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Giving people thesauruses was a mistake

Texas officials have long worried about the dangers to children who packed into camps each summer along the flood-prone Guadalupe River. They knew that warning systems were inadequate. So why was nothing done? We have reviewed documents spanning a decade to find answers. 🧵 1/9

Thinking about The SNP's loss last month in the big Holyrood by-election, maybe the problem isn't the SNP so much as the problem is the party's candidate Katy Loudon?

Economic growth is the primary glue of any postmodern society. If 🇺🇸 had the same economy as 🇬🇧, we'd be in just as much trouble.

One thing to add to Henry Olsen's great analysis. A viable 3rd party in a simple plurality voting system like the US requires a political environment that is not highly nationalized. The US is not that polity. Thus Musk's America Party is DOA.

Millions will lose Medicaid coverage, hospitals’ uncompensated work will increase and insurers will lose big business as a result of President Trump’s tax-and-spending-cuts law on.wsj.com/4kuzawn

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I’m not an economist, but…

I've thought a lot about this, how the right fumbles its intellectuals. Here are three observations. 1. The left has gotten bad at it, too. Have you read their flagship magazines lately? It's all Trump Derangement Syndrome, race/gender wokeness, and self-help for rich women

In 1977 I was 9 years old and was attacked by "Benchwarmer Bob" Lurtsema of the Minnesota Vikings for wearing an Oakland Raider jacket.

"Neiman Marxists" is *way* funnier and thus more useful than "champagne socialists." Sadly, the death of brick-and-mortal retail will make this wonderful phrase hopelessly antiquated one day soon. robkhenderson.com/p/neiman-marxi…

The farthest I've been: North: Helsinki, Finland South: Fort Clarence Beach, Jamaica East: Moscow, Russia West: Port Orford, Oregon

This sounds superficially appealing but it's educated and wealthy elites who are being consumed by it more than anyone else. The schools where 30-50 percent of the kids are trans-identified are all elite private schools and competitive public schools in SuperZIPS full of

The invention of the super-clan "nation" is incompatible with socially and politically significant actual clans.

Blank slatism is always subservient to the political function it can serve for a particular ideology.

Yes, but about 1% of the New England population attends mainline Protestant churches.

A plurality voting system with (at least) 4 major candidates will surely produce an unpopular winner. Remember, Kier Starmer became prime minister of the UK with less than 34% of the vote. nytimes.com/2025/07/14/nyr…

Plenty of Western countries saw a major fertility recovery in the 1990s and 2000s. The big difference then was room for a fertility recovery due to the end of birth postponement. Trying to start a family at 30 is very different from trying to start at 35.

The average number of people living in a house has dropped by 34% since 1950 This means that even with no population growth, cities can experience a housing shortage A city of 1M residents in 1950 only needed 263k homes A city of 1M residents today needs 400k homes