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		<title>Pick One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In an article regarding Europe&#8217;s censors&#8217; efforts to govern and limit American speech, Nathan Harden, RealClearEducation Editor, warned about AI packages embedding invisible and supposedly unremovable watermarks in writing (and eventually in imagery and recordings of speech, also) so that &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/28/pick-one-7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Remaining Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[GSA says it has discovered more than $13 billion in suspected fraud by federal contractors since March. Since then, the task force has announced a litany of fraud busts, spanning multiple agencies. That&#8217;s just a small sample of the $250 &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/28/a-remaining-question/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Serious Legal Error&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claims the Supreme Court made when it lifted an injunction against President Donald Trump&#8217;s (R) Executive Order requiring, among other things, HHS to collect States&#8217; voter registration rolls and the Post Office &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/27/serious-legal-error/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Good Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump (R), through Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has announced Operation Economic Outcast, a far more broad based and farther reaching set of economic sanctions on Iran than any prior set. It&#8217;s a badly needed expansion of the economic &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/27/a-good-start-8/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Cat&#8217;s Out of the Bag</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of President Donald Trump&#8217;s (R) advisors, Jared Kushner, met with Progressive-Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D, NY), ostensibly to seek out areas of &#8220;common ground&#8221; in advance of Jeffries&#8217; ascension to House Speaker in January. The Left has &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/26/the-cats-out-of-the-bag/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>That Part Would be Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In California Progressive-Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta&#8217;s ongoing feud with Paramount, which is attempting to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, Bonta now is going to demand that Paramount sell off some cable channels and commit to keeping its movie studio separate &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/26/that-part-would-be-easy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sloppiness in Voter Registration Rolls</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/25/sloppiness-in-voter-registration-rolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A letter writer in Friday&#8217;s WSJ Letters section offered this as a way to correct/reduce error rates in State voter registration rolls. &#8230;federal officials should focus on providing funding to enable more consistent reviews of voter registrations. No. Elections may &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/25/sloppiness-in-voter-registration-rolls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Speculation and So What</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Paramount&#8211;Warner Bros. Discovery merger that California&#8217;s Progressive-Democrat AG Rob Bonta, along with some dozen of other Progressive-Democrat-led States and a union, have gone into court to block may be entering &#8220;settlement&#8221; talks. The situation as it stands, from Paramount: &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/25/speculation-and-so-what/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another VA Failure</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/24/another-va-failure-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It used American veterans&#8217; genetic and medical data to conduct research with the People&#8217;s Liberation Army of the People&#8217;s Republic of China, which the PLA used, and is using, in its development of brain-controlled weapons. The work was done through &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/24/another-va-failure-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Alternative Solution</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/24/an-alternative-solution-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The lede lays out the foolishness and government union disingenuousness simultaneously. A twofer. Do government unions have a vested interest in saddling students with more debt? So they argue in a new and revealing lawsuit against new graduate loan limits. &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/08/24/an-alternative-solution-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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