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  • Election Pundits: Clueless, Spectacularly Clueless

    Election Pundits: Clueless, Spectacularly Clueless0

    Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, in a victory which gobsmacked the media and pundits. Trump overcame sex scandals, bad debates, a shambolic organisation, hostility from the grandees of his own party and a relentlessly hostile media. It was a smashing success. Instead of dragging the Republicans into infighting, irrelevance and

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  • Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty

    Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty0

    As I’ve said before in print, I’m not the best of prognosticators.            An early example of my failures as a crystal ball reader comes from long ago when I was a seventh-grader at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. My roommate appeared after Christmas break with an album by four Brits

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  • Eisenhower Warned About Scientific Elites Like Dr. Fauci

    Eisenhower Warned About Scientific Elites Like Dr. Fauci4

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address is famous for his prophetic warning about the military-industrial complex: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Eisenhower’s warning is often repeated but

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  • Einstein on the Key to Learning Anything

    Einstein on the Key to Learning Anything0

    Albert Einstein was a much better student than conventional wisdom would have you believe. The popular myth that Einstein was a poor student belies the truth: he was a math prodigy before the age of 12. Records reveal that young Albert was “remarkably gifted” in algebra and physics, scored high marks in Greek and Latin,

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  • Eight Venezuelan Industries Hugo Chavez Nationalized (Besides Oil)

    Eight Venezuelan Industries Hugo Chavez Nationalized (Besides Oil)0

    Venezuela has experienced one of the sharpest economic declines in modern history – rampant inflation, near-famine, and an exodus of millions of asylum seekers. Yet there remains disagreement over what caused it. Many refuse to blame socialism, instead citing the collapse of oil prices, corruption, its abandonment of democracy, and other factors. If socialism did play a

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  • Eight Surprises From the First Democratic Debate

    Eight Surprises From the First Democratic Debate0

    This year the Democratic Party has a paltry few candidates running for president. Twenty-five to be exact. Twenty of them are a part of the first debate in Miami, which has been broken up into two days – June 26 and June 27 – with ten candidates each day. Here are eight, somewhat unexpected, occurrences

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