Timothy P. Carney
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At first, I was fine with the lockdowns. I should have known better
Three years ago, on a metro ride home on March 9, I scrolled through tweets documenting overwhelmed emergency rooms in Italy. The next morning, March 10, I canceled my planned trip to Ohio, which was to include a campus speech and covering Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders speeches. Within hours, the campus where I was supposed to speak canceled all events, as did Biden and Bernie. → Read More
Here’s the basic fact about the Earth that makes Daylight Saving Time a great idea
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) announced that her 17-year-old son Tyler and his girlfriend are expecting a child. Boebert also shared how her son reminded her that she became a teenage mother and made her mother a grandmother at the age of 36. → Read More
Connecticut mandates helicopter parenting. A new bill could fix that
Gov. Ned Lamont claims his Connecticut is the most family-friendly state in the union and pledges to keep working to make life easier for parents. → Read More
Fairfax County's library paid Nikole Hannah-Jones $35,000 to speak, then agreed to take the video of her speech down
Update: As of 12:20 p.m. on Monday, Fairfax County had removed its video of Nikole Hannah-Jones's publicly funded conversation from its YouTube page. → Read More
Shakedown: Democrats hassle Southwest Airlines, Southwest hires Democrat lobbyist
Southwest Airlines canceled tens of thousands of flights late last year due to its own faulty systems. This massive failure triggered an investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Did Southwest effectively deceive its customers by scheduling flights in a manner they should have known was unrealistic? Has Southwest refunded everyone every dime owed? → Read More
The Biden administration’s junk-science-based plan to mandate coal-powered stoves
A member of the Biden administration admitted last year to planning a complete ban on natural gas-powered stoves through the Consumer Product Safety Commission. "There is sufficient information available for CPSC to issue a [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking] in FY 2023 proposing to ban gas stoves in homes," Democratic operative and Biden-appointed CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka wrote in October. → Read More
The baby bust makes industrial policy an even worse idea than it normally is
The temptation is eternal to use taxes, regulations, subsidies, and mandates to steer the economy in politically desired directions. Call it the Eternal Urge to Industrial Policy. → Read More
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is gaining steam. It still makes no sense
There’s a great debate to have about the Electoral College, whether it should still exist or whether we should amend the Constitution and determine our president through a national popular vote. → Read More
Japan is talking about mass suicide today because they didn’t have enough babies for three decades
Everyone makes bad jokes once in a while and has to explain himself. Not everyone publicly tells a culture that its only course of action is mass seppuku by the elderly. → Read More
If Trump is attacked for being insufficiently pro-war, he will win
Nikki Haley is Donald Trump’s first opponent in the 2024 Republican presidential field. She was Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, but she has made her foreign policy differences with him clear. → Read More
That ‘f*** your prayers’ guy fits perfectly in Michigan’s anti-religious Democratic Party
"F*** your prayers" is the official message of Ranjeev Puri, a leader in Michigan's Democratic Party. → Read More
Has Chris Sununu missed the last decade of the culture war?
Conservatives these days are rightly debating the proper role of local, state, and federal governments in the culture war. → Read More
Super Bowl 2023: What is a catch? The NFL needs to study Aristotle
In Philadelphia, Super Bowl LVII will be remembered for a bad late-game penalty call that killed the Eagles’ chances. But there were two other important calls the referees got wrong that should push the NFL to change its rules, its processes, and, frankly, its philosophy. → Read More
Biden's big-government agenda creates lucrative job market as administration officials cash out
Revolving-door lobbyist-and-consultant Ron Klain is exiting the White House after two years as Biden’s chief of staff, and is being replaced by revolving-door-investor-and-consultant Jeff Zients. Klain’s not the only one cashing out, and Zients isn’t the only one revolving in. → Read More
The disappearing transit rail blues
While federal workers and Google employees ferociously defend their God-given right to do their jobs in their pajamas and never see their bosses in the flesh, almost everyone else actually works at work. → Read More
The Great 2023 Cashout begins with Richard Burr joining lobbying giant DLA Piper
A fine midwinter tradition in Washington, D.C., is the parade of press releases from K Street announcing which former senators and congressmen have joined which lobbying firms. → Read More
The time Joe Biden proposed sunsetting every federal program — even Medicare
The death toll from Monday morning's pre-dawn earthquake in Turkey and Syria has surpassed 9,400, making it the deadliest seismic event in the past decade. Turkish authorities said Wednesday that 6,957 of its citizens died in the quake, and the Syrian government reported 1,250 deaths of its own, according to the Associated Press. → Read More
Drill, baby, drill: Biden attacks oil companies for not extracting more oil
Democrats face an awkward conundrum on wealth and taxes. More than ever before, Democrats are the party of the rich, yet much of their voting base craves class warfare. → Read More
No, President Biden, it wasn’t a virus that closed schools in 2021. It was the Democrats
President Joe Biden began his State of the Union address with a message of hope and resurgence, “progress and resilience.” → Read More
‘There is no reason we can’t work together,’ Biden tells lawmakers whom he called ‘semifascists’
President Joe Biden will declare in tonight’s State of the Union address that partisan fighting is bad and that there is no obstacle to the Republican Party working with his White House. → Read More