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Monthly Archives: March 2016

Goodbye, Little Marco

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

This morning I opened up the New London Day (always a depressing way to start the day), and soon found myself brought up short when I read this: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio ended his once-promising campaign after his devastating home-state loss, so the GOP primary is now down to three candidates: Trump, Kasich and Texas […]

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Crying Wolf

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

We all know the fable of the little boy who cried “WOLF!”. One benefit he conferred on the villagers he fooled, which always goes unmentioned, is that until he was exposed as a liar, they undoubtedly took measures to protect themselves from the non-existent wolf. Had there been a real wolf, they would have been […]

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Hillary’s against for-profit schools, except…

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

If this is true it is truly disheartening: Student loan debt continues to be one of the largest economic issues plaguing the U.S., with the total amount topping $1.3 trillion. Hillary Clinton’s higher education policy touts debt-free degrees for underprivileged students. But is she being genuine in her efforts to address the issue? While Hillary loves […]

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Zippy nails it

Saturday, March 12, 2016

  

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Thoughts on Hillary

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Several days ago I went to our local Drinking Liberally chapter meeting, where we drank (not terribly liberally) and argued politics, Hillary people versus Bernie people. We also alternately laughed at, and were terrified by, Donald Trump, but that’s not what this post is about. One of the liberal drinkers, an old and dear friend […]

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Doctors, Lawyers, and the 1%

Thursday, March 10, 2016

I’m a big fan of Dean Baker, but there’s one point he makes repeatedly upon which I beg to differ somewhat. His post today alludes to the issue: Hey, can an experienced doctor from Germany show up and start practicing in New York next week? Since the answer is no, we can say that we […]

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In a nutshell

Monday, March 7, 2016

This just about says it all: In a February 11 interview, the Democratic National Committee Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was quizzed on these superdelegates by CNN’s Jake Tapper: Tapper: “What do you tell voters who are new to the process who say this makes them feel like it’s all rigged?” Wasserman Schultz: “Unpledged delegates exist […]

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Local grifter suffers another setback

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Local Grifter John Scott, who has represented John Scott in the legislature for the past year or so, suffered yet another setback recently. I reported back in January of 2015 that John, an insurance agent who had a contract with UConn to sell health insurance to students, had selflessly (or is that selfishly?) proposed a […]

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Economics made easy

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

The folks, alas a “bipartisan” group, supporting the Trans Pacific Partnership have been touting a “study” by the Peterson Institute for International Economics that purports to show that everything will be rosy if we ultimately pass the treaty. We have a prejorative term in the legal profession that is applied to some judges. (Scalia comes […]

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Say, what?!?!

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

I have been getting most of my news for more than 15 years now by cruising the net, rather than relying on newspapers. I remember reading Matt Yglesias in those very early days, and he always seemed like a guy who had his head screwed on right. Not so much, anymore, at least judging by […]

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