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Many people know I love books (I do).
But I have taken heed of Marie Kondo in terms of getting rid of books I never plan on reading again (or consult or whatever)… or, the ones I got which I never read. I’m such a sucker for library sales.
So I was,...
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It’s been about 3 weeks since my last divestment-related post, so let me dump a bunch here. There was actually quite a few good results.
Brown University President Rejects Israel Divestment
Brown University’s president has rejected a student-approved referendum calling for the university to divest from companies that conduct business...
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Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity by Vladimir Bukovsky, originally published in the 1990s in non-English languages is finally being published in English.
Let me quote Bruce Bawer on why it took so long:
Bukovsky’s book might have helped awaken Americans to the reality of Communism....
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News from 1917: Opinion: Everyone Who Makes More Money Than I Do Isn’t Paying Their Fair Share
Equality in America is a huge problem. I’m not talking about equality of opportunity: I’m talking about the kind of equality that comes when everyone who makes more money than I do pays...
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With Bernie Sanders officially in the Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidate race (currently 77 years old), people are talking once again about “too old”.
I’ve investigated this a few times for prior races:
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Before I start this post, which is about a person whom I learned about after he died, I want to take a moment to remember Bob Going, a friend whom I met online over a decade ago. My full remembrance is at my livejournal, which is how...
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So this isn’t really a theme post, other than to grab a bunch of corruption-related stories from the news, encompassing mainly Chicago but also a few other places.
Burke has yet to be actually prosecuted, who knows if Solis will be arrested for anything, and what about everybody else involved?
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This is a very old story:
One of the stories that is told about my start in politics is that on the way home from law school one night in 1948, I stopped by the ward headquarters in the ward where I lived. There was a street-front, and the name...
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While I rub my hands over the juicy news that Mike Madigan was one of the many recorded on Solis’s wire, let’s get to the next piece of the Ed Burke story: the Workers Compensation Fund.
Illinois Policy Institute: CHICAGO ALDERMEN GIVE UP CONTROL OF...
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Get it?! MAN-dating?!
Yeah, that’s weak. Whatever. This whole subject annoys me.
[I started this article a couple months ago… a post from Powerline has spurred me to actually finish and post.]
OH CANADA: REQUIRING FEMALE BOARD MEMBERS
Canada Pension Plan Focuses on Board Gender Composition
The...
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