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Iain Murray

@ismurray

4 years

My new book, The Socialist Temptation, is out today! Get your copy at Amazon or all fine booksellers.

The Socialist Temptation

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

2 years

Great to see @RandPaul standing up for our constitutional liberties in opposing the awful RESTRICT Act.

Dr. Rand Paul Fights to Protect Constitution, Opposes Senate Bill to Ban TikTok - March 29, 2023

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It appears to have been confirmed that an audience member died. An ordinary citizen, participating in the political process by attending a rally of his favored candidate (presumably) has been murdered for it. That’s what an attack on democracy looks like.

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This will be a paradoxical election in the UK. The people will vote out a government they despise, in order to put in place a government that will double down on the most despised policies.

Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧

@montie

9 months

A Labour govt won't have much money to spend and every social and cultural conservative should brace themselves for a leftist-appeasing barrage of changes on liberty, free speech, 'white privilege', trans, Hospice care/ euthanasia etc

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8 months

Odd how everything in a poorer country seems so affordable when you take your American salary there. I wonder if anyone's ever studied why that is?

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

8 months

Tucker says after visiting a Russian grocery store he is “radicalized against our leaders” because Russians have it so much better than Americans.

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3 months

Two policies studied intensely and the almost unanimous conclusion of the research is that they are extremely damaging: 1. High tariffs - policy of the GOP candidate 2. Rent control - policy of the Dem candidate The age of unreason is truly upon us.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

3 months

Scoop: Biden WILL announce plan to cap rents at 5% nationwide, sources say Would strip tax benefit from corporate landlords who dont comply Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress, comes as Biden emphasizes populist econ ideas after debate W/ @rachsieg

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1 month

Back when Senators knew their history.

Jeffery Tyler Syck

@tylersyck

1 month

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the danger of high tariffs.

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Iain Murray

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30 days

Another example of exactly how the Jones Act protects American shipbuilding.

Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

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Seems bad that the US is utterly incapable of building large ships.

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Iain Murray

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4 months

Delighted to visit the statue of my hero for the first time!

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

6 years

My reaction to @TuckerCarlson saying he wants the state to act like a father

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

2 years

Unless there's some misrepresentation going on (always a risk these days) this is just nuts.

Jim Boyle

@JimGBoyle

2 years

At George Dawson Middle School an autobiography co-authored by George Dawson at 103 has been banned. Mr. Dawson was the grandson of a slave. He learned to read at 98. His book is an inspiration to all readers except it can’t be read at the school that bears his name.

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Iain Murray

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6 months

Hear hear. The UK needs a functional equivalent of the First Amendment. Nice to see Dido smile when @afneil starts his demolition of the premise of her question.

The Spectator

@spectator

6 months

'Stay the hell out of it.' Andrew Neil's advice on what the government should do with the media

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1 year

Solid thread on the UK Parliament's oversight hearing on the egregious CMA. I hope MPs like @BimAfolami are considering measures to bring the CMA back under direct Ministerial control or to allow appeals on the merits to Ministers or the Courts.

Florian Mueller

@Florian4Gamers

1 year

The public part of the UK parliamentary oversight hearing on CMA's work has finally started. Chair says "we're gonna ask about some topical cases ... most widely covered news is Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard, please give us a quick summary" 🧵1/X

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

5 years

Hawley's not ambitious enough. How about? *TVs that switch off after 2 hours *Bans on newspaper and magazine subscriptions that deliver you stuff to read every day *No book longer than 200 pages - including the Bible

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3 months

@julianHjessop All of this and, note also, they tried to turn the judge’s courtroom into a protest zone. That also was deserving of severe punishment.

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1 year

Funny, that.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

1 year

It seems like most of the major accomplishments of American transportation infrastructure occurred before the 1967 creation of the Department of Transportation.

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30 days

Oh look, an experiment in price controls goes horribly wrong. Who could have predicted that?

Christian Britschgi

@christianbrits

1 month

The Netherlands has effectively banned market-rate rentals, so now landlords are selling to owner-occupiers, and people who can't afford a mortgage now can't find a home at all. Good job.

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7 months

Funny how industries that lower transaction costs stop working when politicians raise them again.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

7 months

"Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Disaster"

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

2 years

Note the prominence of Publix here. Large, capable commercial chains help alleviate disaster suffering.

