I wrote Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, because stopping at half-time is silly, and the good life is found in a full-time embrace of our created purpose.
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Arizona has beaten COVID & is back to pre-summer levels. Where is the media? Arizona went through troubling scare this summer, which was hardly lacking coverage. To cover one side of this mountain & not the other is journalistic fraud
I am currently at the United Nations representing our Country, but have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine....
Giving people $25,000 to buy a home does not make a home price cheaper. It makes a home cost, well, about $25,000 more. With all due respect to Vice President Harris, does everyone else at least understand this? Is this Ph.D economics stuff? That when you subsidize something,
Dear white people- let’s get this straight. You can’t be victims of racism. Racism means that the whole culture, society, economy and much of what is considered law is against you because of your race. All of those things support white people. So stop claiming it, ever. Period.
I beg for my conservative friends to be honest about his shortcomings, & then you people come in w/ this complete, abject nonsense. That is not what he said, and you know it. Your indefensible lies feed the Trumpian wave. There was no ambiguity that he was talking about MS-13
You can learn a lot about people’s moral character and inner strength by those who feel the need tonight to qualify their Barbara Bush sympathy sentiments with some caveat about how they “still have real big problems with the Bush men politically.” Dear Lord. Get yourself right
All Americans who think they have had something to protest about this Presidency or the last: THIS is what marching for freedom is about. Spoiled babies infuriate me. The cause of freedom is not to be taken lightly.
If Trump loses the election, and maybe at this point he thinks it’s unloseable for him, this VP pick will be why. I can’t even fathom the unforced error this represents.
1 One of the most frustrating things for a movement conservative is that it feels impossible to publicly make the [accurate] case that the reason we have Trump - the reason so many on the right embraced him despite all his obvious shortcomings, vulgarities, & inadequacies
I've lived my entire life in California. Within weeks, we'll be taking our 75 jobs and leaving. We're not the first. And we certainly won't be the last. Terrible governance has consequences.
The problem with
@benshapiro
hosting the oscars is that it would mean genuine cultural probity, humor bent towards intelligence, and wit above the heads of the mindless knobs who occupy the audience. So
@jimmykimmel
will have to do
I watched the
@realDailyWire
What is a Woman? today w/ my wife & two teenage kids. I have to say that
@MattWalshBlog
is a national treasure. The movie is a case study in apologetical method and Matt was at all times civil, fair, inquisitive, and objective. Can’t recommend enough!
I really don’t even know what to say here. I am just appalled that these three people can be this morally bankrupt and run a major university. I find it heartbreaking. But on a secondary note, being this ill-prepared to speak, to handle a question, to hold your own under
🚨🚨🚨Presidents of
@Harvard
@MIT
and
@Penn
REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND
I've never taken a penny from the NRA & I'm not going to start now. That's why I'm taking the
#NoNRAMoney
pledge. If enough leaders join me, we can finally stand up to the gun lobbyists & get some real change.
The lawyers for 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, plan to show brain scan evidence that he has obtained head injuries while in American/Gitmo custody. To provide moral clarity, I would be happy to provide photographic evidence of “head injuries” to 3,000 people on 9/11
New Mexico candidate Deb Haaland hopes to be first Native American congresswoman.
“In 230 years, there’s never been a Native American woman in Congress. I have never seen myself in that body of our government."
#18for18
Yesterday, I announced that I would no longer accept contributions from corporate PACs. We don’t have to accept a system that drowns out the voices of the American people. We can do better.
I can understand those who feel indignation at the hypocrisy of a media and left-wing world who would refuse to condemn the mayhem of the summer 2020 riots yet jumped all over yesterday's animal-like behavior in a minute. But what I cannot understand is that being any (1/7)
That there was ONE vote against endorsing Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State in committee, let alone 9 votes, is all you need to know about the absurd partisan obstructionism of today’s Democrats.
Whoa, a WOW story -- the Trump Admin has a new definition of sex that would render 1.4 million transgendered people legally nonexistent: sex is "a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.”
