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		<title>Not a Chance</title>
		<link>http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/20/not-a-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In an article about the future of travel coming to us in just 20 years, this prediction jumped out at me. From Scott Fleming, Aon&#8216;s Director Aon Travel Practice: My [AI travel booking] agent will know the places I like, &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/20/not-a-chance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Government Union Extortion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five unions that operate the New York State-owned (through the Metropolitan Transit Authority) Long Island Rail Road went on strike—all 3,500 members—and stranded 300,000 residents, keeping from their jobs and errands. The strike lasted 3 days before the government capitulated &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/20/government-union-extortion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lawlessness Back in the Courts</title>
		<link>http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/19/lawlessness-back-in-the-courts/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last fall, California voters passed Proposition 50, which authorized the California legislature, in a one-time good deal, to bypass the State&#8217;s voter referendum-mandated independent commission that was created for the purpose of drawing Congressional district boundaries in as politically neutral &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/19/lawlessness-back-in-the-courts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Disregarding our Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here they go again. This time it&#8217;s Virginia&#8217;s Progressive-Democratic Party-dominated legislature and Governor who think our Constitution is just something to be used or ignored at Party convenience and that, in the immortal words of a Leftist &#8220;journalist,&#8221; isn&#8217;t binding &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/19/disregarding-our-constitution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Racism of the NAACP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in Louisiana v Callais, in which the Court virtually barred racial gerrymandering, and Tennessee&#8217;s subsequent realigning its Congressional district boundaries to eliminate just that racism in its districts, the NAACP has sued &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/18/racism-of-the-naacp/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Do They Hate More?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Republicans offered a resolution that would acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice that law enforcement personnel make in their efforts to keep the rest of us safe while decrying the loud Leftist movement to defund the law enforcement departments within which those &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/18/who-do-they-hate-more/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Progressive-Democratic Party Disdain for Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania&#8217;s Progressive-Democrat governor Josh Shapiro is providing the latest demonstration. As the WSJ editors noted in their piece, Only a third of Philadelphia students were proficient in English, and a quarter in math, on state tests last year. That&#8217;s the &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/17/progressive-democratic-party-disdain-for-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>One Way to Reduce Welfare Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The lede laid out the breadth of the problem. The Trump administration&#8217;s work to pare back waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government has reportedly exposed a vast network of taxpayer-fleecing scams, abuses of immigration, and of the citizenship &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/16/one-way-to-reduce-welfare-fraud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Symptomatic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alex Shepherd, writing in the 7 May edition of the Left-wing The New Republic, exposed the core position of the Progressive-Democratic Party going into this fall&#8217;s mid-term elections and the continuing run toward the 2028 Presidential election. …the party&#8217;s best &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/15/symptomatic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Politically Viable Tax”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what New York City&#8217;s Progressive-Democratic Party and Democratic Socialists of America Party mayor Zohran Mamdani is looking for in order to address the city&#8217;s budget shortfall. This is yet another installment in Party politicians&#8217; cynical (I say) effort to &#8230; <a href="http://aplebessite.com/2026/05/15/politically-viable-tax/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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