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Cursive and Reading It

And an opportunity too! We were living in Michigan at the time. My wife being from NYC and I from Chicago have a taste for bagels and cream cheese. Onion cream cheese for myself and she likes the plain. In the Detroit area, there is a Jewish community. My wife worked for the Jewish News. […]

Nothing to Bragg about

Pete Hesgeth, Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, thinks that Fort Liberty should go back to its previous name, Fr. Bragg. “Fort Bragg, one of the largest Army bases in the US, was named for Braxton Bragg, a general in the Confederacy and slave owner who lost nearly every battle he was involved in during the […]

True Costs of Employee Healthcare

Maggie Mahar would cite Phillip Longman and his book the Best Care Anywhere when she was on her own blog and also at Angry Bear afterwards. Mr. Longman has a history of detailing the healthcare given by the Veterans Administration. His proposal then was commercial healthcare should be replaced by a similar organization such as […]

Uneasy Lies The Head

All around the world, we are seeing heightened uneasiness; stress on governments, economies, and societies. What’s going on? A lot has changed these past few decades, some of which we know of, possibly understand a little. There may be others we are not yet aware of. We are learning more about global warming (a.k.a, climate […]

The Final Act

I think Joyce titled this properly . . . If you have not read the leadup to SCOTUS telling Trump no, they are not going to block the release, this may suffice. Attorney Joyce Vance does a good review of what took place to the final answer from SCOTUS. Towards the end you can read […]

The final jobless claims report of 2024 is good weekly, but the trend indicates substantial weakening

 – by New Deal democrat Welcome to 2025! The data this year starts out with jobless claims for the last week of 2024, which of course is heavily influenced by seasonality. The news was mainly good this week, with claims declining -9,000 to 211,000, the lowest number in over half a year. The four week […]

Many Sides of the Tough Guy Josh Hawley

Sen. Josh Hawley gestures toward a crowd of supporters of President Donald Trump gathered outside the U.S. Capitol to protest the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory Jan. 6, 2021. Some demonstrators later breached security and stormed the Capitol. | Francis Chung/POLITICO In a previously unpublished photo, Hawley gestures toward supporters of President […]

Jimmy Carter and History

President Jimmy Carter served as a naval officer on the nuclear-powered submarine USS Seawolf. His civic duties included serving as senator in Georgia’s legislature, the governor of Georgia, and President of the United States. He remained true to his roots as a peanut farmer and Sunday School teacher for which he caught much comment on the […]