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- Oregon Governor sues Trump Administration in bid to stop National Guard deployment in Portland. Think its misleading to say "Oregon" as if all citizens in the state are pro Antifa or crime.
- How to respond to China's growing nuclear capability. Quickly becoming my "go-to" source for all things US Navy related.
- Matt Taibbi's Senate testimony on surveillance. Agree that ending Quiet Skies should just be the beginning.
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Who knew? A maverick was a name given to cattle found on the plains that bore no brand of ownership. They got their name from Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870) a Texas rancher who, for whatever reason, did not brand his calves. Kind of fits since nobody owned Tom Cruise in Top Gun - he was his own man.
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- Trump's $20 billion support of Argentina causing riff within GOP.
- When a Chart Tells Half a Story. Soybean sales are cyclical but there's no denying tariffs have hurt and Argentina being an option to China hasn't helped.
- VDH: Comey is facing indictment but his real crimes remain untouched.
- Everything you need to know about the Iowa superintendent ICE arrested. Oh and he's been registered to vote in MD since 2012.
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- This is troubling. This is why anyone who would abridge the first amendment in our country can't be tolerated.
- Jonathan Turley: Des Moines School Superintendent arrested by ICE. You can't make this stuff up.
- From the archives: Laird Hamilton's 5 rules for healthy living.
- Trump's 21 point Gaza peace plan. Guessing this will be acceptable to everyone but Hamas.
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Yesterday was the first time in a long while I didn't watch a single down of the Patriots game. I didn't mind though as I attended my daughter running a Hydrox race in Boston instead. My hats off to her as I think just a single one of the events could have easily put me on the couch.
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- Daniele Bolelli on George Washington's Warning. The only thing worse than a two-party system is a one party one though.
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- Matt Ridley on the boomerang effect.
- The Case Against Jerome Powell. Powell must go!
- Is the US getting ready to strike inside Venezuela? Magic 8 ball points to yes.
This player comparison occurred to me as worth a closer look:
Player A: 73 G, 64.4% Comp %, 15,398 yards, 73 TD, 43 Int
Player B: 63 G, 62,9% Comp %, 14,486 yards, 73 TD, 50 Int
Player A, in case you haven't guessed, is Daniel Jones and Player B is Trevor Lawrence. Statistically they are basically equal but Lawrence was the first overall pick in the draft and looked at much differently than Danny Dimes.
Maybe this is the year that perception changes.
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Jimmy Kimmel's already dismal ratings are reportedly down 70% since he returned. We are quickly getting to "If Jimmy Kimmel blames Trump for nobody watching his show - does he make a sound?" territory. My guess is ABC will let him go but he doesn't start a podcast or anything new because he's already made a lot of money and deep down I think he knows he's run out of funny a long time ago.
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Comey famously said, "There are costs to standing up to Donald Trump." Would have been more true that he's paying the costs now for not standing up to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama when Hillary was clearly breaking the law and his job as FBI Director was to arrest those people.
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- Chris Wray lied under oath. Pride goeth before a fall - or in this case hopefully an indictment.
- Soros poured $80M into pro-terror groups, says non-profit watchdog. Could George Soros and his son Alex be among the next indictments we see?
- What if the NIH had been 40% smaller? Interesting but do cuts have to be in grants? What about administration or staffing? What does DOGE say?
- Does Tylenol cause autism? What the evidence says. I'm also skeptical because the article does not mention either vaccines or the Amish.
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James Comey's indictment continues to be a big story and I should have a post up later with my thoughts. But the reveal that there were 274 plain clothes FBI agents in the Jan 6th crowds is equally important and revealing.
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- Where all the phone spam calls come from?
- Congressional Republicans have chance of a century to brutally agree with Democrats. Interesting.
- From the archives: 7 life advice lessons from Marcus Aurelius.
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- FBI had 274 plain clothes agents embedded in Jan 6th crowd. If this wasn't premeditated how would the FBI know to deploy that many agents on that specific day?
- VDH: The crudity of the obsessive-compulsive left.
- Nuclear power generation by country. Surprisingly the US is way in the lead.
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Chuck Schumer was trying to blackmail the Republicans by requiring about $1.5 billion in wasteful goodies in exchange for Democratic support of the continuing resolution to keep the government open. President Trump said "Fine shut down the government it will give us an excuse to permanently layoff thousands of government workers." Schumer is now trapped. Does he give up on the things he was fighting for or risk the jobs of thousands who were voting Democrats. It's kinda funny.
