinand Marcos about some riots that were happening in the Philippines.  The interview began with some video of the riots, and then Koppel began to ask Marcos about his government’s response to them.  Marcos just looked at him blankly, and said:  ‘There were …

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It’s not chess; it’s just the classic shell game

USA Today recently ran a lengthy article analyzing the challenges that President Biden faces as he deals with the immigration problem on our southern border.  Written by an ensemble of well-respected journalists, the piece was entitled “High-level chess”: How Biden is navigating his relationship with Mexico’s President ‘AMLO.’  The article was accompanied by a photo …

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Blaming CO2 – We’ll Roast… We’ll Drown… We’ll Starve… We’ll Sneeze???

There is a certain alarmist style of reporting where any series of unfortunate events will be blamed on Global Cooling, er, Global Warming, er, Climate Change, Oh, Heck – Let’s just blame CO2 directly! In that vein, we now have an amazing piece from USA Today blaming allergy season on CO2! They failed to convince …

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