Dominic Pino
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Thomas L. Rhodes Journalism Fellow, @NR_Institute / @NRO | Host of Econception @aier | From WI, which does not border Canada | Tweets are mine, not my employer's
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Dan Klein and I are editors of a new book of quotations from Edmund Burke. In his final years, Burke wrote with burning vitality in defense of liberty and against radicalism. He seems to be speaking directly to us today. Get a taste in this new piece
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"Vivek Ramaswamy" was a sociological study conducted by Harvard University. The study is now complete. Thank you for your time.
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DeSantis drops out with a fake Churchill quote.
International Churchill Society: "We can find no attribution for either one of these . . . They are found nowhere in his canon . . . An almost equal number of sources found online credit these sayings to Abraham Lincoln"
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
- Winston Churchill
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ILA president Harold Daggett thinks you should have to wait in lines at toll booths so that unionized workers can be employed to collect the tolls.
Great find from
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Dockworkers union president Harold Daggett, who is promising to "cripple you" by shutting down all ports on the East and Gulf Coasts during a hurricane recovery, got paid $855,261 last year.
With a port strike looming, here's ILA President Harold Daggett talking about the economic damage he's willing to inflict.
"In today's world I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means."
(Wife thought I was watching a movie)
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Sears built the tallest building in the world less than 50 years ago. Think about that next time you're tempted to say a company has a permanent hold on power.
Sears is closing its last store in Illinois which both is weird and inevitable.
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First time a president has left in the middle of his term since Nixon.
BREAKING: White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who has spent over two years as President Joe Biden's top aide, is preparing to leave his job in the coming weeks, said a person familiar with Klain's plans.
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A nepotistic, mobbed-up union that makes the rest of the country poorer by preventing technological advance and is run by a multimillionaire bully who threatens to "cripple you" when he doesn't get his way is the New Right's idea of an economic success story.
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Pay for grocery union bosses: $740,000.
Leftists discovering stuff that conservatives have known for years: Priceless.
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You'll notice that the supposedly pro-competition, anti-monopoly Left is perfectly content with this state of affairs.
Ports have no competition in the US because all the ports on one coast are controlled by the same union.
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You're never going to out-giveaway Democrats
After JD Vance floats a $5,000 a year child tax cut, Kamala Harris proposes a $3,600 per child tax credit plus a $6,000 child tax credit for families with newborn babies for one year
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After turning down a 50 percent wage increase, the ILA said, "Our position is clear: the preservation of jobs and historical work functions is non-negotiable."
Let's create a museum for the "historical work functions" and automate the ports.
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When they say it's effective as a public speaker to "open with a personal story," this is not what they mean
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace tells audience she declined sex this morning to show up at a prayer breakfast:
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Instead of playing Donald Trump’s loyalty game, Brian Kemp went to work and ran on his rock-solid conservative record as governor of Georgia. Voters rewarded him with a victory. New from me
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Only 17% of Hungarians attend worship services at least monthly.
29% of New Yorkers attend worship services at least *weekly*. (Another 34% attend once or twice a month or a few times a year.) And that's on the low end for U.S. states.
The image on the left is Budapest last night, on the Feast of St. Stephen. The image on the right is NYC 1956, on Easter. My friend James Card observes:
"What was unthinkable in Hungary in 1956 is happening in 2023, and what happened in New York in 1956 is unthinkable in 2023."
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6 miles is only a few minutes away because we have cars. For most of human history, 6 miles took forever.
It's pretty great to have a vehicle that goes exactly where you want to go, exactly when you want to, carries all your stuff, and greatly expands the area you can access.
Most car trips in America are under 6 miles, and they’re for things like groceries, appointments, shopping, and dining.
Our built environment requires people to spend thousands of dollars a year on vehicles just to drive a few minutes away.
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There are towns like this all over the U.S.
Some random examples from a quick glance at Google Maps: Bainbridge, IN; Cottonwood, MN; Newman Grove, NE; Fowler, MI
A French farming village surrounded by farmland, with nobody more than a couple blocks from long views into the countryside. An allee of trees welcoming you to town, the nearby expressway skirting by, leaving the village unmolested. What needs to change to do this in the US?
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Imagine if it were legal to build houses at this pace.
Or highways.
Or ports.
Or power plants, refineries, transmission lines . . .
Decline is a choice.
US data center construction reached another record high this month, surpassing a rate of $28.5B/year amidst the AI boom. That's 57% higher than last year and 114% higher than two years ago.
