Mobilizing the English language for battle @PalantirTech. Former Senate speechwriter, policy advisor.
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Happy New Year, all. I'm pleased to announce my new job at @PalantirTech, where I'll be helping @ssankar and team make the case for major government reform.
I look forward to working for a company that's laser-focused on using technology to help America win. 🇺🇸
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The rolling revolt in Western politics—here, over there, everywhere—is fundamentally about immigration.
The beatings will continue until the border is secure.
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Replacement level = achieved. @elonmusk what kind of numbers do we need to put up to get an X discount?
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Auto dealers/lenders are one of the prime (ha ha) offenders here, but that's a convo precious few are willing to have.
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The Seitz family is growing. (Already!) Please say a prayer for Baby Seitz and his very lucky parents.
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Say hello to our baby girl, Gianna Teresa Seitz, born 7 lbs 7 oz early this morning. Momma and baby are healthy—and sleepy.
Thank you for your prayers. 🙏
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My paper w/ @austinbishop on manufacturing—how we lost it and how to get it back.
Thanks to @arc_forum for publishing it ahead of its conference this week!
The West has been sleepwalking into a deindustrialised abyss, outsourcing our ability to produce things, thereby outsourcing our sovereignty.
Here are the results of the Globalisation experiment we've run over the last few decades:
- Our cities have rusted over and factories mothballed.
- Our young people, out of gainful work, are starting families less and succumbing to deaths of despair more.
- Our civic cohesion has dwindled as small town businesses have consolidated into large corps.
- Our deterrence abilities against aggressor nations, who now control much of our supply chains, is on thin ice.
In this new ARC paper, @austinbishop and @blakeseitz argue that it is time to reindustrialise - and set out the choices we face if we are to rebuild and renew.
Read the paper here: arcforum.com/research-papers…
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Italian bouncer at this Austin, Texas bar is reading a print copy of National Review. Gave him the secret handshake.
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Personal notes found in the breast pocket of a very old cashmere jacket I just bought. Pray for the original owner, who I assume has passed. (And for the Morales family!)
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It appears an overwhelming display of force has in fact prevented the need for the use of force. Someone should write an op-ed about that.
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Got booted from the Army-Navy Club for wearing jeans (with a blazer and button down shirt), which is how you know it’s a club that still has the will to live.
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A reading list for those interested in what we're up to:
The Primacy of Winning, the manifesto:
piratewires.com/p/primacy-of…
The Defense Reformation, the playbook:
18theses.com/
First Breakfast, the journal:
firstbreakfast.com/
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I was "into chess" in middle school, but then I went on vacation to a remote mountain in Canada and the only other kid my age happened to be the UK's no. 1 ranked player. After getting my ass dragged across the board all week I was no longer into chess.
queen's gambit reminds me of my disappointment in myself for not getting into chess at the right age
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Promised myself I would hustle during the pandemic. Grind. Learn something new.
Tonight it paid off, as I finally won Battle Royale solo in Call of Duty: WarZone. 😤💪
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The Chappelle routine on abortion is subversively pro-life. He says abortion kills straight into the camera. The ending seal it: “And maybe if I’m wrong, we’re wrong.”
Conservatives need to learn how to take the W.
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So many people use clinical, dehumanizing rhetoric to refer to a group that science tells us are real-live human beings.
Why? 🤔
FWIW, "fetal heartbeat" is a misnomer. The ultrasound picks up electrical activity generated by an embryo. The so-called "heartbeat" sound you hear is created by the ultrasound. Not until 10 weeks can the opening and closing of cardiac valves be detected by a Doppler machine. ...
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It's not a heart beat, it's rhythmic electrical pulses in the cardiac region used to circulate blood!
I get that abortion activists are invested in not "getting it," but surely they know how pathetic this sounds.
nytimes.com/2022/02/14/healt…
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The reason why the mob is not discriminating between supposedly "legitimate" and "illegitimate" targets of destruction is because it is a mob.
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I hope an enterprising reporter gets to the bottom of this huge story.
My suspicion is that Dr. Wen was too apolitical & focused on public health (broadly speaking) to lead what is essentially an abortion corporation.
