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
Fairfax, VA
Joined July 2019
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 @NRO.
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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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John F Kennedy appointed his 35-year-old brother, who had never argued a case in court before, attorney general.
Joe Biden appointed Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation because he likes choo choos. Spare me the hand-wringing.
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"Matt Gaetz? The guy who wrote an amicus brief supporting the FTC's noncompete ban?"
Matt Gaetz wrote an amicus brief supporting the FTC’s noncompete ban. He’s a genuine populist on antitrust, arbitration agreements, and corporate power.
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Proportion of New York City's population that is foreign-born:. 1850: 46%.1870: 44%.1900: 37%.1920: 36%.1950: 23%.1970: 18%.1980: 24%.1990: 28%.2000: 36%.Today: 38%.
JD Vance laments the diversity of New York City ahead of Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally:. “London doesn’t feel fully English to me anymore. Right? New York of course is the classic American city. Over time, I think New York will start to feel less American.”
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As usual, terrorists are not the downtrodden poor, but rather sophisticated people who believe they have created novel moral theories where killing is justified for political reasons.
He has two engineering degrees from UPenn, per his LinkedIn profile.
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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 @jimgeraghty
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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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Chicago now has the same credit rating as Mexico, Indonesia, and Bulgaria.
BREAKING: S&P downgrades Chicago’s credit rating as a result of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget, citing structural imbalance, little willingness to cut spending, and growing uncertainty about the city’s ability to raise new revenue.
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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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There appears to be some confusion about this online, so here it is plain and simple:. Murdering corporate executives is evil. New from me @NRO.
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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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That is what "up to" means.
3. Most drivers would not earn the amounts Lyft advertised. For example, Lyft told potential drivers they could make up to $33/hour in Atlanta and up to $31/hour in Miami. In reality, these figures reflected earnings of the top one fifth of drivers.
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The very same day the U.S. blocks the Nippon Steel acquisition due to "national security," the U.S. approved the sale of $3.6 billion worth of air-to-air missiles to Japan.
Here's the Nippon Steel order: Gotta love the mysterious, unstated "credible evidence". that nobody actually believes. Looking forward to the lawsuits.
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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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Two days after Biden gives a farewell address in which he bemoaned that "social media is giving up on fact-checking," he gets fact-checked on social media for lying about the contents of the Constitution.
Community notes for the win.
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Japan looking for alternatives to American beef. Maybe taking our allies for granted and insulting them with protectionism isn't such a great idea for American economic interests.
Brazil, the world’s top beef exporter, is in advanced talks to begin shipments to Japan, according to a major industry group in the South American nation
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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 @NRO .
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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. New from me @NRO.
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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]
Trump backs down.
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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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Amtrak got $66 billion in the infrastructure law three years ago and Northeast Corridor service reliability has gotten worse.
Second straight day of massive Amtrak delays across the northeast corridor during the most important time of the year for traveling.
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My annual pre-Election-Day reminder for @NRO:. Friends don't let friends vote for bond issues. Make Nancy Reagan proud, and just say, "No."
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1. Butter is made from cream. 2. Cream is made from milk. 3. Therefore, butter contains milk. The Food and Drug Administration thinks you’re too stupid to figure that out. New from me @NRO.
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The U.S. and Japan were "the closest of friends" when the Japanese prime minister visited Washington in April. Today, the U.S. says Japan’s largest steel company is a national security threat. New from me @NRO.
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There's so much in this report from @zach_kessel and @ariblaff about the Washington Post's terrible coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, but this part might be the craziest:.
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The Inflation Reduction Act is a $1 trillion-plus lie at the center of Biden’s legacy. Republicans must repeal it. All of it. @NRO editorial:.
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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. New from me @NRO .
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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. New from me @NRO.
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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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As I wrote in June 2023:. "Doug Burgum is probably not going to be the Republican nominee. But if he can use his campaign to get the nominee to make pipeline approval a priority, he will have done a lot of good for the country.". Seems like he's doing it.
I’m deeply grateful to President @RealDonaldTrump for this amazing opportunity to serve the American people and achieve ENERGY DOMINANCE! 🇺🇸
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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. New from me @NRO.
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Trump should demonstrate that he is stronger than the weak, indecisive, doddering Biden by repealing the Jones Act to own the libs.