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Ontario would be the fifth-poorest U.S. state.
Quebec would be second-poorest.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island would each be the poorest.
America’s growth slowdown is real, but north of the border is even worse.
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The least interesting hypothetical in politics.
Say what you will about McConnell, he has never -- under any circumstances at any point in the last 40 years -- favored ending the filibuster for legislation. He rebuffed Trump on it when he was majority leader.
Acosta: Democrats could think about it this way: If Mitch McConnell were in their shoes, what would he do? Given what we know, would we see him letting the filibuster stand? Is the filibuster more important than election rights, women’s rights…
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If the U.S. taxed unrealized capital gains, would Jeff Bezos get a refund for this?
Amazon lost $155 billion in market value today as share price fell 8.8%.
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Question for Sen. Whitehouse:
Would Ketanji Brown Jackson be welcome at his beach club in Rhode Island?
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"money that we took from you through taxation that, in a grand display of benevolence, we have decided to partially return to you if you buy products made by companies that donate to our political party"
“All the free money in the Inflation Reduction Act” is one of the funniest sentences I’ve seen in years.
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I wouldn't attribute America's wealth solely to immigration, but which country does Vance believe is more prosperous than America?
JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )
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[taps the sign]
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Gorsuch 🔥 in Jarkesy:
"The Court hardly leaves the SEC without ample powers and recourse. The agency is free to pursue all of its charges against Mr. Jarkesy. And it is free to pursue them exactly as it had always done until 2010:
In a court, before a judge, and with a jury."
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Aside from getting the law right, this case is also good because we can now quote Sotomayor next time someone says an AR-15 is an automatic weapon.
From her minority opinion:
The Supreme Court got the bump stock case right. It was an elementary statutory case, and the law was clear. I wrote about this after oral arguments.
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Tonight's results are great evidence for
@JonahDispatch
's theory that both parties are effectively committed to representing a minority of Americans.
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There's so much in this report from
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@ariblaff
about the Washington Post's terrible coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, but this part might be the craziest:
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In the likely narrow GOP House majority that will result when the dust settles, it’s possible that NY will have made the difference between GOP control and another term as speaker for Nancy Pelosi.
For that, we have Lee Zeldin to thank.
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please don't
Harris tells the Pittsburgh Economic Club, “I will engage in what Franklin Roosevelt called bold, persistent experimentation.”
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The inheritance tax is based on two assumptions:
1. Your wealth is ultimately the state’s, or at least a big chunk of it is; and
2. The state knows how to distribute your wealth better than you do.
Conservatives should reject both.
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This, but for *all* the money Congress distributes
I feel like there’s a weird memory-holing of the fact last spring Congress distributed $123 billion dollars to K-12 schools for Covid preparedness. That’s nearly $1 million *per school*. So big q is: what was that used for?
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Imagine a country with a patrilineal system of elevator operators who do things technology can do, backed by government and sometimes organized crime, and everyone who lives there hardly thinks about it.
That's the U.S. with dockworkers.
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Sorry to interrupt the partisan hate-fest, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics is not manipulating the jobs data to help Democrats.
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"wHy cAn'T wE bE mOrE LiKe eUrOpE?"
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Dear Heavenly Father,
Please be with Ryan Newman and his family right now.
Please be with the medical professionals in Florida, guide their thoughts and actions.
In Jesus' holy name,
Amen.
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This tweet is correct.
And that's why the U.S. is better than Britain and every other English-speaking democracy.
“The cult of the American founding has no parallels in other English-speaking democracies. A British prime minister who declared that 21st-century Britain must turn for guidance to Horace Walpole or Pitt the Younger would be considered daft…”/1
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The U.S. has a higher birth rate than China or Russia
At the same time that world leaders play armchair general with the Ukraine conflict, their own societies are decaying.
Not a single country - not even the US - within the NATO alliance has birthrates at replacement level. We don't have enough families and children to continue as
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Three things to take away from this:
1. Football teams do not need to issue statements about the anniversaries of terrorist attacks.
2. If they choose to do so, they shouldn't both-sides it with "and Islamophobia."
3. The Vikings have zero Super Bowl championships.
Statement from the Minnesota Vikings on the one-year anniversary of the reprehensible Hamas attacks on Israel.
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It's pretty amazing that the egg companies have completely stopped being greedy. Thank you, Big Egg!
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The U.S. and Argentina have little in common, Milei and Trump have little in common, and hard as it may be for the American media to believe, everyone on the planet isn’t as obsessed with Donald Trump as they are.
