Suburban dad of six kids. Author, "Family Unfriendly" and "Alienated America." Examiner senior columnist. AEI senior fellow.
Washington, DC
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Children are anxious. Parents are stressed. Birthrates are at record lows.
The problem is our family unfriendly culture. Parenting culture is too intense. Mating & Dating culture is dysfunctional. And our values are too individualistic.
So I wrote a book. amazon.com/Family-Unfriendly…
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Feel good story of the government delivering suspected bombs to the poor.
Ever wonder what happens when the @TSA makes you throw away an oversized toiletry item @ the security checkpoint?
@Reagan_Airport started a pilot program in April where they donate toiletries to local nonprofits. So far, they’ve donated more than 2,300 items! @nbcwashington
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The fatherhood crisis captured in one arm slot.
A massive snowball fights involving hundreds if not thousands of DC residents has erupted in Meridian Hill Park. I took a few photos and snowballs to the face. @dcsnowball
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This is a bit embarrassing.
Mamdani has a plan for paying for his city-owned grocery stores. He's planning to tap into a $140 million pile of subsidies for "corporate grocery stores."
But that pile of money doesn't exist. He just misread a government website. (Link in reply)
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If coronavirus and 9/11 are the two biggest events of our life, what is the third? (If you don't recall 9/11 or do recall Nixon resigning, you're not the target demo for this Q.)
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I feel like almost all of my closest professional friends are pro-vax, anti-vax-mandate, mask-skeptical, anti-school closure. (My governor is, too.) This set of positions should have a name.
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Lib media last week: "The White House released this dishonest photoshop!"
Conservatives on Twitter (including me): "Come on, those letters are for explanation purposes. Nobody is dumb enough think he has those letters on his knuckles."
ENTER TRUMP, stage left.
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A point made last night: Jay Jones knew and worked with the guy he wanted to murder.
He had met the kids he wanted dead.
He knew the wife he wanted to hold her kids as they died.
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They literally didn't let us attend funerals in 2020.
Sex is a major driver of the global monkeypox outbreak. But health officials and longtime HIV activists say calls for abstinence don’t work. wapo.st/3vA25by
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Everyone's talking about "stimulus." I want something simpler. I want existing small businesses not to have to close thanks to the virus and lockdowns.
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To actually BAN lab-grown meat--that is, not merely to keep it out of public schools or require labelling, but ban it--seems to have no justification other than cronyist protectionism.
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And this is also the oldest left-wing playbook.
1) GOP legislature bans porn in Middle School libraries.
2) Activist librarian removes Romeo & Juliet, blames porn ban.
3) Credulous media eats it up.
My journalist colleagues, please stop falling for this.
Just to recap how insane this was, @PeteHegseth banned DEI in the military. So deep staters in the military immediately moved to ban teaching of the Tuskegee Airmen in order to discredit him. So he reversed it. THIS IS WHY HE IS THE NEW SECDEF -- to clear out these people.
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Biden’s raised 8 Times as much from Park Ave as Trump has. The mainstreams media fact-checkers never thought to check. washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
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Citizens United was a case about whether a non-profit organization was allowed to distribute a movie critical of Hillary in election season. When her critics won the case in court, she proposed a constitutional amendment to limit the First Amendment
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works.
More in my conversation alongside @yarhimilo with the @newyorker.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_6…
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In your opinion, was @ianbremmer correct? Has Argentina economically collapsed?
I auto-scheduled this tweet one year ago, so that we could assess Ian's prediction, which he made with 100% certitude. nitter.app/ianbremmer/status/1726…
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Just so everyone can follow along: She falsely said Kirk said that.
Just so everyone can follow along: The MAGA beef against @KarenAttiah is that she said Kirk said this:
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President Trump's crazed Twitter rant on Joe Scarborough was vile and unworthy of his office. Some will undoubtedly shrug it off as Trump being Trump, but one could hardly be blamed for reading it and doubting his fitness to lead.
//Our editorial >> washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
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Four years ago, under different ownership, this site literally disabled the account of a major newspaper because it reported facts harmful to the Democratic nominee—and the rest of the media still thinks that’s fine.
Anybody else notice a discernible shift in their political feed over the past week or so — like an unseen hand pulling the steering wheel?
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*Have you not been paying attention? My entire strategy is to ensure nobody knows what I actually believe until the day after I win the election.”
.@dsupervilleap -- "How did you vote on Prop 36?"
Kamala Harris: "I'm not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it."
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This is one of the things that concerns me about a Harris presidency--the major news media actually SCOLDS journalists who ask difficult questions of her. There is an open anti-accountability campaign to protect her from scrutiny. When she has power, that'll be very dangerous.
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Sandman was the perfect villain for the major media: White student at an all-boys' Catholic school, at a pro-life march, wearing a MAGA hat.
That's why they all decided instantly he was the villain. That's why they wanted to punch him. That's why they didn't care about the facts
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I worry for Shaun King's mental health. Seriously. You don't call for widespread desecration and vandalization of churches unless something is deeply deeply wrong.
