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Government regulations and the woods witch curse

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Naomi

From Walt Hickey at 538 Significant Digits. I’m sure he won’t mind my bolding: 2 regulations President Trump signed an executive order Monday that would require two federal regulations to be rescinded for every new federal regulation implemented. This is … Continue reading →

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“Here there is no why”

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Naomi

The last paragraphs of Roger Cohen’s powerful “The Banal Belligerence of Donald Trump,” opinion piece in today’s New York Times [my bolding]: I have tried to tread carefully with analogies between the Fascist ideologies of 1930s Europe and Trump. American … Continue reading →

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“The America We Lost When Trump Won”

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Naomi

In yesterday’s NYT Sunday Review, Kevin Baker wrote an opinion piece for which I am profoundly grateful: it says everything I would write if I were as fluent as he is, and he has thus relieved me of that impossible … Continue reading →

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