President Pete Buttigieg

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First, some housekeeping.  You may call him Mayor Pete, you may call him Secretary Buttigieg, I will call him Pete, because I can.

Can Pete be elected president?  I say, unequivocally, yes.

Not one of my liberal friends agrees with me. They argue, “if a woman can’t be elected president, why do you imagine a gay man can be elected president?”  They cite the presidential election losses of Secretary Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris, as proof that a woman can’t be elected president in today’s America. My response to that tired argument is: a) Hillary led Trump in the polls from the very start of the campaign all the way until Election Day, b) Hillary won three million more votes than Trump, and c) while Trump held twice daily rallies in the last weeks of the campaign, Hillary hosted fund raisers.  Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! 

Mamdani’s Co-ops

The planned first store in the Bronx

On May 19th, New York City’s Democratic Socialist Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, announced that “the first city-run grocery store is coming to the Bronx”.

In the interest of full disclosure, I had (mis-)remembered that the first store was soon to open when I heard the mayor’s announcement on C-Span, rather than the first store will open in the Bronx in late 2027.  This error will not undermine my argument, but it will move back the test of its predictions by more than a year.

Thomas Paine quotes

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   The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
2. Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
3. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
4. These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.