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Adventures on the Titanic

July 12, 2020 Bill Kesler Coronavirus, Government, Health care, Trump Leave a comment

Paul Krugman recently posted a piece in the New York Times, The Deadly Delusions of Mad king Donald. It likened our current state of

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Debt-ceiling debacle: 21st century Titanic

July 21, 2011 Renee Shur Congress, Economy, History Leave a comment

Ignoring warnings of danger ahead. Steaming at full speed toward disaster. That was the tragedy of the Titanic and its rendezvous with a mass

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