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Really interesting thoughts on public education from @mkhammer here...
I have many thoughts on the Nikole Hannah-Jones story, especially having attended the kind of schools she sent her daughter to, but if we're looking for takeaways, here's a simple one. When an expert in education so thoroughly demonstrates a jarring and near complete lack of expertise in the act of getting an education for her own daughter, we should stop taking advice from her on curriculum, instruction, and all other fads disguised as wisdom she offers. That seems like the least we could do. Her daughter's personal struggle, which is indeed sympathetic, wasn't much of a teachable moment for her, as she doesn't seem to have updated any of her priors (and actually fudges funding facts, so as not to disrupt the narrative of under-resourced schools). But it should be a teachable moment for us, about the outsized influence of a scholar who claims to know better than anyone what her daughter would be up against in the school to which she chose to send her, but was inexplicably surprised and left her daughter completely unprepared for it.
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Milton Friedman's Ghost retweeted
Xi owned Biden. He knew what a weak man he was. Only the American media didn’t seem to realize that.
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Please read this carefully. Wow.
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Racism Is Why Her Daughter Can’t Do Math thefederalist.com/2026/09/22…
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8 seconds of first to home plate, this is one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen 🤯🔥
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🇨🇦 Deaths from assisted dying: 16499
🇺🇸 Deaths from firearm homicaide: 15364
More people died through Canada’s assisted dying program than were killed with guns in the United States.
Make it make sense...
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State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S.
That didn’t happen by accident.
🇨🇦 Deaths from assisted dying: 16499
🇺🇸 Deaths from firearm homicaide: 15364
More people died through Canada’s assisted dying program than were killed with guns in the United States.
Make it make sense...
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Very good lessons from Coleman Hughes: thefp.com/p/coleman-hughes-l…
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The culture of America created a high trust society.
Generations of patriots fought and died to build it.
Now, it's our duty to preserve it for the next generation.
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Full column available here: nationalpost.com/opinion/con…
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The trade imbroglio with the United States is escalating and ramifying in ways that are potentially dangerous. The Carney government refuses to release the final offer or produce the conclusive evidence that would settle whether the prime minister was reacting to provocative American attempts to change the deal at the last minute. As long as that doubt exists, it is going to be difficult to conduct the war that Mr. Carney has instigated. Juvenile acts such as booing and shouting down the American national anthem are stirring up unprecedented hostility toward Canada in a country of 350 million people with a GDP of US$32 trillion.
There has never been one word of justification for breaking off negotiations that still offered this country unequalled access to by far the greatest and most swiftly growing market in the world. Of course we must pursue our national interest, but with this uneven correlation of forces it is poor tactics to escalate the disagreement. Mr. Carney seems to take himself for the global David firing his slingshot at the orange-tufted Goliath, overtly trying to hurt Trump in the midterm elections while bandying recondite asides about the ancient Greeks. This is not Finland resisting Russia in 1940; it is more like Romania declaring war on Germany in 1915.
Canada is completely dependent on the United States for almost 70 percent of its exports and for its military security. Leaping into the arms of the Chinese who conducted a form of genocide on the Uighurs, meddled in Canadian elections, and proudly continue the legacy of Mao Tse-tung is not an acceptable answer. Nor is continuing the helter-skelter policies that have put terrible pressure on housing costs, produced a fertility rate of 1.25, and made us the suicide capital of the world. If our cause is righteous, this could be a chance for Canada to demonstrate moral strength and a mature nationality. Self-impoverishment and primal-scream therapy will not achieve it.
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Good context here:
A journalism note on today's Washington Post article that the Saudis are privately furious that Trump won't give the Kingdom more military help against the Houthis. Let's get real. I have written a book about Saudi Arabia and this is the template they have used for decades, to throw a fit if the United States doesn't rush to their defense.
Saudi Arabia has been the single largest purchaser of American arms for decades — tens of billions of dollars, more than any other country on earth, including Israel. The Trump administration just approved a $24.3 billion sale of 48 F-35s on top of that. This is not an underarmed nation.
But when Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990, the Saudis had to invite U.S. troops onto their own soil to protect them — a decision that enraged Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalists who considered it sacrilege to have infidel soldiers, men and women, stationed in the land of the holy city of Mecca.
The pattern hasn't changed. The Saudis went to war with the Houthis in 2015. Despite a bigger army and far superior weaponry, they were fought to a standstill by a ragtag militia in the poorest country in the Arab world.
Now the Houthis are active again, hitting Saudi oil infrastructure and cutting into Riyadh's profits — and MBS is angry that Washington won't ride to the rescue again. Meanwhile, it's MBS and the Gulf states who have talked Trump out of wider military action against Tehran three separate times.
The Saudis have spent half a century using petrodollars to buy the best weapons money can buy, then hiring the United States as a personal protection force to actually use them. They don't want to fight. They want someone else to fight for them while they sit back and count the oil money.
Those days are hopefully over.
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One of my all-time favorite Redskins. He could run, he could block and was an exceptional receiver out of the backfield. Happy birthday indeed!
Happy 79th birthday to Washington football legend Larry Brown.
No. 43 was one of the NFL’s most complete and fearless running backs: the 1972 NFL MVP, a four-time Pro Bowler, a two-time First-Team All-Pro, and the 1970 NFL rushing champion.
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The narrator in this highlight reel describes Brown as "the most courageous runner in football." He was that. He was small, less than 200 pounds, but remarkably powerful and elusive. He took violent hits but always got up. Almost forgotten now. He should not be. He was one of the greats.
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It's everywhere...
BREAKING: I investigated SOMALI DAYCARES in the Seattle metro and uncovered over $5 MILLION of potential misuse of taxpayer funds.
When I knocked on doors, no one answered. Neighbors told me they have never seen any kids!
These individual daycares are receiving $40,000 - $70,000 per month.
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