Professor Eric Rasmusen

1. Please be polite. 2. Do disagree, but don't swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 3. I write as if my late parents are reading. Please do the same. 4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 5. A more civil society starts with you.

@JamesWHankins1 @rogerkimball @realDonaldTrump @replouiegohmert Tell me, Prof. Hankins, how to say it in Latin " Of the dead, say everything bad, not just the good, if there is any". (cf. De mortuis nilil dici sed bonum, or whatever)

@rogerkimball @realDonaldTrump @replouiegohmert Someone should ask the families of Joseph Salvati, Peter Limone, Louis Greco, and Henry Tameleo what they think of Mueller's part in covering up FBI malfeasance. Their families won 100+ million from the federal govt for miscarriage of justice.

Former FBI director Robert Mueller just died, age 81. Some are appalled by @realDonaldTrump's bitter response to his death. Some have even praised Mueller's character and job performance. Former Congressman @replouiegohmert wrote a summary of some of Mueller's more questionable professional activities. I think it makes Donald Trump's sharp response understandable and casts a definite pall over Mueller's reputation. docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU…

@PhilWMagness What has happened to Tucker? My old theory was that an Arab country was paying him. But NOBODY want to revive Mosley, and hardly anybody even knows about him. Who told Tucker about him?

Another Tucker Carlson falsehood: He portrays Mosley as a WWI fighter pilot hero, but in reality Mosley saw very little combat. He obtained an injury in the war from a plane crash...which was the result of his own reckless maneuvers while attempting to show off to his family during an air show in England. And he spent the rest of the war in a desk job.

Tucker Carlson is explicitly praising Oswald Mosley, head of the British Union of Fascists and personal friend of several leading Nazis (he even held his 1936 wedding in Joseph Goebbels' home in Munich with Hitler in attendance).

@RickHedin @SarahHuckabee no---there is an act of congress on that.

@erasmuse @SarahHuckabee Can they exclude black people?

Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and told us to leave. Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and while that restaurant didn’t meet that standard, my administration will continue to focus on lifting Arkansans up, not tearing others down.

@saniyafatma1278 Nothing, legally. And reasonably-- it's his land. You might try planting vines to crawl up the fence (with attachments). Or, you could pay him to take it down.

I seriously need some help here. My neighbor just put up this massive metal fence right along our property line and I’m honestly pretty upset about it. It completely changed the whole feel of my driveway and now it looks like I’m pulling into some kind of industrial corridor. I had no idea this was even happening until the thing was already built. It feels like my space just got boxed in overnight. What on earth can I do in a situation like this???

UPDATE: After our story posted, employees at The Croissanterie posted this defiant picture. And now it all makes sense. “I’m proud af to be gay”

@RickHedin @SarahHuckabee It's their restaurant. They can exclude Republicans if they want.

@SarahHuckabee But, you can’t yield. They’ll run over the next person.

@scotthraines I should read Road and BLood Meridian and Horses again. I liked them. But they're probably the kind of book that is enjoyed most on second or third reading. That's one definition of a classic. I've found that with some books and music (Beethoven late quartets).

Cormac McCarthy is a good metric for how well you can read—it’s not the faux literary fluff that gets praised today, but it’s also not readily apparent to the reader. So much is said in what is unsaid, so you have to really read. For example:

@pegobry_en Why not the "Algerie Francaise"?

There’s naming *one* aircraft carrier after de Gaulle, and then there’s naming *two* aircraft carriers after de Gaulle

@TDieppe I suppose during Ramadan, the Nigerian Muslims stop eating Christians.

King Charles: "Nigeria has long shown: that people of different faiths can, do, and must live alongside one another, in peace, in harmony and in shared purpose.” Does he have no idea of the level of persecution of Christians in Nigeria? gbnews.com/royal/king-cha…

@masquer_m14438 @bonchieredstate I was there a few years ago and it was tragic how bad it had become. Britain hates itself. There weren't crowds, tho-- it's so bad they'll probably close it because of poor popularity.

