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What Amazon can do for Illinois?

When Illinoisans were not paying attention, government employees voted for themselves lucrative pensions, not correlated with the actual contributions...

Oct 8, 2017

Chicago needs reality check

As of now, Chicago can try to lure more tourists with a slogan: Come and see the last days...

Aug 24, 2017

The future will be bright … for others

We use the modern information technology not to learn, but to reassure ourselves that what we already know makes...

Jun 16, 2017

Obamacare is not the problem

Taking the pro-market approach consequently would require telling Americans that the greed-driven doctors, clinics, hospitals and pharmaceutical industry would...

Feb 8, 2017

With a hoe against the Sun

If we spend all the money we have and can borrow to fight climate change – will it make...

It is editors’ fault

Why is it so hard to reach any reasonable consensus on immigration? In 2006, we failed to reform our...

Aug 21, 2013

Chatter promptly delivered

An open letter to Mr. Lex Fenwick, Publisher of The Wall Street Journal Dear Mr. Fenwick, In the July...

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Aug 12, 2013

Conversation of a deaf with a mute one – this is the Wall Street Journal style immigration debate

Several prominent Republicans decided to advocate for changing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, so that children born in...

Aug 8, 2010

Alienation of the nation and Peggy Noonan in particular

In her column, “The Big Alienation” Peggy Noonan is trying to convince us that the nation is alienated from...

May 10, 2010

Bill O’Reilly, a socialist in denial

In an emotional burst, Bill O’Reilly condemned Dick Wolf and NBC for the “Law and Order” episode portraying a...

Mar 18, 2010
Remark of the day

Testing 7

December 21, 2024
Artificial intelligence, Life and politics

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar joke from 1971 when Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon tested the newly upgraded hotline. Brezhnev said: “I saw the White House in my nightdream last night.” Nixon responded: ”What is unique about that?” “Above it was a red flag with a hammer and sickle on it,” Brezhnev replied. “It is an interesting coincidence,” Nixon said, “because, in my nightdream, I saw the Kremlin with the red flag above it and something written on that flag.” Curious, Brezhnev asked, “I understand the red flag, but what was written on it?” Nixon answered: “I could not figure it out because it was in Chinese.” That joke is timely because, after the dust settles, China will be the real winner of the war in Ukraine. It might not rule in the Kremlin, but it could de facto control the big part of Siberia.

Testing 6

December 20, 2024
Climate change

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...

Testing 5

December 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence, Media

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States.I remember a similar j...

Testing 4

December 20, 2024
Media

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...

Testing 3

December 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence, Climate change

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...