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March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Blame Canada

A good summary of the situation. How to set things up for an annexation. https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-absurdity-is-the-point?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=310897&post_id=158841639&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=7n6du&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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February 1, 2025February 1, 2025 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Why Canada Should Joint the EU – The Economist

Something to think about given what’s happening south of the border… https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/02/why-canada-should-join-the-eu

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July 4, 2019 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Your Revolution Was Dumb and it Filled Us With Refugees

An alternate view of the often white-washed American Revolution. www.bunkhistory.org/resources/642

History, Politics
January 13, 2019 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Why is Congress so dumb? – The Washington Post

I always wondered why so much interesting legislation was passed during Nixon’s era. Turns out that “Congress remade its committees in the 1970s to challenge Richard Nixon’s presidency and move Read More …

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January 11, 2019 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Why BC’s Carbon Tax Worked | The Tyee

Good article on how to implement a carbon tax. Ramp up slowly. Make it revenue neutral. Use revenue to help citizens adversely affected by it. Two shrewd components prevented a Read More …

Commentary, Politics
November 9, 2018 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Go Arnie! The Governator takes on gerrymandering

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/schwarzenegger-will-back-more-gerrymandering-campaigns/575434/

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July 17, 2018 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Imagining the “Trump in Europe” opera – Buffo

Delightful. AFTER decades of tense relations with China, Richard Nixon in 1972 undertook a pathbreaking visit to the communist country. So historic was the American president’s trip that John Adams Read More …

Commentary, Politics
May 30, 2018 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

The Fox of local news

www.economist.com/news/united-states/21740003-and-they-also-reveal-clout-sinclair-broadcast-group-orders-local-news-anchors

Politics
April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

How Zuckerberg’s Facebook is like Gutenberg’s printing press

A cautionary tale from historian Niall Ferguson. — Read on www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/03/28/daily-202-how-zuckerberg-s-facebook-is-like-gutenberg-s-printing-press/5abb045930fb042a378a2ebb/

History, Politics
December 5, 2017May 25, 2018 lagarrett@mac.comLeave a comment

Interesting developments.

https://www.ft.com/content/3c357c9a-d9dc-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482

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