Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, New Yorker, retired from lawyering. Opinions 100% my own. Not the ex-Cardinals broadcaster.
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Donald Trump does not have the power to make you stupid. That's your choice.
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Dan McLaughlin retweeted
These takes aren’t just braindead — they’re evil. The Nazis systemically exterminated millions, mostly Jews, wiping out populations. Israel has waged a war started by their enemy that has killed (according to that enemy) ~70,000, very disproportionally combatant-aged males.
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True story: In 1987, Willie Mays said he was honored to be compared with Eric Davis.
My grandfather used to say some players make the game look easy and a few make it look unfair.
Eric Davis in 1987 was the second kind.
He hit three grand slams in May alone, which tied the major league record for one month that Rudy York set back in 1938, and he was doing it in a Reds outfield where he also happened to be one of the best defenders alive.
The number that stops me is 129.
He gave back 33 games to hamstrings and shoulders and still finished at .293 with 100 RBI to go with the 37 and 50.
Nobody had ever paired 30 homers with 50 steals before him. Somebody out there watched a player like this and has been waiting years for an excuse to bring him up.
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This is an amazing way of incentivizing even higher housing prices
For millions of young people across America, homeownership seems further out of reach than ever before.
Here's my proposal: we can help restore the dream of homeownership with a 5 to 1 federal match for first-time homebuyers saving for a downpayment.
merkley.senate.gov/merkley-p…
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Me @NRO, a long look at What Is and Isn’t Illiberalism nationalreview.com/2026/09/w…
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Me @NRO: Today in Democrats Behaving Badly nationalreview.com/corner/to…
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Me @NRO: Supreme Court Allows Trump DHS to Share Social Security Data with Elections Officials nationalreview.com/corner/su…
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Didn't bother marking the "want to see" ones, but I do still need to see The Wire. Quibbles with the ranking aside, I guess seeing 9 of the top 20 is something.
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So, he treated her like he was the Democratic Party.
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s former bodyguard and romantic partner is arrested after allegedly breaking into her home and throwing 22 paintings into her pool. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kyr…
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Dan McLaughlin retweeted
There's a reason you are seeing an angry backlash right now against libertarians/classical liberals coming from the Postliberal and NatCon right. It has to do with the fact that they can't compete with us on the substance of ideas, and they know it.
Even the "best" Postliberal/NatCon scholars are either mediocrities with weak publishing records (excluding their own house blogs) or they are older academics like Deneen and Vermeule who got tenure for stuff they did decades ago & then transitioned into postliberal activist writing that probably could not pass peer review at any credible mainstream outlet.
The Postlibs/NatCons also lose just about every debate they have with us on the substantive points, be it free trade vs tariffs (or really any economic subject), the history of the American founding, the contours of political philosophy, the evidence of whether their preferred policies work as intended (see also: Orbanism), you name it. Whenever Oren Cass goes up against a real economist, he gets his rear end handed to him or worse - he gets caught fabricating evidence or badly misreading source documents, and then he lashes out with name-calling. As a result, the Postlibs/NatCons have generally retreated from the debate space on all of these issues.
Turning to their published works, it's invariably dreck. Deneen and Hazony's books are comically superficial to the point of being visibly out of their depths on the subjects, thinkers, and historical events they attempt to discuss. When they venture into the economic sphere, they display an incompetence that does not even know the scholarly literature and that seldom ventures beyond obsolete crankery from the 19th century. And their claims about the political sphere, be it on policy or even the mood of popular opinion, are undermined by empirical evidence that they often never even considered because it conflicts with their ideological priors.
So instead, they go on the attack against libertarians and classical liberals to try to discredit these ideas through sloppy caricatures. And then they proclaim their own "victory" like the armless, legless Black Knight from a Monty Python sketch.
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If Biden complained, I'd tell him to STFU. But the rest of us can & should call this out as bad. If the other guy does a bad thing, that doesn't make it good when your guy does it. It makes it worse.
I will not hear any complaining about this. Joe Biden tried to put Donald Trump in jail for the rest of his life. If he can't tolerate a little bit of mockery, then too bad for him.
Anybody pretending that President Trump needs to adopt this artifice of "Oh yeah, there's really bipartisan unity, and God forbid we insult one another," is being ridiculous. You don't get to try to put the former president in jail and then expect that the rest of us will just be okay with it (or that you won't get mocked if you end up losing)
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“A conservative ought to prefer a Liberal Administration opposed by the Republican Party to a Liberal Administration supported by it.” nationalreview.com/2026/09/f…
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Dan McLaughlin retweeted
holy shit
i asked claude to make a video on western civiization
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Any time your economic policy forces you to punish people for taking predictable, rational, legal actions in their own economic interest, you should reconsider whether you're trying to control something the government can't actually control.
Tariffs haven't worked? Time to investigate importers!
"The Trump Administration Takes Aim at Import Stockpiling" cato.org/blog/trump-administ…
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