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- Monitoring the situation in Hormuz.
- From the archives: The surprising reason writing remains essential in an AI-driven world.
- Musing about emergent biology. Interesting question of how we go from non-alive atoms and molecules to alive cells?
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- Jonathan Turley: Bill Clinton agreed to testify to Congress about Jeffrey Epstein but now wants the definition of "agreed." If the Clintons fail to appear for questioning, release the facts that are known to the public to remind folks the seriousness of the issue, then issue arrest warrants.
- 59 Super Bowl rings: 59 stories.
- Trump prods Congress to nationalize election integrity, but Supreme Court may deliver first.
- Rational Optimist: Shady stuff is happening underwater. Some undersea facts and developments to ponder.
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- Interesting point about Greenland. (HT Cultural Offering)
- Oversight Committee holds Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt for defying lawful subpoenas.
- From the archives: Principles for living - an operating system for life.
- Sphere Entertainment's new playbook: Smaller venues, less risk, bigger returns. Admit my first thought on reading the headline was "they should franchise this and open more."
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- VDH: The Embarrassments of Ideology. He's not wrong.
- Could one or both of the Clinton's be going to jail?
- The world's over $111 trillion in government debt in one chart. The US has over a third of the worldwide debt.
- When Trump built an ice rink. An excellent metaphor for where were are in today's national political climate.
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- Peter Attia - is the data on dieting and depression deceiving us?
- Tracking efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce. Interesting comparison between Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
- "It was a cover-up plain and simple:" the Russian collusion hoax explained.
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- Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Society.
- Marco Rubio is not wrong - the State Department needed to be reformed.
- Bill Clinton is an awful person.
- We Shall See. I too am curious how this turns out. My guess is Russia gets to keep Crimea, the Donbas has elections to see if they remain with Ukraine or join Russia, and Russia get entry into the 2026 World Cup.
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- The 3 characteristics of an educated man. Article is a couple years old but new to me. (HT Some Its Just as Well)
- Michael Wade: The Brunacini Way. Worth a read. A life worth emulating.
Many a truth is said in jest.
- I've wondered the same thing
- Happy Epstein list reveal day
- Green Day has become a joke (even the very name)
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- From the archive but still on my bucket list.
- To no one's surprise Bill Clinton to be unmasked shortly as Jeffrey Epstein's John Doe 36.
- No such thing as a free lunch
- Why you should read every day (Thanks Ray)
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- G7 vs BRICS comparison by GDP. Reminder that Russia was asked to join G7 in 2007 but was kicked out for invading Crimea in 2014.
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- You get an A! You get an A! Everybody gets an A! Grade inflation is a big problem at Harvard where the hardest thing is getting in - the grades it seems take care of themselves.
- Heh Heh
- Related - US Virgin Islands sues JPMorgan for facilitating Epstein abuses. "Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JPMorgan."
- Robert Kennedy Jr. is very passionate in this video and he's 100% right!
Potential lawsuits out of New Zealand may plague the former President.
Normally I wouldn't link to something like this but the revelations about Clinton from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial make these accusations very believable.
The cherry on top for me was the nugget that Bill Clinton has a penthouse apartments at the top of the Clinton Presidential Library that he uses as a "love nest." That's the single most Bill Clinton thing ever.
