Are large corporations doomed class
An analysis argues private corporations face destruction as government policy and labor ally pressure reshape incentives. It cites potential demise of large firms, compares to Conrail and Amtrak, and notes post election calls to tax-privilege reduction, plus business fears of new campaign laws and political hostility.
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Upstate New York
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al Ullman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Chicago
Prisoner swap proposal under treaty with Mexico
John Roche discusses a near enacted plan to exchange hundreds of Americans jailed in Mexico for Mexican nationals held in U.S. prisons. He notes the legal complexities and contrasts U.S. due process with international practice while highlighting public concern over treating Americans like indentured persons. He opens with a professor’s Swedish travel incident as a preface to broader legal questions.
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Mexico
Ritz
Nicholas Braden Learns Messaging From Goats in Politics
Washington column recounts 12 year old Nicholas Braden keeping two Nubian goats named Ezekiel and Zachariah. He builds a shed and fence, feeds them, and rallies friends to resist a police order banning animal keeping. A police letter cites Section 35 and sparks a planning protest mindset.
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Washington
Nicholas
Ezekiel
Zachariah
Nicholas goats and logic in a civic tale
The piece blends local humor with reflections on civic virtues through Nicholas and his neighbors counting on friends to sign a petition about goats. It shifts to political musings on due process, law, and constitutional rights as misused in foreign and domestic cases, urging adherence to the Bill of Rights for Americans jailed abroad or under civil law without full protections.
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U.S
Nicholas
Supreme Court
Curtiss-Wright Export Co
Honeymoon in Washington Frames Ford Carter Transition
As Ford and Carter move through a smooth transition the two administrations show harmony amid a larger political shift. Carter has quickly united the Democratic Party and gained support from Republicans while maintaining focus on Middle East, Vietnam, and energy concerns, signaling a healthy constitutional system and a respite from recent scandals.
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Jimmy Carter
Carter
Charles Beard
White House
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Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
al Ullman
Sen
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Charles Percy
Illinois
Percy
Middle East
Vietnam
China
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Washington
FBI
CIA
Lockheed
No Place to Go Echoes of Lost Country and Power
Hillsdale College president George C. Rochell recalls a column about a "little old lady" who fled czarist Russia and Cuba before fleeing Castro. He asks where Americans would go if they lost their country, noting there is no convincing answer. He cites Matthew 25:40 to frame the moral point.
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White House
Amerika
Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
George C. Rochell
Hillsdale College
Michigan
Russia
Cuba
Castro
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