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Here we go: "stop-loss" policies for non-military government jobs, so you can't leave even if you want to and qualify for retirement? Compulsory recall to active duty for retired air traffic controllers or math teachers or VA hospital orderlies when there are staff shortages? "National security…"
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Better stop that counterintelligence and counterterrorism stuff too. That sort of interference with nature also cuts down on useful chaos and massive calamities that can be used as pretexts for suspending rights and seizing assets...
Let freedom reign...
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This doesn't conflict with the CBC story, which mainly uses U.S. arrival stats by all modes and doesn't seem to break them down by nationality. It just adds more nuance, since road trip plans are easiest to change and Canada's arrival stats do give a breakdown. A nearly one-third drop is huge!
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Here we go: Northbound crossings by Canadian residents in March were down 31.9% from a year before, while those by Americans were down 10.6%. The Canadians would include ones who'd gone south before this kerfuffle, so the decline in new trips is likely higher. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
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Vance may want to check in with "Tim Apple" on this...
Oh -- and "peasant" isn't the insult Vance intends it to be, unless he thinks "farmer" is too...
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Maybe it's wishful thinking...but there something in Doocy's eyes that I don't think I've seen there before. Not sure what it is -- critical thought or conscience or a sense of impending doom? Maybe the emperor is about to lose the mandate of Heaven...
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Asparagucci...
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So…if the most important asset the U.S. brings to trade is…the American consumer, is it really hard to understand why it has trade deficits with other countries?
U.S.: "You sell our consumers stuff, and in return our consumers will buy stuff from you. Win-win."
Everyone else: "Sure. Sounds fair."
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When you lose your base, you're toast.
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He's learning what happens if you lose your base...
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There's real danger in being drawn into arguing this case's evidence with posts and podiums. It could create a feeling that some sort of due process is occurring after all. The issue here isn't, in the end, whether this guy is "good" or "bad" but that the process for determining this was subverted.
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Not surprised in the least, but they wouldn't even have to be. They'd just need to be young guys who'd been sloppy with online hygiene and had picked up Russian malware on their work machine...
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"I am not convinced. That is my problem. I cannot go the public and say that these are the reasons because I won’t believe in them," Fischer said. "...why is this being prioritized now? To this day I can't see why. Saddam Hussein is a terrible dictator. But we have known that for a long time."
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Why is he even handling the trophy? He had no part in winning it.
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The drum-tight defence of "why didn't you stop me?"
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Agreed. If you don't sail the ship yourself, you're not a naut, just a passenger. That said, this particular ride does take guts.
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“This is of momentous, momentous significance,” said J. Michael Luttig, a prominent former federal appeals court judge revered by many conservatives. “This should be the turning point in the president’s rampage against American institutions.”
Harvard steadies the line to stop a rout; in time?
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Thanks for the invite, Gov, but no. It's not that we've been feeling rejected. It's that we're rejecting you, at least until you get control of your country. It's not us, it's you.
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Harvard: The Costco of universities -- in the best possible way!
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Harvard: The Costco of universities -- in the best possible way!
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There's nothing you can say. You have to change your name and move to Belgium.
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Really worth listening to all the financial details, and to the insights into personal toll that follow.
Options now? Continue production in China but market to countries where there aren't tariffs, instead of in the U.S.
"You'll have a global brand, but maybe not an American one?"
"Maybe not."
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It's an understandable question, but I'd suggest we stop asking it, for two reasons: First, the ballot is secret, and there's protection for all in respecting that. My wife and I don't even tell each other how we vote. Second, what's needed now is building an "us" rather than fixing who's to blame.
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This link is also in the story above. Remarkable pics.
"This project was not just about unlocking one text—it was about developing a methodology that can be used for other manuscripts. Libraries and archives around the world face similar challenges with fragile fragments embedded in bindings…"
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We Build To Dominate...
What an inspiring mission statement, and translates easily to other Western languages: "Palantir über alles" or "Dio, Palantir, Famiglia" or "Travail, Famille, Palantir"...
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Welcome to the new normal...
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What evidence is there that he's even been asked?
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"...and then you carry the seven and divide by four..."
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I'd add "...in most of our lifetimes" because ever/never is a long time, and lots of us people have been reeeeaally bad throughout a lot of it, giving plenty of reason for doubt...but yeah, very much in doubt now, too.