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History prof. JD/PhD author of six books on the Early American Republic and constitutional history, most recently THE JEFFERSONIANS.

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Much of the power grid is down in Texas, and media report that Sen. Ted Cruz is in Cancun. Fortunately, Texas state law mandates a course in government as a public high school graduation requirement, so Texans know U.S. senators aren't responsible for the state's power grid.
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"I'm not sure I understand the distinction why the states would have the power, but the federal government wouldn't." -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 1/7/22, during oral argument re: Pres. Biden's vaccine mandates
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@LetRobesonSing @derek_mafs @CoryBooker In good faith, do it and guarantee another Trump victory in 2020.
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@JoeBiden What's in that for China? Oh, right: the Accord places no requirements on China while driving American businesses out of business.
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@IzzyNicholson @RobStultz @Alyssa_Milano @realDonaldTrump Royal protocol? He's our president, not her subject. They're both heads of state--and he's the more important one.
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@benshapiro People seek worthless degrees more commonly now because government subsidizes doing so. This is perfectly consistent with the basic economic reality that if you subsidize something, you get more of it. The subsidy is the problem.
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It's amazing how many Americans lament the passing of a man who asked Khrushchev to nuke the United States.
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@KamalaHarris "Take executive action" = usurp Congress's power
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@TRHLofficial We're supposed to be silenced by the thought of a master's degree from Portland State?
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A very large proportion of the American population would be perfectly happy with a dictator who mandated the policies they preferred.
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@tomselliott Ladies and Gentlemen, your Democratic presidential nominee.
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@brian @Aliquickk @ev By your reasoning, China is better than California.
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@marklarflash @CNNOpinion I'm waiting for all of those CNN employees to turn off ACs all over Upper Manhattan.
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@rebeccaballhaus Omitting an ellipse from the second sentence gives a false impression. Your "mistakes" always tend in the same direction. #fakenews
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@AndyRichter The best kind of comedy is where older white men pose as not older white men to appeal to non-older-white-men.
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What @DineshDSouza says about the history of racism in America here is 100% true.
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When white supremacy was a real force, the Democrats were doing it. Now that it's a spent force, they're trying to blame it on the right.
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@emilybrooksnews Not only is this a dizzyingly crazy comparison of bands, but no member of the Beach Boys was as good a musician as his Beatles opposite number. Start with the lead guitarists. (Ha!) Drummers. (Ha ha!) Bass players. (Please.) I suppose vocals are a matter of taste, but .../1
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@bulletsandsteel @marcorubio @DavidAFrench Ah, you've never read the Fifth Amendment. #shocked
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@thedailybeast He accepts no salary, so....
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@nytimes War! War! War! (Quick, remind me: what benefit has America derived from these perpetual wars? And what are their aims?)
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@JonahDispatch "Nationalism" is usually about one's own country, not about every country on earth; that would be internationalism.
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@BernieSanders This from a guy who honeymooned in the USSR.
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@Acosta So if some New York mayor slaps a socialist poem on a French statue, the whole country is stuck with open borders?
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@thenation Good Lord, this is self-parody.
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@TheRightsWriter Just astounding. State v. federal police powers is a distinction driven home in Con. Law I, a first-year law-school course.
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@mariashriver Every woman's nightmare is the inside of the rear window of an upside-down, submerged car.
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So now the people who think Bill Clinton was paid $500K to speak for 30 mins. in foreign countries *because he's so fascinating*, and Clinton Foundation donations cratered after the 2016 election and the employees had to close up shop because..., are accusing Trump of bribery.
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@HCiavotto @thedailybeast Rich guys make money. News at 11.
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@StephenKing Right, you see socialism fail and you think of Trump.
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@justinamash Keep fighting the good fight, Congressman.
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@brhodes Get a degree in creative writing, be hired to write speeches by Obama, consider oneself all-purpose expert.
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@paulmcleary That really is an outrage.
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@franciscome America is a homeland. The ideas to which you allude came 1.5 centuries after my family did.
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@charliekirk11 That wasn't impolite then. "African-Americans" was coined later.
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@BlueBoxDave What a brave tweet.
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Where is Hillary Clinton while electors are receiving death threats made in her behalf?
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@emzanotti This is Left privilege.
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@nytopinion This cannot be parodied.
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Someone should ask Biden and Trump this question. No one will.
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🚨 Javier Milei names his favorite economists/authors Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek, Walter Block, Henry Hazlitt, Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, Jesús Huerta de Soto.
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@JZmirak @AndrewCMcCarthy @brithume The 25th Amendment can always be said to nullify an election, as can impeachment.
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@LarrySchweikart @theboyjai One more thing: Reporter: How does it feel to be the best living guitarist? Clapton: Go ask Prince.
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@Muleman08554691 @_Marfalicious @LincolnsBible @AaronMSanchez In summer 1982, I worked on my uncle's ranch outside Leadore, Idaho--the last town in America with party lines. It still had them.
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@justinamash The GOP lost the presidency narrowly, lost the House extremely narrowly, and--it appears--will lose the Senate by the casting vote of the incoming vice president. It still controls the federal courts and most state governments. Some "collapse."
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@adamslily I heard that today at a slave auction in Libya.
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My next book, _The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe_, will be published on December 13, 2022.
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@politicoroger Sure, on condition she retired immediately.
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@MattPalumbo12 @CatoInstitute 4% of residents contribute 23% of drug traffickers.
