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PayPal users beware. Although PayPal has stopped saying it will seize the money in your PayPal account for posting or purchasing “misinformation,” it still says it can seize your money—and fine you $2500—for “racial or other forms of intolerance” or the “promotion of hate” (including paying for publications that promote hate or discrimination—libraries buy copies
READ MOREIf your birthday lands on June 18, you are lucky to share it with one of the most talented songwriters of all time: Sir Paul McCartney. The ex-Beatle turns 77 in 2019, right in the middle of a tour that will bring him to San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and Los Angeles. I’m probably
READ MOREIt’s always an occasion of note when Paul Krugman says a true thing. And it has happened. “Given the powers we grant to the president, who in some ways is almost like an elected dictator, giving the office to someone likely to abuse that power invites catastrophe.” Abused power is indeed potentially catastrophic. Perhaps there
READ MOREWhether you are a liberal or a conservative, your politics will likely be confirmed by reading A Pope and the President. And that’s too bad. Whether you are of a religious bent or not, your take on matters of faith will likely remain what they were before you opened this book. And that’s too bad
READ MORESam Haselby says this “should be the end times” for American patriotism. Yet the opposite seems to be happening, and he can’t understand why. America has no national education system, he notes. No conscription. No government agency that enforces the red-white-and-blue rituals performed at schools and sporting events coast-to-coast. Nor does America have a territorial
READ MOREMany years ago, I attended West Forsyth High School near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though our sports teams then were generally mediocre, at basketball and football games our cheerleaders would inevitably break into a chant: “WEST IS BEST! WEST IS BEST!” That cheer came back to me while reading “The Decline and Fall of the Descendants
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