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July 8, 2026
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Biden Paused – A Missed Opportunity

Bryan Watson2 years ago01 mins

Saturday night would have been the time to shift to a wholly-positive campaign. To inspire voters. To call them to “Yes, we can”, “We Dare to Dream”, and “We have before, we will again”.

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“You Get What You Measure”

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

You get what you measure. That’s another well-known truth in business organizations. When you want a particular kind of outcome (say, increased customer base for a lagging product), you require your workers to measure that outcome and report the results. The effect is that workers focus on improving their measurements – sometimes to the detriment…

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The Next Generation, and the Next

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

Everyone has something to contribute and everyone contributes more than their share. So many people talked about stepping outside their comfort zone, going one step further, trying something for the first time – and feeling exhilarated by it.

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Mars Insight, Earth Insight

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

Almost 50 years ago, I was transfixed as a NASA astronaut climbed down a ladder and pressed his boot into the grainy surface of the moon. A week ago, I sat transfixed as NASA guided a vehicle to a soft landing in Elysium Planitia, a “flat, boring equatorial plain” on a planet 300 million miles…

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Article III

Bryan Watson7 years ago03 mins

Contempt of Congress and obstruction of congressional investigaton is the crucial charge in the impeachment litany. It ask the simple but central question: Does Congress matter?

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The Value of a Presidential Melee

Bryan Watson7 years ago02 mins

Trump emerged as the nominee through his ability to defeat 16 competitors, turning front-runners into challengers. It made him look strong, tough, smart, ruthless, powerful … presidential. Democrats should learn how to win by studying the winners.

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Government should be optimistic

Bryan Watson6 years ago5 years ago02 mins

“The West Wing”, Season 3, Episode 12: “100,000 Airplanes” (January 16, 2002) SCENE: The team is gathered in the Oval Office. President Bartlett has told them that he wants to include something in his State of the Union speech to say that we will cure cancer. His advisers explain, one by one, why he can’t…

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Death Threats – Not Rhetoric – Words Matter

Bryan Watson2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

I’m watching the most anti-Trump of mainstream networks and, without exception, they are sane-washing Trump’s threats as “violent rhetoric”. Even Harris is shying away from the word “threat”. But there is no question about it. He threatened Cheney.

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Common But Not Normal

Bryan Watson8 years ago01 mins

In the wake of the most recent mass shooting – this time, in a Florida school – many commentators are noting, sadly, that tragedies like this have become the “new normal.” I disagree – tragedies like this have become “all too common“, but I reject the notion that this is “normal“, whether new or old….

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My Stand – do you have one?

jfrusch8 years ago01 mins

On being a liberal. What a liberal values.

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