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@CahnEmily This tweet is shameful. Criticize her on substance, not by fabricating statements.
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@voxdotcom The comments in this thread give me hope for America.
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@Vermeullarmine None dare call it racism.
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Beautiful.
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Absolutely brutal
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@CatoInstitute So 4% of residents contribute 23% of drug traffickers?
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This is just dizzyingly ignorant. She actually implies that people ought to think their rights come from Congress, by which logic they could not have preexisted Congress. It's amazing that prominent Americans are so manifestly ignorant of the most basic facts about our regime.
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Here @MSNBC helpfully makes it clear their disdain for Christians in America. She says that if you believe that your rights come from God, you aren’t a Christian, you are a Christian nationalist. Somehow they seem to not mention that our own founding documents make this
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@eideard @ianbremmer All of our presidents were put in office by the Electoral College.
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@brithume @JonahNRO In my lifetime, three presidents have had good character: Ford, Carter, and Reagan. I've never heard @JonahNRO complain about the others' character. In fact, he's recently celebrated the character of one whose chief vow was a lie. He just dislikes Trump's politics.
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Annual reminder: today's federal holiday is Washington's Birthday. If you want a holiday commemorating Carter, Fillmore, the Harrisons, the Bushes, Pierce, the Johnsons, Nixon, Wilson, the Roosevelts, the Adamses, and the rest of them, you need to contact your congressman.
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I just sent the completed manuscript of my next book to my publisher.
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@AmbJohnBolton @philipaklein Serious question: which was the last war your family fought in?
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@jaketapper @CarlPaulus Sure: Bill Clinton's wife was the target of an investigation and Trump wasn't.
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Schumer says Biden will forgive $50K in student debt per borrower by EO. This is a huge wealth transfer from everyone else to those who owe at least $50K on student loans. So which organized interest is this intended to please? (Hint: not the borrowers.)
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@FoxNews @adrienneelrod If it were ineffective, they wouldn't oppose it. Seriously. Building it would create "shovel-ready jobs" and everything. This is literally the only public-works project any of these people has ever opposed. Why? They want open borders, because we won't vote for them.
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@ChrisCrawfords @Slate Harvard Law School listed her as its "first woman faculty member of color," so....
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@ObamaFoundation Why is this garbage in my feed?
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@JeanneKnudsen @Booker4KY He said that the time-honored tradition of civil disobedience included civil disobedience in opposition to slavery.
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@Wowwwreally @markknoller "Commuting a convicted felon," as opposed to whom? Trump's commutations/pardons at this stage: 11. Obama's: >1700.
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@DailyCaller @RepAdamSchiff He's such a transparent manipulator. Preparing for testimony and assembling documents on two days' notice is a ridiculous demand.
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Comes the news today that my forthcoming book received a rare STARRED REVIEW from Kirkus! You can place your order now.
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@KirstenPowers The idea of cultural appropriation is a Western idea. Stop appropriating it.
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@mommaheidi71 @sladesr The goal is to force the man to violate his conscience.
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@HillaryClinton Lack of self-awareness much?
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This is your annual reminder that from the first year of Thomas Jefferson's presidency to the first year of Woodrow Wilson's, the State of the Union Message was a written message.
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@Timcast He left out "and they have been for 50 years and more."
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@KenDilanianNBC You honestly believe NBC is neutral/nonpartisan? Please.
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@JordanFlower @CatoInstitute 4% of residents contribute 23% of drug traffickers.
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In August 1823, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams wrote the president of Harvard asking whether his son John, a grandson of the second U.S. president, might receive a Harvard degree despite his expulsion for leading a student riot. No, answered President Kirkland. No.
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@DeAngelisCorey Well then, she's entitled to take my income and give it all to someone else.
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It's almost as if the U.S. Constitution had been intended to establish a federal, rather than a national, system.
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@JeffFlake Counting the days 'til your retirement.
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@DanRather This reminds me of when CBS fired Dan Rather for peddling fake news.
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@RBReich They all endorsed Clinton. They all pushed Russian collusion.
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@jaketapper So the entire Swamp agrees that all its members are entitled to lifetime access to hyper-secret material. They insist they're Life Lords. Do these people not see that they're playing into Pres. Trump's hands?
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@JohnBrennan Very droll--coming from you.
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The price of a gallon of gas is up nationwide $.08 overnight and $.60 in the last week. Reuters reports that the White House is modeling a rise past $200/barrel. It still takes 190 days for the Federal Government to process a lease application; the State of Texas: two days.
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@MorganStanley I'm glad the president withdrew from a treaty president President Obama unconstitutionally entered without Senate ratification.
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@AP "Proof"? She claimed to be an Indian, and her DNA results showed she was 1/1024 Indian--half the white American average. If that's "proof," what would be disproof? #fakenews
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@JoeBiden @realDonaldTrump No, we're not. We would like to see Hunter Biden's, however.
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@EricHolder Remember that time when you were the only AG ever held in contempt of Congress?
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@GYamey Denying people information is not persuasive.
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@JohnBrennan As possessor of three UT degrees, I'm embarrassed of you both. @BetoORourke
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@jimmykimmel @StormyDaniels Gennifer Flowers to follow?
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@nypost Since when is beating on/breaking up the wall of a federal courthouse "protest"?
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@JoeBiden Joining a climate accord that doesn't affect India or China (the biggest polluters) isn't wise.
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@DailyCaller Darwin Award Aspirant Hones His Craft
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