If the media would just quit lying about what Trump said about immigrants, they could get back to the good ole days of lying about Israel killing innocent benign Hamas terrorists
.
@RichLowry
's perfect description of Kamala Harris:
"In reality, she’s a cardboard cutout of a politician whose main political talent is being able to, just barely, simulate determination, passion and mirth while reading from a teleprompter.
Insulated from personal interactions
Nine people in LA County died of COVID yesterday, all unvaxxed. Nine people. There are 10 million people in LA County. Ten million. The notion that requiring masks on vaccinated people right now will do anything at all is, of course, utterly ridiculous. But in fact, (1/3)
This is the most depraved/hypocritical behavior of the left since Kavanaugh. Like the party of Ted Kennedy going after an innocent man for fabricated events, the party of Drone Strike Obama is shocked at Trump taking out a mad man terrorist w/ blood of 500+ Americans on his hand
For those not turned off by the offense of data - for the last 40 years, administrators in college campuses have increased 85%, administrative staff has increased 240%, and costs are up 500%.
Students and actual faculty? Up just 50%
Your move
Jake Tapper:
"Congressman Brian Mast... who lost his legs by the way fighting for democracy abroad, although I don't know -- about his commitment to it here in the United States"
I can’t believe how Israel & Trump made those Hamas terrorists attack innocent people at the border. The Palestinians have been completely leaving Israel alone for decades, and now Trump and Israel attacked these lovely behaved folks for no reason. Right? Makes sense? Ay yi yi
WATCH: Governor Ron DeSantis asked in a New Hampshire Town Hall how he will respond when former President Trump launches personal attacks and insults. DeSantis directly goes after Trump on policy while reminding voters that Trump's behavior is one of the reason why the GOP loses
Ben is exactly right. The problem for a hyper-tribalized, politicized right,is we want to fight a culture war w/ politics. Elections make for easy, short term,deceiving benchmarks. We will conserve the American experiment by engaging culture; political wins follow,they don’t lead
The next two years aren't going to be primarily about Democrats' legislative excesses, though those will be egregious. It will be about the continuing tsunami of cultural warfare from the confident, empowered, and radicalized Left.
My MVP of 2021 so far is Dominion Voting Systems, for suing the blank out of all who slandered them. Too many people lay down & allow these things to be ignored. Sometimes the quest for truth & justice must win out
The first 20 minutes of
@benshapiro
podcast today was the most beautiful, historical, morally clear and politically objective description of Israel’s reality post-1948, and case for the west’s alliance with her, that I have ever heard. Made this Gentile tear up.
POTUS spent the weekend beclowning himself w/ horrific tweets sure to alienate suburban voters. For you to respond by blaming him for something no one believes is his fault creates sympathy for him when it isn’t deserved. Do you think you & your colleagues will EVER get this?
Trump saying this stuff doesn’t even faze me any more, and I don’t say that as a good thing. But what I still haven’t quite accepted or gotten used to after 8+ years of this is how many people of my own Christian faith and how many of my own conservative commitments are so
Donald Trump mocks John McCain's injury sustained while a prisoner of war. McCain was unable to lift his arms above his shoulders.
"John McCain for some reason couldn’t get his arm up that day."
2 - is because of the way the left has treated the right in this country for DECADES - without sounding like I am defending it. And I am not. I believe all at once that the right’s embracing of Trump is a by-product of the tyrannical and bad faith treatment perpetrated on the
6 - And if I have to stay on this ideological island a bit longer, so be it. But the future belongs to the truthful.
You’ll see.
@DavidAFrench
@benshapiro
@JonahNRO
I don’t think the coronavirus panic/hysteria we see in society right now merely speaks to delusion and misinformation (though that, too); mostly it speaks to people’s [willful?] ignorance about the basic reality of risk every single day - freeways, germs, travel, LIFE. Live on
Donald Trump, after decades of worshipping Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
These people are hypocrites. Fine. But we are called to be a faithful presence. And to that end, let's work. (7/7)
I will not be talking to anyone any more on the propriety of Kavanaugh being on the court unless they first read this comprehensive and judicious analysis by
@DavidAFrench
. We’re all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts.
