Timing is of the essence here. When did his Measles outbreak begin and end. Apparently, the doctor was feeling good a day after his outbreak and went in to treat others. He still had the rash. Measles is most contagious for about four days before and four days after the rash appears. Doctor sickened with […]

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Enjoyed your company and commentary in 2025. Be Safe and enjoy family and friends today.

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Summary: I am not sure why anyone would want to take on the courts. It is a losing proposition. It eats up your time. There stands a good chance in the end you will lose and be penalized. Then again, I am not T—p. He is also denying people their rights as he ships them […]

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Some wandering of the Trump mindset as discussed by Karl Rove and George Conway. No doubt those Tr—pian wanderings are making it easier for Dems to get back at Republicans and T—p. Karl Rove, “America Gets Trump Fatigue” We are not 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term and many Americans are already exhausted. They’ve had […]

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 – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. It remains notable how quickly many of the short leading indicators have turned up. But there has been no discernible hit to consumption. As usual, clicking over and reading will bring you up to the virtual moment as to the state of the […]

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It seems fitting to post this resurrection story on Easter Sunday. The reanimated corpse of Reagan’s Star Wars program walks among us again. As a national security program, it was stupid then and it’s stupid now. It’s back because billionaires have figured out how to repurpose it to shovel more of your tax dollars into […]

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RFK Jr has gotten a lot of media coverage posing as a transformative advocate for child health. And yet on a genuine issue of child health . . . crickets. “Mere hours after birth, most newborns are tested for two things: whether they have signs of hearing loss and whether they have any of a […]

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It could be there was little the administration could do for the student known as Mohsen Mahdawi. After reading both articles (one at the end also), it appears the administration felt more comfortable in watching and doing nothing. Read on . . . “Emails Show Mohsen Mahdawi Pleaded with Columbia for Protection for Months Before […]

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And the grift goes on and on. “One of the most important stories in some time came out two days ago. But with so much else going it didn’t get quite as much attention as it should have. It’s from ProPublica. And it’s about a Peter Thiel-backed start up called Ramp. It’s a corporate credit […]

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The simplest answer to this dilemma being they have the weakest political clout. All it would take is a large turnout of Low Income citizens to defeat Republicans. There were 50 million voters who were make <$50,000 annually who turned out in 2020. I guess the question then, is why don’t they have a larger […]

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While President Trump has taken an array of unconstitutional actions to consolidate power and to stifle dissent. It remains to be seen if any of this will hold up in Congress and also in the Courts. The later being the most active in blocking Trump’s actions. The question here is whether the nation really needs […]

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“Small town vs big city economics,” The one-handed economist How do the small rural communities still manage to exist with decent living conditions? Take for example any small rural village in a country such as Bulgaria or Croatia or South Africa with around 1,000 people. People there are working, have/self-supplied food, water, sanitation facilities, a […]

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You may have read that the Trump so-called “antisemitism taskforce” recently sent a letter to Harvard effectively demanding management control over the University. Unlike any other university, Harvard publicly refused to comply. Now, the taskforce says the letter was sent by mistake. Sorta. “The university announced its intentions Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between […]

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The Trump Administration is weaponizing tax-exempt status to punish its political enemies and enforce viewpoint discrimination. It’s illegal, but can it work? Here’s Josh Marshall over at TPM: “It seems unlikely that these moves would hold up in court. And the organizations are highly likely to sue. But this gets at a critical dimension of […]

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Positing that the purpose of an economy is to produce and equitably distribute the requisite goods and services for a given societal unit, that the purpose of government is to provide a societal unit essential services including a well functioning economy, that no form of either is ordained, that it is neither the duty nor […]

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“A large, slow-moving gun fired at the economy and the bullet is still in the air”  – by New Deal democrat A poster named Micah on Bluesky has written “the China tariffs were a large, slow-moving gun fired at the economy and the bullet is still in the air” By this, he is referring to the […]

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At this point, it seems like piling on, but here’s RFK Jr again showing his ignorance: “Speaking of kids with autism, Kennedy said “these are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them […]

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Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, famous for leading the charge against lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, appears to be overseeing a reign of terror at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The immediate targets: women, minorities and respected scientists at the agency. Merrill Goozner GoozNews From various news sources this morning: Do you remember what you were […]

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– by New Deal democrat The housing market has historically been led by mortgage rates. And since those have been relatively rangebound for most of the past 2.5 years in the 6%-7% range, housing permits and starts have similarly followed. This morning those trends continued. Total permits (dark blue in the graph below) increased 23,000 on […]

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That people in countries on the other side of our planet will suffer because of one person who despises their existence is tragic. I subscribe to The Bangkok Post because I worked there for weeks at a time also. It is a place of wealth and a place of poverty. A couple of dollars means […]

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