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-Benjamin Franklin
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The Greatest Threat to Democracy
I noticed a Democrat saying that the Republicans are the greatest threat todemocracy. The guy may be right – but if he is, the Republicans are only a couple points above his own party. Here in Lincoln County, a Democrat can’t win an election. About all they can do is to vote Republican in the Read more
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Thinking Inflation – The Big Mac Perspective
The high prices that gold, silver and platinum are bringing show the devaluation of the American dollar – but in terms of things that we do not deal with every day. This MacDonald’s menu, from 1972, makes it fairly easy to see the effects of inflation: Inflation, in our time, is caused by printing more Read more
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The Insidiousness of AI
As I went to figure out how to get Microsoft to stop telling me to make my first draft using it’s AI, copilot, I got the directions from Google’s AI. AI is offering to summarize my emails. It’s offering to summarize my Facebook messages. It wants to help me find answers when I look on Read more
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Making Sense of Polls That Don’t Make Sense
We know that how a question is asked can influence the answers – and that, along with other factors such as sampling bias creates polls that are proven wrong in following elections. I’m going to illustrate how to better understand polls by showing some that were taken on gun ownership during the first 24 years Read more
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When Projections Become Difficult
As a young man, I never thought that working snow surveys would prepare me for a career in demography – but populations are populations, whether of snowflakes or humans (and some humans are definitely snowflakes). When you’re dealing with populations, you don’t make predictions, you make projections – you project the line of the curve, Read more
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Q&A: Ryan Dennis on the History of Agriculture
by Claire Carlson, The Daily YonderFebruary 6, 2026 Ryan Dennis is a man of many hats: writer, editor, bookseller, and more. But first and foremost, he’s the son of a family of dairy farmers from rural upstate New York. Growing up on the farm, he witnessed firsthand the detrimental effect of the “get big or Read more
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