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Trump Time Capsule #29: Snowball Rolling Down the Hill
Waste output of modern America, at a rally in Pennsylvania. Also shown ... [fill in your own punch line] (Reuters)Step away from the Time Capsule business for a few days, and look what happens! Any...
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Trump Time Capsule #30: Cracks in the Vichy Coalition?
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the foreground, with other members of the Republican Senate leadership: (from left) John Barrasso, John Thune, and John Cornyn. This isn’t a picture of McConnell with...
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The Real News in What Mitch McConnell Said
Next month in Cleveland! (Curt Teich Postcard Archives-Lake County Illinois, Public Domain,)A reader who works in a big-city law firm thinks I missed the point in Trump Time Capsule #30. The theme of...
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From the Air Traffic Controller's Perspective
This is not the controller I spoke with last week at Denver’s Centennial airport, because this man is working that same day in the control tower at LAX. But this gives you an idea of what controllers...
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Trump Time Capsule #31: 'Don't Be a Sucker'
1947 War Department propaganda film, Don’t Be a Sucker.This one really is a time capsule. It’s a nearly 70-year-old U.S. government film called Don’t Be a Sucker, released in 1947 by what was then...
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Pilate Republicans, Republican Aldermen
Adelman’s book on Reagan.1) On aldermen. Kenneth Adelman and his family have been long-time good friends of our family. He is an even longer-term Republican. Ken worked in the Nixon and Ford...
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Trump Time Capsule #32: Hibby-Jobbies
Trump this morning, via NY Post.In July, 1948, the 33rd President of the United States, Harry Truman, took an overdue step toward equal opportunity, equal dignity, and “more perfect union” with...
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The Next Aviation Adventure to Follow: Youngest-Ever Solo Around the World...
Lachlan “Lachie” Smart, 18-year-old pilot from Australia, in front of the Cirrus SR-22 in which he intends to fly solo around the world starting on July 4. (Wings Around the World.)Many generations...
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Trump Time Capsule #33: The Star
The Tweet that Donald Trump sent out yesterday morning, and then quickly deleted. (Twitter screenshot)This one has been well-publicized even at the start of a long holiday weekend. Thus I just note its...
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Trump Time Capsule #34: 'I Don't Like Mosquitos'
It’s been nearly 13 months since Donald Trump came down the escalator and announced that he was running for president.This evening, in Ohio, he gave what was even for him the most off-message, most...
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Is Trump Shoring Up the Base, or Making It All Up as He Goes?
The 2016 dream team? The Donald and the Newt yesterday in Ohio. (Aaron Bernstein / Reuters)In response to the previous item about last night’s genuinely deranged-seeming half-hour discourse by Donald...
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Trump Time Capsule #35: Two Corinthians, and Twelve Constitution
Talk about winning! Even before moving into the White House, Donald Trump has added more articles to the Constitution! He leaves the Capitol building this morning after performing this feat. (Joshua...
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The Story of Ernestor
After our first pass through Dodge City two weeks ago, I reported that the mood there, in a part of the United States that is very heavily affected by Latino immigration, was at strong variance with...
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Aviation News: Missing the Airport in South Dakota, Making the Flight in Hawaii
Google Earth screenshot of two airports outside Rapid City, South Dakota. The red arrow shows the approach to the one you don’t want to land at unless you’re flying an Air Force plane. That is...
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David vs. Goliath in the South China Sea: David Wins, at Least This Round
The state-controlled People’s Daily responds to the international court ruling.The ruling this morning by Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in favor of the Philippines, and very strongly...
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Trump Time Capsule #36: 'And Everything in Between'
Speakers at Donald Trump’s Republican convention will cover the entire range from athletes … to coaches! We see Trump with one of the latter, Bobby Knight. (Jim Young / Reuters)Here’s something that...
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Judge Glenna Hall
Glenna Hall on the bench, in a photo she provided.Five years ago, when I was holed up in Beijing finishing a book, I had the delight and privilege of inviting successive teams of Guest Bloggers to...
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Trump Time Capsule #37: 'Breached the Boundaries'
Senator Theodore Bilbo, a dominant figure in Mississippi politics through the first half of the 20th century, is deplored in history’s eyes as a Klan member and racist bitter-ender. After Bilbo’s time,...
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Why (Oh Why!) Trump Does and Says What He Does
Boris Johnson, the UK’s new Foreign Minister, who shares a New York City birthplace with Donald Trump and a tonsorial flair as well. (Toby Melville / Reuters)In response to this item last week, about...
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Trump Time Capsule #38: Two Lists
Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White with then-Bantamweight UFC Champion Ronda Rousey, in 2014. Next week White will appear on behalf of another champion, Donald Trump, at the GOP convention....
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