I just learned that the @PPFA Board ended my employment at a secret meeting. We were engaged in good faith negotiations about my departure based on philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood. My statement to come shortly.
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Seagram’s 7 is not half bad, he convinced himself, thinking of the dozen surplus wedding bottles he has to drink in coming year.
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Trads will come to rue this day when Justice Barrett mandates praise and worship music at their Masses.
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Grater was in the wash so I used a vegetable peeler to slice Parmesan onto my dinner. This might actually be the Better Mousetrap.
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And now one of the men. Thank you! @JacobReses @TS_Allen @CalebOrr__ @AdamWSJ @wbdnewton @slauerpowerhour
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The American people deserve beautiful public architecture. They prefer the classical style by overwhelming margins.
A demand by the outgoing President that should now be shelved is that future federal buildings be designed in consistent neoclassical style. If you love democracy, you don’t need an “official” architecture intended to impress or scare citizens with the might of the State.
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Good article in WSJ this morning about an apparel company that used automation and guaranteed demand (from Walmart) to make affordable T-shirts in America.
The somewhat buried lede: the owner of the company (American Giant) is a descendent of John Winthrop!
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The mediagenic cause. The pretense of rebellion. The implied rage of a hated, faceless foe (conservative Texas parents with their HAIR and their GUNS). This is peak meritocrat performance. She will go far.
In Texas, Lake Highlands High School valedictorian, Paxton Smith, switched out her approved speech to talk about abortion rights.
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The relative peace last night versus two nights ago, and in DC versus NYC, shows that overwhelming displays of force work—and prevent the need for use of force in many cases.
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Bowing to the tabernacle while one-arming a toddler is an advanced parent maneuver.
WATCH: @VP Vance and the Second Family visit Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris ❤️
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If the Supreme Court can turn half of Oklahoma into an Indian reservation 150 years later, then it can overturn the retrocession of Arlington County to Virginia, thus returning us to the '10 miles square' constitutional vision for the Federal City. #Believe
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Social-media subcultures are the Wuhan labs of the Internet. Gain of function through repetition, devastating spillover to unsuspecting population.
Someone elsewhere today described B***S*y as being "2010 Tumblr, except for 38-year-olds," and this encapsulates it perfectly. I shudder to think what new orthodoxies are currently being formulated there, soon to be unleashed on the rest of us.
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The most tiresome genre of commentary the past few days has been “I’m super pro-life, here’s how I rationalize being in a coalition with the abortion industry now.”
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The Rubio report has an interesting discussion of China's trade with the Global South, building on @davidpgoldman's work on that topic.
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Two-thirds of Americans, including 51% of Democrats, do not believe D.C. should be a state. You wouldn't know that from the media's blatant advocacy on this issue.
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Last year, one of the top books among *liberal* commenters was Bleeding Out, which advocated a cop surge in cities to fight violent crime.
Now they’re reading... what, exactly?
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The Washington Post has officially entered the bargaining phase of grief Re: Wuhan virus origins.
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The national media has only one gear when reporting on Democratic victories, and that gear is “yas kween.”
Joe Biden was elected the nation’s 46th president Saturday in a repudiation of President Trump powered by legions of women and minority voters who rejected his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his divisive, bullying conduct in office wapo.st/357xVzB
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Mujaddara (I used the Milk Street recipe but added cardamom and cinnamon) w/ crispy onions, zhoug, hummus, and yogurt. 👌
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Congressman-elect Tony Gonzales (R). 20-year Navy vet with six kids who won in a Texas border district on a pro-life, pro-family platform. 👍🇺🇸
tonygonzalesforcongress.com/…
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Just watched Kamala's concession speech. Marveling at the hundreds of young people there, red-eyed, hanging on her every dopey word, emotionally invested in her—the fakest cipher nominated in my lifetime—as an inspirational figure. Fascinating.
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Really interesting stuff in @SenMarcoRubio's new report evaluating Made in China 2025:
"We should be circumspect enough to realize that, in many areas, the days when China needed to steal from us are past. Now, in sectors as diverse as shipbuilding, EVs, and energy, China leads the rest of the world."
