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BC Cook WE have discussed the giant statues of Easter Island but the statues are not the greatest mystery of the island.  The people are.   What did they do on Easter Island besides build giant statues?  Where did they go?  Did they move away or die off?  New research has forced us to change much o…

“What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters — specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies?” ― Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies” HERE’S what we should notice during e…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is, “if you are TRUE to the Game, the Game will be TRUE to You, as WE say in my culture which applies to any competitive sport and even the competitions in OUR political arenas. Senator Babauta is RIGHT that “if she does the RIGHT Thing FOR the People, even being alone,…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is the CNMI has been under Republican Rule since 1998, yet WE have been constantly going BACKWARDS ever-since, which no one can deny if they were awake. In fact, the MV Poll clearly shows that around 50% have plans or want to leave the CNMI for the Real America on the m…

BC Cook IF one needed a boat capable of carrying them across the ocean with great speed and safety, you could hardly do better than a proa.  An outrigger sailing canoe, the oddly shaped proa is actually the perfect shape, considering the building materials and tools islanders had to work with, and …

AFTER covering, reading, studying, thinking, and writing about politics for the past 30 years, I now look forward to a non-election year — a time that used to be about everything else except the next election. This year, however, the “non-election” period lasted only about five months. Over a year …