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Between happiness and wisdom William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-20-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
Too important William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-19-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit Qyote puzzle: Those who feel too important to do small tasks are too small to do important ones.
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Salvation of China William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-18-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
Liu Xiaobo
Is a good school William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-17-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
Just for the unjust William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-16-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit
1 Peter 3: 18
Trump‘s H-1B Advocacy Infuriates His Base
By Joe Guzzardi
As then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan said with a smile to incumbent Jimmy Carter in their 1980 debate, “There you go again.” The simple sentence that helped Reagan win 44 states and 499 electoral votes came to mind when President Donald Trump insisted to Fox News host Laura Ingraham that the United States needs “to bring in more talent,” a reference to H-1B visa holders. To the disappointment of his MAGA base, Trump has too-often indicated that he favors an H-1B expansion. The unfair, anti-U.S. tech worker H-1B is a serious national problem and does not deserve a smile like Reagan’s in response to Carter’s propaganda.
“H-1B visa thing won’t be a big priority for you? If you wanna raise wages for Americans, you can’t flood the country with thousands of foreign workers,” Ingraham asked. Trump replied, “You have to bring in talent.”
Ingraham pushed back and correctly noted that America’s universities and colleges have graduated plenty of skilled IT workers, all eagerly looking for jobs. Every year, MIT, Georgia Tech, Cal, and myriad other universities turn out top-notch talent. Trump is wrong to promote, on national television, more foreign-born Indians and Chinese to displace Americans from their well-paid, white-collar jobs.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in his unsuccessful attempt to help Trump out, later said that what the president meant was that Indian engineers would travel to the U.S., train Americans, and then return home. Ironically, the existing H-1B program means that Americans train the arriving overseas workers and then head to the unemployment line. When Trump’s ill-advised H-1B advocacy spread throughout the Internet, his MAGA base was understandably shocked and outraged.
Trump’s position on illegal immigration since his 2016 campaign has been clear. The president adamantly opposes illegal immigration in all its forms and has proven his opposition by immediately closing the border after his 2024 election. He also ended Biden’s parole programs that included illegally granting employment authorization for unvetted aliens and put into motion the removal of Temporary Protected Status recipients when their 18-month valid periods expired.
But Trump’s thoughts about legal immigration, especially regarding the H-1B visa scam, have always been muddled. A few weeks before his 2025 inauguration, Trump supported Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk’s thinking that more H-1B visas were essential to keep the economy humming along. At the time, Trump said, “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them.” Ramaswamy left to campaign for Ohio’s gubernatorial office and Musk feuded with and then divorced the president, so nothing came of the DOGE duo’s influence.
Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B, the visa has given license to employers to import cheap labor to displace Americans and at the same time discourage qualified American tech students from applying—a pointless exercise when corporate America has predetermined that job openings will be filled with Indians or Chinese. Essentially defined, the H-1B and other employment-based visas mean that a job will go to a foreign-born worker.
If Trump wants to make a big splash before the 2026 midterm campaigning begins in earnest, he should follow the advice of Center for Immigration Studies fellow, lawyer, and author John Miano, who wrote that the best H-1B solution is to end it. Killing the H-1B would also mark the end of the media gaslighting that has helped keep it afloat.
Statistics support the argument to end the H-1B. In 2023, there were 4,804,840 people working in U.S. computer occupations. By 2024, 4,786,660 people worked in the field. Over that year, the United States lost 18,180 computer jobs. Yet in FY 2025, the U.S. imported 77,000 computer workers on H-1B visas alone. The math proves that the H-1B is not filling shortages, as Trump and other immigration expansionists argue. Instead, the H-1B functions to displace Americans and satisfy tech mogul donors—exactly as Congress designed it.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Object of life William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-15-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
A Night For Heroes In Springfield — Six were honored at last night’s 2025 Freedom Medal Dinner at the Springfield Country Club.
The event began in 2014 at the instigation of the late Claude de Botton, an Egyptian immigrant who became a prominent and respected developer with an overwhelming love for America.
This year’s honorees were Army Lt. Col. Michael Rounds; Media Mayor Robert McMahon, an Army veteran who was a platoon leader in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War; Tanya Harris of the Air Force; Staff Sgt. John R. Reese of the Army; and Andrew Maenner and Tiendat Vu of the Marines.
Theory of Communism William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-14-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx
Where are all the curious?
By Bob Small
In the world of ideas and art, there’s a fear of the new, whether it be new ideas, new methods ,any new way of doing things. From Beethoven to Elvis, from Mozart to The Rolling Stones to Nirvana to Katzeye to Twenty One Pilots new ideas are not always welcome.
A new violin concerto by composer Clara Iannotta was cancelled in Germany last October without telling the composer, conductor, or violin soloist.
Titled “sand like gold-leaf in smithereens” required non-musical instruments that were “additional sounding objects” .and it was reported that, due to this, “30 percent of the musicians refused to play the piece.
“What concerns me most is a profound lack of curiosity,” said the composer.
This lack of curiosity is not restricted to the arts world.
To quote the movie Cool Hand Luke: What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Too many people assume there is only one side and they know it!
The Essener Philharmoniker raised concerns but said discussions between players and management to find a solution were “initiated too late or not conducted with sufficiently empowered personnel. As a result, a genuine dialogue or joint decision was hardly possible”.
Translation, management wanted not to do this piece.
Clara herself said
“If situations like this are not addressed, they risk creating a climate where composer — especially younger ones — begin to anticipate refusal and adapt their language in advance,” Ms. Iannotta said.
In other words, self-censorship.
She noted the decision to cancel the performance was ultimately made by the management.
Let’s discuss the recent election in hometown Swarthmore.
Even though many of the problems of Swarthmore Borough such as high taxes, over-regulation, and the threatened changes to Cunningham Field, arise from the all Democratic Swarthmore Borough Council, many of the voters were not curious enough to give the Republicans a chance.
We now live in the “Delco Hospital Desert” and the all Democratic Delaware County Council has to do with that.
How bad does it have to get for people to consider a change?
