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Two German players- Kimmich and Neuer make more than the entire Paraguay team. That’s how big an upset this was.
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Wow
Los Angeles is so bad that you will get stabbed charging your car at the city library by a homeless man, and when an ambulance comes to save you, ANOTHER homeless man steals the ambulance while they’re tending to you at the scene leaving you no way to get to the hospital, and you die.
Sounds like South Africa…
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Northwestern has shocked the Wolverines and leads by 9 at the halfway point here in Evanston. @RaghavKhosla15 and @AlexandraJo22 talk about what went right for NU and if they can keep the momentum going for the upset.
This is one of my biggest worries - A Republic if You Can Keep It realclearpolitics.com/articl…
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Monday AM update. Melissa now CAT 5 160mph. Pressure 917mb. Turn north confident. Current numbers. Eye is 11.5 miles wide. Hurricane force winds extend 30 miles from center. Tropical Storm force winds extend 195 miles from center. NHC 5am track and cone here. Cone is anywhere the eye can go. Highest surge on approach will be center towards the east. On exit could be more on the western side. spaghettimodels.com
Praying for Charlie and his poor wife and their young kids. We have to stop looking at each other less as symbols and see each other more as humans. #FreeSpeech matters.
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Excellent article by @JuliusKrein for @commonplc
This type of fund is desperately needed for our commercial industrial base to expand and be successful
commonplace.org/p/how-a-sove…
Check out my latest article: Are States Ready for the New Federalism? linkedin.com/pulse/states-re… via @LinkedIn
Have you ever had a weekend that was so eventful, it's hard to remember the urgent and important things you were working on the week before? Can't discount the importance of taking a break to recharge.
There have been three watershed periods in the life of the American Republic. The first was from the creation of the original Constitution to the Civil War. The second was from Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson. We have been living within the structures that Wilson laid down and FDR built up - globalist, bureaucratic, and centralist (federal government dominant). Trump in many ways is the anti-Wilson - nationalist, technologist (as a substitute for bureaucracy), and decentralist. We don't know yet if this is a fourth watershed, but we do know that at least in the short-term, states are going to be asked to take on more responsibilities than many of us have seen in our lifetimes. The changes looming for education and emergency management are likely just the tip of the iceberg.
What many people don't realize is that states rights also come with states responsibilities. The new federalism that we're watching get put in place in real time requires the state governments to make adjustments that take into account what the federal government is doing. Federalism isn't just a one-way street. Decentralization only works if the states can rise to the occasion. This has broad-ranging implications for SALT, state and local governments, place-based investments, disaster recovery, finance, and more. The centralization that we have seen for the last 100 years may be more ingrained in the system than we currently realize, and we have to hope nothing critical is dropped during this transition.