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- Boeing defense HQ leaving VA to return to St. Louis. Every day it seems at least one company flees high tax blue states. You'd think at some point they'd learn the cause and effect at play here.

- From the archives: Pat Riley on the remarkable power of getting 1% better.

- Many a truth is said in jest.

- Grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inventor accuses Hersey of quietly relacing ingredients. Is there a patent on combining milk chocolate and peanut butter? If so Hersey's may be in violation of patent otherwise there may be a business opportunity to make original recipe peanut butter cups. 

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- If you really want first hand information - here is the 397 page report on Foreign Trade Barriers. That's a very uneven international playing field - that got a little fairer today.

- Val Kilmer in Tombstone. One of my favorite movies.

- Major companies are investing in the US. Reminder they are doing this both because Donald Trump is President and they hope to make money doing it.

- Starliners flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought. Scary!

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- Will the China Cycle come for Airbus and Boeing? Never forget what China did to one-time giant Nortel.

- Philosophy explained (with donuts)

- This is what a preference cascade looks like.

- Climate Journalism Done Right.

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- NASA looks to be moving away from Boeing and going with SpaceX

- VDH on Election 2024: Those who lecture vs those tired of being lectured

- Gallup poll shows public trust in media matches record low.

- Countries ranked by GDP by hour worked. This skewers towards European counties because thei work fewer hours. Could also be an argument to work smarter not longer.

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- Reminder.

- This should be as famous (or infamous) as Nixon's missing 18 minutes of tape

- Reminder

- Lost in Space: NASA has learned the hard lessons of experience.

More Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Heh Heh

- Always makes me chuckle.

- Scarily true!

- Even more scarily true

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- Tucker Carlson Episode 102 on Che Guevara.

- The story of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. Not sure why anyone would choose them over SpaceX at this point.

- The Collapse of the News Industry is Taking its Soul Down with It. This death and lack of swagger is for the corporate media only. When you cower and obey you produce milktoast and nobody's buying that.

- Hot take: Starbucks sales are down because their coffee sucks. Give me a large Dunkin hot coffee.

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- Excellent point about the Ohtani gambling case.

- From the archives: Paul Graham essay on writing.

- Morgan Housel with Smart Things from Smart People

- Boeing CEO to resign. People started actively avoiding Dave Calhoun's planes or buying them under his reign. Another example of go woke - go broke.

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Many a truth is said in jest.

- It really is coming to this.

- Your government at work.

- Now it make sense

- Speaking of airlines

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Many a truth is said in jest.

- Truth! 

- This makes sense.

- Heh Heh

- That's another way to put it.

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- Two easy changes that could reduce healthcare costs by up to 75% in the US

- It does look like Bill Murray

- 21 of the best movies of the 1970's. Confession - I have never seen either The French Connection or Taxi Driver. And why is Texas Chainsaw Massacre on this list?

- Ugly Renaissance Babies

- It's 60% more expensive to use Boeing to get an astronaut to the ISS than using Space X - so why are we still using Boeing?

- Not a fan of gun "buy-back" programs

Let's Talk Some Politics

"North Korea will freeze and dismantle its nuclear program." - Bill Clinton 1994

"I won't rule out direct talks with Kim Jung Un. I just won't. As far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that's his problem, not mine." - Donald Trump 2018

ABC News has a brief on the US-North Korean summit in Vietnam. Michael Cohen is mentioned five times in an article about potential historic denuclearization talks. But there was one word glaringly missing in the article - the word China.

The editors at National Review are glad President Trump walked away from what would have been yet another bad deal for the US. But again there was one word glaringly missing in their article - the word China.

To Trump the North Korean Agreement is just part of a larger trade Agreement with China. It is no coincidence that the summit in Vietnam came at the same time the US and China were holding trade negotiations.

I have to hand it to Niall Ferguson - he called it last March. He pointed out China tariffs are directly linked to the negotiations with North Korea. And why not? North Korea to the US is a problem. To China it's a market potentially as large as South Korea. President Trump is directly pressuring China to help "solve" the North Korean problem as part of the larger US-China trade deal. Smart.

Oh and speaking of trade - Boeing secured $15.7 billion in Vietnam orders during Trump's visit to Hanoi. Did you happen to catch mention of that in the MSM?

Let me finish with one last quote. A quote that you should remind yourself of when talking politics these days: "All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." - William Butler Yeats