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Yuval from the top rope:
"The American and French revolutions were 'fueled by the same aspirations' in the sense that the fire in the hearth of a warm and stable home is fueled by the same oxygen as a raging inferno that burns down a city."
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This would be a good topic for a New York Times op-ed
I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way.
It's time to put an end to this nonsense.
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"I'm a capitalist as long as I get to determine how much profit you make" means you're not a capitalist.
Look, I’m a capitalist.
I have no problem with companies making reasonable profits.
But not absurd levels on the backs of working families and seniors – it's about basic fairness.
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We only have two anyway -- judicial and CDC
Only 56% of Americans could name all 3 branches of government
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As we all know, no education occurred in these United States prior to 1979.
I love the idea that if the Dept of Education disappeared education in this country would grind to a halt. Be cool if it worked that way for the Dept of Energy. Close it down, and suddenly, mass blackouts, planes fall from the sky, cars stall, smartphones become paperweights.
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I suggest every American who wants to know what’s *actually* going on in Russia and Ukraine, read this transcript of Putin’s address. As I’ve said for month— NATO (under direction from the United States) is violating previous agreements and expanding eastward. WE are at fault.
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Chevron announced it is moving its headquarters from California to Texas.
It’s a free country: If some states want to be hostile to business, firms can and will move to other states that welcome them.
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For the record, I didn't like any of the French presidential candidates.
I wanted them all Toulouse.
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Prisons have export-oriented economies with very strict trade barriers, so he'll probably like it there
Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro just got 4 months in prison for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.
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Far as I can tell, Democrats believe:
1. Americans use too much fossil fuels
2. Fossil fuels should be as cheap as possible
3. Fossil fuels should be harder to produce domestically
4. Foreign producers in OPEC should produce more
5. Nuclear power is bad
It's incoherent nonsense
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Edmund Burke, bothering Jacobins since 1789
Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies.
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There is not — and never was — any possible way that the IRS is going to raise several hundred billion dollars over ten years from better tax enforcement.
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Tucker Carlson's amazement at the prices of Russian groceries doesn’t demonstrate Russia is doing something great. It demonstrates that Americans in foreign countries are rich.
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@JosephPolitano
The reason we have models is to simplify complex things so we can learn about them. "Haha your model leaves stuff out" -- yeah of course it does, that's why it's useful.
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It is not, in fact, meaningfully different than organized crime.
how is this meaningfully different than organized crime? is it just they don’t *also* keep the neighborhoods safe?
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The new print issue of
@NRO
includes my first ever cover story: on the long and successful history of the conservative fight against organized labor.
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Senators Vance, Hawley, and Rubio have been among Pete Buttigieg's most vocal critics after the Ohio train accident. Yet today they introduced a bill that would give him more power and enact many of his rail-policy ideas into law.
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Aside from cheering for further chaos in the NEA, I’ll just note that in this battle between a despicable union and the despicable union’s union, the interests of one group of people — students — seem absent.
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Hilarious reply to a senator who served in the 101st Airborne
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It's hard to imagine how housing could be more governmentalized than it already is in the U.S.
People should be upset with government for raising housing costs. Getting government out of the way must be part of the answer to lower them.
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A rare admission from the UAW that, contrary to its blue-collar image, a large segment of its membership (about 100K out of 370K total) is in higher education.
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Remember that line of ships waiting off of southern California that people have mostly stopped talking about? It's longer than ever before. New from me
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The United States of America just beat Pakistan in cricket.
Sentences I never thought I'd say.
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"We are developing the conservative economic agenda," says American Compass.
That's why they're publishing Bill Clinton's assistant secretary of labor, who thinks that teachers unions are a success story in labor relations.
For conservatism.
U.S. labor law is in desperate need of an update.
@MartyManley
, Clinton's Asst. Sec. of Labor, explains in our latest Compass Point essay that labor law needs to be transformed from the days of the National Labor Review Act (NRLA) to something that supports modern workers. 🧵👇
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"such a proud name"
Really?
Here's Joseph Kennedy Sr.
What a tragedy that the bearer of such a proud name defiles it with lunacy like this. It is very sad.
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That deal Joe Biden and Marty Walsh celebrated to avert a rail strike? It's breaking down.
Unions and Democrats have moved the goalposts repeatedly.
Carriers have basically said they're done. It's hard to blame them.