So sad to hear that! During my exchange tour with HM RM I used to spend many of free days there when in London. Go early ahead of the mobs, take a break to have coffee and lunch on the lawns, see each exhibit in detail. The environmental walk-thru recreations were amazing, the WWI trench was a favorite. Being the disparate Yank got me access to the reference libraries and exhibit storerooms. A bottle of embassy store Scotch now and again got me into the occasional exhibit preview and the Photography Archive as well. I suppose destruction of the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall is also only a matter of time. Such a shame!

Four of the five senior leaders are women with no background in military history. They turned a once-great, highly accessible museum into whatever this monstrosity of modernism is where what exhibits even remain are in elevated cubby holes you can’t even see.

@drantbradley Pastor Wilson was both liked and heavily criticized, on many different subjects. He was willing to engage with people who disagreed with him

Doug Wilson didn’t change. Evangelical culture did. For 30+ years, his views were public, documented, and criticized. Influential evangelical men chose to publish, defend, and amplify him anyway. This is the story of the men and platforms that ushered him into the Pentagon.

@jakedell73 We protestants can claim those 1500 years too. It was all Council of Trent stuff.

Yes. Catholics did get the first 1500 years wrong.

@ParadigmNYC @megbasham Probably. I was young then, and looking for any smart, non-ugly, lady to marry.

@erasmuse @megbasham I was jealous of Woody Allen when he was with Diane. How about you Eric?

I just realized that Oscar’s in memoriam did not include Brigitte Bardot. One of the biggest stars that France ever produced who also starred in American films like the western like Shalako with Sean Connery. Why would they exclude an actress of that magnitude? Because she dared to voice at the end of her life that France should be for the French. Not for Muslim foreigners.

@zenahitz It's learninig! The idea is the same, but the original researcher almost never explains it very well, or even understands it cery well. He's a researcher, not an expositor.

Hard disagree. One question: Why would it be that the original sources are confused about what they are doing, but today's researchers are not? Is it magic? Of course, original scientific papers don't bring you up to date on the latest thing. They do help you to see foundations.

@pmddomingos It doesn;t matter who has been buying. The price of oil will rise, and all oil buyers will be hurt. This is a big, simple, point from economic theory.

The oil flowing through the strait of Hormuz goes to China and Europe, but somehow it’s America’s job to protect it.

@zenahitz Only read those great minds who know how to write. Not Newton. Not Hegel.

It is the hardest of the great books, in my opinion. Also an incredible entry point into seeing the foundations of mathematical physics and what this form of thinking both offers and obscures.

When a girl says, "5 mins", think about it like there are five minutes left in the 4th quarter and both teams have all their timeouts.

Zeng Zhaoqi was appointed party secretary of Guan County, and was humiliated by the fact that his province ranked last in family planning. He declared 100 days, no births. To achieve it, he brought in men from elsewhere to force every woman to have an abortion. He was promoted.

What I use is a King James, and interlinear if I want to get things just ride. Online now, a book earlier in life. Interliear is good to use. You don't need to know Greek or Hebrew. It's helpful to know the alphabets but not necessary. With an interlinear, you can wipe out JH

I fumbled the ball, badly. 🥹 Three JW's came to my door and I invited them in to talk. I've never done that before, but last night I prayed to God to send Jehova's witnesses to my door so I could share the gospel, so I knew I needed to talk to them when they arrived. I asked them if they believe that Jesus is God in flesh, that he was with God the Father and the Holy Spirit through eternity past, that he came and lived a sinless life and died for our sins, so that we could live ... And they started cherry picking, saying all of our translations are wrong-- that if I knew Greek, I would realize that He is only ONE son of God and is a god among many. I quoted 'in the beginning was the Word and the word was God' and 'and the Word became flesh' ... And they started up with Greek again. First, my ESV was wrong. When I pulled a KJV off the shelf, that was also 'mistranslated'. What they were saying felt heretical to me and I lovingly asked them to leave, rather than keep trying. What a huge opportunity; what a massive failure on my part. What are we to do? I feel like I'll never know enough to be able to be able to make a difference with people who follow another gospel.