Isn’t it the states that formerly made up GDR (Saxony, etc?), where AfD did especially well? Quite a few articles in Anglo press recently on how East and West German integration appears to have slowed down recently.

A the point at which the foreign power in question is considered to be at war with the US. Espionage, on the other hand...

Caught with a live boy or a dead girl, eh?

Democrats were emphatically not worse under Bush than Republicans were under Clinton. The Gingrich “revolution”, the endless investigations that produced nothingburgers, but divided the country and cost the government (i.e., us, the taxpayers, millions of dollars), the government shutdowns of ‘95 - ‘96...

2006 was pre-Citizens United, among other things, and the 10th Circuit is not the Supreme Court.

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You know, maybe you’re on to something. Could they outsource public education and infrastructure to Singapore?

We’ve homegrown examples, too. “Bitter Fruit,” by Schlesinger and Kinzer, is a really wonderful book about the coup in Guatemala, engineered by the CIA in 1954 for the benefit of United Fruit.

I’m absolutely shocked by the Mensch transformation. I mean, she’s been so odious for so long - I don’t know how to process this version of her.

Or to name candidates to the Supreme Court.

And then she saw the Boondocks episode about Ann Coulter, and it gave her an idea...

That’s my takeaway from the video as well.

That’s more of a hope scenario, no? Especially given that “protect and defend the Constitution” is part of the presidential oath of office. Let’s see what the conservative jurists do when faced with something like this.

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Right? And if you are someone who can’t get through a flight without a drink (anxiety and whatnot), be prepared and use the liquids allowance to carry on your own mini-bar.

This, a thousand times this. Bring own tasty food, avoid having to eat the nutritional horror that is food on domestic US flights.

Out of curiosity, are Girl Guide cookies the same as Girl Scout cookies in the US?

Careful - Sabra’s been poisoning people right and left...

TED doesn’t seem to be raising any copyright claims - sounds like confusion is the only concern, hence the trademark-based C&D.

...but not as good as the original (at least the original’s first 3 seasons).