Sun 1 Dec, 2024 06:33 pm - [quote="hightor"]
[quote]It would be very hard to find a Presidential Administration in our history that was more inclined to rely on Executive action - as opposed to legislation - to... (view)
Sun 1 Dec, 2024 03:23 pm - [quote="Hightor"]
[quote]The cruel irony here is that none of this was the result of any external change in the border situation: it was entirely the result of the willful elimination of... (view)
Sun 1 Dec, 2024 01:26 pm - I have long been bemused by the assertions of many left wing Democrats (if there are indeed any moderates left) that Trump is an "authoritarian" , Fascist" or "threat to our... (view)
Sun 10 Nov, 2024 05:30 pm - Maximizing profits is a prominent goal for most corporations, but the point relevant to our conversations was that consumers ultimately decide which corporations succeed, and just how long the... (view)
Sun 10 Nov, 2024 02:43 pm - [quote="hightor"]
[quote] Contrary to what you have implied, the result of these planned actions will be increased individual freedom, and more direct involvement of the... (view)
Sat 9 Nov, 2024 06:15 pm - [quote="blatham"]
These folks are ultimately concerned with power and control over others (and, often, accumulation of personal wealth) thus have little genuine concern with the well... (view)
Sat 9 Nov, 2024 01:59 pm - I believe the real irony here is that Germany has in real fact long needed more "decisive leadership" than it has seen. Indeed the lack of it is the main cause for the current... (view)
Sat 9 Nov, 2024 01:46 pm - I believe one could more accurately describe what is planned as an effort to reduce the size, cost and reach of increasingly authoritarian government bureaucracies, which over the last three... (view)
Sat 9 Nov, 2024 12:33 pm - Indeed. And the French very wisely adopted the then fairly new Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) and quickly standardized their design. PWRs have now been now adopted worldwide (except in Russia)... (view)
Sat 9 Nov, 2024 11:54 am - I've travelled to Germany several times and enjoyed everything I saw. In many ways I found Germans to be very similar to us, with a wry sense of irony and amusing regional rivalries. ( I... (view)
