On why he flew 50 times more hours to qualify as a jet fighter pilot:
McCain: When I finished [the US and Spanish Naval Academies] I had two choices: to be naval officer or a pilot…I chose to be pilot. I had to study another year and a half and I graduated in 1958. I trained intensively. I flew many hours in training to become a jet pilot.”
Mukasey blubbers about how a missed phone call from a 9/11 Hijacker, if intercepted, could have stopped 9/11. Hamilton refutes this by essentially saying this is important, yet was not shared with the 9/11 Commission, implying one of three things:
Mukasey was making it up for dramatic appeal.
He was repeating something heard elsewhere, believing it to be true.
Somehow, something quite important was suppressed from the 9/11 Commision.
They tend to be smart, sure, but they also tend to be the kind of people that are incredibly curious, motivated and passionate, who have their own personal projects going, are always thinking and learning[.]
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nytimes.com — The Appeal
” is John Grisham’s handy primer on a timely subject: how to rig an election. Blow by blow, this not-very-fictitious-sounding novel depicts the tactics by which political candidates either can be propelled or ambushed and t
“Really? From serious broadsheet to scandalous tabloid?” I wonder if this plasticity is miraculous or ludicrous. “From Ben Bernanke to Paris Hilton. And could this work, from unreconstructed crypto-Fascist religious right to loony absolutist left?”
