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The Real “Border Problem
On Friday, more than six months after President Biden put her in charge of the “border problem,” Kamala Harris visited the US-Mexico border. (The White House announced her trip the day after Trump announced…
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Never Too Old to Dance
At the age of 60, Martha Gellhorn, best known as the third wife of Ernest Hemingway (although she was already an accomplished writer with a brilliant career when she met him) decided she’d learn to dance…
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Execution or Self-Defense?
The policemen involved in the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. will not face charges, the Elizabeth City (N. Carolina) DA announced recently. Brown, who was Black, was killed in April as he tried to flee…
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Living Rich: Great Cigars for Less Than $10
At my private Cigar Club, we serve our guests a variety of cigar sizes, strengths, and flavors – ranging from as little as $4 a stick to more than $16. I want my guests to have the best smoking experience they…
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The Not-So-Free Press
I’ve been in the business of selling newsletters by subscription since my Peace Corps days. The subscription business was always bigger than the general advertising business, but nobody knew it. When the…
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To Buy or Not to Buy: Suzanne and I Compare Notes on 7 Paintings by Denis Nunez
One of the fun things I like about collecting art with a partner is that you get to know one another’s preferences – generally and with respect to particular artists. When Suzanne Snider and I are buying…
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Famous Writers Begging For Money Throughout History
From Letters of Note – “a reassuring reminder that 99.9% of people have at some point worried about, needed more of, and sometimes written awkward, angry, or amusing letters about, money.” John O’Hara, letter…
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How good are you at identifying common flowers?
I’ve spent 5 years and a small fortune developing a botanical garden. That experience has taught me a good deal about trees and plants – so I foolishly thought, when I took this test, that I would do better…
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8 Worthy Thoughts About First Love
I have a special home in the city of my heart where my first love resides. I didn’t build it. At least, not consciously. I found it many years later. My first love was not my greatest love. Or my most enduring…
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Charges, No Charges – You Decide
Charges: An officer involved in a fatal shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, will face charges of second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors announced. Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black resident of the…
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Infrastructure Spending's Diminishing Economic Returns
In introducing Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, some pundits explained that the actual cost would be nothing because of the “multiplying effect” on such programs – i.e., the programs would result in…
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Things You Can Do (or Could Have Done) in Nicaragua That You Couldn’t Do in the USA
* Nearly die climbing a cliff you shouldn’t have climbed (because you are too stubborn to believe advice about how dangerous it is). * Get a haircut for $3. * Surf all year round in one of the best surfing…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — March 28, 2021
THE FACTS * A man was sent to jail for referring to his daughter as “she.” A British Columbia man was arrested for referring to his 16-year-old transgender child (who was born female but prefers male pronouns)…
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Interesting Facts About the History of Wrestling
Most of the following are from a series of columns written by the late Bob Dellinger, wrestling historian and former director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. * Wrestling, mankind’s oldest and most…
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I Told Them So…
I want to tell them that I told them so, but instead I’m going to say it here. The two most incendiary issues of the last election were Trump’s handling of the Corona Crisis and the border wall. The Democrats…
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How to Learn Multiple Languages in 15 Minutes a Day
“Own only what you can always carry with you: Know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn How to Learn Multiple Languages in 15 Minutes a Day If…
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What MIT Mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota Taught About Work
Business Lessons From an MIT Mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota was mathematician, teacher, and philosopher who spent most of his career at MIT, teaching functional analysis, probability theory, phenomenology, and…
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Buster Keaton’s “Special Effects
A few weeks ago, I shared a video of Buster Keaton’s greatest stunts. Readers wrote to ask: How much of that was real? Turns out, there weren’t any “safety nets” in place. Stunts that looked dangerous really…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — March 13, 2021
THE FACTS * Prohibition helped make Walgreens the giant it is today. While prohibition made alcohol sales illegal from 1920 to 1933, “medicinal” alcohol was still perfectly legal. Anyone with a doctor willing…
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The Car That Obakeng Built
When I lived in Africa, I was always amazed at the toy cars that little kids built out of scraps of wire and metal – pull toys or push toys, like American kids had back then, but they were homemade. Think…
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Coca-Cola's Awkward Attempt At Addressing Racism
Why is it so hard for Coca-Cola to talk about racism? Conservative commentators had a field day with a program offered as part of Coca-Cola’s Better Together campaign, an employee training video that included…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — March 6, 2021
THE FACTS * Dr. Seuss books discontinued as racist. Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that they will cease publication of six books that had come under attack by the Sensitivity Police. Three of the stated…
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The Parable of the Two Monks
Two Buddhist monks on a journey came upon a rushing stream. Standing next to the stream was a young, pregnant woman who was clearly in distress. “Please help me,” she said to the monks. “I have to get to the…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — February 25, 2021
THE FACTS * The NBA player with the second-highest net worth was not a well-known all-star. Everyone knows #1 on the list (Michael Jordan: net worth $2.2 billion), but few people outside of the business world…
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The New Normal” Documentary
I had heard about this documentary, and remembered it described as a conspiracy theory disguised as a documentary. My lifelong friend TG sent me the link, and I watched it. It didn’t strike me as such. It…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — February 18, 2021
THE FACTS * China is conducting another test of their digital Yuan. To start off the lunar new year, $1.5 million worth of digital currency will be given to 50,000 randomly selected Beijing residents. They…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — February 11, 2021
THE FACTS * The NAACP’s founders were all white. On February 12, 1909, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, and Henry Moskowitz established the NAACP as an advocacy organization for black civil rights…
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Washington Post Reverses Course On Lockdown Policy
And here’s another flip-flop… The Washington Post, staunch supporter of a federally mandated lockdown, has lately changed its tune: “Vaccines plus masks minus lockdowns. That’s the approach public health…
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Could This Happen in the US?
