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I was just researching my How to Spot Dishonest Arguments book when I reconsidered impeachment. I had recently researched that topic for my Unelected President novel. Maxine Waters says, as Gerald Ford once did, that “high crimes and misdemeanors,” two of the four grounds for impeachment, are anything the Congress says they are. (Treason and bribery are the other two grounds.)Maxine is an idiot, apparently representing a district of idiots (LAX and the area east and southeast of it). But she and Ford might be right in one sense. ‘High crimes and misdemeanors’ The phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” was...

The Fed is finally unwinding the quantitative easing crap that everyone who understands monetary stability knows pushes the U.S. dollar toward high inflation. Quantitative easing means the Fed buying U.S. government bonds with money they conjure out of thin air. That is the modern equivalent of the actual printing presses that ran 24 hours a day in Austria and Germamy during the early 1920s producing their notorious hyperinflation.   The excess money that was “printed” during the quantitive easing from 2009 to date is the increase in assets on the Fed balance sheet. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm $3T of excess money As you...

The Thai soccer team trapped in a flooded cave horrifies the world. What can I add to the discussion?.Not much. It seems to generally be covered correctly.CO2 levels are rising where the boys and their coach are. They are taking oxygen tanks in there to raise the oxygen levels. Uh, CO2 is heavier than oxygen. if you put both into a confined space, the oxygen will lie on top of the CO2 like oil on water..Furthermore, the cave apparently opens to the surface as evidenced by the boys being able to hear birds. So the CO2 will push the oxygen...

Yesterday, a reader of my debate tactics web article named Ghilman Brock said, .‘Your quote "Similarly, liberals are socialists who want to boss the rest of us around" clearly violates rule 5. 5. False premise: debater makes a statement that assumes some other fact has already been proven when it has not; in court, such a statement will be objected to successfully by opposing counsel on the grounds that it “assumes facts not in evidence.” At the very least, hold yourself accountable to your own list of partisan debate points. Peace, Ghilman’.Yesterday, a 28-year-old open socialist with no money or experience...

The 6/23/18 Wall Street Journal article “Mueller’s Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” is the best executive summary explaining why the conclusion sentence of the IG report on the Clinton email investigation belied the other 568 pages of the report. Google the title to read the article.."We found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations; rather, we determined that they were based on the prosecutors' assessment of the facts, the law, and past Department practice.".In fact, the report found MASSIVE evidence of bias and hatred by FBI executives and vows to throw...