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Trump here is essentially promising to bring back federal subsidization of blue-state tax hikes, a policy he rightly undid in his first term.
Trump says he’ll reverse the policy on state and local tax deductibility that he signed into law in his tax bill if he’s elected again.
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You're never going to believe it:
Tariffs hurt the people they were supposed to help.
Again.
Protectionists talk a big game about the “forgotten working man” but seem to forget to follow up after their policies are enacted.
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Republicans sometimes get a lot of grief for being stuck in the 1980s on policy.
Democrats, on the other hand, are stuck in the 4th century, or earlier.
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Directly quoting him in context and making counterarguments is somehow "not participating in the actual debate."
Maybe someday I'll be privy to the top-secret place where the actual debate happens.
Until then, read my post here and decide for yourself:
10/10 I want to be clear, I'm not accusing Pino of lying. To the contrary, he includes my quotes in the piece alongside his assessments. He's not hiding the ball. He just isn't participating in the actual debate.
In some ways it's more perplexing to see who goes to bat for this
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Yep, you got me!
I opposed Intel's receiving corporate welfare when it was making profits, and I still oppose it when it is making losses.
Because I don't think it's the federal government's job to care about the profitability of Intel.
@Chris_Griz
@AmerCompass
@SenToddYoung
5/5 ...but of course, CHIPS could not have had any effect on Intel's 2024 financial performance, nor was it supposed to. Indeed, as
@chris_griz
points out, the market fundamentalists have now precisely reversed their argument.
In 2022, the CHIPS Act was a bad idea because
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J. D. Vance has been refining his 2020 election stance for years at this point.
It is still incoherent, and it is based on the vice president’s doing things that are not constitutional or legal.
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Athletes from California won 50 medals, more than Japan or Germany.
Indianapolis won more medals than India.
USA Olympics dominance is almost comical, and it's made even better by the fact that the U.S. does it as a national side hobby.
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If opposing Hamas's terrorism fuels anti-U.S. sentiment in the Arab-Islamic world, that says more about the Arab-Islamic world than it does about the U.S.
I think the US is reacting to events in Israel-Palestine in ways that are leading to a very sharp rise in anti-US sentiments across the Arab-Islamic world and Global South that’ll last a long time. Not sure Biden administration officials quite realize this.
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is an anti-worker, pro-Democrat, corrupt, and dying union.
Republicans should be happy to let Democrats try to sell unions’ crap sandwich.
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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson illustrates the emerging progressive view of governance:
Lawless public spaces and micromanaged private spaces.
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In case you needed more evidence that Sohrab Ahmari (who blocked me years ago) is a Marxist, he is now telling the NYT unions reporter that the petite bourgeoisie are a hindrance to the workers' revolution.
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It could be a Producers-style plot where he's figured out he can make more money by losing the election than by winning it.
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The case for protectionism can be framed as the government making you a little poorer for your own good.
The problem is that the “making you a little poorer” part usually happens, and the “for your own good” part usually does not.
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He wrote this while he was majority leader, when his party would have gained by eliminating it:
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To give you an idea of how arrogant Joe Biden is, he says here that if God personally left the throne in heaven to tell him to do something, he *might* do it.
George Stephanopoulos: “If you can be convinced that you cannot defeat Donald Trump, will you stand down?”
President Biden: “It depends. If the Lord Almighty himself comes down and tells me that, I might do that.”
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As the old saying says: As Guam goes, so goes the nation.
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Instead of getting mad at government for failures in air traffic control, we should ask why government runs it at all. It's not a public good in economic theory, and Canada has proven that privatized ATC works.
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A Democratic comms staffer showing off his student-loan "forgiveness" is, unwittingly, a perfect spokesman for his party.
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5 U.S.C. § 7311
"An individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States...if he...participates in a strike, or asserts the right to strike, against the Government of the United States"
SCOOP: Hundreds of US Gov. Employees plan Walkout on Tuesday over Biden's Gaza Policies. **22 Agencies** involved:
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Excited for this new podcast from
@charlescwcooke
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And excited to announce I'm opening a new restaurant called The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.
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@EsotericCD
I think it would be cool to have high-speed trains that fly through the air so they can directly connect two cities with no stops. You wouldn't have to worry about terrain or private property in between. They could fly super high, like 30,000 feet, and go over 500 mph...
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Many people on the left and right believe the past 40 years have been characterized by "market fundamentalism."
Ruchir Sharma wrote a book that basically asks, "What on earth are you talking about?"
I review it for
@FreeBeacon
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