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This week in 2003, the British Broadcasting Corporation concluded that there was no monster in Loch Ness after using sonar beams and satellite navigation to trawl the lake. The next hoax to be debunked

Congress genuinely cares about debt and deficit spending
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Whoever’s elected president will promote bipartisanship
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“The Swamp” can be drained – not replenished every 4-8 years
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COVID-19 can be contained – hang in there a few more weeks
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This week in 1969, the first humans walked on the Moon. The biggest historical turning point in the half-century since

The collapse of the Soviet Union
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The 9/11 attacks on the US
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The Watergate Scandal
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The advent of the Digital Age and Social Media
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Deciphering the human genome
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This week in 1785, the dollar became America’s official currency. If political correctness is applied to greenbacks, which president with ties to slavery/racism should be de-monetized?

Thomas Jefferson, $2 bill
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Andrew Jackson, $20 bill (change delayed until 2026)
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Ulysses S. Grant, $50
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James Madison, $5,000 bill
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Woodrow Wilson, $100,000 bill
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Thirty five years ago this week, the Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia raised approximately $127 million for African famine relief. A worthy 2020 successor would focus on

A COVID-19 vaccine
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Global food crises
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Pollution reduction
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Vaccination guarantees
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Total votes: 0
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As America debates how to handle statues and memorials, the best policy would be

Leave all statues alone, let them stand as is
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Add descriptions to explain historical significance
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Let local authorities decide what if any statues should stay or go
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Add additional monuments – e.g. abolitionist leaders – to put history in broader context
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Move controversial statues to museums
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Assess our educational system concerning how/what history of the US is being taught
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos say they’re willing to testify before Congress about tech antitrust controversies. The question Congress should ask them

Are your companies monopolies, given your domination of search engines, social networks, and e-commerce?
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Given your wealth, why do you accept billions in taxpayer subsidies for corporate expansion?
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What’s your standard for blocking conservative sites’? How many liberal sites have you censored?
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Is it time to scale back Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act?
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This week in 1775, the Second Continental Congress placed George Washington in command of the Continental Army. GW’s words most applicable to these times

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge . . . is itself a frightful despotism
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The great mass of our citizens requires only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation . . . ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness
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The turning points in our lives are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved
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This week in 1949, George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, is published. The most Orwellian phrase appropriate for these times

Big Brother is watching you
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past
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The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power
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This week in 1944, Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches in the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe. This generation’s “great crusade”

Combatting pandemics and disease
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Fighting a rise in authoritarian rule
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Preserving rights and civil liberties
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Achieving a more civil discourse
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Earning, saving, and taxing sensibly
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Should the U.S. now recognize Taiwan?

It’s too dangerous: China might invade Taiwan.
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Why ally with a country we can’t defend?
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We should bundle Taiwan into an alliance of front-line anti-China free nations.
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The U.S. should step up its armament of Taiwan.
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Taiwan should be beneath the U.S. nuclear umbrella.
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Total votes: 206
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