In his book Win Bigly, Scott Adams described the two-way win: Setting up a situation where if you get your ask, you win, and if you don’t get your ask, you still win because you will have advanced your position relative to never making the ask. Scott tweets a recent example in President Trump’s suggestion that China should investigate Hunter Biden’s deal when he went to China with Vice President Biden on Air Force Two. If China does investigate and something negative comes out about Biden, Trump wins. If China declines to investigate, that confirms suspicions of influence peddling, and Trump wins.

Well, Ninja Nancy Pelosi has set up her own two-way win with the upcoming “no confidence” vote on the President (referred to in our previously constitutional system as “impeachment”). With the aid of the legacy media, the content and significance of the hearings will not matter and at the end of the day; it will be sufficient that a House majority repudiated a repugnant politician. Then it is over to the Senate.

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In the late eighties, one of my competitors decided to exit the food service portion of the cheese business and concentrate on the retail market even though they were a national company they had a sales and distribution hub in my market of the Pittsburgh area. I was approached by one of their top salesmen for a job; I recognized the opportunity to increase my business and I hired Jack. I did much of the selling myself although I had another salesperson besides Jack. My business was based upon repeat orders and =my customers were very loyal. It’s trite but I provided quality, service, and a good price.

Speaking of price, the cheese industry for the most part is a commodity price industry. The price follows buyers and sellers on the Chicago Commodities Exchange on a weekly basis. Prices theoretically can go up or down upon supply and demand. They rise on tight supply and drop on a glut. Speculation also plays a part but I’ll skip that for now. A 20cent per pound move would be a large swing, 2 to 5 cents would be more normal change when the market is moving. There can be months of no change. I would immediately change my pricing to reflect changes up or down in accordance with the Chicago Market.

At Stanford University last week the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro laid waste to the alt-right. Shapiro is a popular speaker on college campuses, and almost always follows basically the same script about the Left and the idiocy of progressive ideology. But of late an alt-right brigade has coordinated a campaign to target Daily Wire staff giving speeches on college campuses across the country, and in response, Shapiro decided to spend a significant portion of his speech hitting at them directly. It’s one of the best speeches he’s ever given and is deserving of an hour of your time:

You know that brief, glorious and incredibly annoying phase in a young child’s life when they keep asking “why?” drilling down past parental layers of knowledge, guesswork, and ignorance until they reach the rock bottom of “Because!”

Jews love questions. It is part of our persnickety DNA. We like to question everything. One could even suggest that we create anti-semitism in part because we instinctively doubt whoever is in charge. But even Jews rarely go as far as I am about to….