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Carl Krieg's Blog
1w ago
Wolf at the Door I didn’t do well in college economics, but I don’t need a degree to know that the rich get richer while everyone else gets poorer, at least in today’s America. Any diletante sticking their toes in the waters of tax policy, for example, will soon discover that it is a topic ..read more
Carl Krieg's Blog
1w ago
It’s All About the Money 1 In an interview with Wolf Blitzer about the tariff, Ontario premier Ford spoke the simple truth: “Trump wants a tax cut he can’t afford.” What tax cut? For American families? Hardly. It’s 4.5 Trillion for the wealthy, for Trump and all the rich & powerful who want to rule ..read more
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1w ago
The Writer’s Almanac, Garrison Keiller, Mar 5, 2025It was on this day in 1933 that the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slight majority in the Reichstag. Within three weeks, the Nazi-dominated Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler ..read more
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1w ago
A Forum for Discussion Openly sharing ideas is part of what it means to be human. My blog of many years is entitled “Just wondering…”, indicating a sharing of ideas set forth for discussionn and critique. So too with this forum. Exploration is also a good description of what we will do, not a map ..read more
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2w ago
St Patrick’s Day March 17 is St Patrick’s Day, a day of religious and “cultural” celebration. Perhaps surprisingly to many of us, Patrick dates from the 400s and was born in England. As a lad, he was kidnapped by Irish pirates and was held in bondage tending sheep in Ireland until he was about 16 ..read more
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3w ago
Google and Beyond: a Caveat Many of us want or need to make presentations on occasion, be they an article we are writing, a sales presentation, a sermon, lecture, eulogy, etc. More likely than not, we need some information not in our head. We are surrounded by information-data-, but we need a means of scanning ..read more
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Trump, Musk, and the Republicans continue to act without regard for the law, the US Constitution, or the lives of other people. Again and again, with no end in sight, their stated goal is to create havoc and chaos, upend peoples’ lives, and destroy the government. One reaction is to “bring them to court”. Lawsuits ..read more
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“Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler ..read more
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1M ago
Taking on the Demons We live in a frightening time. Everything cosmic to personal seems unsettled. Within the space of a lifetime, we have become fully aware that hyper dense black holes are flying around space, like loose cannonballs preparing to obliterate whatever target they choose, including our galaxy, and us. This giant pinball game ..read more
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Puerto Rico is the largest US territory, an island 1000 miles southwest of Miami, 110 miles long, 40 miles wide with a majestic central cordillera of 4000 foot peaks, occupied by about 3.2 million people. The people are descendants of First Nation Taino, European conquerers, and African slaves, who have melded themselves into proud Puerto ..read more