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- How common is accidental invention? Love history like this.
- Competition and school choice. Fund the student not the system. Worth repeating.
- White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for a potential shutdown. Yes - shut it down!
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- VDH: Why our systems collapse. He's not wrong.
- Google on bringing back accounts censored after Biden's insistence.
- From the archives: The West Wing pilot script.
- Living in the Grey Zone of Political Violence. (HT Execupundit)
I keep wondering what would have happened if those stories had not been lost to history. Would Hemingway the writer have turned out very different?
Imagine if some of those horse racing stories were published and they were met with some acclaim. Would Hemingway have been known as the renown horse racing writer? If Hemingway branched out to other subjects would the critics have told him to stick to horse racing? "Hemingway writes about an old fisherman struggling to land a giant marlin and the story is surprisingly well told coming from a writer who normally covers steeple chase."
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Utz Brands became the latest big name to announce they will be ditching using synthetic dyes in their foods. I'm a fan of Utz potato chips but now I'm curious to know which products are using synthetic dyes. Hats off to the MAHA movement for greatly improving the foods we eat. Pretty soon it may be easier to list the holdouts than all the companies that agreed to the changes.
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The Trump administration has taken action to help stem the spread of autism.
The CDC stands for the Center for Disease Control but the spread of autism has hardly been controlled. It is more correct that the CDC has been guilty in spreading it among the most vulnerable in our society. All for payments of 30 pieces of silver.
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Should have a new post detailing the supposed link between Tylenol (acetaminophen) taken by pregnant women and the autism later today. Seemed a much larger issue to fit my thoughts into than just a Flotsam and Jetsam column.
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- The Cold Civil War. All the more reason to end NGO's and shrink the size of government.
- From the archives: Life advice from a 95-year old cardiologist.
- The dawn of the post-literate society. We spent hundreds of years becoming literate but we could lose it in just a couple of generations.
- From the archives: Beatnik slang phrases.
Have to look at the humorous side of the news - else you might go crazy.
Jokes from the past week's news offerings. At least they were funny to me.
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Long held the idea that if you charged just $0.001 per stock trade that amount could really add up and significantly help reduce the national debt. Round the bill up to the nearest penny and most people wouldn't even notice it. The only people who would really be effected would be firms that do thousands of trades hoping to make money by arbitrage. Buying and holding is what's best for the individual and economy anyway.
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- Rob Henderson: Rage of the falling elite.
- Peter Attia on optimism for lithium orotate as a treatment for Alzheimer's. Perhaps a cause for optimism.
- Glenn Reynold: Oft Evil Will Evil Mar. I too couldn't help but think that by striking Charlie down they were just making him stronger.
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Today's offering deals with some thoughts on yesterday's memorial for Charlie Kirk, crime, plus some movie observations. But first every year after week 3 of the NFL season most people have the realization they don't know what they're doing. The veteran move is to take week 3 off. I am obviously not a veteran.
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- Jonathan Turley on are the walls closing in on James Comey?
- From the archives: the surprising history of high heels.
- Jonathan Turley: The funniest joke Jimmy Kimmel never told. Two from Turley today but both worth the read.
- Democrats "are getting worse not better." When people tell you who they are - believe them.
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Today is Bill Murray's 75th birthday. Still think Groundhog Day may be his masterpiece but don't sleep on the lesser known Quick Change. He's a unique one to say the least. Very few have aged as gracefully as he has over the decades. Enjoy the day!
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On the way into the facility in Foxboro - Belichick had four lines for players to read:
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- Texas A&M president quits over DEI backlash.
- A candy, a foxhole, and the politics of memory. Worth a read.
- Jimmy Kimmel's ratings were plummeting before ABC suspended him for Charlie Kirk comments. Kimmel hasn't been funny for years.
- The man who tried to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identified as a trans woman.
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- Bill Maher notices major flaw in Jimmy Kimmel's claim about Charlie Kirk's shooter. It was an obvious flaw too.
- Douglas Murray - Antifa deserves to be named a terrorist organization.
- The terminator: workplace version.
- Massive downward jobs revision reveals media lied about Biden's economic record.
