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Despite GOP rhetoric you will find that small-town America is not doing too well. Main Street is largely boarded up; closed schools & hospitals, and massive depopulation. Why? Because for decades we’ve been electing people like Gov. Palin who claim to love and respect them, but have unfailingly enacted laws to aid the small [...]

In the last few days we have seen a disgusting descent into the worst of sleazy smear politics. We need to spread the facts and the truth . . .
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Linda Grant writes in the Guardian:
I would have no objection to small-town Republicans - to their church-going and their hunting rifles and their flag-decked porches and their meatloaf with gravy, and their lemon chiffon cake. I could admire their intimacy with the wide prairie and the vast sky. The problem is that when they’re running [...]

The end of free shipping?

In: Current events

Will free shipping on online purchases be a thing of the past? It already is for many online shops. But what about the global supply chain, where something is sourced from Australia, assembled in China and shipped to the US? According to this NY Times article, the high costs of fuel are forcing companies to [...]

Marketwatch columnist Chris Plummer makes several arguments as to why high gasoline prices are good for the US. It’s one of the more lucid articles on the subject.
As oil prices climb, we’ve seen politicians call for a moratorium on the gasoline tax. In Europe, they’re calling for a lowering of the high benzine tax, too. [...]

I am a dinosaur: I love print

In: Books, Current events

Despite my fixation on gadgets, especially new gadgets and anything from Apple, I love print. I will subscribe to a new quarterly magazine called Dispatches, which the Washington Post wrote about this week. Read more here:
I’m a dinosaur: I still love print

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