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The GOP is coming into a trifecta with a slightly larger House majority. Johnson is the most conservative speaker in American history, a non-Beltway religious small-government social conservative. And this is what they're doing. Maddening.
NEWS: HFC Rep. Chip Roy tells me and @AnnieGrayerCNN it “seems likely” Speaker Johnson will have a challenger tomorrow . I asked if it is going to be him who challenges SMJ, and he said: I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. We will see.
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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. New from me @NRO.
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If it's really true that Nippon Steel "might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States," then is Biden going to shut down the existing Nippon Steel facilities in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia? Very concerning!
Here's the Nippon Steel order: Gotta love the mysterious, unstated "credible evidence". that nobody actually believes. Looking forward to the lawsuits.
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In 2011, then-governor Rick Scott rejected passenger-rail money from the Obama administration, which gloated about redirecting some of that money to California instead. 13 years later, Florida has a completed, functioning passenger-rail line and California has a few worksites.
This is really a public-private partnership (they're trying the same thing in California/Nevada next), and it's worth noting that its ridership is below projections. But it's still remarkable that this thing was stood up in ten years and came in basically on budget, while.
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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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The high for Washington, D.C. on Monday is 23 degrees. If they're looking for somewhere warmer, the high for Nuuk, Greenland on Monday is 34 degrees.
Due to the dangerously cold temperatures expected Monday, President-elect Trump's inauguration is moving indoors, sources tell @alaynatreene, @KateSullivanDC and me. Expect Trump and Vance to be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda.
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To make a "once great" company great again, you could simply let people who want to invest billions of $ in it invest billions of $ in it. But instead the party of "government efficiency" is going to do tax incentives and tariffs and hope the government planners get it right.
Trump promises to block Japanese company Nippon Steel from purchasing US Steel. The transaction remains under CFIUS review and was opposed by the Biden administration.
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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. New from me @NRO.
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If the US actually put 25% tariffs on everything from Mexico and Canada, it would be economically destructive. If everyone knows the US won't actually do that, then Mexico and Canada know too, so it's not a credible threat to change their behavior. Either way, not helpful.
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"People in Africa who don't have electricity need to choose the right kinds of electricity.". I can't imagine telling the world's poorest people they aren't using the "right kinds of electricity" to light their homes for the first time while I fly private to climate conferences.
John Kerry: "We're on the brink of needing to declare a climate emergency, which is what we really have. And we need to get people to behave!". WATCH:
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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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Canada is the No. 1 source of U.S. crude oil imports. Mexico is No. 2. Mexico is the No. 1 destination for U.S. petroleum-product exports. Canada is No. 3. Tariffs would blow up years of progress toward a North American energy market. New from me @NRO .
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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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They should work together to eliminate the CFPB.
The Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership: two people to do the work of one person. Yeah, this seems REALLY efficient.
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We only have two anyway -- judicial and CDC.
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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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For the record, I didn't like any of the French presidential candidates. I wanted them all Toulouse.
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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. New from me @NRO.
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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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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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Chip Roy's position on the debt ceiling is the right one for fiscal conservatives, and it is consistent with how the debt ceiling has been used in the past to achieve deficit reduction. New from me @NRO
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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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These paragraphs are a good reminder of two things:. 1) The AP is completely ridiculous; and.2) Left-wing journalists always have a professor on call to validate whatever they want said.
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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. New from me @NRO .
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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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One of the most influential men in the world posts Friedman videos after Dems reject Friedman by name and lose an election in part due to inflation, while school choice and tax cuts spread like wildfire in the states -- and we're supposed to believe Friedman's ideas are outdated?.
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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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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. New from me @NRO.
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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. New from me @NRO .
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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. New from me @NRO.
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I'll take Mike Pence's record on family values and personal virtue over any Kennedy's.
Mike Pence fired me when my daughter was two months old, because @StephenM was employed by President Trump and refused to quit when he asked. Mike Pence doesn’t practice what he preaches when it comes to family values, he only does it when it’s politically expedient. The American.
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We need a constitutional amendment to keep the Supreme Court at nine justices. @NRO editorial:.
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Hilarious reply to a senator who served in the 101st Airborne
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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. New from me @NRO.
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