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

@FOX13News

2 years

In just 3 days, Gov. DeSantis says Florida built a temporary bridge to Pine Island after its lone bridge to the mainland was destroyed by Hurricane Ian. The move allows emergency vehicles and even Publix trucks to get to the island. STORY:

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Iain Murray

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10 months

Apparently, 25 firms competing is a "lack of competition," according to our President. Words have no meaning any more.

President Biden

@POTUS

10 months

Folks, right now, 25 of the largest pharmaceutical companies in America control 70% of the market. This lack of competition drives up prices – making it harder for hardworking American families to access the health care they need. Today, my Administration is doing something

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@ismurray

4 months

Discovered my late tutor Peter Derow’s handwritten genealogy of the Spartan Kings. May be of interest to @AntigoneJournal and @ArmandDAngour among others.

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

6 years

Steve Horwitz: “Market capitalism has done more to lift more people out of poverty and oppression than socialism, democratic or otherwise, has or will ever do. And it's not even close.”

Capitalism Is Good for the Poor

Nothing has done more to lift humanity out of poverty than the market economy.

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

5 months

@JamesBroughel And they say they abolished the spoils system...

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

1 year

China's retreat into Maoism, combined with the after-effects of its disastrous one-child policy, is starting to cause exactly the problems predicted.

🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼

@Jkylebass

1 year

The ‘Chinese miracle’ is over. Massive debt problems are beginning to plague local governments, youth unemployment 20%+ (and rising),female fertility rates down to a disastrous 1.2, and inexorable population decline accelerating. Pay attention to local Govt debt: @RChoongWilkins

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6 months

One thing I love about X is that a genuine expert will pop up at times like this. There’s plenty of chaff but also a lot of wheat.

Matt Dursh

@MattDursh

6 months

Bridge design for vessel collision. A🧵 The main span of the Francois Scott Key Bridge is 1300 ft. It also has 185 ft of clearance, making this a massive bridge. This type of bridge is considered complex. Baltimore is in for a long haul before replacement. Here is why. 1/x

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1 year

If you are looking for a case study of how well-intentioned government procedures cause outcomes that can only fairly be described as bonkers, here's one for you.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

1 year

Excellent @PMatzko dive into the La Sombrita debacle and it's many, head-slapping causes:

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1 year

“The far left and the far right both oppose free markets for the same reason. They have a vision as to which groups should benefits from wealth creation, and they fear that the free market won’t deliver the outcome that they favor.” Or, in their view, that they deserve.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

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"History suggests that free markets are the least bad option. They aren’t perfect, but the truly disastrous economic policy mistakes always come from misguided government intervention."

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7 years

If only the CFPB had any meaningful accountability to Congress...

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

7 years

I’m giving @MickMulvaneyOMB one last chance to answer my questions about his actions at the @CFPB . If he won’t, he should be called immediately to testify under oath before my colleagues and me on the Senate Banking Committee.

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2 months

This is quite an extraordinary intervention. The EU is essentially erecting a tariff on thought, if speech firms want access to the EU's market. Time to say non, I suspect.

James Lynch

@jameslynch32

2 months

The European Commission is explicitly threatening Elon Musk over his interview with Trump tonight on X. Dystopian stuff.

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@ismurray

2 years

“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.” - Assar Lindbeck on Sweden's use of the policy.

Ryan Bourne

@MrRBourne

2 years

DeSantis bans rent control in Florida. Good. via @reason

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3 months

Chevron and Jarkesy form a wonderful one-two punch against the administrative state. A double whammy!

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@ismurray

1 year

“Growth only benefits the rich anyway” has to be one of the most twisted, evil political lies (it can’t be anything else) I’ve seen in a long time.

Stanley Pignal

@spignal

1 year

The world's major economies are being overhauled to make them more green. A band of lefty Europeans met in Brussels this week with a more radical plan: to deliberately shrink the economy instead. Meet the de-growers. My take for this week's Charlemagne.

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1 year

"I don’t want a gloomy, shabby, statist, collectivist future for Britain." Well said, @DavidGHFrost

The political class is in denial about the true crisis now afflicting Britain

The party conferences changed little because the two sides seemed to be offering too much of the same thing

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@ismurray

11 months

Midjourney's view of the Socialist calculation problem.

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1 year

I’ve followed @FreeRangeKids for over twenty years on this. She is completely vindicated.

