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American Exceptionalism

Jake Sullivan overlooked a few things when he wrote “What Donald Trump and Dick Cheney got Wrong About America” about American Exceptionalism for the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of The Atlantic.

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Optimizing Monero Mining with a Slow Laptop

I blogged recently about how to set up a Monero crypto-currency mining operation earning a whopping 2 cents per day.  I’ve figured how to double that to 4 cents per day!  If you’d like to estimate profits from mining, see … Continue reading

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Maybe Trump is Causing Certainty, not Chaos

Ben Casselman wrote, “Why is Trump Causing Chaos In Washington But Not In The Stock Market?”  This exhibits offensive bias, showing no ability to understand that another view even exists.

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Trump’s Tweets – Relax Already

Trump surely shoots out more tweets than other politicians. Pretty soon others will understand and will catch up.

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Rules Don’t Apply If We Say So

I’ve been intrigued by Palmier’s (Clinton’s communication director) attempt to justify her bad behavior. The pivotal sentence in a CBS report is “Palmieri explained that while she knew you had to be gracious at this post-election forum, “I decided this … Continue reading

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