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Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/.... open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/.... A saga about the idiocy of climate change hysteria that Bill Gates now thinks is worth telling.
Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington, Part 1
The fantastic but almost true voyage of a freedom loving polar bear who risks his life to tell politicians that his species is in no danger from climate change. A Pixar-ready substack serial begins.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The sugar racket is a sweet deal -- for a few. I guarantee not 10 people on this site have a clue about why cane sugar is more expensive in the USA than anywhere else in the world. open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/...
The sugar racket is a sweet deal -- for a few
Grok AI explains how the federal government has rigged the free flow of cane sugar to the USA to help a few favored sugar beet farmers and Big Ag high fructose corn syrup makers for almost 100 years.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Grandpa Bear goes to Washington, Part 5 open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/.... Grandpa the talking polar bear changes into his human clothes before he appears before a Senate committee to tell the politicians to leave his species alone.
Grandpa Bear goes to Washington, Part 5
The serialized version of an almost true story about a talking polar bear who risks his life to go to Washington to tell politicians his species is under no threat from climate change.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/.... The fantastic but nearly true voyage of a freedom loving polar bear who risks his life to tell politicians his species is in no danger from climate change. A Pixar-perfect substack serial everyone on Bluesky will detest.
Grandpa Bear Goes to Washington, Part 1
The fantastic but almost true voyage of a freedom loving polar bear who risks his life to tell politicians that his species is in no danger from climate change. A substack serial begins.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Chasing Steinbeck‘s ghost in 2010 was a great way to see fly over country and meet its good people. open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/...
Chasing Steinbeck's ghost
In the fall of 2010 I set out to retrace the route John Steinbeck took around the USA in 1960 and turned into his iconic road book 'Travels with Charley.' Before I left, I told readers my crazy plan.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Anyone here care about 'The American Slaughter" and the fact that national black leaders and the legacy corporate media are too chicken to talk about it, lament it, or call for a crusade to end it after four decades and 150,000 deaths of young black males? clips.substack.com/p/american-s...
'American Slaughter' -- July 4th edition
So far this year homicides are in decline in Chicago and elsewhere, but young black males are still killing each other disproportionately at a steady rate of about 5,000 a year. Where's the outrage?
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August 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I wrote more than 750 weekly newspaper columns in the 1990s and 2000s about what was good and bad in magazines. Here's one from 31 years ago about Jefferson & Madison summer vacation. open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/...
Jefferson travelnomics
American Heritage and how Thomas Jefferson invented the working summer vacation. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from exactly 31 years ago.
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July 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Homicides are in decline in Chicago and in other murderous cities but the 'American Slaughter' rolls on. 5,000 dead young black men per year since 1995. Where's the outrage? @xpaperboy1 open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/...
'American Slaughter' -- July 4th edition
So far this year homicides are in decline in Chicago and elsewhere, but young black males are still killing each other disproportionately at a steady rate of about 5,000 a year. Where's the outrage?
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July 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In the middle of the 1990s -- 30 years ago -- Northgate High School's Class of 2000 in Pittsburgh was still in middle school when I and other Post-Gazette writers ‘embedded’ ourselves in their young and hopeful lives. Class of 2000, 1995 and 1996 editions open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/...
Class of 2000, 1995 and 1996 editions
In 1989 Post-Gazette editor John Craig came up with the good idea of having reporters track 21 Northgate kids who'd become the Class of 2000 a decade later. I embedded myself in '95 and '96.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
At 94 Thomas Sowell is arguably the greatest living president (most of the best ones are dead). This link contains links to a recent interview of him by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution that proves he's still got a lot economic good sense to dispense. clips.substack.com/p/qa-thomas-...
The night I ambushed Thomas Sowell
It wasn't always easy getting to interview the great economist, but it was always worth it. Larry Elder is urging President Trump to give Sowell, 94, a Presidential Medal of Freedom. He deserves it.
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April 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Robert McChesney's cure for the death of print journalism in 2010 was billions of dollars in federal subsidies. Good thing it never happened or we might never have gotten Joe Rogan and podcast culture. open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/...
Robert McChesney's cure for the death of journalism
The progressive critic of corporate journalism died recently. In 2010 I reviewed one of his books and found its call for massive federal support of newspapers and journalism a very lousy idea.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Milton Friedman, Frederic Bastiat and I all agree --tariffs always suck for everyone. clips.substack.com/p/tariffs-ar...
Tariffs are terrible -- always
The best reciprocal rate for tariffs on imports for everyone is zero. Like so many things government does, tariffs hurt consumers. They drive up the prices of domestic products and reduce choices.
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April 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dear King Donald -- Buy Portugal instead. It's cheap, historic and not melting. Plus its people don't hate us yet. @xpaperboy1 open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/....
Dear King Donald -- Buy Portugal instead
Forget the tariff trickery, your majesty, and use your imperial powers to buy a beautiful, cheap and historic little country in on the nose of Europe where the people don't hate us yet.
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April 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Forget Greenland, King Donald. It's melting. Send Mrs. Vance to sunny Portugal. Let's colonize it instead. open.substack.com/pub/clips/p/...
Forget Greenland, Mrs. Vance. It's melting. Let's grab Portugal instead
Donald Trump, our imperialist in chief, is talking about annexing or taking over Greenland. Mrs JD Vance is checking it out. Based on my recent spin through Portugal, we ought to buy it instead.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM