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This page contains links to articles and commentary by staff writers and guest columnists.
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News & Updates
- Status of DOGE-related data misfeasance at Social Security
- 31-Aug-2025
- It remains unclear whether a whistleblower's assertion inexperienced DOGE employees left Social Security data vulnerable to access by untrusted individuals, companies or foreign governments is true.
Trumpology
- Mentally and Geographically Challenged
- 22-Jan-2026
- Viking sagas and Donald Trump collide.
- 'Biblical' Trump
- 14-Jan-2026
- Interesting idea from a Farcebook friend, who compared certain current Trump behavior as "biblical." We asked "Perplexity" what biblical figures are thought by modern standards to have been mentally ill or incompetent.
- George Will on Donald Trump
- 05-Dec-2025
- George Will is no fan of Donald Trump. Can you say "bloviating ignoramus?"
- Good, bad, deadly, dumb?
- 02-Dec-2025
- Shall we compare Donald Trump to a summer's day, or to the emperors of Rome? How does he compare to the best and the worst?
- Is Donald Trump in Decline?
- 28-Aug-2025
- This article presents two perspectives on the suggestion that President Donald Trump is declining (senescing) mentally and physically. Two queries were submitted to AI research. One asks whether the assertion is true, while the other negates it.
- Reports of Tr$mp Decline Likely Premature
- 01-Jul-2025
- AI reports Tr$mp less than Lincolnesque regarding truth
- 01-Jul-2025
- Five AI models were used to fact-check former President Tr&mp’s statements. The AI models consistently debunked Trump’s claims, with responses disproving his statements in the majority of cases. The models demonstrated accuracy and objectivity in their fa
- Historic View of Roy Cohn's Career
- 04-May-2025
- Magapathy Epidemic Strikes USA
- 10-Oct-2024
- Mapathy is a contagious disease characterized by facial discoloration with secondary psychological effects leading to fantasy, vindictiveness and paranoia.
- Trumpology
- 31-Jan-2021
- What were we thinking?!
Columns and Columnists
Wilkington Parsnip III
- Jeffrey Epstein Legacy Will Affect Trump's Own
- 04-Jan-2026
- Prosecution of persons swept up in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal will make interesting reading for future political historians as well as contemporary observers.
- Good, bad, deadly, dumb?
- 04-Dec-2025
- Shall we compare Donald Trump to a summer's day, or to the emperors of Rome? How does he compare to the best and the worst?
- US Production & Imports of Cooking Oils
- 24-Oct-2025
- A summary of US vegetable oil production and imports in the context of current tariff policy.
Rees Clark
- Mentally and Geographically Challenged
- 22-Jan-2026
- Viking sagas and Donald Trump collide.
- George Will on Donald Trump
- 05-Dec-2025
- George Will is no fan of Donald Trump. Can you say "bloviating ignoramus?"
- GDP, Productivity and Wage Growth 2016-2025
- 02-Dec-2025
- Economic activity since 2016, comparing four Trump and four Biden years.
- Oil extraction has minor calue for California, Florida, with large damage potential
- 29-Nov-2025
- UCMJ is clear; refusing illegal orders is required
- 20-Nov-2025
- he Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and related military law require U.S. military personnel to refuse illegal orders. Service members are legally and morally obligated to disobey unlawful commands that violate their oaths and the common law.
- Trump & friends are coming for your Social Security
- 31-Aug-2025
- Their plan to privatize is just another scam from the current confidence men in Washington D.C. Retirees would get less, with fewer protections, while brokers win big.
- Securities Price Projections Experiment Continues
- 17-Aug-2025
- This article presents a compendium of summary analyses by Perplexity.ai regarding projected growth in four major investment groups over the ensuing ten years. Our plan is to repeat the core query at monthly intervals and add the responses to this article
- Fun with Income Distribution
- 25-Jul-2025
- Tweaking the minimum and higher wages would have major effects on equity and equality, which are not the same thing.
- Mites may be responsible for collapsing bee populations
- 15-Jul-2025
- Mites love to eat bees from the inside out. The little monsters may be the cause of bee population collapses around the world, says an article in "Science.'
- Big Pharma Wins Again with Eliquis
- 09-Jul-2025
- The author argues that the cost of Eliquis illustrates the price-gouging rampant in Medicare and that the benefits of so-called waste, fraud and abuse fall solely into the pockets of Big Pharmaceutical.