Athan Koutsiouroumbas

@Athan_K

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🚨🚨"Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults." 🚨🚨(1/2)

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2 years

Apropos of nothing, I'll point out that my home city of Sunderland in the UK regularly counts c.55k votes in 40 minutes.

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1 month

"Protectionists talk a big game about the national interest, but when trade policy is actually made, it is often for special interests. In this case, the government is granting mattress-makers and two labor unions their wish to face less competition from abroad."

Dominic Pino

@DominicJPino

1 month

Our long national nightmare of cheap mattresses is almost over. Thank goodness the government is finally waking up to this threat. Now Americans can rest easy knowing that they won’t be allowed to pay too little for a mattress. New from me @NRO

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@AntigoneJournal Of course, I also grew up by the Wall...

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@ismurray

6 months

Erick is spot on. We live in an age of unreason.

Erick Erickson

@EWErickson

6 months

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sparked wild conspiracy theories that were completely untethered from reality. From cyberattacks to DEI pilots to election meddling, speculation ran wild before the facts were known. The disturbing trend in American culture has been

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Iain Murray

@ismurray

9 months

Pete is spot on here. Net Zero is almost the Platonic Form of bad policy, hurting the poor, skewing investment decisions, and crucifying the national interest on a cross of green - and for what? A paltry reduction in global emissions.

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Iain Murray

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2 years

Let me be blunt. If you are all worked up about hazardous materials traveling by rail and yet are in favor of the Jones Act, you are not serious about either subject. Great piece by @scottlincicome

The Obscure Maritime Law That Ruins Your Commute

“Ship American” might sound nice in theory. This is what it looks like in practice: not shipping much of anything in America at all.

www.theatlantic.com

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@ismurray

2 years

If they're safe, why did it take a crisis for you to allow them in?

President Biden

@POTUS

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I’ve got more good news: 27.5 million bottles of safe infant formula manufactured by Bubs Australia are coming to the United States. We’re doing everything in our power to get more formula on shelves as soon as possible.

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6 months

This is appalling from the Belgian authorities. I may have my disagreements with national conservatives, but this sort of tactic is illiberalism in the extreme.

Dan Wootton

@danwootton

6 months

The Brussels police and politicians shutting down the NatCon conference while Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman are still inside is chilling. Free speech within the EU is dead. Communism is back. Cancel culture is thriving. This is why we must fight.

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5 months

Awful news. Yet more evidence that we live in an Age of Unreason.

Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

5 months

Disastrous news from the Philippines- the Court of Appeals has sided with Greenpeace and the antis in blocking vit-A enhanced Golden Rice, which is now in widespread cultivation in the country. All planting must now stop, harming the interests of millions.

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1 year

Taking a look at Deneen's Regime Change, I find an extraordinary error. He alleges that Polybius felt that for the Romans, "The benefits of kingship were manifested in the unitary rule of the emperor." Poppycock! 1/x

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8 months

Here's Don Boudreaux on the attempts to introduce at what I can only call leftist indoctrination at George Mason University. This is part of the relentless drive @pmarca is talking about. It must be opposed.

Unjust Propagandizing for “Just Societies”

TweetGeorge Mason University, an institution that I dearly love, is on the verge of imposing an unjust, illiberal, and anti-intellectual requirement that new students be indoctrinated in the idiocies...

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@ismurray

4 years

“I think the man with the gun pointed at my head is doing a great job, and you can quote me on that.”

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

China gets top score as citizens rank their governments' response to the coronavirus outbreak

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@ismurray

4 years

"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter - all his force dares not cross the threshold..."

West Midlands Police

@WMPolice

4 years

#WATCH | This is the moment our officers broke up an illegal ‘lock in’ at a football club in #Walsall at the weekend. We'd had reports that drinkers were illegally gathered in the bar behind the shutters, but our attempts to get in were initially met with silence.

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1 year

Propitiatory worship of a weather god. You, know, I thought we'd moved past that a few centuries ago.

Tim Cook

@tim_cook

1 year

At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today we had a special guest—a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress.

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"The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls." -- Joseph Schumpeter, born February 8, 1883.

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8 months

I am honored to have @Heritage publish this paper of mine.

Heritage Foundation

@Heritage

8 months

A common good can be identified in a set of institutions that, broadly defined, comprise the institutions of liberty. The shared conservative project should strengthen those institutions & set in place guardrails to ensure that they are not weakened again.

