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Trump Time Capsule #22: 'Prioritizing Our Enemy'
We’re pretty sure President #1 was not working for the enemy. But what about #44? (Wikipedia)Time Capsule #22, June 14, 2016 (Flag Day). Prioritizing our enemy.I lay out the details and sequence after...
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Good Political News From DC
Robert White and his wife Christy (White campaign).Yes, there is such a thing. And I don’t just mean that with today’s Washington D.C. primaries, we’ve officially reached the end of the presidential...
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Trump Time Capsule #23: 'He's Right'
Donald Trump Tweeting that “he’s right” in accusations that the Obama administration is aiding and abetting the enemy.I’ve got to make these shorter and more telegraphic, to have any hope of keeping...
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Trump Time Capsule #24: 'There's No Real Assimilation'
George W. Bush with American Muslim leaders in Washington, less than one week after the 9/11 attacks. He celebrated Muslim inclusion in the national family, rather than warning that it was impossible....
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Suddenly I Am in Favor of the Trump Campaign
Thanks to our friends in Japan. This makes it all worthwhile:Most of the Japanese writing merely says “Trump” (トランプ, Toranpu), or “President.” Though the TV screen at time 0:17 nicely says “Trump is...
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The Maker Movement: If Hamilton Were Around, He Would Be a Fan
if this man were around now, he would be promoting the Makers. (Wikipedia.)The previous two installments in this series, “The Tools Revolution” and “Agility,” of course concentrated on the private...
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Trump Time Capsule #17,352: A Short Break
The candidate waves goodbye for the moment, and so does one of his chroniclers. (Rick Wilking / Reuters)The pace of uninformed, embarrassing, and objectively disqualifying statements from Donald Trump...
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Does Trump Think?
“Bozo’s Circus,” from the Bozo the Clown oeuvre. Hmmm, why does this image keep coming to mind this year? (Wikipedia)In response to recent Time Capsule entries, readers suggest that I am missing the...
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Does Trump Think? Cont'd
The ongoing symbol of circa-2016 GOP (Wikipedia)In response to last night’s item on whether Trump’s rally speeches, interview remarks, and Tweets should be understood as conveying ideas of any sort, as...
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America by Air: Whitewater
The twists of the White River, namesake of Whitewater, in Arkansas (James Fallows)In one way or another, all Clinton-era “scandals” trace back to Whitewater. That was the late-1970s Arkansas real...
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More on the Public Role in Fostering Private Innovation
Graphic from the Maker City Playbook, now available online here.A few days ago I argued that the Maker Movement finally depends on the ingenuity and effort of private entrepreneurs and of companies...
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Does Trump Think? Part 3, 'Doers' and 'Done-Tos'
Following the previous items in this series, a clinical psychologist from a big Southern city writes:GOP convention photo, 2016 (Wikipedia)In your coverage of Trump’s candidacy, the discussion of how...
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Trump Time Capsule #25: 'They Know You're Going to do a Good Job'
Four years ago, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama were in a tight ad-spending race in the potential swing states. This year, only one side is competing in that race. From NBC News.Time Capsule #25: June 19,...
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Trump Time Capsule #26: Egypt Air 804
Donald Trump saying immediately after the EgyptAir crash that anyone who doubted it was due to terrorism was “100% wrong.” (YouTube)It’s been a month since an EgyptAir flight crashed into the...
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Does Trump Think? Part 4, the Class / Snobbery Angles
A happy tableau we will not witness again: Donald Trump with now-deposed, then-campaign manager Corey Lendowski after a win this spring. (Joe Skipper / Reuters)I am on the road again, now in...
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Trump Time Capsule #27: A Difficult Day
Oh, the humanity! (Wikipedia)Two weeks ago I noted that people might look back on that day as the time when fortune seemed to stop smiling on the Donald Trump presidential campaign:As of now Donald...
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What If He Wins? What If He Loses?
The namesake of this ill-fated zeppelin, the Hindenburg, played a part in the drama mentioned in the first reader’s letter. (Wikipedia)Who knows where things might be headed with the Trump campaign?...
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Can Trump Think? Part 5, Method and Madness
Maybe a new motto to put on those red hats? (Wikipedia)Following previous items in this thread, readers weigh in on why Donald Trump may be saying the things he does, and why his supporters are still...
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The Multi-Dimensional Reality of the Nation, vs. the Flattened Reality of...
Activity into and out of Dodge City, Kansas, yesterday afternoon, out the right side of the plane looking west as we neared a landing on runway 14 on a boiling hot day. (Deborah Fallows)My wife Deb and...
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The Air Traffic Ballet
The airspace that was the subject of a coordinated aerial ballet two days ago. The magenta line shows where pilots thought they would be going. The orange line shows where they ended up. (FAA sectional...
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