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...furor died down and Obama went pin-less for the better part of six months until April 15, when a veteran in a town hall meeting outside of Pittsburgh handed him a pin and asked him to wear it, which Obama did for the rest of that day. The reemergence of the pin led to a much-ridiculed question on the issue at a much-ridiculed ABC debate later that week. "I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins," Obama explained. "This is the kind of manufactured issue that our politics...
...reading the transcript of a recent Hillary Clinton campaign speech when I got that weird feeling of déjà vu. Clinton was in Pittsburgh, going on and on about trade with China. She promised to "stand up to China and other non-market countries," which, she claimed, "subsidize their exports and put our manufacturers at a disadvantage." The U.S. needs "to immediately and aggressively crack down on China's unfair trade practices," including "currency manipulation," which she deemed "outrageous." Her goal, she said, was "leveling the playing field for our manufacturers with smart fair trade...
...Pittsburgh, once the Steel City, has moved on, but not Senator Clinton. I felt I had heard all of this stuff before. Not just on CNN last week. Such derogatory comments about China's trade practices are now common in America's political and media discourse. No, I had heard these statements a long, long time ago. When I was a college student, in the late 1980s...
...Clinton could be excused for engaging in that bit of wishful thinking herself. The win capped off a final week of campaigning in which she was remarkably focused and upbeat, particularly during an endurance swing through Scranton, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia on Monday. She prevented Obama from running away with votes in upscale suburban counties like Bucks and Montgomery. The victory gives her one last chance to convince donors to invest in her cause - a cause that even with the victory is in dire need of new funding. And it provides more ammunition for the argument she and her supporters...
...Virgin America does not plan to have more than 100 planes--limiting itself in the first five years to the 30 largest U.S. cities, those that attract both business and leisure travelers, particularly the young creative types who identify with the Virgin brand. Don't expect Virgin on the Pittsburgh-Indianapolis run. "They will be very sad," Branson says of the passed-by places. "That will be part of the discipline of our company. Our model will not work for every city...