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Call me a cynic but really don't think the Netherlands or Hungary have an Antifa problem. Think those countries also naming Antifa a terrorist organization has more to do with gaining a better trade deal or shaving a point or two off their tariffs rates. I'm OK with that.
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- VDH: Murder of Charlie Kirk was not a George Floyd moment.
- Jonathan Turley: Federal Judge rules in favor of parent's rights. The pendulum is swinging back towards sanity.
- Jonathan Turley on today's political climate. Two from Turley today. Worth the read.
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Chuck Schumer and the Democrats find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place. They've made some awful choices on seemingly every 80/20 issues and now find themselves needing to slow down the Republicans and the Trump Administration any way they can. This is why they try to slow walk every political nomination and want government shutdowns. If Trump gets to full government efficiency it just makes the Democrats look incompetent and they might be voted out of office.
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- We've never seen anything like this. I want to see charges filed against those who authorized Artic Frost.
- More on Jimmy Kimmel being fired by ABC.
- Get politics out of the FBI.
- You should be aware of this if you have any Apple products.
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- Back to School. Good parenting and investment advice.
- From the archives: Ryan Holiday's 38 rules for reading.
- Rand Paul goes after former CDC head for lack of science when it comes to vaccines. He's not wrong.
- Jonathan Turley - Antigone 2.0: Liberals denounce and destroy memorials for Charlie Kirk. When people show you who they are - believe them!
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Even if supporters of Jimmy Kimmel argue that he was indefinitely suspended and not fired - I cannot see how ABC could bring him back now without facing a huge backlash. Also have the feeling that ABC wants Kimmel nowhere near the "upfronts" when advertisers are pitched on ABC's lineup.
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- Peter Attia on preventing seasonal declines in vitamin D with exercise.
- Robert Redford passes away aged 89
- Unusual Memoirs, Extraordinary Lives. The only two I've read were the Bourdain and Michael Lewis books and I'd highly recommend those.
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Senator Rand Paul and his Penny Plan for a balanced budget will come to a vote. Reminder I have my own Penny Plan to balance the budget. Simply get rid of the penny (leave it in circulation but don't mint any new ones). Any government receipts round up the bill to the next nickel and all government debts round down. Apply all money saved to reduce the national debt. All those pennies add up quickly.
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Jokes from the past week's news offerings. At least they were funny to me.
"No, they have no railroad accidents to speak of in France. But why? Because when one occurs, somebody has to hang for it! Not hang, maybe, but be punished at least with as much vigor of emphasis as to make negligence a thing to be shuddered at by railroad officials for many a day afterward." - Mark Twain
Have to admit that this method may be superior to our current one where many a guilty party gets no punishment at all.
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While I continue my drive up the East Coast here's a new conspiracy theory for you to ponder: Donald Trump loves gold and is literally changing the DNA of our political beings, perhaps he's descended from the Anunnaki?
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- Jonathan Turley: Charlie Kirk and the age of rage.
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Still down in Florida as yesterday I enjoyed watching the Pats beat the Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium. It was an exciting game to watch with back-to- back kickoff returns for TD. Was happy to see the second but the first not so much. Posting may be a little strange because of the schedule.
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- Glenn Reynolds: When the preference cascade becomes a flood. Christian martyrs often became inspirations for thousands or millions of others -Charlie Kirk is one suck martyr.
- I laughed too hard at this idea.
- Jonathan Turley: Nancy Pelosi and Politics of Violence. Time to hold people accountable.
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Will be doing my annual trek to Hard Rock Stadium to watch the Pats take on the Dolphins this afternoon. This is strangely the most confident I've been in New England since Tom Brady was QB.
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Think people are coming to the reality that before when people used to shout "punch a Nazi" about anyone who disagreed with them - people didn't say anything mostly because they were too polite. Now after the murder of Charlie Kirk people are tired of being polite - they are angry and those on the far left are finding out people don't agree with them. And that they are the fringe that won't be tolerated.
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- Lessons on leadership from 2,400 years ago.
- Nate Silver on Blueskyism. And this was written before the murder of Charlie Kirk. Remember you are who you associate with.
- The murder of Charlie Kirk and "the end of the beginning."
- From the archives: The long road to fiber optics.
- "You may remember me as Secretary Bootyjuice..."
