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What If the Constitution No Longer Applied?
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis. What makes the outlook so much bleaker is the utter ignorance of the American people—and those who represent them—about their freedoms, history, and how the government is supposed to operate. As […]
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Xi Jinping in the US
This week’s News on China. Sources: • Xi Jinping in the US https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplo… https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20231… https://www.scmp.com/news/china/artic… https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inte… • BYD catches up with Tesla https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The… https://es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com/noti… • Xizang Autonomous Region improves living standards https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20231… https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20231… https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20231… • Women’s boxing gains popularity in China https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1013914 https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-03-26…
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Lawrence M. Peters
His June 18, 1996 obituary in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is short and succinct: Lawrence M. Peters, 78, a retired Allied Mills employee, was found dead Friday [June 13] in Teague. Funeral: 11 a.m. today at Avant A.M.E. Church in Teague. Burial: Fairfield. Mr. Peters retired in 1982. It’s not much of a lede, but […]
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Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves Part II
Summary of Part I In Part I of my article, we began by distinguishing the social self from two forms of identity that are often confused with it: temperament and personality. The focus of part one is to show how very social (or even socialist) was the work of social psychologist George Herbert Mead. We […]
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Rigging Avian Ballots: New Zealand’s Bird of the Century Competition
They can be a serious lot in New Zealand. They got upset at – forgive this author such reference – the use of a rule in cricket back in February 1981 which led to expressions of misty anger from the Prime Minister of the day, Robert Muldoon. While permissible within the laws of cricket, sides […]
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Showdown at COP28
$200 trillion is needed to stop global warming. — Bloomberg New Energy Finance Buckle up, fireworks will be going off in a couple weeks in the pristine complex known as Dubai. World leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, and fossil fuel producers will clash over the outlook for climate change and the impact of global warming, or […]
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