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The people who oppose immigration are just being plain mean. But as Howard Beal, a mad prophet of the airwaves, once asked, “What does that have to do with the price of rice?” Over the past few years, Kathy and I watched as some of our empty-nest friends, although reluctantly, allowed their adult children to…
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The art of foreign policy is quite simply: it’s a good guy, making a deal with a bad guy, to get rid of a worse guy. Then, afterward, you’re left with a dilemma: Can the “good guy” control the bad guy? Can he rein him in when he acts up, and if so, will the…
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Let’s kick this post off with a limerick. Here we go: There lived a man from North Carolina- Who owed a shitload of money to China- When looking over the note- He started to bloat- And dropped dead the next day from angina- ***** Hey, Michael, so whatcha been thinking about? I’ve been thinking a…