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I won't vote for Joe Biden. But I'll admit that following this convention, and watching tonight particularly, has made me want to be a better dad.
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Has anyone undermined or refuted Luke’s reporting here? How is this not the biggest story in America?
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A normal society doesn’t police bathrooms because a normal society doesn’t have a significant number of men claiming a right to use ladies’ rooms.
I think @AOC’s argument about transgender bathroom bans is…pretty much perfect
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Conservatives, aren’t you sick of Trump’s nonsense?washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
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Government infringed on his constitutional right. That seems like a good reason to get in the game.
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A suicidal young man made a hit list that included Trump. He later killed two white strangers. This was right-wing political violence according to a Vox writer waving an ADL study, because the shooter wrote a swastika on his gun....
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This is true, unless you use Politico's own definition of "subsidy."
When parents get a voucher for their kids, if they spend it a Catholic school, POLITICO calls it a "subsidy" to Catholic schools.
If HHS spends my money on a POLITICO subscription, is that not also a subsidy?
"POLITICO has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies — not one cent, ever, in 18 years," the news outlet's leaders Goli Sheikholeslami and John Harris wrote in a memo tonight. They're responding to rampant right-wing misinformation...
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When people winning elections are “threats to global democracy” one begins to suspect that the concern isn’t really about “democracy.”
Pres. Biden raised threats to global democracy last night -- pointing to Italy.
“You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election. You’re seeing what’s happening around the world. The reason I bother to say that is you can’t be sanguine about what’s happening here either”
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So now that Biden called her Camel-a, can we drop the pearl-clutching everytime a conservative or Republican mispronounces her name?
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Credit where it's due: I didn't think Biden would deliver on the "Kid Cages at 100% Capacity Amid Pandemic" campaign promise this quickly.
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Harris very clearly sponsored a bill to ban private insurance, raised her hand saying that private insurance be outlawed, and then released a plan saying that all current private insurance plans would be abolished.
Where is her clear repudiation of those positions?
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Texts from Biden campaign are basically “Hi, my name is Haley, and I’m a senior at Iowa State. I’m just writing to ask...”
Texts from Trump are like: “Have you SERIOUSLY not donated? Why do HATE AMERICA! Are you on the side of PELOSI????”
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Intervening in Libya without congressional authorization was illegal, and imprudent. The disastrous results were predictable, especially after Iraq. The number one advocate for this invasion was Susan Rice.
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I find it very suspicious the Yankees’ team average was .267 last season.
That would imply hitters are getting partial hits, down to the thousandths, which would be odd.
Interesting that ActBlue raised an average donation of $30.38.
This would imply people are donating in uneven numbers, including pennies, which would be odd. OR it would indicate untraceable foreign donations and an exchange rate translation, which would be illegal.
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Holding an outdoor funeral for your mother, with 30 attendees, would be illegal in Philadelphia today, on the grounds that it would be an impermissible danger of spreading COVID.
This is Philadelphia. This is not a moment. This is a movement to end the era of police brutality and white supremacist capitalism and begin the era of racial and economic justice in America. #BlackLivesMattters
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Pence never answered the Roe question, but thank God he proudly declared his pro-life position and explained that Kamala and Biden are for taxpayer-funded abortions.
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Is the virus dangerous enough that we should vaccinate people with a vaccine that might possibly (but probably not) have a 1-in-7 million chance of a deadly blood clot?
If the virus is not that dangerous, how can we justify continued closures of schools, main streets, etc?
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My uncle died in a nursing home in 2021. His family was barred from visiting him for the final year of his life. Does the good doctor consider that "tolerable distress on me and my family."
Dr. Fauci said he is grateful because the threats and possibility of a politically motivated prosecution "creates immeasurable and intolerable distress on me and my family."
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Maybe Democrats will start bringing frivolous criminal charges against the other party's nominees. Or maybe they'll start gerrymandering. Or maybe they'll start working behind the scenes to get big tech to censor opinions they dislike. Or maybe they'll do something crazy like declare the constitution amended--by tweet. Or maybe ...
Quote from Tish James, sounding a lot like Beta O'Rourke: "We have to stop believing or following the rules. Break the rules. Stop coloring inside the lines."
Just a reminder, she's the chief legal officer of the State of New York.
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Trump has magical powers. He's getting them to cancel Susan B. Anthony.
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Sweet. I’m going to import or manufacture for sale traditional incandescent light bulbs.
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American births peaked in 2007, 18 years ago. That means this year's graduating class from HS will be the peak. For the foreseeable future, every HS graduating class will be smaller and smaller.
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Why did Ted Lieu’s campaign donate $50,000 to Stanford before his son applied to Stanford?And why did Twitter yesterday suspend the account that pointed this out? washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
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The sitting president advertising his business is embarrassing. Tying it to his office is corrupt. He's telling lobbyists, "pay me to visit me here." nitter.app/kathrynw5/status/12051…
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Guys, gonna check off Twitter and out of the news for a bit so I can review some documents.
