Annnnnnnnnnd Peggy Noonan crosses the finish line:

We all think our breathless recitations of the latest revelations matter but I don’t know, it keeps feeling like 2016.

Only this time with full employment.

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Peggy attended a recent Washington DC fete, and captures the mood there:

Meanwhile in full-employment America, Donald Trump is taking out terrorists with drones and announcing trade deals with China and seemingly weathering every storm.

In the China ceremony Tuesday, in the East Room, after a booming “Hail to the Chief,” with a palpable sense of triumph filling the room, with the golden frames of the great portraits shining, Mr. Trump rolled off the names of the CEOs in the audience. There were a lot!

It was in a way a fabulous celebration of the riches produced by capitalism. But it also seemed an almost sinister declaration of the intimate ties between great U.S. corporations and the federal government. 

She concludes with a reference to a classic Godfather scene, but girls and boys today might be more familiar with the Hunger Games banquets and the outrageous dress and hair found there. The procedure. The enunciation. The poor choice of footwear.

Nevermind watches. Footware.
That's the tell.
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Make it a great Saturday everyone, no matter where you are going and how far.  We had a snowstorm here yesterday, never as much as predicted, but fierce to travel in coming down mid-afternoon. And you can't keep people off the roads. It's good to be in a warm dry place, rested, reading here and there of yesterday's results, accompanied to the rhythms of early morning residents chipping ice off their windshields...

Be in touch  today. There's never as much time as we think, even if time were infinite...
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 2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.