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1 year

This hurts...

Brimley/Cocoon Line

@BrimleyLine

1 year

Born 6 August 1972, Spice Girl Geri Halliwell Horner is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats @GeriHalliwell ! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

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“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter!” - Pitt the Elder, 1763

Matthew Feeney

@M_feeney

1 year

"The Online Safety Bill is a deeply troubling legislative proposal. If passed in its present form, the UK could become the first liberal democracy to require the routine scanning of people’s private chat messages".

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3 years

Your regular reminder, this time from @jimgeraghty , that the FDA is why you can't get rapid, affordable tests the way the rest of the developed world can.

Americans Can’t Find Covid-19 Tests, and It’s the FDA’s Fault | National Review

Medical companies came up with hundreds of proposals, but the FDA took its time in approving only a handful.

www.nationalreview.com

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3 years

On Constitution Day I am always reminded of something the great Fred Smith would say: "The Constitution isn't perfect, but it's better than what we have now."

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A problem with Nobel Prizes is that they create an epistemic aristocracy, leading to people lending weight to Nobel winners' pronouncements. That weight is often undue, as @DrSamuelGregg explains in relation to the new Stiglitz book.

A Nobel Polemicist – Samuel Gregg

One wonders how much Joseph Stiglitz has actually read of Hayek and Friedman.

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10 months

Given how much has gone into supporting the industry over the decades, this is quite a remarkable twin failure of industrial policy and protectionism. I also have no doubt government will step in again, on national security grounds, natch.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

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"The United States Steel Corporation is being purchased by the Nippon Steel Corporation, the largest steelmaker in Japan."

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1 year

Good for @Jeremy_Hunt for pointing this out. It is, however, incumbent upon politicians to realize that democratic accountability for regulators is part of their job, and that making a regulator “independent” sacrifices an essential element of democracy.

Florian Mueller

@Florian4Gamers

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HUGE: One of the 2-3 most powerful members of the UK government issues a clear warning to @CMAgovUK concerning its attempt to block #Microsoft 's purchase of #ActivisionBlizzard . "One of the reasons that companies like Microsoft ... invest in the UK is because we have independent

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Deregulation wins again.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

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Apple says that AirPods Pro 2, its latest wireless earbuds, can be used as clinical-grade hearing aids. This feature hasn’t been FDA-cleared, however — although the company says that it expects approval “soon.” The feature, when enabled, boosts specific sounds in real-time, like

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DOJ Antirust moves to preserve competition in the sugar industry. Which is weird, given that the government protects the sugar industry from competition by a variety of trade restrictions.

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4 years

Things are going well with the new UK restrictions, I see.

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3 years

"get the $$$ and put it in parents' hands" is the free market solution to this and will be more effective in the long run than trusting in the right side to have the power.

steve hilton

@SteveHiltonx

3 years

school boards have been captured by the woke left. they are destroying children's lives, wrecking families, crushing opportunity some say "run for school board" and take back power better/quicker: get the $$$ and put it in parents' hands. @DeAngelisCorey is tracking progress!

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2 years

BANANA Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Next to Anyone

The Associated Press

@AP

2 years

Dozens of activists, including Greta Thunberg of neighboring Sweden, blocked the entrance to Norway's energy ministry in Oslo Monday to protest a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.

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@AlecStapp In the UK and so presumably in Oz, he could be deemed a “vexatious correspondent” so that his complaints could be logged and set aside.

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1 year

Can we put this silly obsession with RFKjr to rest now, please?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

1 year

7. I will ban fracking, which provides the feedstock for most of the plastics produced in the U.S.

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2 years

Doesn't realize the NTSB Chair said this rule would not have helped. Can't spell "brakes." No wonder the mainstream media lost credibility.

Heather Long

@byHeatherLong

2 years

3rd issue =The breaks. The derailed train was using air breaks that have basically been around since ~1870s. Electronic breaks or “ECP” would have stopped the train faster. The Obama Admin tried to mandate these in 2015. The Trump Admin rolled it back

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2 years

Know what would be a really good idea? An Inflation Reduction Act...

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3 years

Four former Soviet bloc countries now beat the US.

Phil Kerpen

@kerpen

3 years

The United States has plummeted to number 25 on the Heritage Index of Economic Freedom.

