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A Scroogey Feeling, Etc.

Reader mail on U.S. politics, early personal computers, the English language, and more.

Michigan Supreme Court Rules to Keep Trump on State Ballot

Last Tuesday, the Colorado supreme court ruled Trump was ineligible to appear on the state’s 2024 ballot.

If You Want to Be a Party’s 2028 Nominee, Work Hard Now

If you want to be a major party’s nominee in 2028, you ought to spend the next five years trying to solve problems here...

Austrian University Severs Ties with Harvard amid Antisemitism Row

In late October, Harvard announced the creation of a task force aimed to ‘disrupt and dismantle’ antisemitism at the Ivy League school.

Making the Adjustment to College

College might be quite a shock for some students.

Startling surprises in latest Census numbers

How’s America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau’s estimates of population, announced in the holiday weeks at the end of each calendar year. The latest numbers measure the estimated population of each state as of last July 1 as compared to the constitutionally required decennial Census dated April 1, 2020.

Kinzinger says Christians who back Trump ‘don’t understand’ their religion

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him “don’t understand” their religion. “I’m going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,” Kinzinger said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trump’s Christmas post. “If...

States keep proving that climate action works  

How about a little bit of good news as we close out the year?

Trump predicts Ramaswamy will endorse him

Former President Trump expressed confidence that fellow Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will endorse Trump’s re-election bid following reports that Ramaswamy has cancelled TV advertising ahead of the first primary contests. “He will, I am sure, Endorse me. But Vivek is a good man, and is not done yet!” Trump wrote on his TruthSocial platform...

Woman found with loaded gun at DC-area airport on Christmas Eve

A woman was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Reagan Washington National Airport on Christmas Eve after a loaded handgun was detected in her bag. The 9 mm gun, which was loaded with six bullets, was found among the woman's carry-on items when going through security at the Arlington, Va., airport just outside...

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