You can't be more elitist than Robert Rubin but bring your view and efforts down to your local community and the future of country is enhanced

 

If You’re Worried About the Future of Our Country, Do Something About It

By Robert E. Rubin

Mr. Rubin is a senior counselor to Centerview Partners and was the U.S. Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999.

This opinion about the state of China's electronic chips has a whistling past the graveyard sound to it

 

A Look Inside Huawei’s Phone Shows How China’s Chip Advance Has Stalled

An analysis of Huawei’s latest series of smartphones, the Mate 70, found chips that showed little progress from those used in last year’s devices.

By Meaghan Tobin

Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan

Dec. 17, 2024

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Christ’s life began in a manger, and it ended on a cross. He warned his followers that a cross could come for them as well. An upside-down kingdom began with an upside-down birth. When Jesus himself is humble, how do we justify our pride?

 

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel?

By David French

Opinion Columnist

That Pope Francis can repeat this joke about himself makes him divine

Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor

By Pope Francis

Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome.

And I’ve been told one that concerns me directly, the one about Pope Francis in America. It goes something like this: As soon as he arrives at the airport in New York for his apostolic journey in the United States, Pope Francis finds an enormous limousine waiting for him. He is rather embarrassed by that magnificent splendor, but then thinks that it has been ages since he last drove, and never a vehicle of that kind, and he thinks to himself: OK, when will I get another chance? He looks at the limousine and says to the driver, “You couldn’t let me try it out, could you?” “Look, I’m really sorry, Your Holiness,” replies the driver, “but I really can’t, you know, there are rules and regulations.”

But you know what they say, how the pope is when he gets something into his head — in short, he insists and insists, until the driver gives in. So Pope Francis gets behind the steering wheel, on one of those enormous highways, and he begins to enjoy it, presses down on the accelerator, going 50 miles per hour, 80, 120 … until he hears a siren, and a police car pulls up beside him and stops him. A young policeman comes up to the darkened window. The pope rather nervously lowers it and the policeman turns white. “Excuse me a moment,” he says, and goes back to his vehicle to call headquarters. “Boss, I think I have a problem.

“What problem?” asks the chief.

“Well, I’ve stopped a car for speeding, but there’s a guy in there who’s really important.”

“How important? Is he the mayor?”

“No, no, boss … more than the mayor.”

“And more than the mayor, who is there? The governor?”

“No, no, more.”

“But he can’t be the president?”

“More, I reckon.”

“And who can be more important than the president?”

“Look, boss, I don’t know exactly who he is, all I can tell you is that it’s the pope who is driving him!”

At a county fairground in Wise, Va., I witnessed people standing in lines that stretched out of view, waiting to see physicians who were stationed in animal stalls. The event’s organizers, from a nonprofit called Remote Area Medical, told me that of the thousands of people who came to this three-day clinic every year, some had health insurance but did not have enough money in the bank to cover their out-of-pocket obligations. Maybe that is what medicare should cover, the fixable!

I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.

By Wendell Potter

Mr. Potter is a former vice president for corporate communications at Cigna.

No you fucking morons. Drill for and export as much gas as possible and save the planet from the more deleterious burning of coal and oil

 

Gas Exports Pose Some Risks to U.S. Economy and Environment, Study Says

By Brad Plumer and Rebecca F. Elliott

Dec. 17, 2024

Not a fan but if Elon can cut down the government like he did with X then I'm all for it

 

Elon Musk’s Playbook for DOGE Has a Precedent: X

Mr. Musk is wielding his X account to single out federal employees and agencies for cuts. He has used this method before.

For this bagel shop's closing to make the New York Times first listed domestic event it must of really been something!

 

A Bagel Shop Closed, and the Upper West Side Is Absolutely Losing It

The neighborhood reaction to the sudden closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!”

Paul I am sorry to see you go because your top down editorials were such an easy counter to the Libertarian bottom up view

My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment

By Paul Krugman

Opinion Columnist

The number of Sanders supporters who have gone MAGA is most likely a sliver of the electorate. But they illustrate an important pattern in American politics, political scientists say, one that might help explain Mr. Trump’s success with young men in particular. For certain voters, political preferences are defined not by party, but by their attitudes about the ruling class — whether they trust people in power, or think they’ve rigged the system against ordinary people.

 

How Some Voters Moved From Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump

For some young men in particular, the populist pitches from Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump aligned with their attitudes about the ruling class.

By Claire Cain Miller

Dec. 9, 2024