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This also puts the number of jobs allegedly lost owing to the effects of free trade into context. Far more jobs are lost due to the general churn every month than are alleged to have been lost to trade over a decade.

Brian Albrecht

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The US economy is &#%!@?! huge

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A New Kind of Trade Agreement - my article on the potential for US-UK free trade at @NRO @danieljhannan

A New Kind of Trade Agreement | National Review

If we value the cultural Anglosphere and the defense Anglosphere, it makes only sense that we use trade agreements to cement an economic Anglosphere.

www.nationalreview.com

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@ismurray

2 years

At least the Romans knew not to hold the Triumph until the war was over.

Hanna Liubakova

@HannaLiubakova

2 years

#Russia The Kremlin is considering holding a "parade of prisoners of war". During the Victory Parade in Moscow, up to 500 Ukrainian soldiers can be brought to demonstrate the “strength and superiority of the Russian army,” according to the sources of

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If you believe this, I have a Potemkin Village to sell you.

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"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it;...but the King of England cannot enter - all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!"

The Guardian

@guardian

4 years

Police chief calls for power of entry into homes of suspected lockdown breakers

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9 months

Fans of the Fourth Branch of Government should take a look at this thread.

American Vapor Manufacturers

@VaporAmerican

9 months

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Blistering ruling against @FDATobacco just dropped in the 5th circuit vape case. Here's our statement, along with analysis. THREAD 🪡

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1 year

Despite my position on Brand, this is surely right.

Allison Pearson

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1 year

I’m sure my @Telegraph readers will be horrified by @cj_dinenage writing to TikTok and Rumble trying to get Russell Brand cancelled before he has had a chance to answer his accusers. Since when does a Culture Media and Sports role involve being a witch finder? It’s chilling

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2 years

Some thoughts on how the midterm election reflects the ongoing political realignment in the US. A 🧵1/x

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@ismurray

4 years

Bit harsh on Jefferson here.

(((Dan Hodges)))

@DPJHodges

4 years

Kamala Harris. The first US Vice-President with serious political star quality.

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4 years

You’d have thought that millions out of work might have been a reality check, but apparently it’s now a permanent goal.

MarketWatch

@MarketWatch

4 years

OPINION: We may need climate lockdowns to halt climate change, Mariana Mazzucato writes. That might mean governments limiting private vehicle use, banning consumption of red meat, etc. We must do capitalism differently to avoid that.

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1 year

Competition in action. No doubt the FTC is planning some stupid action to try to stop this. The good thing is that the market is moving so fast any action will be out of date by the time it is brought.

Paul Couvert

@itsPaulAi

1 year

ChatGPT has now a big problem. Google just updated its free competitor, Bard. Here are 8 things impossible on ChatGPT but that Bard can do (for free):

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This is a very good summary of why the UK is facing energy catastrophe - fantastic planning assumptions imposed by environmental activists. The greens need to be driven out and never let near the levers of power again.

British energy planning (a horror story) | James McSweeney | The Critic Magazine

Looking for a light read? Perhaps a fairy tale to settle the kids before bed? If so, I highly recommend the publications page of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

thecritic.co.uk

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@ismurray

4 years

Can someone please tell @Jack about the Streisand Effect?

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@ismurray

5 years

Removing the Queen from Queen-in-Parliament is far closer to a coup than prorogation.

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@ismurray

8 months

Happy Julian Simon Day! Remember - you and those around you are the ultimate resource.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

@ceidotorg

8 months

Today we celebrate the birthday of Julian L. Simon - a free-market economist and business professor known for his optimism about the future of mankind. Learn more about his legacy ->

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5 months

And if this goes through then most of those with very little in their savings won’t have a credit card at all.

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

5 months

One in three Americans have less than $100 in their savings account. But if someone is late, even a little bit, on their credit card payments, they could be charged $41. That’s why @POTUS & the @CFPB are taking action to cap most credit card late fees at $8. That’s a big deal.

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Why has there been no grand national inquiry, open on the public stage, as to what happened 4 years ago and its known and unknown effects?

Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

7 months

🧵THREAD🧵 “15 days to slow the spread” kicked off four years ago Saturday, sending the media into perhaps its most deranged cycle of my lifetime. I dove back into some of the worst lockdown media coverage from those early days. Buckle in, this one’s long. ⤵️

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1 year

It’s important to remember that the “angry” are a small minority.

