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		<title>Statesmanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The estimable editors of The Wall Street Journal spent an entire column dunking on Vice President JD Vance (R) and his foreign policy miscues. Buried in the text, though, were a couple of nuggets. …hedge-fund magnate Ken Griffin, a major &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/15/statesmanship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Truism, and a Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A letter-writer in Monday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal Letters section wrote this while commenting on Alexis de Tocqueville&#8217;s praise for our nation&#8217;s then-penchant for solving problems locally rather than crying to Mama Government: A statute can&#8217;t manufacture civic energy or entrepreneurial &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/15/a-truism-and-a-solution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hitting Back</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/14/hitting-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After 15 years of being hacked, often severely, by Russian government sanctioned, if not government owned operators, the nations of Europe has finally gotten around to responding. With sanctions. The European Union and the UK said the sanctions would target &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/14/hitting-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Black Democrats Fight for Political Survival&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The lede identifies the source of this political…confusion. The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to reinstate Alabama&#8217;s congressional map has split the political future for many Black Democratic voters. Black Democratic voters. Not American voters favoring the Democratic Party who happen to &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/14/black-democrats-fight-for-political-survival/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dealing with Terrorists</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/13/dealing-with-terrorists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing &#8220;negotiations&#8221; with the Iranian government over the Strait of Hormuz and Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program, our politicians are beginning to have rubbed in their faces the utter duplicity of the men and women reigning over Iran. Though &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/13/dealing-with-terrorists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Next Carrington Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Authorities on space weather&#8221; are worried about a Carrington Event, a solar storm of civilization-destroying magnitude, happening in the relatively near future. Three scientists, including Brian Walsh, Boston University Associate Professor of Engineering; Daniel Welling, University of Michigan Assistant Professor &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/13/the-next-carrington-event/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Question</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/12/a-question-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With all the hyped up fears of a coming crash in the stock market and in the economy overall—some pundits are claiming the coming crash will make the Panic of 2008 look like a little burble (e.g., the Federal government &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/12/a-question-7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guests and Wedding Expenses</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/11/guests-and-wedding-expenses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A letter-writer to Market Watch had this, even as she offered some money-saving tips that he thinks he&#8217;s found: I found I may be in danger of spending close to $7,000 as a wedding guest this year—and that’s while I’m &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/11/guests-and-wedding-expenses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Can Afford Obamacare?</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/10/who-can-afford-obamacare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The lede: Rates for many Affordable Care Act plans rose by double digits this year. Insurers want to do the same next year. It&#8217;s especially bad in Progressive-Democrat-run States. For instance: In Washington state, Centene is asking for a 28% &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/10/who-can-afford-obamacare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deterrence and Responses</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/10/deterrence-and-responses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin can destroy NATO with a simple move, goes the intro. The simple move would be a minor incursion into Poland, perhaps, or seize some Baltic Sea islands, or (my own speculation) enter Lithuania from the Suwalki &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/10/deterrence-and-responses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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