Last week, the Pentagon accepted the emir of Qatar’s gift of a Boeing 747, a $400 million bauble donated for our president to ...

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Pilots grew to appreciate the stability and the predictability of the jet hastily nicknamed “Thud.” Harrison Kass is a senior defense and national security writer with over 1,000 total pieces ...

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And Iowa’s public gift law — which deals with freebies much less ostentatious than the Qatari jet — provides important context on the controversy. First, the Boeing 747 is far from being free.