Argentina is broke. It’s been sinking into debt for some time. The 2020 shutdowns from the pandemic have only made things worse. Seizing on the latter, the government just initiated a wealth tax with the…
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The Rise of Cryptocurrencies
Another Reason to Buy Gold Longtime readers know that I own gold. I bought it not as an investment per se, but as a hedge against some extreme financial catastrophe, such as hyperinflation or (its cousin) the…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — January 29, 2021
THE FACTS * Kamala Harris is not the first person of color to be named VP of the US. From 1929 to 1933, Herbert Hoover’s number two was Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation and descendant of two…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — January 22, 2021
THE FACTS * Built for Donald Trump in 2018, Cadillac One is known as “The World’s Safest Car” or “The Beast” – and deservedly so. The limo-shaped tank has bulletproof windows and a reinforced chassis capable…
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Someone Who Did for Others…
After reading Gellhorn’s letter, I found it interesting to read this amazing story. From The Epoch Times… “How Much Can One Person Really Do” Ever wonder how much one person can do against – well, everything?…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — January 14, 2021
THE FACTS * There’s an even more contagious strain of COVID here in the US! With a recent surge in cases, reports in the media, and Dr. Deborah Birx’s comments at a recent coronavirus Task Force meeting, you’d…
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True Confessions
If you have any interest in investing, you’ve probably heard of the efficient market hypothesis. It’s the theory that stocks are always priced as they should be at any given moment, and therefore it’s futile…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — January 8, 2021
THE FACTS * If you were floating around in outer space without a spacesuit, would you boil to death or freeze to death? If you guessed “boil,” you’re right. The lower the atmospheric pressure, the lower the…
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Ben Shapiro Misses The Point On "A-Women" Prayer
I had a good laugh watching this video of Ben Shapiro’s reaction to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) politically correct prayer at the opening of the 1st session of the 117th Congress on Sunday. In case you missed…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — December 31, 2020
THE FACTS * The song typically sung on New Year’s Eve/Day, Auld Lang Syne, was written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns and published in 1796. The literal translation of the Scottish Gaelic title is “old long…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — December 24, 2020
THE FACTS * Have you heard that the stress of the holidays causes suicide rates to surge during Christmastime? It’s not true. According to years of CDC data, suicides are usually at their lowest levels in…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — December 17, 2020
THE FACTS * New Mexico is testing a unique way to encourage drivers to slow down: A stretch of Route 66 – the “Musical Highway” – contains rumble strips that play “America the Beautiful” when a car passes over…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts — December 11, 2020
THE FACTS * In Thailand, texters use 555 the way we use LOL. The number 5 is pronounced “ha” – which makes 555 “hahaha.” * When an actor is in character, his brain patterns change. A study by Canada’s McMaster…
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What Favorite Movies Can Tell You About Other People
When the lights came on I noticed that my partner and his wife were seated just two rows behind us. They were both laughing. “So, you liked it?” I asked. “No!” he shouted, still laughing. “We hated it!" The…
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3 Facts, 3 Numbers, 3 Thoughts
THE FACTS * To look up at stars in the night sky is to look back in time. Space is incredibly vast and stars are very far away – which means that it takes a long time for their light to reach us. It’s very…
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Why Thanksgiving Day Breaks America's Plumbing Systems
“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.” – Irv Kupcinet What You Probably Didn’t Know About Thanksgiving Some interesting things to ponder while enjoying your leftovers… Backflow…
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3 Facts, 3 Words, 3 Thoughts
THE FACTS * The Invention of the TV Dinner Like so many other life-improving inventions, the frozen TV dinner began as a mistake. 1n 1953, an employee of Swanson & Sons mistakenly ordered 260 tons of fresh…
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Justin Goff on the “Chain of Belief
The first important skill I studied when I began my career in publishing was how to write a sales letter. Back then – in the early ‘80s – there weren’t any expert teachers available. (Today, there are hundreds…
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Response Boosting Tip for Digital Marketers
Here’s a potentially powerful way to boost eyeballs and click-throughs on your internet advertising. Create a teaser that capitalizes on a popular current news or social interests story. It must be something…
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What I’m Doing With My Money
On July 24, I said I was putting a good amount of my stock into cash until I have an idea of what the election will bring us. On November 4, I made some predictions about what will happen regardless of who…
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Why Americans Must Fight Antisemitism
Earlier this month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told CNN that COVID-19 spike clusters were “predominantly ultra-Orthodox.” This was in response to protests by the Orthodox Jewish community against social…
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California's Bizarre Holiday Gathering Rules Explained
“Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.” – Henry David Thoreau California’s Happy Holiday Agenda Hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 in California are at their lowest levels in six months…
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