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Cloward-Piven Voting

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Will all mail-in ballots be counted beyond November 3rd  if they are postmarked by Election Day?   What would prevent people from trying to game the system by intentionally delaying the mailing of a ballot until the last possible minute and then vote in-person while the mail-in ballot is in transit?  On Election Day the voting […]

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The Economic Curveball

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We have heard about “flattening the curve” for months. The way it has been presented in much of the press gives the impression that the flattening objective is to eradicate the COVID-19 disease. That’s incorrect. The apex of the “curve” represents the point of maximum saturation of the disease in various populations. If the apex […]

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Anti-social Media

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On April 29, 2020, WXYZ reported the following: https://www.wxyz.com/facebook-removing-posts-promoting-protest-against-stay-at-home-order-planned-for-lansing I think that it is time for the federal government to seriously investigate social media platforms, particularly Facebook and Twitter and perhaps Instagram.  Their censoring of conservative voices is disconcerting.  At minimum, I believe that the indemnification against legal action they receive as being “open platforms” […]

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COVID-19 Re-Tort

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The shelter-in-place orders put into effect by the executive orders of numerous state governors has allowed for more time to view daytime TV. I am surprised to see so many commercials for law firms that encourage people to file civil law suits for a wide variety of situations.  This made me wonder if the COVID-19 […]

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New York State of Mind

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New York’s governor Cuomo was back on TV today in a press conference complaining that his state was shorted in the $2.2 trillion emergency COVID-19 relief bill which was recently signed into law.  He says that his state is broke and his budget is destroyed and he wants a bailout. I am 100% behind providing […]

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