Mark Hanna. Henry Ford. Herbert Hoover. Wendell Willkie. Donald Rumsfeld. Lloyd Bentsen. Lee Iacocca. George H.W. Bush. George W. Bush. Donald Trump. And J. Irwin Miller. J. Irwin Miller? We’ll get to him in a moment, because lone among the names above his doesn’t quite fit. The others are prominent business executives who thought about […]
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Summoning your courage
We live in exciting – and dangerous – times. Just a week ago we saw a Trump-supported Brexit, virtually an act of political terrorism, where British voters recklessly opted to leave the European Union. The United Kingdom went from being the world’s fifth-largest economy to being the sixth-largest in just one day. The world market […]
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Brexit in Europe, stalemate in U.S. may produce similar result
Some Europeans think the European Union government works too well, while some Americans think their federal government works too poorly. Their solutions may turn out to be the same. The European Commission, an unelected executive and regulatory body, has imposed on countries measures it deems necessary to create a unified European economy. It has overridden […]
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Suffocating in fact-free cocoons
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin were operating in a “fact-free cocoon” of partisan prejudice when they claimed that voter fraud was a major problem in their state, wrote federal judge Richard Posner in 2014. “If the Wisconsin legislature says witches are a problem, shall Wisconsin courts be permitted to conduct witch trials?” Posner is a conservative […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Rutland Herald (Vt.), June 25: The consequences of the British vote to exit from the European Union will now be more than theoretical. Soon we will know whether pro-union forces were right in warning that economic and political decline would follow. The problem is that in Europe and America the public and the politicians […]
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Inappropriate ball joke goes here
It was a beautiful early spring day in Portland’s Monument Square. I was sitting on a slab of concrete eating a turkey sandwich when I saw him: A Channel 8 photographer with an SUVsized video camera slung over his shoulder and a searching look in his eyes, like he was trying to find Waldo hiding […]
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The (Springfield) Republican (Mass.), June 24: On Friday, as the dust was just beginning to settle across a Europe that would be dramatically changed by the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the 28- member European Union, some began to push for still more disintegration. In Holland, Geert Wilders, a right-wing leader, tweeted: “Hurrah for the […]