Royal Brunei Airlines recently celebrated the flying of one of its planes with its first all female flight deck crew. The plane flew from Brunei to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. So Saudi Arabia will let women fly planes into the country but will not them drive once they are there.
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Matt Taibbi writes about a development that illustrates the topsy-turvy nature of current US politics, and that is that Republicans see a future in which they become the champions of the working class, and that this idea is not as outlandish as one might initially think.
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After the 2012 loss in the presidential election that seemed to take by surprise candidate Mitt Romney and the Republican leadership, though the writing on the wall had been visible for weeks before, the party conducted a serious post-mortem that concluded that in the future they had to find ways to reach out to minority groups, since the party’s share of those votes had been steadily declining since George W. Bush ran, while the proportion of minority groups was steadily rising.
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As Donald Trump drops in the polls, there have been some truly astonishing development within the GOP, with the party establishment worrying that not only will he lose and lose big, but that he will drag down the party in down ballot races and thus they will lose control of the US Senate and even, in the most extreme scenario, the House of Representatives.
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Given the umbrage that Donald Trump took when asked by Khizr Khan as to whether he had even read the US constitution, people have taken to turning up at his rallies with pocket copies of it, prompting the question as to how familiar people are with this much cited document. The Guardian has come up with a pop quiz on facts connected to it. I got 8/10 correct.
One of the distinguishing features of the Donald Trump campaign has been his breezy assurance that he will defeat all his opponents and win. Almost all candidates try to portray confidence in their own eventual success. That is how they get people to join their campaigns and contribute money. But they also try to temper that with some caveats so that their supporters don’t get complacent.
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Donald Trump’s sons apparently like to indulge in ‘big game hunting’, a disgusting activity where people kill large land mammals just for the hell of it, even though those animals are losing their habitats and their numbers are running low.
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I have said that Donald Trump’s strength lies in his intuitive sense of where the Republican party members’ passions lie and his ability to tap into that populist strain. I thought that this analysis by Jonathan Chait hits the mark in fleshing out that idea.
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It looks like all it takes are protestors holding up pocket copies of the US constitution to distract Donald Trump from his speech and cause the audience to chant “USA! USA!” and have the constitution bearers ejected. Will they start searching attendees at future rallies to check if they are carrying this dangerous weapon?
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