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O envy, the root of all countless evils, and cankerworm of the virtues! All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. –        Don Quixote I have been thinking more about my afterthought to my post on the continued importance of the US dollar to the global financial system.  I think the main story is to be found in the afterthought – and I am wondering how I missed this the first time. In the end, it is a story of envy.  Unlike jealousy, envy does not merely covet … Continue reading →

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Last week, I was chatting contentedly with my friends on Facebook (who would ever have thought I’d say that?) about gun politics, when I was interrupted by (ostensibly) a young woman (everybody’s young compared to me these days) who denied that anyone in politics was out to take my guns away and asserted, in essence, that I am some kind of paranoid crank. I resent that. I do not deny it, but I resent it. But I have my reasons. I responded that I have been fighting this fight for some 48 years and knew better than she did what … Continue reading →

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We’ve covered 20 pitfalls of English before, but there are plenty more to look out for. Here are another 20-word usage mistakes that can trip you up. 1. INSURE/ENSURE These words are easy to confuse not only because they sound alike, but because they both have to do with guarantees. To ensure is to make sure something does or doesn’t happen. To insure is to use a more specific type of guarantee: an insurance policy. 2. DISPERSE/DISBURSE Disperse is more common and has a wider range of meaning than disburse. To disperse is to scatter, separate, or sprinkle around. To … Continue reading →

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Many issues characteristically beloved by Democrats are being raised to disparage Donald Trump. The man has been maligned as a racist, a bigot, as unfit for office and even described as a psychopath, presumably in contract to Hillary Clinton who loves people of every color and shape as long as they are not living next door and will faithfully vote Democratic after they are afforded entry into the United States and amnestied. Hillary, who has held nearly every senior government office that a human being can reasonably aspire to but the one she is currently lusting after, is unlike Trump … Continue reading →

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In a Sunday New York Times article, oddly insensitive to the would-be socialists who comprise the Times readership, reporter Gardiner Harris fantasized about how much money Barack and Michelle might pocket from their post-White House memoirs. “Publishers hope that Mr. Obama’s writing ability could make his memoir not only profitable in its first years but perhaps for decades to come,” gushed Harris, who compared Obama’s literary talents to those of Theodore Roosevelt and Ulysses Grant. Unlike John F. Kennedy, whose authorship of Profiles in Courage “has been questioned,” Obama’s literary skills, according to Harris, are “widely” accepted. To confirm that … Continue reading →

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Saudi Foreign Minister to meet British MPs, make case for continued arms exports despite war crime claims

How the TPP Special Court Crushes Domestic Laws and Plunders the Public

She used her concussion as an excuse when being questioned by the State Department.

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