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Here’s yet another typical example of why so many of the little people are so incredibly pissed off. One story among many, yet it’s so poignantly sad it nearly made me cry. As most readers know, the people behind this sort of thing carry such vendettas on and on, and on, with support from big business and both…

I came across this interesting discussion of a psychological technique. == GP: Wait. What’s an anchor? OPERATIVE: Damnit. Maybe I should have given more background. Can I just send you this background, technical stuff? GP: Why don’t you, is there a lot of it? I mean, is this real technical or what? OPERATIVE: Not to…

Oleg Atbashian says Some of my best friends are Trump supporters. He describes the downfall of the Soviet Union this way: Consider this story: there lived an apathetic silent majority, maligned and shamed by its leaders and the official media, and they thought it would never end. But one day a miracle happened: they suddenly…

From Investment Watch. Following Portugal’s model, Hawai`i could become the first state in the U.S. to decriminalize all drugs — including cocaine and even heroin. The war is slowly winding down. The war on drugs most problematic effects are in its pursuit of dealers and traffickers. This is what has made the business lucrative and…

The headline: Saudi Arabia to move from oil, earn more from Hajj. At $35 dollars a barrel and 10 million barrels a day the Saudis earn about $127 billion a year from oil. Of course that is gross. Net will be less. As part of a diversification strategy, Saudi Arabia is to broaden pilgrimage services…

Ted Cruz is being unfairly smeared with a guilt by association charge. Gay publication The Advocate in November of 2015 said: Pastor Kevin Swanson is taking a victory lap after his headline-making National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa earlier this month. After hosting Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal (who since…

Some one erected a Donald Trump tombstone in Central Park. Update: 28 March 2016 0952z The Daily Mail – UK thinks it is a photoshop hoax. A subheadline reads: But it is unclear if the grave is a fake and park officals told MailOnline that it was photoshopped I was wondering about the logistics of…

(about 7 minutes)     What Bill leaves out is that we have what is basically a one party state with two factions. What I call The UniParty. When donors give to both parties to guarantee results the parties – on those issues – are indistinguishable. The question to ask is this, “Why does Donald…

The bottom of a Kondratieff Cycle has the kind of politics we are seeing these days. And so far what is being done and has been done are the things that made the last bottom – 1929 to 1945 – work the way it did. Will we be smarter this time? Not so far. The…

Donald Trump got a top endorsement from the Republican Party Friday. Friday Newsmax TV’s “Newsmax Prime,” the editor of the Weekly Standard Bill Kristol said if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the nomination, he suggested he couldn’t support Trump and left open the possibility of a third-party candidate entering the race. Every time one…

Call It What It Is: A Rabble says the New York Times. Today, in Donald J. Trump, we have a genuine impresario of the mob — an instrument of the crowd who feels its resentment, its impatience, its distrust, and returns them all in slogans, epithets and witty (or witless) taunts. He validates the crowd’s…

Muslim shopkeeper who wrote loving Easter posts stabbed to death in ‘religiously prejudiced’ attack is the headline. A Scottish-Muslim shopkeeper was violently stabbed to death in Glasgow in front of eyewitnesses. The brutal attack took place hours after he wrote a heartfelt Easter message of peace and tolerance to Christians. Uh. Guys. That sort of…

Nuclear Plant guard Didier Prospero was killed in Belgium while walking his dog. His security badge was stolen. According to authorities it had nothing to do with recent Islamic attacks in Belgium or France. Earlier Thursday, DH [newspaper Derniere Heure] reported that Brussels suicide bombers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui were planning attacks on Belgian…

The Rat Problem. Yeah. I know. Gawker. But I had the same idea. And why won’t I mention the problem details? Well it is undignified even for impolite company. Update: 27 March 2016 0220z Some one has posted an image related to this problem. It IS funny.

This is going to destroy the Trump did it narrative. Or just add fuel to the rumor mill. A half-dozen GOP operatives and media figures tell The Daily Beast that Cruz’s opponents have been pushing charges of adultery for at least six months now—and that allies of former GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio were involved…

Trump aide Katrina Pierson ‘spills the beans’ on Heidi Cruz. The Hill reports: “Spilling the beans is quite simple when it comes to Heidi Cruz,” Pierson said in an interview with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki. “She is a Bush operative; she worked for the architect of NAFTA, which has killed millions of jobs in this country;…

Have a great weekend and week, I’ll practice virtue for the next seven days — there’s nothing quite like new life to make you appreciate what’s important.

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In actual, non-tabloid news, Cruz is leading Trump by one in Wisconsin: BOSTON, MA – As establishment Republicans look for ways to slow Donald Trump’s relentless march toward the party’s presidential nomination, Wisconsin’s winner-take-all GOP primary contest on April 5 offers some intriguing possibilities. In a statewide Emerson College poll released today, Texas Senator Ted…

People around the ‘net have claimed to have identified three of the women pictured in the Enquirer story on Ted Cruz and his sexcapades. Katrina Pierson, who now works for Trump. Amanda Carpenter and Sarah Isgur Flores. That last name has some history. She worked in the Carly Fiorina campaign. How about this story: Why…