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		<title>Naïve Foolishness</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/11/naive-foolishness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal&#8216;s editors did it this time. In their editorial regarding FISA, they had this: The law lets the intelligence community gather information from foreigners overseas and store it in a database. That database can then be searched &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/11/naive-foolishness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Solution to &#8220;Rigging&#8221; Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s election process provides the canonical example of the problem. &#8220;Rigging&#8221; is in euphemism quotes (not the press&#8217; over- and mis-used scare quotes) because the perception of rigging an election is as important as any actual rigging. The problem with &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/11/a-solution-to-rigging-elections/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>They Knew…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[…or they did not. Regarding the massive welfare fraud going on in Minnesota, a (Republican-led) House Oversight and Accountability Committee report says that Minnesota&#8217;s Progressive-Democratic Party governor, Tim Walz, and the State&#8217;s Progressive-Democratic Party Attorney General, Keith Ellison, knew all &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/10/they-knew/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not Relevant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a property dispute in Wisconsin centered on a property owner owning a stretch of lake front beach and a neighbor who insists on traipsing across that private property beach, often with his dog, despite repeated warnings, signs, and &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/10/not-relevant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dominic Green Asked</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/09/dominic-green-asked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his lede, Green asked Which is worse, a young Englishman bleeding out in handcuffs while police ignore his cries for help, or the vice president of the United States expressing his opinion about it? What JD Vance, the supposedly &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/09/dominic-green-asked/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Time for Choosing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New York&#8217;s Congressional 10th District is a microcosm of the choices we face. The Progressive-Democratic Party primary features two far Left candidates. One is Dan Goldman, who is a virulent Never Trumper, to the point his Congressional votes are based &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/09/a-time-for-choosing-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Irrelevant</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/08/irrelevant-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing struggle between Progressive-Democrat-run States and the Federal government, the Attorneys General of New York, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont have filed suit in the DC District Court in an attempt to undo an &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/08/irrelevant-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Cost of Ethanol-laced Gasoline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A number of corn State Senators, Chuck Grassley (R, IA), Joni Ernst (R, IA), Deb Fischer (R, NE), Pete Ricketts (R, NE) and Roger Marshall (R, KS), have written about the financial benefits of ethanol in our gasoline. Expanding E15 &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/08/the-cost-of-ethanol-laced-gasoline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not &#8220;Back to Other Agencies&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/07/not-back-to-other-agencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal&#8216;s editors are dismayed that an intel naif like Bill Pulte has been designated the Acting Director of National Intelligence. They go farther and want the whole office of the DNI eliminated altogether. I&#8217;ll not go into &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/07/not-back-to-other-agencies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>At It Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Section 702 of FISA is up for renewal, and President Donald Trump (R) has nominated Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte for DNI after the incumbent Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation to be with her husband, who&#8217;s been diagnosed &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/06/06/at-it-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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