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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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    4 hours ago

    I live in Bethesda and all I can say is WHAT?! The only thing Bethesda is plagued with is gourmet cupcakes and artisnal gelato.

    Bethesda-raised Brett Kavanaugh says he "grew up in a city plagued by gun violence."
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  3. 4 hours ago

    Further in the (ongoing) “it would take only one… saga. JUST ONE GOP senator could make an enormous difference. And so far, not even one will take a stand. This is going to look bad historically, and looks pretty bad right now. Background:

    Would be good if one R on the cmmtee said: I can't put you on the court unless I am positive you will enforce US v Nixon in context of subpoena to testify. If I dont get that and you wont recuse, what am I to do?
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  4. 5 hours ago

    Great, impassioned, tough, and IMO correct piece by , on what’s wrong with the anonymous Trump critiques 

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  5. 7 hours ago

    Mentioned earlier B Woodward’s demeanor in Trump phone call: polite and respectful in tone, unyielding on substance. For another approach in questioning, here’s a sampling of verbatim Qs from Daily Caller interview w Trump.

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Re-upping, because after all there are two of us…

    Honored to round out the , as Number 50! But there are two of us, so on average we are #25.
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  7. 9 hours ago

    Daily Caller itvw w Trump worth reading. Notes here: #1 “get it out of the way.” #2 true, but in a different sense. (Cf FDR New Deal leg; LBJ passing civ rights, voting rights, Medicare in first 2 years; Lincoln) #3 Trump in credibility contest w Woodward

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  8. 9 hours ago

    And leading the way, !

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  9. 11 hours ago

    Yes. Over the decades Woodward’s “XXX thought…” narratives have usually held up, and have been reliable indicators to people he had met with. Otherwise, how could he possibly write “Powell thought...” [re GWB], “Petraeus thought...” [re Obama], or now “Dowd thought”?

    Seems hard for Dowd to deny that he was a source when Woodward is literally inside his head.
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  10. 11 hours ago

    Does it seem as if a lot of younger (post-9/11) veterans are running for office this year? That’s because a lot of them are. is assembling a PAC to support them. (Latest big donor: Jeff Bezos). More here by me.

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  11. Sep 4

    Amen.

    This is the China I know.
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    Sep 4

    In that case, just make Ben Beach the entire Supreme Court.

    Then for Supreme Court, I say! She's run Boston 6 times and even won it once.
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    Honored to round out the , as Number 50! But there are two of us, so on average we are #25.

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    Sep 4

    Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg who was killed in the shooting in Parkland, Fla., left, tries to shake hands with 's Supreme Court nom., Brett Kavanaugh, right, during a lunch break. Kavanaugh did not shake his hand. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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    Sep 4

    What you're seeing in the Woodward book is that the Cabinet essentially already activated the 25th Amendment They just didn't tell us.

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  16. Sep 4

    Honored to be in this company

    Congrats to recent Club speakers , , , , and for being named to the list!
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    Sep 4

    ICYMI, the Fallows and Steve Brill attempted to convince a skeptical Fareed Zakariah that America was on the ascendency because of the energy and activity going on locally. They were right, he will be proven to be wrong to be skeptical.

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  18. Sep 4

    This recording is in its way more startling than the book excerpts. (Bob Woodward, with whom I haven’t always agreed, acquits himself very well — calm, polite, but not backing down an inch. And not truckling, which comes naturally to nearly anyone when speaking with a prez.)

    This Trump-Woodward conversation makes the president look laughably gutless, pretending he never got message that W wanted to talk
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  19. Sep 4

    2/2 -No GOP member of legis branch has been willing to take personal, financial, or career risk to impose obviously necessary restraints on this executive. (Details: ) -Trump is who he is, but failed accountability is on them. /end

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  20. Sep 4

    1/2 Stop me if you’ve heard this before: -There is a branch of govt, known as “the legislative branch,” which is Constitutionally empowered to exercise check-and-balance restraint on “the executive.” -A party, known as the GOP, controls this branch. -But ….

    "He just made something up. That's his nature." That's John Dowd, talking to Robert Mueller, about our president.
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  21. Sep 4

    Long, detailed, very good article on the trap of self-censorship for foreign academics dealing w China. Similar hassle/threat forces affect journalists, but we have more options of subject/ approach than scholars whose life work depends on access in China

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