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Pat Allen
I am a retired corporate lawyer, living in the Chicago suburbs, with a wife and two adult children.
Interests: Current events, the Cubs, reading, history, New Zealand
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Biden Is Breaking Traditions Because Trump Is a Threat to Traditions
The Washington Post reports today: “Outgoing presidents often conclude their tenure with a flurry of activity, such as pardons or proclamations, but Biden’s efforts have been unusually wide-ranging, reflecting his conviction that Trump represents a unique threat to American traditions.”... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at The View from Right Field
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan Was Wrong. We Can Have Our Own Facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”1 Except that is not true anymore. Both sides in politics, and probably other things, do have their own facts today. Fox vs. CNN/MSNBC.... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at The View from Right Field
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Disinformation, Misinformation. How About “Lies” and “Wrong”?
People talk and complain about disinformation and misinformation constantly. Disinformation and misinformation are said to be horrible, and in some people’s views, they need to be banned. But to be honest, I’m not really sure what these terms mean. Is... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at The View from Right Field
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Biden Retrospectives – And the Question That Is Not Being Asked
Every Saturday, the Financial Times has a “Lunch with the FT” interview. This interview this past Saturday was with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The interview was mostly devoted, not surprisingly, to a recap, on the positive side of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 6, 2025 at The View from Right Field
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Real Life Beats Dave Barry – Again
Dave Barry is out with his annual “Year in Review”, and as usual, it is hilarious. Also, as usual, almost no matter how absurd and outlandish Dave is, real life is more absurd. In this year’s edition, Dave says this... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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We Should Not Be Inaugurating Donald Trump as President on January 20
As the title of this post says, we should not be inaugurating Donald Trump as President on January 20, 2025, because … well, let me explain. First, if it wasn’t for FBI Director James Comey and his totally bizarre decision... Continue reading
Posted Dec 26, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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What Christmas Is All About
My annual Christmas Eve post: Charlie Brown: "Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?" Linus: "Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about. Lights, please? "And there were in the same country shepherds... Continue reading
Posted Dec 23, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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How Green Is China? And Why?
When it comes to politics – or government, a good rule to follow, when trying to figure why a candidate – or a government – is doing something is to follow the money or, perhaps even more importantly, to follow... Continue reading
Posted Dec 20, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Pardon for Hunter. Pardons for All?
With Hunter Biden pardoned, news reports are now telling us that the Biden administration is considering pardons for lots more people. The rationale is that Donald Trump has threatened to go after numerous people once he gets in office, so... Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Remember Covid? Well, We Need To.
Remember just four years ago: We didn’t have an approved vaccine for Covid. Many schools were closed. Lots of people were working from home. Those who couldn’t work from home worried as they went to their jobs. It was a... Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Hunter Biden. Grifter.
I wrote all I needed to write about Hunter Biden, and his grifting, ten years ago when it was disclosed that Hunter was getting paid by a Ukrainian gas company controlled by a top official in the former government of... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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The West’s Race to the Bottom in Ukraine – For Worst Policy
We have what looks like a race to the bottom for worst Ukraine policy among Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. After almost 1,000 days of war, President Biden finally gave Ukraine permission to use US weapons,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Why Did Polls Get It Wrong Again – Or Did They?
In talking about how well the polls did in the recent US election, John Burn-Murdoch, in a recent article in the Financial Times, said that we all “need to accept that polls deal in fuzzy numbers, not hard numbers.”1 Which... Continue reading
Posted Nov 14, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Here’s Why We Can’t Elect the President by Popular Vote
I have a one-word response to those who say that we should get rid of the Electoral College and elect presidents by popular vote: California. As of Sunday morning after the election, California had only reported 76% of its votes.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Did the “Taranto Principle” Return in 2024?
As I read the comments about the election from various members of the mainstream media, especially their shock at the big win by Donald Trump (quoted in The Wall Street Journal's "Notable & Quotable" on November 7), I couldn’t help... Continue reading
Posted Nov 10, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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The 35th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Posted Nov 8, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Trump Gets a 2024-Style Landslide and We Avoid the First Crisis
In December of last year and January of this year (among others), I worried about what I called “The Coming Constitutional Crisis of 2024.” In particular, in January I wrote: “If [Harris] spends the whole campaign talking about Trump being... Continue reading
Posted Nov 7, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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What’s More Important: The US Presidential Election or the Internal Contradictions in China?
While we have a presidential election in the United States today, I wonder whether what is going on in China might be more important. I thought much same thing in 2020 when Jack Ma’s IPO for Ant Group was cancelled... Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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For All the Saints
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Posted Nov 1, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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The Way We Do Things in Illinois
The Chicago Tribune had a fascinating article last week about the three advisory referendums we have on the ballot this November in Illinois. They involve important issues: IVF, property tax relief, and the safety of poll workers, but the referendums... Continue reading
Posted Oct 24, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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My Hope for Election Night: Gridlock
Our country has a lot of issues that need to be addressed. The problem is that neither presidential candidate nor their parties have any idea to fix them. In fact, if either candidate and their party won control of both... Continue reading
Posted Oct 22, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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“The Difference Between a Lady and a Diplomat” – And the State of Humor Today.
Arnold Kling wrote a very nice article, “The Aphorisms of Merle Kling,” about his father in “In My Tribe” today. I particularly liked the joke that the elder Mr. Kling heard around the Political Science Department at Washington University, where... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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Harris? Trump? A Depressing Foreign Policy Election
We’re back from a trip to Berlin and Hamburg, and the Presidential race is as bad as when we left. Actually, I think it may be worse because the Biden administration is doing even worse in foreign policy now than... Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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We Need a Landslide in November
We need a landslide in November, but I don’t think we are going to get one. In August of 2020, I wrote this: “I hope the election in November is a landslide. In saying that, I’m not saying who I... Continue reading
Posted Sep 7, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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This Election Is All About the 1%
No, not that 1%, not the richest 1%. I’m talking about the 1% who are going the decide this election: the truly undecided voters in the six or seven battleground states. Say 7% of people in states with 15% of... Continue reading
Posted Sep 4, 2024 at The View from Right Field
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