Cary Farrow @cfarrow

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old. Let that number sit with you. Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention. What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with. While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another. He doesn’t argue feelings. He measures results. He isn’t selling anything. His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Sit with that, too. Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it. Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who. Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations: “I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.” “Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.” That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences. The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn. Sowell says it plain: “The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.” The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business. Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle: “Stay away from the race hustlers.” “Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.” That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before. Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing. Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions. What are the incentives? Who actually benefits from this policy? What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later? Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart. The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television. He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side. Ninety-five years of telling the truth. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

PSA: We aren’t Democrats. We aren’t Republicans. We’re Libertarians. We’re not here to play political games. We’re here to defend your rights. Every single one. You’re tired of the two old parties, & you’re not alone. Walk away. Choose freedom. Welcome home to liberty.

Thank you Bill Reeside for signing the #termlimits on Congress pledge. termlimits.com/wp-content/upl…

I’m in. Let’s do it.

Rand Paul @RandPaul

2 months ago

I introduced the Six Penny Plan because the answer to our debt crisis isn't complicated. Cut six cents off every dollar. Balance the budget in five years. Protect your children's future. The only thing standing in the way is Washington's refusal to live within its means.

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What "MAGA" really means The phrase has troubled liberals who think it is a call for a return to an America before civil rights, gay rights, and women's rights. But I have a more generous interpretation, one that is truer to my experience of Donald Trump as he is today. "Make America Great Again" recalls a nation brimming with vitality, with a can-do spirit, with hope and a belief in itself. It was an America that was beginning to confront its darker shadows, could acknowledge the injustice in its past and present, yet at the same time could celebrate its successes. It was a nation of broad prosperity, the world's most vibrant middle class, and a idealistic belief (though not consistently applied) in freedom, justice, and democracy. It was a nation that led the world in innovation, productivity, and technology. And it was the healthiest country in the world. I have talked to many Trump supporters. I have talked with his inner circle. I have talked to the man himself. This is the America they want to restore.

Happy Birthday @elonmusk & Mel Brooks. I’m honored to share a birthday with you both.

@FoxNews So as a convicted felon does this mean Hunter loses access to the President & residences?

How many people died in the BLM riots in summer 2020 vs the Jan 6th riots in 2021? (this is not a trick question) Why is the former considered acceptable, but the latter considered terrible?

NBC and CBS are reporting that both Trump’s driver and Secret Service agent are willing to testify under oath that Trump never attempted to grab the steering wheel. And just like that, today’s “bombshell” testimony at the #January6thCommiteeHearings is completely discredited

If this were Trump, the Democrats would have already convened Congress to start impeaching him.

@mayemusk @elonmusk What do you get a Billionaire for his birthday? I can only afford to send Best Wishes. Since it’s my birthday too today how about a new Tesla? LOL. Happy Birthday@elonmusk.

REPORT: A recovered voicemail reveals that Joe Biden did speak to son Hunter about international business dealings - despite the now-president's repeated denial of such talks. bit.ly/3A8Uxzt

Happy Birthday @elonmusk.

The next migrant caravan heading for our borders is primarily from Venezuela wanting to escape unlivable conditions there. Joe Biden wants Venezuela to sell us oil.

The idea that taxpayers owe it to you to pay for what you want suggests that much of today’s education fails to instill reality, and instead panders to a self-centered sense of entitlement to what other people have earned.

I don’t particularly like the GOP. However I am also an adult. Look at NYC, LA, SF. We don’t have to guess what happens when Democrats have total power. The experiment has been done. You simply must vote Republican, sorry to say, there’s no other way right now.

Politicians rush to send $40 billion to Ukraine, yet we don’t have enough money to protect our children with simple life saving solutions, like single points of entry to schools, staff training, mental health services, threat hotlines, and more.

One question that hasn’t been answered yet… Where does an 18-year-old unemployed high school drop out get the money to buy two AR style rifles w/ hundreds of rounds of ammo & magazines?

.@elonmusk says he'll vote Republican for first time in next election newsweek.com/elon-musk-vote…

Congress seems to be more concerned about the illegal aliens invading from space than those crossing our southern border.