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		<title>Another Issue</title>
		<link>http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/04/another-issue/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recall the theft of nearly 414,000 units of KitKat bars while enroute from Poland to Italy. Nestlé and other companies publicized and otherwise reacted to the theft with humor, turning the theft into a marketing success for those companies. Nestlé, &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/04/another-issue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>When is a Strategic Strength a Strategic Vulnerability?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The lede laid out the misconception: The oil states of the Persian Gulf have made great strides to diversify their economies in recent years, but they have also created a new vulnerability: more strategic targets for Iran to hit. More &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/03/when-is-a-strategic-strength-a-strategic-vulnerability/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A False Perception</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been over this before, but it bears repeating in light of President Trump&#8217;s (R) and SecState Marco Rubio&#8217;s contemplating the US leaving NATO altogether. The misperception is this: The alliance&#8217;s lifeblood is its deterrent credibility: the perception by potential &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/03/a-false-perception/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Nuclear &#8220;Dust&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump (R) has repeatedly stated that one of the three goals for our war against Iran is the permanent destruction of Iran&#8217;s ability to acquire nuclear weapons. A critical part of that is for Iran to turn over &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/02/irans-nuclear-dust/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Editors&#8217; Misapprehension</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In writing Wednesday about the (later that day) Wednesday Supreme Court oral arguments for Trump v Barbara, the Wall Street Journal&#8216;s editors have badly misunderstood the situation. Leave aside that the editors completely ignored the matter of birth tourism in &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/02/the-editors-misapprehension/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Speaks for Iran?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Marco Rubio won&#8217;t say with whom President Donald Trump (R) or his representatives are speaking in the &#8220;new and more reasonable&#8221; regime about ending the war in Iran. I&#8217;m not going to disclose to you who those &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/01/who-speaks-for-iran/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>We Win the Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bruce Gilley, Portland State University Professor of Political Science and New College of Florida Presidential Scholar in Residence, asked an important question in his Sunday Wall Street Journal op-ed: What Do Democrats Mean by &#8220;Democracy?&#8221; Then he answered his question: &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/04/01/we-win-the-elections/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Nanny State Pusher</title>
		<link>http://aplebessite.com/2026/03/31/a-nanny-state-pusher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pam Krueger, Founder &#38; CEO of Wealthramp, wants employers offering 401(k) plans to provide access to a vetted network of independent, fee-only fiduciary registered investment advisers as a no-cost employee benefit. This is because, dumb-asses that all of us Plan &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/03/31/a-nanny-state-pusher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>One More Step</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thomas Savidge, of the American Institute for Economic Research, in his letter in Wall Street Journal&#8216;s Letters section, wrote about Washington State&#8217;s addiction to spending and its use of increasing taxes—even when they&#8217;re unconstitutional under the State&#8217;s own constitution—to feed &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/03/31/one-more-step/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tax Flight and Iron Curtains</title>
		<link>http://aplebessite.com/2026/03/30/tax-flight-and-iron-curtains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Progressive-Democratic Party-run jurisdictions keep raising taxes, and those being taxed keep taking their incomes and assets and leaving those jurisdictions. Indeed, [S]tates with the highest taxes continue to lose the most income to States with far less onerous taxing regimes &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/03/30/tax-flight-and-iron-curtains/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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