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The Media: Prescience Matters “A journalist needs a disciplined reverence for the facts, because the temptations of story-telling are strong and seductive.” — Lance Morrow in “The Noise of Typewriters” A SCHOLAR OF OUR FOUNDATION is an expert at framing questions, instructions and context for Artificial Intelligence (AI). He and others are training a new profession, Prompt Read the full article…
Book: ‘Decade of Disunion’
by Mark Franke I have a fondness for counter-factual history, perhaps too much so. This category of fiction begins with a what if question about some critical point in history and then hypothesizes a chain of events to follow. Some end up with a radically different ending while others argue that history would have worked Read the full article…
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Pimping for Data Centers “The idea is to get back to a society where people can live together as neighbors and not just as wage slaves or bureaucratic cogs.” — G.K. Chesterton LOOK, I LIKE PROGRESS as much as the next guy but sacrificing local autonomy is stupid. There are nine distinct regions of Indiana, each Read the full article…
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Our ‘Somali Mindset’ WHY, REALLY, do the impoverished want to come to America? Is it the promises embedded in our Declaration of Independence? Perhaps a legal system based on 800 years of Common Law and respect for private property? Liberty with responsibility? That would make us proud. But why is it, to pick an example from the news, Read the full article…
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‘Home’ Needs Some Definition COMMUNITY TRUST is breaking down as crime becomes more wanton, the roads are disintegrating in sub-zero temperatures and the city budget is not prioritized. So what is our mayor doing? Bringing casino gambling to town and establishing government grocery stores, to repeat complaints of mine, plus some new diversions. Among the last is Read the full article…
Keating: Drama at the Federal Reserve
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. The Trump-Powell feud over the interest rate is Shakespearean. Who knew that monetary policy could be so riveting? At this point, Kevin Warsh has emerged from a list of pretenders as President Trump’s nominee for the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed), replacing Jerome Powell. The big question Read the full article…
