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Fred Likes the Tesla (Nov. 2012 Update)


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Don’t Look Back (Updated)

obama straight on

By Art Hyland

“…Barack Obama loves the future because that’s where all his accomplishments are.”

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  In an unusually objective moment four years ago, the New York Times’ David Brooks decided to put some fleeting thoughts on paper for all

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Why Mitt Wins in November–a Primer from the Past

owl

By Art Hyland, but really Larry Leonard

The archives of Oregon Magazine are long and thorough enough to have discussed just about any subject of consequence.  Here we are in another presidential election year with the pundits and pollsters all trotting out their changing, daily predictions of what’s going to happen

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Pacific Islanders are an Endangered Species?

Pacific Island

by Larry Leonard

July 14, 2012 — This afternoon the Documentary channel ran a presentation about the destruction threatened by rising sea levels generated by climate change in the oceanic realm of the Polynesians. I learned the legislature building of the island nation of Yap (well-remembered in the aging memory storage

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Yahoo News: “Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager” (“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”)

Jack Webb

by Art Hyland

Woke up this Sunday morning March 25 to the headline above–the part not in parentheses– located near my Yahoo email list.  So as I moved my mouse over the headline, this screen appeared: (click several times to enlarge)

Yahoo News, Sunday, March 25,

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