Tag: Donald Trump
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The Expertise of Air Traffic Controllers
In the wake of the collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter at Washington National, and Trump’s blaming the accident on diversity hiring, I’m reminded of Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The movie left me with two impressions. First, that governments are competent to organize meeting and communicating with visitors…
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The wisdom of donald trump
A collection of found items “Trump Fragrances are Here” How About in Two Weeks? Does Two Weeks Work for You? — New York Times, June 19, 2025 Donnie Brasco At the meeting of the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), a forum of democracies with advanced economies, President Donald Trump told reporters: “The UK…
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Quotations from Speaker Mike
“I am a Christian” “I am a Christian, a husband, a father, a life-long conservative, constitutional law attorney and a small business owner in that order,” Louisiana state Representative Mike Johnson told the Louisiana Baptist Message in 2016, “and I think that order is important.” In 2016 when first elected to Congress Johnson, his wife Kelly, and…
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Is Trump a Fourth-Grader?
Newsweek’s “Trump Speaks At Fourth-Grade Level, Lowest Of Last 15 U.S. Presidents, New Analysis Finds” 1 and its source, FactSquared’s “’Stable Genius’ – Let’s Go to the Data,” 2 are fun to read because everyone has been dumbfounded by one of Donald Trump’s incoherent tweets. But no tweets were used in the making of this chart. “The website excluded communiques issued…
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Madison’s Confederate Memorials
A Timeline of Civil War Memorials United States Madison 1857 In Dred Scott v. Sanford the Supreme Court rules that a slave, or a descendant of slaves, is not an American citizen and has no standing to sue in federal court for freedom in a free state.6 The City of Madison purchases land for Forest…