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Monthly Archives: May 2025

Got there first

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

A short time again I predicted that the federal government would quite likely start releasing fake statistics in the event the economy began to tank. Today, Paul Krugman predicted the same thing. I’d like to think that he got the idea from me, but for some reason I don’t think that’s likely. The link is […]

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Hawley must be joshing

Friday, May 16, 2025

This post at Crooks & Liars interested me. Josh Hawley went on CNN and claimed to be totally against any Medicaid cuts. That’s not the surprising part. The surprising part is that John Amato, who wrote the post appears to believe that Hawley is serious. You remember Josh, the guy who saluted the January 6th […]

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Open Corruption, a compendium

Sunday, May 11, 2025

I keep a rather horribly written personal diary. During the first Trump reign, I would usually put up a paragraph or two about his most recent crime. A few years ago I began reading the “On This Day” entries to my wife, though I always skip reading the Trump parts, though I skim them be […]

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Another easy prediction

Friday, May 9, 2025

Yesterday I read a post by Dean Baker titled Productivity Tanks in the First Quarter. It’s behind a paywall so clicking on the link might not do you much good, though I do recommend becoming a Patreon subscriber of his, as he actually knows what he’s talking about. Anyway, the post begins as follows: The […]

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A Trump flag that speaks true

Friday, May 2, 2025

I was somewhat taken aback by the opening paragraphs of this post at Crooks and Liars, written by LeftJabber: For nearly eight years, I have regularly ridden my bicycle past a house that has faithfully flown a Trump flag, right underneath Old Glory, without interruption in all that time. The flag has been refreshed over […]

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