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Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).
Today’s WSJ has a review that almost makes me want to buy the book it describes. The book recounts the history of an early computer company, started in 1959 and bankrupt 11 years later.
Continue reading “‘If Then’ Review: Big Data’s Baby Steps”Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).
“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Oregon’s Ron Wyden on Wednesday accused a GOP colleague of essentially working as a Kremlin operative. They called Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson’s work a ‘disgrace,’ claimed his committee was funneling ‘Russian disinformation,’ and introduced a resolution demanding he cease. The only thing missing from this spectacle was the supporting cast: James Comey, John Brennan and Peter Strzok.
“The catalyst for these surreal claims: Mr. Johnson will soon release the findings of his investigation into the Biden family’s dealings with Ukraine.”
I didn’t know, or had forgotten, the Senate was investigating Joe Biden’s record with Ukraine. I’m looking forward to the report.
I disagreed with her view of pretty much everything, but Scalia regarded her as a friend, and that is enough for me to agree she was a good person.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/donald-trump-masks-usps
The essence of this somewhat snarky presentation is that the “deep state” bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services conspired with the Post Office to distribute 650 million face masks to Americans starting with very hard hit areas in Louisiana, Washington state, New York and Michigan. This was in April when flooding the zone with masks would have done a lot of good according to those pesky scientists. A press release from the Post Office was ready to go when the White House stepped in to kill the effort.
POTUS’ ‘intentional negligence’ doomed COVID response
Here is yet another senior Trump-appointed DHS officer for his supporters to disparage, mock and/or ignore. Let those words from one of the “best people” sink in – INTENTIONAL NEGLIGENCE. She shares estimates of 100,000 dead as a result of that negligence.
Colbert has a great deal of adults-only fun (you have been warned) at the expense of Donald Trump’s most influential Evangelical enabler. But as he reminds us at the end, Michael Cohen described burying some Falwell photos in his possession (somehow) BEFORE Falwell’s VERY influential 2016 endorsement of Trump. Thus the chyron above.
One has to wonder, is there anything about Trump and his enablers that is NOT sordid, corrupt or disgusting?
Kerry Dougherty laments the slow and intractable decline of our local news industry, especially The Virginian-Pilot.
Continue reading “More Bad News for Our Local Newspapers”Bjorn Lomberg will be on Varney and Company on FOX Business Network today sometime between 11 AM and Noon. Turns out things aren’t as bad as we are told on many fronts. Fact based reporting on the world we live in.
There is nothing surprising in this statement by Pence’s Covid Task Force aide. It simply confirms what any rational person grounded in evidence already knows. Trump put politics above the welfare of the American people. Period.
I recommend this book, published in 1958, be included in black history course curricula.
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