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- Russ Roberts: The head of the snake - life in Israel during the Second Iran War.
- Nations have agency and sovereignty over their territories. And elections have consequences a reminder to those touting free cheese.
- House oversight Committee concludes Tim Walz administration knew about fraud but failed to act.
- Paramount Skydance debt downgraded to junk bond status by Fitch.
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- "The Laffer Curves are flat." Taxing the rich schemes are fantasies.
- On Technologies vs Commodities. Long but interesting read.
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- Andy Ngo inside Minnesota's protest Signal chats. Does Signal really warn people "Never put anything in Signal that you would not want read back in court?" Because - guess what...
- Naval Ravikant on Scott Adams, Well put!
- An AI skeptic consults AI. Will AI usher in Idiocracy?
- The Leftist Playbook. He's not wrong.
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- Kevin Kelly: The march of nines (and self-driving cars).
- Glenn Reynolds: Squids, Ink, and Minnesota's Corrupt Machine. He's not wrong.
- Sebastian Junger: Young men and how the Democrats lost them (HT Execupundit)
- Do you have high blood pressure - or badly measured blood pressure?
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- I'm just learning about Waifu Amelia and I love how she's been adopted in England.
- Jonathan Turley on Keith Ellison in Minnesota.
- Duke files suit over QB Darian Mensah's intention to transfer.
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- China's trade surplus surges 20% to a record $1.2 trillion, even with Trump's tariffs. Data surprised me but then I remembered that these numbers are supplied by the CCP. What if China is lying?
- From the archives: Mystic chords of memory - learning from the American story.
- Minnesota is a frozen-Banana Republic. It's getting dangerously close to being declared a filed state.
- Tariffs: May Not Be So Scary. Experts and opponents keep being surprised the tariffs are working.
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- Rob Henderson on The Great Gatsby.
- Peter Attia on the role of LDL cholesterol.
- The Minnesota fraud scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. This comes on the rumors that Governor Tim Walz will resign because of the scandals.
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- Sadly true!
- Is NY fraud 10x worse than Minnesota's? We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg aren't we?
- Anthony Bourdain's favorite sandwich. I'll have to give this a try.
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- The Central Bank in Iran is signaling a major loss of control by the government.
- CBS News: Everything we know about Minnesota's massive fraud schemes.
- The impact of the massive deregulation of the Trump administration. An underreported and perhaps under appreciated aspect of Donald Trump's first year back on office.
- From the archives: 8 rules to do everything better.
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- Some scary numbers when comparing the navies of China vs the US. It is a wake-up call for the new year.
- Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port city over weapons delivery from UAE for separatists.
- HHS cuts off all child care payments to Minnesota - effective immediately. Related.
- Iran declares state of emergency. They declare total war against the US and Israel because they cannot handle protests from their own students and women.
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- Could peace in the Ukraine war be close at hand?
- From the archives: Still on my buck list.
- The Minnesota fraud is getting so much attention that Pam Bondi feels need to issue clarification why the DOJ isn't acting faster. Yes - faster would be better.
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- FBI Director Kash Patel on the fraud investigations in Minnesota.
- Have the Patriots somehow rebooted a dynasty and become likeable?
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- The walls are closing in on Tim Walz. Try telling the state worker that loses his job because fraud took all the money his unemployment was Trump's fault.
- Michigan State's Tom Izzo says latest college trend may drive out more coaches.
- Utah blew it with Kyle Whittingham, all to Michigan's benefit.
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- How China built its "Manhattan Project" to rival the West in AI chips. Basically they did it the same way they USSR built their own "bomb" - they stole the technology.
- Nearly 2,000 Somali "ghost students" in Minnesota fraudulently received $12.5 million. The Trump Administration calls for Governor Tim Walz to resign.
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- Newt Gingrich on the billion dollar theft in Minneapolis.
- From the archives: The Purpose of Technology.
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- How NBA legend Michael Jordan is blowing up NACAR's monopoly. Excellent backstory to an important case.
- Wait - is this true or satire?
- Rand Paul's proposal to improve healthcare and lower costs.
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- The assassination in Minnesota gets more and more crazy with each new detail.
- Is the US shipbuilding capacity in crisis? The capacity is still there but the incentives are not.
- Does college football's calendar need an overhaul? Nobody asked me but I'd be in favor of two transfer portals - one in late January for football and other fall sports and one in April for basketball and the rest of the sports.
- A woke Jefferson Memorial? Hell no! (And I'm no Thomas Jefferson fan.)
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- VDH: When (or if) comes the pushback?
- Morgan Housel: Unfortunate investing traits
- Talk about fuzzy math - Minnesota's budget forecast projects $641 million surplus. But "the 2021-23 budget has gone from balanced to a $1.273 billion deficit." How can you have a surplus and a deficit at the same time?
- Glenn Reynolds: Why are the Democrats so scared of Donald Trump when they just defeated him?