Tag: Washington politics
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✍️ COFFEE MACHINE TRAGI-COMEDY WITH MOLIEREAN TWISTS
When my trusty German-engineered coffee machine died at our country home, I immediately bought a brand-new replacement. But plugging it in brought only deathly silence. Furious, I marched back to the store, ready for a retail showdown. The clerk plugged it in. Bingo. It hummed perfectly. Convinced I had discovered a bizarre geographical anomaly with…
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✍️ ROYAL NOTES
A British king helping America celebrate its liberation from a British king. Only in America. Pomp and ceremony over blood and guts. Glitz over gas prices. The ancient Romans had a name for it — panem et circenses — bread and games to distract a restless public. Some things don’t change. They just change costumes.…
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“THE NOTE”
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AT THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER A man in a tuxedo leaned in, holding a small piece of paper with the quiet gravity of something that didn’t belong at dinner. To the left, a face began telling the story in real time — curiosity giving way to confusion, then shock, then a hand…
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