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\u201cYou are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE — SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST<\/a><\/p>\n — From Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s Order of the Day for D-Day, \u00a0June 6, 1944, \u00a0as issued late on June 5. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe’ll meet again — From the World War II song \u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Here are lyrics:<\/a> And a\u00a0 famous recording:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T5C4meGkNyc<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The song was played at the end of the 1964 nightmare comedy Dr. Strangelove<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSecrecy lies at the very core of power.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n — Elias Canetti (1905-1994),\u00a0European writer<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cDemocracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n —\u00a0 Veronica Wedgewood (1910-1997), English historian<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u201cA bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.\u201c — Barton Biggs (1932-2012), American money manager<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n xxx While driving down to Jamestown, R.I., last week, I marveled at the glorious views from the bridges that connect parts of our archipelago. The views never get old.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n American elms, with their hourglass look, are among the most beautiful trees, but for many decades they\u2019ve been ravaged by Dutch Elm Disease. Read about efforts to save them:<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Look at old photos and paintings showing these gorgeous trees \u2013 now mostly gone — along New England streets,\u00a0 town commons and school campuses. I well remember Memorial Day parades under the elms. Then there\u2019s Eugene O\u2019Neill\u2019s\u00a0 (1888-1953) play Desire Under the Elms\u2026. As a boy, he spent his summers in New London, Conn., which had lots of elms then.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Perhaps\u00a0 U.S. military pilots could take lessons from the seagulls on our summer beaches as these flying rats sweep down and pluck\u00a0 sandwiches and potato chips from sunbathers.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n xxx<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n While reading the obituary of a boyhood friend of mine the other day, I thought of how little we know about people we thought we knew. (For that matter, we don\u2019t know enough about ourselves.) In this case, the obit listed some nice things about my friend\u2019s interests, past jobs,\u00a0family background and so on. But it had nothing about his being sent to jail for stealing from his clients, something I discovered separately. He came from a family with four boys who lived down the road from us. The family seemed golden \u2013 everyone was smart, athletic and good-looking. But the father died at 38, one of the boys at 15 and another became an alcoholic \u2013 and later a local hero of Alcoholics Anonymous.\u00a0 I saw him for the first time in more than 50 years, a month before he died.\u00a0 He looked fine; the obituary gave no cause of death. The fourth boy became a distinguished physician. He died of a brain injury after falling down stairs after retiring.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n One thinks of the quote from Ecclesiastes:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u00a0looked again and saw that under the sun the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the strong. Food is not given to the wise, nor is wealth given to those who have good judgment, nor is success given to those who have knowledge, because time and chance come upon all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Of course, it would be nice if the words \u201cnot always\u201d were in there.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Banning Free Speech in Pawtuxet<\/p>\n The Gaspee Days Commission, which runs the annual Gaspee Days Parade in Warwick\u2019s Pawtuxet section, to happen this year on June 13, wants to ban any political activities (leafleting, etc.) close to the parade. The parade commemorates the burning of the British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by anti-British Rhode Island \u201cpatriots\u201d in 1772.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This ban smells unconstitutional.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Floridian Tax Quandary<\/p>\n Maybe Florida will not turn out to be so wonderful for very rich people seeking to avoid paying high taxes in Blue states, such as Massachusetts, with services generally much better than in Florida. That\u2019s because the mass of the population \u2013 however much they may hate taxes — need and\/or want those services.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n By the way, Massachusetts, despite its 4 percent surtax on household income over about $1.1 million, is now ranked as having the best economy of any state.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n READ HERE<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n That the people of the commonwealth, home of some of the world\u2019s greatest academic institutions,\u00a0 invest a lot more in both industry and academic R&D than is seen in most other states is one big key to its success, as is having a public-education system that\u2019s\u00a0 still among America\u2019s best.\u00a0 However, the system has been slipping a bit as it has become less rigorous in recent years. (Bring back passing the MCAS test\u00a0 as a requirement for graduating from high school!)\u00a0 Other good things include having a dense public-transportation system. Winters, however, are downers for many people.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Rhode Island, however, doesn\u2019t look good, mostly for various historical reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The more it becomes part of the Greater Boston economy, the better.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Florida\u2019s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, who still has presidential ambitions, has a plan that would result in jacking up the property-tax burden on the state\u2019s wealthiest people (many of whom made it their legal domiciles to avoid taxes and most of whom are Republicans).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This would be in order to end property taxes (which have been surging) on 90 percent of Florida\u2019s homeowners, which at first glance sounds very politically popular. Those surging taxes, and local fees, as well as soaring insurance premiums in the hurricane-prone peninsula, are leading an increasing number of middle-class people to leave, or decide not to move to the Sunshine State.\u00a0 (And maybe some fear the Burmese python population explosion?) The influx of well-heeled tax avoiders, many or most of whom don\u2019t live in Florida full-time, has helped drive up real-estate prices to unaffordable levels for many middle-class people.<\/p>\n READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Still, a problem: What would DeSantis\u2019s plan do to localities\u2019 ability to pay for schools, police, firefighting, libraries and other services? The millions of people who have moved to Florida expect the sort of local services they had where they came from.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Places with many very rich people, such as Palm Beach and Naples, might be okay. That is, unless\u00a0the biggest tax avoiders there decide to flee to a \u201cbetter\u201d \u201clow-tax\u201d tax state (low except for, say, regressive sales taxes). There\u2019s always New Hampshire,\u00a0 with no state income or sales taxes, but the annual cool snap there, aka\u00a0winter,\u00a0 dissuades more than a few of the very well-heeled from homesteading there.