Modern disdain for the American experiment does not come from a newly enlightened view of anything. It comes from a serious lack of gratitude and perhaps in some cases a distressing historical ignorance.
But what we celebrate today is not merely the birth of the nation (1/2)
What we have to do, Ben, is never allow it to be called “forgiveness.” The money has been spent. There is no erasing of debt - only transferring of it to others. And in this case, the “others” are very often LOWER wage earners. The most regressive thing I’ve ever heard
None of this makes sense until you realize that the entire Democratic Party is a giant pander to college educated young people, the only group in America that doesn't hate Biden's guts right now
President Trump claims to be worth many billions of dollars. He is not, but he is worth over $1 and likely over $2 billion.
It was disclosed last night that he has spent over $40 million of campaign donations, money coming from $100 and $300 contributions from extremely middle
The lack of moral clarity is a pox on all houses. If you don’t know what abortion joke
@benshapiro
is talking about, I dare you to google it. Disgusting.
The worst part of Michelle Wolf’s garbage performance last night wasn’t her nasty riff on Huckabee Sanders. It was that dumpster fire abortion joke. But few were as offended by her literally celebrating baby killing as they were by her knocking eye shadow.
.
@Liz_Cheney
is perhaps the most courageous truth-teller in America right now. No matter what one thinks about Trump,which is of course what all this stupid sh-- is about- people's political idolatry and invertebrate state - she simply refuses to be bullied around. It's a delight
No one should take Ben’s tweet here as mere “owning the libs” or “twitter snark” ... It’s an entirely legitimate question. If Biden wants to be a smart ass about science, let’s talk natty gas carbon emissions, third trimester viability, and male anatomy. Won’t go well ...
I will consider your candidacy if you explain the science behind your opinion that a biological man can be a woman, and your party's position that a baby in the ninth month of pregnancy is a mere cluster of cells.
This week the largest taxpayer in American history was accused of paying no taxes by a Senator from Massachusetts who wanted to be President.
We are dealing with a dishonesty and an incompetence that we have never seen in American politics. Ever.
Last time U.S. ran a trade surplus: 1975, when economy was in third worse recession of last 100 years. Smallest trade deficit since then: 1991, when S&L recession was ravaging us. Are trade deficits good? Bad? Answer: depends. Facts and history matter
3 - right culturally and politically and economically by the left, and at the same time that the right will deeply regret (deeply) its choice of Trump as the antidote.
In other words, I’m on an island. I find the secular progressive left of today thoroughly repugnant, and
This is brutally dishonest, ignores hard data of job creation RELATIVE TO ALL OTHER RECESSION REVOVERIES. Apples to apples comparisons are hardly rocket science ... Facts matter, and so does GDP growth.
#bluestatefail
4 - when I think of the way they have treated Kavanaugh, Romney, Bork, Ryan (granny wheelchair), and too many more to count, I get a guttural impulse that sounds like a Trumpkin for two seconds. When I think about their blame-America response to 9/11, I want to be sick.
So we are foregoing a chance at a historic resolution to a nuclear crisis because we object to someone we know being called a "political dummy"? Are you kidding me? So much for that self-appointed Nobel peace prize.
#NoLeadership
#Pathetic
#Basta
Sarah - is it allowable in your profession to just completely lie with no ambiguity about it? Or is this a statement that you actually believe, despite Pelosi flat out telling you she kept it from happening? What is the problem with just objectively telling the truth?
McConnell is on the floor saying there was no reason this package couldn't have been signed into law "multiple months ago."
This will infuriate Dems, who have been trying to pass Covid relief since May. McConnell wanted to take a "pause"
The Trump political war chest has now spent more money fighting the conservative Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, than it spent against all Democrats in 2022 put together. Let that sink in for a bit for those who continue with the delusion that Trump cares about the things you
Reflecting on yesterday's Independence Day, I would just love to point out that the Magna Carta was one page, the Declaration of Independence was one page, and that the Dodd-Frank bill (financial regulation act passed after the financial crisis) was 848 pages.
