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Dwight D. Eisenhower:

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Misdirection Play 0

Title:  Preventing Political Violence.  Image:  Woman holds a sign reading

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Blame Game 0

Mary Trump discusses who is the actual enemy within.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another of those “responsible gun owners” practices politeness on the pavement.

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The Fee Hand of the Market 0

Peter looks up

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The Crypto Con 0

Alabama State Representative Ben Harrison warns that they are coming for the banks next.

If Charles Ponzi were still with us, he would bow in awe and admiration to the Crypto Bros for taking his legacy to unimagined heights.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Via the Las Vegas Sun, the New York Times editorial board thinks that, under RFK Jr., the prognosis for infectious diseases bright–for the diseases, that is.

Not so much for people.

A snippet (emphasis added):

A vast majority of American children — more than 90% by most estimates — are still vaccinated for measles. But it takes a threshold of 95% to stop the illness from spreading, and in too many communities, the rates are lower than that already or falling fast. In Idaho, just 78.5% of kindergartners were vaccinated for measles last school year. Nationwide vaccination rates for several other diseases — including flu, hepatitis B, rotavirus, Hib, polio and whooping cough — are also down.

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Daisaku Ikeda:

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

And, I would add, not to do so betrays that hopw.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another gun that fired itself.

All I can say is that no gun of mine ever fired itself.

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Trumpling the Troops 0

Man in uniform says into phone,

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Learn more here.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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The Art of the Con, Misdirection Play Dept. 0

The Trump maladministration now claims that, because a half-baked assassination attempt against Trump was thwarted at the Washington Hilton, Trump should therefore be permitted to proceed with further defiling the East Wing of the White House.

At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino marvels at the misdirection play.

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American Stasi 0

One family’s story.

It would appear that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Competent therapists? At the Psychology Today website, Pamela D. Garcy argues that, “(c)hatbots might provide temporary comfort, but they are not a substitute for human connection.”

Follow the link for her evidence.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‘Citizens United.’ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Swamping the Drain 0

Uncle Sam, labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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It’s Bubblelicious 0

What’s bubblelicious? you may ask.

Per Hillary Remy in the Charlotte Observer, according to the Warren Buffett’s Buffett Indicator, the economy is about as bubblelicious as it’s ever been.

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