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The Greatest Threat to America
Alan Zendell, August 18, 2022 Former president Donald Trump’s son, Eric, is routinely mocked by stand-up comedians as being dimwitted. I have no idea why, but it’s one more testament to the media’s ability to influence the opinions of Americans … Continue reading
Inflection Points
Alan Zendell, August 16, 2022, President Biden often says we are at an inflection point in our history. In mathematics, an inflection point defines when a downward trend turns upward, or vice versa. That sounds very technical, but applied to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Kinzinger, changing trends, climate change, congress, DOJ, Donald Trump, drug prices, espionage, gasoline prices, Georgia, history, inflation, insurrection, Liz Cheney, mathemtics, Merrick Garland, New York, President Biden, recession, right wing extremism, Rudy Giuliani, russia, supreme court, Ukraine, veterans, violence
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Forecasts and Outcomes
Alan Zendell, August 6, 2022 When historians write about the last few years, “forecasts and outcomes” might well be the tag line. As marketing and government systems, social networks, and statisticians collected mountains of data, and computers crunched them, we … Continue reading
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Tagged CHIPS, COVID, data, economic data, failed models, forecasting models, global warming, historical database, inflation, Inflation Reduction Act, information processing, jobs, PACT, political polls, predictions, Trump's legal jeopardy, unemployment, weather forecasts
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Unintended Consequences
Alan Zendell, August 2, 2022 Some people plan everything they do in agonizing detail. Others, like me, play things by ear, trusting that we can adapt to changing conditions as they arise. That’s not to say we never think about … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Yang, atomic bomb, centrists, Civil Rights, cold war, COVID, FDR, fossil fuels, guns, health care, insurrection, korea, nuclear arms race, Obama, planning, reagan, Science, social security, Soviet Union, supreme court, taxes, Trump, Ukraine, vladimir Putin, Volodymir Zelensky, white supremacists, women's right, worst case scenarios
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Republican Overreach
Alan Zendell, July 30, 2022 I’m not one to say I told you so, but in case you either weren’t paying attention or thought I’d made up fake numbers about why gasoline prices have spiked so much, here’s what The … Continue reading
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Tagged bill cassidy, BP, burn pit victims, Chevron, Chuck Schumer, climate change, computer chips, Exxon, James Lankford, Jim Imhofe, John Cronyn, John Kennedy, Mitch McConnell, reducing iinflation, refineries, Shell, stock buybacks, Ted Cruz, Total Energy, veterans, winfall oil profits
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America’s Favorite Pastime
Alan Zendell, July 17. 2022 That’s what baseball used to be called. Growing up ten blocks from Ebbets Field, I was a diehard Dodger fan until I was fourteen. That was in 1957, when the Dodgers broke the hearts of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1965 Voting Rights, baseball, broken promises, Colts, Dodgers, greed, Mariners, Marlins, Mets, Money, Nationals, politics
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Politics
Alan Zendell, July 16, 2022 It’s often been said of how diplomacy works that the only thing worse is having none at all; in that event, all international disputes could erupt into armed conflicts. Every nation, including the United States … Continue reading
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Tagged DGA, diplomacy, EU, evangelism, Facebook, iran, Isreal, Jamal Ksashoggi, MBS, Mitch McConnell, NATO, nuclear weapons, oil, Palestinians, political contributions, saudi arabia, supreme court, Trump allies, Ukraine, white supremacy, Yair Lapid
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Elections – the Foundation of Our Democracy
Alan Zendell, July 14, 2022 Today was the final day of early primary voting in Maryland, which made me think about how fragile our democracy is. You have to be registered as either a Democrat or a Republican in Maryland … Continue reading
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