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On Saturday, guy that has zero chance of winning a Republican primary for just about anything these days Mike Pence gave a speech at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington. The Gridiron dinner is a time for D.C. journalists and politicians to do...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Mar 13, 2023 at 05:24 PM PDT
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So. NC’s biggest embarrassment tried to sneak a loaded handgun onto a plane. For the second time!!!! Add that to his episodes of illegally taking knives into schools and school board meetings, and all of his “lose your license” severity speeding...
by bethann
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on Tue Apr 26, 2022 at 04:09 PM PDT
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I, like many of you, want to know about everything going on in Ukraine and everything regarding what aid is being sent. �However, even as important as I like to think of myself as, President Biden ...
by Peter Olandt
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on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The Ukrainian made Antonov 225, the biggest plane in the world, has been destroyed. It can’t be a coincidence of war, I’m sure it was high on putin’s list of targets. I don’t know much about aviation, but Ukraine has a better aviation industry than...
by joeschmeaux
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on Sun Feb 27, 2022 at 12:45 PM PST
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In another incident of ‘flying while Muslim,’ a Muslim woman was removed from an American Airlines flight to North Carolina and arrested after a white passenger said he was ‘uncomfortable’ Saturday. The woman, identified as Muslim activist, former New...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Nov 18, 2020 at 11:56 AM PST
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on Sep. 11th 2001 I was ten years old and we watched in my fifth or sixth grade social studies class when we all saw the terror of The Planes crashing into the WTC. the week before I kept have dreams about Fires, plane crashes, etc. It was...
by Rhune
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on Fri Sep 11, 2020 at 10:34 AM PDT
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As the novel coronavirus continues to spread throughout the globe, airline crews and staff worry they may be spreading the disease to those they come in contact with. Because the government declared them “essential critical infrastructure workers,”...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Apr 07, 2020 at 04:31 PM PDT
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Donald Trump recently declared a travel ban on 28 countries, now expanded to include the UK and Ireland, because of the coronavirus outbreak. As anyone who has been on social media has likely seen, this sudden travel restriction resulted in tons of...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Sun Mar 15, 2020 at 01:00 PM PDT
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InvestigateIvanka.com is a collection of more than 50 articles from sources such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, CREW and The Guardian, detailing Ivanka’s wide-ranging corruption and ...
by JLFinch
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on Wed Oct 30, 2019 at 08:36 AM PDT
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Dana Holcomb of Killeen, Texas, is seeking damages from American Airlines after he says he was kicked off of a plane “so a dog could fly first class” back in April. Holcomb was flying from Las Vegas to Austin with a connecting flight in Phoenix....
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Sep 03, 2019 at 09:40 AM PDT
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The Wall Street Journal reports that several major airlines are making changes that will help make flying safer and more affirming for gender non-binary people, those who generally don’t identify with the male or female gender binary. Non-binary people...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Feb 18, 2019 at 11:26 AM PST
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Scott Pruitt makes it clear—He flies first class to avoid the dirty hippies at the back of the plane Why does EPA chief Scott Pruitt require an absolutely unprecedented army of at least 30 personal security guards? Why did he clear a whole floor of the EPA for his private use? Why did he institute a new security system within the security system to...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Feb 16, 2018 at 06:11 AM PST
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Howard Stern said this week that restricting access to guns is a bad idea, as firearms put the good guys on equal footing with the bad ones. (Except Pulse had an armed security guard, a "good guy.") He believes “wolves” will always find a way to kill...
by msjustice
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on Fri Jun 17, 2016 at 08:16 AM PDT
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Hi there!
Welcome to the first in (what I hope) will become an ongoing series of diaries. The purpose of this series is simple: sharing music. Music is a powerful means of expressing ideas
by analyticFunction
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on Wed Jan 27, 2016 at 10:55 PM PST
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In a storyline that is hard to make up, Kansas Republicans may be facing a fairly minor fight on their hands. Ray Merrick, famous for yesterday saying this:
“Government employees produce ...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Mon Nov 17, 2014 at 06:33 PM PST
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NPR recently featured The Fly List - suggested summer reading involving travel by plane; "Books About Takeoffs, Landings And Bumpy Rides" (There are links to other collections of books around ...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jun 25, 2014 at 07:54 PM PDT
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I think the only thing more annoying than letting plane passengers talk on cellphones would be if the flight attendants cleared aisle debris with leaf blowers.
Get ...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Dec 03, 2013 at 06:50 AM PST
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Who says: Government Services aren't important?
Fools , ignorant of how the Economy works, that's who.
The federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 will not disrupt air traffic control or ...
by jamess
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on Sat Oct 12, 2013 at 09:05 AM PDT
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Once powered transportation relieved us from the distance one could travel in a day organically, there has been a genre of music that developed to celebrate the freedom from blisters, saddle sores ...
by BOHICA
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on Sat Feb 23, 2013 at 07:07 AM PST
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Lucas Grabeel from High School Musical joined me in making this Music Video for the purpose of getting young people to vote. His performance as a Republic campaign worker singing to Bruno Mars' "...
by kleb
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on Thu Nov 01, 2012 at 10:25 PM PDT
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