Full report here:
rubio.senate.gov/rubio-relea…
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Abortion is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. As Ronald Dworkin wrote, it is a choice for death.
Just a reminder.
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Hispanic Marine veteran and pastor (Republican) defeats vacuous celebrity mayor (Democrat) despite being outspent in a heavily Democrat city.
Guess how the story is framed. Progress delayed!
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Sonia Sotomayor just asked how the beginning of life is "anything but a religious view."
Someone please get her an embryology textbook.
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The best part of Arthur Brooks's documentary is when he goes to Spain to convince his inlaws about how great libertarianism is and they're super pro-Franco.
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Survivor: Grey Lady Edition is heating up. Ross Douthat wearing the sleeve of his dress shirt as a headband. David Brooks using his eyeglasses as a firestarter.
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The NYT fixates on stuff like Florida beaches out of a subconscious desire to blame their city’s predicament on a fifth column Other (MAGA superspreaders) instead of bad luck and governance failures.
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It takes serious chutzpah to say that abortion is “integral to human life.”
"It's frightening to think that we are potentially just two days away from living in a state where people cannot access basic reproductive healthcare—something that is safe and important and integral to human life." bit.ly/2JOhS0b
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I thought ‘ROC’ on the leaderboard was Taiwan this whole time, you telling me it’s Fake Russia??
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Oh no. Please don’t throw me into that briar patch.
If you are anti-choice and you want to make sure women carry every pregnancy to term, why not make the person who created the pregnancy contribute? Why not have men pay child support to the women they impregnate? Surely, it is not the woman’s responsibility alone? /end
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The notion that elite colleges prize "maturity" and "moral character" in their students is, of course, the biggest joke in this thread.
4/ After the story broke, former peers & political opponents began contacting Harvard urging them to rescind me. Harvard then sent this letter stating that Harvard "reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission" and requested a written explanation within 72 hours.
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They say golf is an expensive hobby. Last time I left my sunglasses in the cart; this time, my wallet.
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This is only the most consequential diplomatic post on Earth we’re talking about...
Letting him deepen his foreign policy chops could boost Buttigieg's future, since many inside the Democratic Party believe his return as a presidential candidate is a matter of when, not if. axios.com/pete-buttigieg-chi…
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Female urban professionals are out in force in Eastern Market. Carrying yoga mats. Ready to spring into yoga at a moment’s notice.
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The symphony orchestra is one of mankind's most beautiful and ennobling achievements.
nitter.app/GoodNewsCorres1/status…
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America’s abortion laws are more extreme and inhumane than practically every other country on Earth
In France, abortion is illegal after 12 weeks.
So the abortion standards in our most conservative state are still less stringent than France, a country many in the American Left look to for inspiration.
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Man, what are the odds that this once-in-a-century bat coronavirus pandemic emerged organically in a town outside the migratory range of horseshoe bats in a market within a few miles of China's only superlaboratory for bat coronaviruses.
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Praise God! From one convert to another: welcome home @JDVance1.
theamericanconservative.com/…
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As my friend @JacobReses points out, print subscribers to the NYT have now been subjected to countless columns and news articles about a Phantom Op-Ed that never appeared in the print edition.
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TIL: The St Joseph window at my church was a gift from Mrs. Eleanor Sherman, wife of William Tecumseh. She raised their eight children in the faith. One became a Jesuit. The general was baptized but skeptical (“my immediate family are strongly Catholic. I am not and cannot be”).
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Pray for Richard as he reflects on the astounding mystery of the Blessed Sacrament. 🙏🙏🙏
Roman Catholics are required to believe that communion wine actually is literally the blood of Christ, and the wafer literally is his body. Not symbolically but literally. Not a metaphor but literally. That way madness lies. At very least it’s a pernicious abuse of language.
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I was privileged to watch @Taylor_LaJoie enter the Catholic Church yesterday. Of the 15 or so people in attendance, maybe half were converts (including myself and the Dominican celebrant).
St. Ambrose, pray for Taylor and us all!
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