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Paul F. deLespinasse



Sep 2, 2025
Why We Shouldn't Ignore Radical Changes in Military Economics
Billions of dollars spent on atomic bombs and bombers as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles could provide adequate security for less money that conventional forces.


Aug 28, 2025
Why We Must Ignore Anti-Green Spin-Doctors
If someone tells you a worldwide grid to distribute solar energy is impossible because of transmission losses, ask yourself how much stock that person has in oil wells.


Aug 19, 2025
GOP Smoke and Mirrors? Not Calling Tariffs a Tax Increase
Although Mr. Trump repeatedly speaks of "Making Brazil Pay," "Making China Pay," etc., he's actually imposing a tax on goods imported into the U.S. from those countries.


Aug 6, 2025
Anti-Discrimination Law a Paved Road to a Legal Morass
Anti-discrimination legislation, although well meant, has produced a horrible tangle of moral, legal, and practical issues. We need to sort out this tangle and completely rethink discrimination.


Jul 8, 2025
We Can See Through Political Hot Air by Being Better Informed
Mr. Trump shares former president William McKinley's enthusiasm for tariffs. But tariffs on imported goods are an indirect sales tax. Like sales taxes, they increase the prices that consumers of those goods must pay and the extra money goes to our government.


Jun 23, 2025
Are We Becoming a Third-World Country?
Americans have long bragged that we are the world's most advanced nation. We certainly used to be. But those leading earlier in a race do not always end up winning it.


Jun 17, 2025
Musk Should Try to Make Our Planet Better First
Elon Musk has been a tremendously creative and successful entrepreneur, but his most driving ambition, to spread humanity out onto other planets, probably pushes an interesting idea way beyond its usefulness.


Jun 11, 2025
Medicaid Work Requirement Implies Federal Duty To Hire
Republicans in Congress are planning to slash funding for Medicaid to help pay for major tax reductions for wealthy Americans and corporations. But they don't want to cut Medicaid openly because it will gravely injure many people who voted for them.

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