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Life and politics

Chicago needs reality check

As of now, Chicago can try to lure more tourists with a slogan: Come and see the last days...

Aug 24, 2017

Less fight more work

The fight over Obamacare repeal is over, at least for now. The GOP can start to work on a...

Jul 31, 2017

19 health care issues that politicians avoid talking about

We cheat ourselves if we discuss health care policy without openly talking about money.

Jul 13, 2017

The future will be bright … for others

We use the modern information technology not to learn, but to reassure ourselves that what we already know makes...

Jun 16, 2017

Is angel investing upside down?

As far as human memory reaches back, rich people have always financed the wild ideas of all sorts of...

Apr 20, 2016

Can GOP hold the White House for the next 16 years?

That scenario is unlikely, if the leading Republican presidential contender wins the nomination. As Dr. Ben Carson said, it...

Mar 24, 2016

With a hoe against the Sun

If we spend all the money we have and can borrow to fight climate change – will it make...

Capitalism, socialism and communism

Communism as a political reality existed mostly in the minds of undereducated Americans. Capitalism and socialism are not compatible.

Nov 12, 2015

What is the United States to you?

I grew up in Poland, when it was a part of the Soviet Bloc. In my late teens I...

Oct 26, 2015

They do not know…

Mr. Trump says: “A lot of what I’m doing is by instinct.” I prefer that our President would make...

Sep 14, 2015
Remark of the day

Tom Homan, Eliot Ness of our era

December 19, 2024
Immigration

For a hammer, everything is a nail. Carlson Tucker's interview with Tom Homan shows a decent cop trying to enforce our immigration laws, which are as good and as unenforceable as Prohibition. The same politicians voted in both in the early 1920s. Eliot Ness did not make Prohibition work. People wishing to live in the U.S. come to the country illegally because it is the easiest way to obtain legal residence. Even the best police work by the Border Czar will not change it. Many will get hurt, but maybe Americans will realize that ending illegal immigration could be as easy as ending the menace of Prohibition — by repealing our immigration laws.

Killing CEOs does not solve the problem

December 12, 2024
Health care, Media

The media noticed that the public shows solidarity with Luigi Mangione and has little ...

DOGE is much ado about nothing

December 05, 2024
Life and politics, Media

The media noted that even Trump opponents see potential benefits of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. ...

Two jokes about Russia

November 28, 2024
Ukraine

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...

How to respond to the nuclear blackmail?

November 19, 2024
Ukraine

Putin always waved that he had atomic bombs. Now, he claims that he might use it if, thanks to the military help, Ukrai...