Mathias Sundin

@MathiasSundin

1 year

😊 New survey: Americans satisfied with their lives - 83% of Americans are satisfied with their personal life, matching the historical average. - Half of the participants are "very satisfied." - Family life, housing, and education rank highest in satisfaction. Consistent

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6 months

This is fundamental to an understanding of the American nation - and seemingly missed by many who call themselves nationalists.

Andrew Beck

@AndrewBeckUSA

6 months

Salient point from @Reinsch84 on America being a founded nation and a constitutional people—as opposed to a hierarchy of collected historic tribes in Harzony’s general definition of a nation. America is indeed special in this way.

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1 year

Just passed a car with a VA Gadsden Flag license plate that reads BYE FTC. Okay, which one of you is it?

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@ismurray

1 year

Evidence for the theory that regulations are largely a product of and reward special interests.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

1 year

"The causal effect of regulation on income inequality across the U.S. states" "a substantial increase in income inequality due to increased regulatory restrictions in a state"

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Some brief thoughts on a passage of Adam Smith we would do well to take as a manifesto. #AdamSmith300

Adam Smith’s ‘tolerable administration’ vs. America’s increasingly intolerable one - Competitive...

2023 is the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith’s birth. This post is part of a series highlighting aspects of Smith’s thought that continue to influence liberal thought in general, and CEI’s work in...

cei.org

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2 years

Any strike would, conveniently, be timed for after the elections.

The Associated Press

@AP

2 years

The third largest railroad union rejected its deal with freight railroads Monday — renewing the possibility of a strike that could cripple the economy — but before that could happen both sides will return to the bargaining table.

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Stuff and nonsense. Even the chair of the NTSB has said the rule would have had no effect on the derailed train. There's far too much political point scoring going on - on both sides - about a very serious issue.

Andrew Bates

@AndrewJBates46

2 years

👀 @FoxNews : "Regulations regarding train safety were changed during the Trump administration. This particular railroad and others lobbied President Trump to dismantle an Obama-era rule that would have required railroads to update their braking systems."

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@AlecStapp 3.1 And some of those plants will now have to close

Biden Prepares to Block $14 Billion Steel Deal

U.S. Steel warns of plant closings if its sale to Nippon Steel collapses.

www.wsj.com

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11 months

The realignment that left right classical liberals feeling homeless has also affected left classical liberals.

Adam Kovacevich

@adamkovac

11 months

As a proud centrist pro-tech Democrat, I share @mattyglesias ' concern about the collapse of center-left party institutions. As he says, it leave centrist Dem candidates & staff a bit homeless, politically

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Not all national conservatives are national collectivists. Some, however, just are.

Mike Palicz

@Mike_Palicz

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Oren Cass: The free choices of the individual are a threat to the collective. Tariffs combat the free choices of individuals and sure, everyone will be poorer, but you’re just not taking into account the “value beyond what market prices reflect.”

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Hipster antitrust: Amazon is abusing its market power to... *checks notes* ...drive a reduction in waste and improve ease of opening packages

Amazon Pushes Brands to Be Less Boxy

Amazon.com is pressuring brands to make their packaging more efficient, which has prompted vendors to make costly changes to their businesses or face fines.

www.wsj.com

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@ismurray

3 years

Thank you, @TomKingTK , for bringing back my hands-down favorite character in comics, and for writing such a great story around her.

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3 months

Upper middle class people can celebrate - flying is going to become a luxury again, so airports will be less crowded and the genteel ways can return without the plebs interfering.

Javier Blas

@JavierBlas

3 months

Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline group, will introduce a surcharge of up to €72 per flight next year to cover the rising costs of alternative "green" fuels needed to lower aircraft emissions. The German company says it expects "billions in the future" in additional costs.

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2 years

"Nearly 60% of China’s overseas loans are now held by countries considered to be in financial distress, compared with 5% in 2010"

Weifeng Zhong

@WeifengZhong

2 years

Excellent profile of the Belt and Road Initiative in transition by @WSJ 's @Lingling_Wei . The project is too important to Xi to abandon, but too inefficient to move forward unchanged. Important to watch how Beijing plans to turn this around. via @mercatus

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Oh no. No no no. This is worse than Caesarism.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

@DavidSacks Perhaps we just need a modern day Sulla

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