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    Jul 10

    Great American? Or Greatest American? Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tom Hanks….

    The most optimistic stories, about America! Non-fiction, personal May move to Sioux Falls, at least visit. Rapid City, too. Others! Hanx
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  2. 7 hours ago

    2/2 The point: for all the distinct pluses and minuses of globalization, WTO itself has indisputably been a tool for US opening markets + reducing barriers elsewhere. To threaten to bail out is like … well, like threatening to pull the plug on NATO. (Oh, wait..) /end

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  3. 7 hours ago

    1/ US wins 90+% of all cases in brings to WTO—and it brings more cases than any other country. Countries bringing complaints *against* US win almost as often, but that’s in keeping w WTO predisposition in favor of countries challenging others’ barriers.

    EXCLUSIVE: Trump says he'll pull U.S. out of WTO "if they don't shape up"
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  4. 9 hours ago

    If you’re in DC on Saturday, see you at the National Book Festival — and I talking with Carlos Diaz-Rosillo of NEH.

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  5. 12 hours ago

    Re-upping: looking forward to this discussion, starting ~ 40 minutes from now.

    Today at 1pm EDT and I are doing an videocast on prospects for rural and small town America.
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    Honest, good-faith conservative arguments are desperately needed today. Thanks for sharing

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  7. 13 hours ago

    2/2 Similarly in the “grateful for fresh look” vein, appreciated this coverage as part of an excellent special issue by GW Bush Institute , and for podcast w Arthur Brooks of AEI.

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  8. 13 hours ago

    1/2 Grateful for this review in by , which engages with the points and arguments and I were trying to make. (I have not always seen the world 100% in sync w Commentary, so additionally grateful for this fresh look)

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  9. 13 hours ago

    Yes. I keep getting these too. Latest one, yesterday, from 202-302-7352. (Jorge G was Mexican ambassador to China, in years we were living in Beijing.)

    Anyone else getting calls with Chinese recordings (presumably from the embassy)? I got two in less than one hour. One of them coming from (202) 008-8915.
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  10. 15 hours ago

    Today at 1pm EDT and I are doing an videocast on prospects for rural and small town America.

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  11. Aug 29

    Correction to this one: Dems lost ground in Senate but held control to 2014. Tea Party wave still important.

    5/ 2010: Tea Party sweep for GOP, takes back control of both House and Senate. GOP +63 (!) in House, w Boehner as speaker, +6 in Senate (incl. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul.)
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  12. Aug 29

    8/ So what happens this year? On historical form, would depend on whether enough Dems, Inds, and otherwise-unmotivated voters view the current situation as comparable to scandal/disaster of Nixon resignation, Vietnam, and Iraq-Katrina. — 68 days to election day. /end

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  13. Aug 29

    7/ — Big GOP wins have come after legislation that mobilizes their base in opposition. 1994: Clinton success w budget plan, failure w health care. 2010: Obama success with Obama care + stimulus package.

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  14. Aug 29

    6/ What’s the pattern? — Big DEM wins have come after disaster and/or scandal. 1974: Nixon resignation, Watergate, collapse in Vietnam. 2006: Iraq war unfolding disaster, Katrina

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  15. Aug 29

    5/ 2010: Tea Party sweep for GOP, takes back control of both House and Senate. GOP +63 (!) in House, w Boehner as speaker, +6 in Senate (incl. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul.)

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  16. Aug 29

    4/ 2006: Dems take control of both houses, Nancy Pelosi becomes first woman Speaker. Dem +5 in Senate (including Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Tester, Bob Casey, Jim Webb), +31 in House (including Keith Ellison, Mazie Hirono).

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  17. Aug 29

    3/ 1994: “Republican Revolution,” huge GOP gains, for first Republican controlled House-and-Senate since early 1950s. GOP +54 in the House, with Newt as speaker (and Joe Scarborough, Lindsey Graham, Sam Brownback among new House members). GOP +9 (!) in Senate.

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  18. Aug 29

    2/ 1974: After Nixon resignation, huge Democratic gains in House and Senate. D +49 in the House (for 2:1 margin), +4 in Senate, for 60-vote majority. Gary Hart, Pat Leahy, many long-term leaders came to Congress then. (Jerry Brown elected to first of his four terms as CA gov.)

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  19. Aug 29

    1/ To elaborate on my Unified Theory of “Wave” Midterms, as I laid it out to a bemused but graciously accommodating this evening: Let’s consider four of them in the past half-century.

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  20. Aug 29

    Re-upping: I hadn't looked in several years at this quick obit I did of William Pfaff. I think it actually stands up, about journalism and US national interests. Fwiw

    An excellent appreciation of a perhaps-now- underappreciated writer, the prescient William Pfaff. My piece on Pfaff in 2015:
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  21. Aug 29

    An excellent appreciation of a perhaps-now- underappreciated writer, the prescient William Pfaff. My piece on Pfaff in 2015:

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