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n But poorer Florida localities could have a very tough time if DeSantis\u2019s plan is enacted. They\u2019d have to consider creating huge new fees and\/or raising current ones to pay for services. And service cutbacks tend to lower property values.\u00a0 DeSantis suggests using state government fiscal surpluses to help out poorer places, but projections are that Florida will soon have to deal with a big budget deficit.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Sort of amusingly, the Florida situation reminds me of the uproar by billionaires over New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s proposal to enact a new tax on properties there owned by people officially domiciled elsewhere (such as Florida!) worth more than $5 million.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Anyway, the Florida situation is tangled in the law of unintended consequences.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n xxx<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n At the federal level, the anti-tax mania and rapidly expanding spending (welcome to the Iran war!) will probably, sometime in the next few years, produce a federal debt crisis of biblical proportions, with interest rates jumping.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n xxx<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The income from the endowment of some universities, such as members of the Ivy League, is being taxed by Trump in the many millions to stick to institutions he envies and resents. But such nonprofit institutions are not supposed to be taxed. The hundreds of millions of dollars that Trump\u2019s weaponized IRS is taking from these institutions include money that could otherwise go to scholarships and medical and other scientific research that would benefit the country.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0 many profitable U.S. corporations, including such famous names as Tesla, United Airlines, CVS and Walt Disney, paid $0 in federal corporate-income taxes in 2025. Despite collectively reporting over $105 billion in pre-tax income, these companies avoided taxes by using federal deductions and credits. And you can bet that some executives of these companies, many of whom were big Trump donors, manipulated their tax returns to avoid paying personal-income taxes.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n By the way, as I\u2019ve said before, I think corporate income taxes should be eliminated. They lead to corruption and abet economic inefficiency.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n xxx<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s illegal and idiotic war against Iran is using up a lot of U.S. weaponry that NATO members need to buy to defend themselves from Russian aggression. That seems fine with Russian asset Trump.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, while Ukraine focuses on attacking Russian military and energy facilities, Russia, a terrorist state, focuses more and more on killing Ukrainian civilians.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Violent Grifting<\/p>\n Coming attraction! On June 14, to celebrate the Orange Oligarch\u2019s 80th birthday, and, it\u2019s asserted, Flag Day, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a for-profit martial-arts organization based in \u2013 natch! \u2013 Las Vegas will stage a bloody show in a giant cage now being erected on the South Lawn of the White House.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Active-duty military personnel are being pressured to attend,\u00a0 but only if they fit \u201cWar Secretary\u201d Pete Hegseth\u2019s homoerotic fitness criteria.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear at this point how much of the total expenses of this spectacle will be paid for by the taxpayers and how much by the deeply corrupt UFC, and how much the Trump mobster family will financially benefit.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n But\u00a0 note that\u00a0 Trump purchased $15,001 to $50,000 of stock of TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of UFC, on March 25.\u00a0 Perhaps some journalist will find out if he had TKO stock before that.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n So this show combines the glorification of violence (all hail Jan. 6, 2021!) and the mega-grifting so central at the top of today\u2019s rapidly decaying America.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Fraud Alert!<\/p>\n Medicare members should look at their billing notices ever more carefully, as scams proliferate. The latest one I came across is charges by a dubious enterprise called Memphis DME Supply LLC for \u201c300 intermittent urinary catheter; coude (curved) tip, with or without coating (teflon, silicone or sil A4352-KX).\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Many people around America who have not been in any procedures using these devices \u2013 and their insurers \u2013 have been getting\u00a0 fraudulently billed for the nonuse of this equipment. Alert your insurers!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Medicare fraud is far more likely to be perpetrated by providers than by patients.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Robert Whitcomb, Columnist<\/p>\n Robert Whitcomb is a veteran editor and writer. Among his jobs, he has served as the finance editor of the International Herald Tribune, in Paris; as a vice president and the editorial-page editor of The Providence Journal; as an editor and writer in New York for The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0 and as a writer for the Boston Herald Traveler (RIP). 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\n Robert Whitcomb: Raimondo’s No-Bid Contract, Gov. Baker’s MBTA, and Spring
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\n Robert Whitcomb: GOP\u2019s Healthcare Hell & State Police\u2019s laughable 38 Studios \u2018Investigation’
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Greedy-Boomer Bathos and Last Chance Superman
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Crazy Consultants and Immigrants Pull Down Wages
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Hyberbolic Job Claims and Traffic Tribunal Traumas
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Worcester Growth and Mafia Boredom
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Raimondo Luring Jobs at a Price
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Providence Bankruptcy and Worcester’s Resurgence
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Innovation Campuses; Pushing Against Panhandling
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\n Robert Whitcomb’s Digital Diary: Clinton, Russian Hackers, and CVS Pressure
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\n Bob Whitcomb\u2019s Digital Diary: Donald Trump’s Emails and Pearl Harbor
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\n Bob Whitcomb\u2019s Digital Diary: Bikes, Bush, and Merger Mega-Healthcare Collapse
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\n Bob Whitcomb\u2019s Digital Diary: Catholic Church, Wells Fargo, and Rabbi Gutterman
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\n Bob Whitcomb\u2019s Digital Diary: Legalizing Marijuana, Green Power, and Howard Johnson
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\n Bob Whitcomb\u2019s Digital Diary: Panhandling, Talk Radio, Flooding
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\n Bob Whitcomb\u2019s Digital Diary: Superman Building, Mike Pence and Hillary
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\n Bob Whitcomb\u2019s Digital Diary: EU, Newport NIMBYs, and Obamacare
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\n Bob Whitcomb’s Digital Diary
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\n Starting June 23, Bob Whitcomb Joins GoLocal
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