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McClaughry: Retirement fund blues

The total of the two pension funds and expected OPEB obligations went from $4.637 billion a year ago to the present $5.657 Billion. That’s an increase in required expenditures of over a billion dollars in a single year. How did we get to this dismal situation?

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Bucknam: Collective guilt and political violence

Since the dawn of civilization, the tactics of those who seek absolute power are the same: demonize and dehumanize your political opponents. Hillary Clinton called her political enemies “deplorables.” The Nazis called theirs “undesirables.” Impose collective guilt for any criminal or wrongful conduct of any one of your political opponents’ supporters.