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I auto-scheduled this tweet one year ago, so that we could assess Ian's prediction, which he made with 100% certitude. nitter.app/ianbremmer/status/1726…
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What Eric and Donald Trump are doing, blending U.S. govt power with the Trump family fortune, is so clearly a corrupt abuse of power we might sanction a third-world country for doing the same thing.
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On coronavirus origins, a lot of people owe Tom Cotton an apology washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
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I have no appetite for conservative snark on this. This is a personal disaster for these journalists, and shrinking newspapers is bad for America—and good for crooked or inept politicians.
LATimes confirms 115 journalists laid off, or about 23 percent; newsroom will be at approx 385.
NOTE: Taken in combination with last year's layoffs, the Los Angeles Times has laid off about one third of its newsroom in less than a year.
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Abortion is the deliberate taking of a human life. Here’s how an abortionist describes it.
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If Harris is the president, I expect religious persecution. That's why I simply cannot understand any conservative who is voting for Harris. Fine, don't vote for Trump, but voting for Harris is voting to bring federal prosecutors down on Catholic schools, nuns, homeschoolers...
Notice that Harris describes abortion BUT NOT the free exercise of religion as "a fundamental freedom."
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Minnesota law had a specific duty to care for children who survive abortions. Walz repealed that duty.
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Okay. I’ve realized that Gemini is just one big send up. Good job, Google, you got me.
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I love mocking limousine liberals as much as anyone, but when an airline upgrades a frequent flyer, and the flyer, who is old and traveling constantly, takes the more comfortable seat--while flying commercial--0 people should give him crap for it.
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"He's an illegitimate president."
Hillary Clinton
"We didn't lose."
Stacey Abrams
"Russia hacked the election."
-Every single democrat and liberal talking head
"No Democratic candidate is talking about what has become standard fare among Republicans: simply not accepting defeat when you lose an election."
@kerryeleveld on the fundamental asymmetry of our politics.
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I hear the political consultants DeSantis didn’t hire have bad things to say about DeSantis.
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If Congress passed a law saying CDC, FDA, and HHS need to have websites promoting sex changes, then Trump would lack the authority to take down those pages.
But of course Congress didn't pass those laws. Instead, Biden did it unilaterally. And of course Trump has authority to undo it.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Judge John Bates orders the Trump administration to restore pages related to progressive sex and gender “healthcare” on the CDC, FDA, and HHS websites.
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He really just thinks that a trade deficit is a measure of wealth flowing out of the U.S. and into other countries.
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Guy interrupts Biden rally. “My wife left me”. Asks for how to get her back. Biden says he’ll talk afterwards.
When guy won’t sit down, Biden says “I’m beginning to see why your wife left you.”
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I kinda thought the Harpers letter was pointless. Then it instantly outed everyone who WANTS there to be a climate of fear. So it was a great service.
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The popular implication that Americans avoid teaching schoolkids about slavery is laughably wrong in my experience. What gets left out, in my experience, is how much worse things got after reconstruction....
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So it’s not a war, but it’s not law enforcement. It’s just, like, the government killing people.
TRUMP on cartel strikes: "Well I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're going to kill them. You know? They're going to be like, dead."
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Half of twitter is celebrating Paul getting coronavirus, or subtly implying it’s karmic justice. You should be embarrassed.
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Trump has made Trump voters out of independents and Democrats and Democratic voters out of independent voters and Republicans, and the net effect is a massive surge for Democrats since Trump's election.
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I "violated" CDC guidelines today by eating leftover chicken I hadn't reheated. You see, health authorities will always be single-minded and err on the side of caution, and a free people ought to weigh the official guidance against other considerations.
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This is a formula to keep a mask mandate, closures, and lockdowns forever. At this point, it's irresponsible for Biden to allow Fauci on the air.
CHUCK TODD: “Why does a vaccinated person have to wear a mask?"
DR. FAUCI: "You dramatically diminish" possible Covid infection with a vaccine, but vaccinated people could still carry infection.”
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Parents, please check your children's candy. Last year, someone gave my son a chocolate bar with shredded, sweetened coconut inside.
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What’s more aptly called a “book ban”?
When a middle school library removes a book with porn in it?
When the White House pressures the world’s largest bookseller to hide books whose content the WH dislikes?
THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling pressure from the White House”
Internal docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization indicate that @amazon bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS.
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Internals must look bad.
EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS NOW ON CNN: Biden administration to accuse Russia of sustained effort to influence 2024 election. cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/…
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It's one thing when they just abandon the rules instantly. It's another when they try to reinstate them immediately again--all along pretending, at every step, that they weren't saying the opposite thing 10 seconds ago.
The president’s plan to hold mass rallies in Florida and elsewhere as we experience a resurgence in COVID cases is irresponsible and selfish.
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