William Guess

World

Venezuela: Out of Food, Out of Toilet Paper, Out of Time

The collapse of Venezuela is an especially painful story in a world full of them right now. It’s an unimaginable economic failure in a resource-rich nation and it’s happening right under…

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Immigration

Those Pesky H1-B Visas

I was delighted to find an article on CNN Money this morning about one of my favorite pet topics to complain about: the systematic overuse and abuse of the H1B…

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The Politicization of Absolutely Everything: Part 1

I don’t really have a Part 2 in the works. I’m just sure that I’m going to spend an enormous amount of time on this issue for many more years…

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About Us

Delete Your Account and Live Better

It’s been about a month since I unceremoniously destroyed my 8+ year old Facebook account, and I haven’t regretted it. In fact, I wonder why I waited so long. Ultimately, it…

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Nation Reels As Floridians Make Rational Decision

No offense to any of the fine Florida natives among our staff, of course, but it is surprising to me that it was immigrant-heavy Miami-Dade County that first realized the stupid…

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Law
LGBT

The argument over these state anti-discrimination laws and their inevitable collision with the 1st Amendment’s freedom of religion clause is among the most emotionally-charged issues of what is otherwise a pointless and…

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Presidential Historians Ranked Last On Intelligence Rankings for All Historians

C-Span has posted the annual list of presidential rankings as viewed by historians. Most of the talk about this is centered around Obama’s absurdly high rank. I don’t disagree with…

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Crime
Law

Suicide By Manager

I’ve been following this story from Missouri about Kenneth Suttner, the teenager who was allegedly bullied into killing himself. One of the bullies was the manager at the Dairy Queen at…

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Trump

Acerbic Old Man Lectures and Pesters Rumor Mongering Opposition Party Agents

I love the tabloid style headlines. Get used to it. All day long, I kept hearing all about Trump “destroying” the media in his glorious press conference. I thought, “Eh,…

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Politics

Do We Prefer a Lawful Stupid or Chaotic Evil GOP?

With the CEO of Aetna’s warning that the long-expected Obamacare death spiral is snaking its way toward insolvency for the insurance companies we have to look ahead and wonder what…

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