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15 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Socialism with nationalist characteristics.
My response to the accusation that this was merely a spurious and flippant allusion:
Yes, I think these people are flirting with the economic (though not necessarily racial) philosophy behind German National Socialism, and I don’t take it back.

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1. I'm going to geek out now and give you a tour of my Cessna 172 cockpit, which I've been learning to fly (in real life). For the pilots among you, feel free to tune out, because this is pretty basic. But I get a lot of questions from non-pilots about what they are looking at. Image
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15 Apr
It's the wrong way of talking about the issue. Offer a different interpretation of what the Amendment should mean. Even Heller, considered a huge victory for 2A advocates, clearly leaves room for regulation.
Heller did not outlaw bans on machine guns, bazookas, and grenades. The conservative majority opinion left legislatures with the latitude to decide which kind of weapons were reasonable for individual self-defense.
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US consumer prices (CPI) rose +0.6% m/m in March, up +2.6% from a year ago (up from +1.7% y/y in February).
Core CPI (excluding food and energy) rose +0.3% m/m in March, up a more modest +1.6% from a year ago (up from +1.3% y/y in February).
US consumer energy prices rose +5.0% m/m in March, up +13.2% from a year ago, when they started to see a steep plunge.
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The US reported +921 new coronavirus deaths yesterday, bringing the total to 578,098. The 7-day moving average declined slightly to 747 deaths per day.
The US had +78,876 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total to over 32.1 million. The 7-day moving average rose slightly, remaining at over 72,000 new cases per day.
20 US states had over 1,000 new cases yesterday. Michigan led the pack with over 9,000 new cases, followed by Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania with over 6,000 each.
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14 Apr
Today was “fun with gusty crosswind landings” day, up and down 11 times.
On final, the airspeed would go from 65 to 80 to 60 in a few seconds, just due to shifting winds, requiring constant adjustment. No such thing as a nice steady descent today.
On landing, the changing winds could cause you to float for several seconds, drift to one side or the other, or suddenly sink. It was like a roulette wheel. The winds weren’t that strong, but they were fickle.
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If the US had adopted realistic goals and limited itself to them, it could have been called a great success.
The reality is that we were never going to transform Afghanistan into an island of peace and stability. Only Afghans can do that. What we could do is stop Afghanistan from being used as a safe haven for plotting large-scale attacks on the US.
But it is always tempting, especially when achieving success in more limited goals, to the think that with a little more effort you can achieve greater and more lasting things.
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