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Make Life Happen—or Someone Else Will
We have a simple choice: We can make life happen, or we can let life happen. That does not mean we control everything that happens to us. We plainly do not. We do not choose where we are born, the health we inherit, the economy we enter, the family that raises us, or every calamity…
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Does Donald Trump Believe God Has Authority Over Donald Trump?
Inner Monologue There is a side of Donald Trump that American Christians either don’t know about, don’t understand, or have decided to ignore. And it may be the most revealing side of him. We spend a remarkable amount of time debating whether Donald Trump is a Christian. He says he is. Millions of Christians enthusiastically…
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Janky Industries: When You Can’t Afford Quality, Buy Janky
JANKY INDUSTRIES™ Corporate Business Plan | Fiscal Year 2027 When you can’t afford quality, buy Janky.™ Functionality First. Affordability Always. 1. Executive Summary Janky Industries is a diversified consumer products company dedicated to providing functional, affordable alternatives to products whose prices have moved beyond the reach of millions of consumers. Our founding philosophy is straightforward:…
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The Difference Is Nearly Ten to One
The central finding is difficult to soften: when a family is serious about reducing its food bill, eating restaurant meals is not remotely competitive with buying basic ingredients and cooking at home. Our Walmart plan provides 84 individual meals—three meals a day for four people—for approximately $95 at checkout. Because about $15 worth of staples…
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WILLFUL IGNORANCE
A Practical Guide to Happiness in Modern America There was a time when ignorance was something that happened to you. Today, it requires discipline. You carry a device capable of informing you, within seconds, about every war, scandal, outrage, congressional argument, celebrity opinion, presidential statement, economic prediction, natural disaster, cultural controversy, and poorly worded comment…
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Why I Write So Much About Donald Trump
Some readers may wonder why I write so much about Donald Trump. The answer is simple. I find him fascinating. In my lifetime, I have never witnessed an American president so openly willing to challenge the boundaries of acceptable presidential conduct, personal decency, and political accountability. Other presidents have had their scandals. Their ethical lapses.…
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Tesla Doesn’t Need a Tax Break. America Needs a New Tax Class.
Perhaps it is time to stop asking how little the wealthiest corporations can pay and start asking how much they owe the civilization that made them possible. Tesla wants to build a massive solar manufacturing facility in Fort Bend County, Texas. The proposed investment is approximately $10.1 billion, with projections of nearly 10,000 permanent jobs.…
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The Man Who Cannot Lose: How Grandiosity Can Make Contradictory Reality Disappear
One of the most puzzling things about Donald Trump is not that he boasts. Politicians boast. Businesspeople boast. Athletes boast. Parents boast about their children, fishermen about their fish, and almost everyone quietly edits the story of his own life. Trump is interesting because of the breadth, intensity and apparent sincerity of his exceptionalism. He…
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Pete Hegseth Could Face 486 Life Sentences Plus 65 Years in Prison
How a political impeachment could become a criminal investigation, and why the difference between losing a job and losing one’s freedom matters. 486 life sentences plus 65 years. That is the sort of headline that gets attention. It is also the sort of arithmetic American news organizations love when reporting the maximum theoretical punishment for…
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The Eight-Gigabit House Nobody Actually Lives In
For most of the internet’s history, American households suffered from a genuine shortage of bandwidth. Connections were slow, unreliable and radically unequal. A family’s devices competed for a narrow pipe, video calls froze, movies buffered, and uploading a large file could monopolize the connection for hours. Rural communities sometimes had little more than dial-up in…