This is maybe the most reckless, irresponsible, stupid, juvenile thing any member of the Press has said since Trump took office, & it exceeds anything
@realDonaldTrump
himself has said for hyperbolic nonsense.
@chucktodd
should be dismissed and
@RichardEngel
should be given worse
WATCH:
@RichardEngel
says watching the 82nd Airborne, a rocket attack into the green zone & talking about Shiite militias from an Iraqi roof gives him déjà vu.
"I thought 'Wow. We are back in 2007 at the peak of the violence here.' Who knew we wanted those days to come back?"
@benshapiro
speech at
@CPAC
was hard-hitting substantive punch against the cult of political correctness, and his integrity in the last 4 minutes about OUR SIDE avoiding lying and things Trump sometimes does to hurt his own agenda was stunning. A sermon for decency & truth!
5 - They are not my friends.
But all political realities about lesser of two evils notwithstanding, I cannot and will not give in to the impulse that has become Trumpism. It often fights what I’m against, and when it does, I’ll join. But it rarely fights for what I’m for.
We are all so used to Trump exaggerating certain things (to put it mildly) but I just have to say, a moment ago he massively UNDER-sold something. He said “billions” of dollars came back onshore after his corporate tax cuts. Well, it was $1.6 TRILLION (with a T).
I like Vivek Ramaswamy fine, have met with him multiple times, had him on my Capital Record podcast, and am well aware of how articulate and compelling he is. Unlike many on the right who possess the gift of charisma, he is also genuinely smart - he really is.
BUT, if I ever
I hear so many on the right bemoan the fact that Joe Biden is President, pretty much daily. I share their feelings 100% - I think he is corrupt, incompetent, unqualified, duplicitous, and a shameful president. I think his personal character is reprehensible, his disregard for
Kamala Harris's pick of extreme progressive, Tim Walz, as her VP running mate, accomplished the one thing that obviously drove the decision: She avoided picking a Jew and infuriating the anti-semitic left. MN was not up for grabs; PA is (and will likely determine the election).
If anyone needs any better understanding of why so, so, so many Americans find certain leftist media deeply out of touch, elitist, and completely bigoted, read this
@NewYorker
@DanPiepenbring
piece of garbage article
Those celebrating the repeal of Roe v. Wade should not be limited to the pro-lifers who rightly see it as an avenue towards reduced abortions, but it should be pro-choicers like Ruth Bader Ginsburg who knew damn well there was no Constitutional right to such embedded in the (1/5)
Several things can be, and in fact, are, true at once, about David French. It’s a topic I don’t go into publicly much because I consider David a friend, and because I have no hopes at all about changing anyone’s mind about him in these times in which we find ourselves. But with
I don't understand why a reporter would bother to say a recession is NOT two quarters of contraction when they they've said the opposite in print in the past. They had to know this would be thrown back in their face? Tucker is hammering
@morningmoneyben
&
@JohnJHarwood
right now
The $10,000 tax credit to buy your first home DOES. NOT. HELP. It gets priced in, drives prices higher, enhances demand, and does NOTHING to cure the supply deficiency. That is an utterly absurd policy prescription for the home affordability problem. “I am going to make
Julie, w/ all charity & respect, it’s quite possible this young boy’s family believe in a free and fair press, but don’t believe the
@nytimes
has behaved as such. The “immigrants are animals” dishonest coverage; hammering Ivanka for a pic w/ her baby. It’s coming from somewhere
Depressing sight at Trump rally in Nashville: adorable young boy, probly about my son's age, pointing iPhone at me & other reporters & snapping pix while screaming "FAKE NEWS!" A child who will grow up believing a free & fair press is the enemy, a bad thing, to be mocked & hated
If you believe student debt should be forgiven, fine. People can disagree about all the elements of this matter - higher education costs, the laughable fraud that is today’s higher education system, government monopoly of student loans, etc. Argue and discuss.
