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IBM chief Arvind Krishna says he would fire, demote or strip bonuses from execs who don’t hire enough blacks, Hispanics — or hire too many Asians. “Asians are not an underrepresented minority in tech in America…I’m not going to finesse this, for blacks we should try to get towards 13 percent.”

California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit next fiscal year—its largest ever—because of plunging revenues including a steep drop in personal income tax collections after an extension to file state and federal taxes was granted to most Californians due to sever winter storms last year. Much of the money the government assumed it would have obtained has already been spent.

I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history. What Israel … Continue reading "Death and Destruction in Gaza"

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres “had just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter – for the 1st time in [his] tenure as Secretary-General.” Article 99 states that “The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.” It was … Continue reading "The World Has Spoken on Gaza: The US Again Stands Alone"

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war James Fenimore Cooper: Selections on peace and war ==== James Fenimore CooperPrecaution: A Novel “And yet, my dear, men who pride themselves greatly on their morals, nay, even some who wear the mask of religion, and perhaps deceive themselves, […]

We’ve long discussed the bias imparted by ex post selection of data depending on whether it went up in the 20th century.  Likening such after-the-fact selection to a drug study carried out only on survivors. The Jacoby and d’Arrigo 1989 network was a classic example: the original article reported that they had sampled 36 northern treeline […]

Is Free Speech a Relic in America? by James Bovard  December 12, 2023 Is the First Amendment becoming a historic relic? On July 4, 2023, federal judge Terry Doughty condemned the Biden administration for potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” That verdict was ratified by a federal appeals court […]
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Review of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty William Anderson 5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book, Dammit! Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2023 It has been a while since James Bovard has written a book exposing government lies, malfeasance, and outright criminal behavior. As one who has read most […]

theamericanconservative.com, December 12, 2023 Stop the “Biden Big Brother Better” Law James Bovard Unfortunately, betting on the triumph of constitutional rights on Capitol Hill remains a fool’s errand. *********************** Don’t “trust any bill so large that it has to be delivered by handcart,” warns Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), the top Senate opponent to a rubber […]
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Gaza was among the main topics on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrived in the Middle East region on Wednesday, December 6. Some news reports referred to the trip as ‘rare’, especially since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022. We know that the situation in Gaza, namely the … Continue reading "Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia Ready for a Major Shift in Its Middle East Policy?"