BUT THIS
Mayor Bloomberg, I’m certain you are correct that obesity is an epidemic and a health challenge that must be met with vigor. But are you open to the idea that individual responsibility is at the root of this situation, and that nanny-state solutions may be counter-productive?
Obesity has become a global epidemic, and children face a lifetime of health problems unless we take bolder steps to confront it.
@MayorofLondon
's plan to ban junk food ads on the
@TfL
network sets a great example that other cities can learn from.
Just so we’re clear, 44 Democrat Senators refused to support an anti-infanticide Bill today. 44 people that saw legislation supporting a post-delivery baby receiving human life protection as unworthy of support. This is our culture.
if it does anything, it will hurt the cause of more people getting vaccinated, as the only messsge it portrays is, “we will never let you out of this.” These bureaucratic tyrants are not merely bad at science, and bad at politics, but above all else, they are bad at human (2/3)
What the hell is wrong with you? He freaking drove a young woman off a bridge drunk as can be and let her die, and he was never made to suffer consequences. He was a drunk & a womanizer. You people have lost all moral clarity.
Ted Kennedy was a real man living out a real life. His political opponents could and did distort that life for their advantage. But just how many liberties can an artist or entertainer take when deploying a biographical subject?
He may be. I don’t know him or what happened. But as I try to follow the new rules of engagement, I had thought (and I’m not trying to be funny) that women are to be believed no matter what. I’m just wondering why 3 radical feminists are allowed to break their own rule?
A group of female journalists including Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Maria Shriver have signed a letter characterizing Tom Brokaw as "a man of tremendous decency and integrity"
will catch me using someone else's misdeeds as a reason to loosen my own moral resolve. It must always be the opposite - BECAUSE I so vehemently disdained the French revolutionary behavior of summer 2020, we must INTENSIFY our disdain for what a very significant number (5/7)
For all the good and bad things one can say about the GWB Presidency (plenty of both), I will never, ever, ever understand his refusal to pardon Scooter Libby. What
@POTUS
did yesterday was just and right. And the needed ending to the ugliest prosecutorial abuse since Milken
I actually felt bad for
@JohnJHarwood
on
@CNBC
just now having to comment on the vindication of the Trump White House about Russia collusion, & do all he could to spin it as bad for
@potus
.I felt the ache in his bones, & I imagine it was very similar to how he felt election night
of MAGA/Trumpian/radical/lunatics did yesterday. CNN all of a sudden developing a conscience about social crowd behavior is no reason for you to lose yours, any more than the left's magical newfound distaste of aggressive sexual behavior began with (6/7)
When your people are done figuring out how to count votes that primitive countries have been able to do for hundreds of years can you also tell us how you’re up for the task of taking over all health care, banking, higher education, and technology functions of the whole country?
Yesterday we competed, but today we owe it to everyone who caucused in Iowa, and everyone who supports any of the candidates, to show that their voices and hard work count. Our party and our country need more people engaged in the critical mission of defeating Donald Trump.
And you Republicans defending Trump for scheduling a Taliban visit at all - you are shameful. What do you think you would have said had Obama brought Taliban to Camp David two days before the anniversary of 9/11?
No moral clarity
Performative politics today from so-called hawks who lament declining US influence while ignoring that continued unconditional support for a military operation that has killed over 15,000 kids is far more damaging to US "credibility" than stoping weapons shipments in line with
Over 250 trips to NYC from LAX in the last 20 years, and tonight’s security line was the SHORTEST I’ve ever experienced. If this is TSA/shutdown pandemonium, keep it going. It does seem odd that the media would circulate this nonsense knowing people will find out it’s bunk
.
@GovRonDeSantis
going back to the school shutdowns and how he DIDN’T do it will always be what I need to hear from him. I know too many people have forgotten the horror of COVID tyranny, but I have not.
.
@ewarren
is a MAJOR problem for Democrats in 2020
She’s worth over $12M, yet has pushed the Democrats further and further left demonizing success. The quicker Dems can get rid of her, the better.
My latest oped
@FoxNews