Steve Holmlund

From ~3000 years ago, but anticipating Twitter: Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse. Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you. Prov. 9:7-8 (NIV)

@EWErickson Had the privilege of hearing and meeting @Mike_Pence with @RichLowry a few months ago in San Francisco. He is the real deal and a good man to have praying for you and your wife.

Come, friends, it is story time. Let me tell you a story. As most of you know, my wife has stage 4 lung cancer. With metronomic regularity, my wife has to have scans of her lungs to make sure her tumors are not growing, and the chemo she is on is working. I tend to forget when the scan days are. They stress me out. Then I wind up forgetting I have to be off work and take my wife to her appointments. Twice, the way I remembered scan days is because @Mike_Pence reached out to say that he and Karen had been praying for Christy and knew her scan appointments were coming up. Yep, the former Vice President of the United States, once while actively serving as VP, was my reminder that my wife's scans were upcoming. He and his wife are regular prayer warriors for my wife. I say all this to note that in the past few weeks, finally having gotten tired of the relentless bullying from the very online @BaptistLeaders E.D. @WilliamWolfe towards other Christians, I spoke out, and now William regularly tries to shame me into not speaking up and not speaking out about faith issues. I have an actual (largely harmless) stalker and William is rapidly becoming a second one. William even attacked the former President of the Southern Baptist Convention for pointing out @BaptistLeaders could have worked to resolve issues at a Baptist convention, but instead chose to complain while doing nothing. A few days ago, while publicly and privately chastizing me as a slob, hypocrite, and fake Christian who needs to repent, William sent me the note attached hereto. Notice how, for a guy worried about Christianity, it was all political. He is not really concerned about my faith or Christianity. He's concerned about politics, which is why he is not very successful operating within the church. And, frankly, I'd rather be on an island with "Mike Pence types" who pray for my wife than on an island with the theobros who keep failing to turn Christ's church into an avenue for politics. When you hold yourself out as some sort of godly Christian and think Mike Pence, an actual Christian of strong convictions, is a pejorative, you are actually the problem. The @AmReformer project is doomed to fail with very hyperonline guys like William leading @BaptistLeaders because actual Christians can smell the grift and sense the heartlessness of someone way more worried about Twitter ratios and "Never Trump" than the work of the church. If your project is measuring success by the metrics of how many times you have ratioed someone, you are not actually living in the real world and need to touch some grass. It actually is funny the money spent on a project to change the church that has actually done more to alienate churches from the underlying project just because the face of the project spends more time in rank jackassery towards Christians than any other group.

Can you name a more unique guitar player than him?

@EsotericCD @NRO Crank up Blondie’s “Dreaming”…

I know it won't happen, but a man has a right to dream . . . A nightcap at @NRO:

@caddietales Those are “stroke and distance” situations if ever there were any…

Are you getting up and down?

@DanCALmatters As far as I can tell, the chair of the Fast Food Council is still vacant and there have been no meetings since Feb. 2025, even though the law requires meetings every 6 months. If they can ignore that part of the law, why can't others customize their own compliance?

New column: California's $20 fast food wage yields higher prices, fewer jobs, more automation calmatters.org/commentary/dan…

@NoRunnyEggs @JonahDispatch I was wondering when their funerals would be held...

@JonahDispatch Also, 0.07% of the seats on North Korea's parliament suddenly opened up. Completely (not) coincidental.

Citizens United was a mistake.

@NRO One of the problems Californians are all too familiar with is that he just "says stuff" that no one seriously challenges him on. Sometimes this is because he "says stuff" without allowing anyone to question. Other times, it's because the interviewers are already on his team.

People devastated by addiction needed leaders whose urgency arrived before the polling did. They needed honesty about what went wrong and who was steering. Instead, they got Gavin Newsom. | John Mac Ghlionn nationalreview.com/2026/03/gavin-…

@DanCALmatters Next time you're in position to ask, see if our Governor knows who John Galt is.

New column: Billionaires bolt from blue states amid tax fears, mirroring rebellion in 'Atlas Shrugged' novel calmatters.org/commentary/dan…

@NRO I for one do not welcome our new spyware overlords on my devices...

National Review is joining TikTok. Given that we resisted this step for years consistent with our editorial stance that the social media platform should be outlawed, we owe it to you, our readers, to explain why. nationalreview.com/2026/03/why-we…

@DanCALmatters 93 in Half Moon Bay at 4:00 p.m. Fortunately, dropped to 75 close to the coast in Montara. Still, very toasty outside.

For the record my home thermometer hit 90 at 2:30 pm. Technically it’s still winter.

@Bruce_Jenkins1 @DrewHanlen Less is more. NBA starting in October and ending I late June is nuts. Should end before May.

@DrewHanlen Yes. I've been arguing 58 for years.

If/when NBA expands to 32, they should make the season 62 games & eliminate back-to-backs. Every team plays each other once at home & one away.

@KVanValkenburg @jamescolgan26 Luke 12:19-21

@jamescolgan26 Great men of history never thought about the past or about internal life? Do these fuckers ever read a single book? Do they think the Odyssey was about ships and sword fights? Moby Dick came out in 1851. Don Quixote came out in 1605. What the fuck does he think Hamlet is about?

if only these guys were as good at building companies as they are at sounding like serial killers

@shipwreckedcrew Without accountability in Sacramento for how the billions are spent (and wasted), there are a large number of taxpayers who continue to view Prop 13 as essential.

If you were alive in the 1970s when the voters passed it, and you understand what led to it, they would not have the same POV.

@asymmetricinfo @scottlincicome Can we at least get the central planners to grow up and abandon static analysis where they cling to the fantasy that no one adjusts to their foolish initiatives? These people need to get a lemonade stand and try to make a buck honestly before they venture into redistributing OPM.

California's billionaires skew young so at any sort of reasonable discount rate, NPV of future income taxes should only be minimally altered by mortality. Also, if the reports of billionaires moving are true, this tax is already causing significant flight.

@RobStutzman CA Dear Leader does this all the time. The CA excise tax on gas is now $0.612 per gallon. Then there is a 2.25% sales tax calculated on the retail price AFTER federal ($0.18) & CA excise taxes are included. @GavinNewsom JUST SUSPEND THE CA EXCISE TAX!!!

Reminder that all Americans are paying higher pump prices for effect of Iran war, but only Californians pay more than any other Americans in state taxes and regulatory fees per gallon. Factspergallon.com

@asymmetricinfo @cafreiman The right to close up shop is the last defense of a business against the OPM addicts...

@cafreiman I don't think there is any way under US law to make it difficult/impossible to close a grocery store. No court is going to rule that you have an obligation to lose money.

If you make it costlier for grocery stores to close, you’ll make it less likely that grocery stores will open in the first place.

@asymmetricinfo @KelseyTuoc @jessesingal She remains proof that ANYONE can be a Senator...

@KelseyTuoc @jessesingal Some of us were onto this fact 15 years ago! theatlantic.com/business/archi…

Elizabeth Warren turned out to be one of the most profound disappointments imaginable as a Senator. Presented as a technocrat interested in what works, actually the absolute worst of the slopulists.

@jimgeraghty I'm a broken record on this, but Governor Newsom is not competent. Someone in the MSM needs to make it their mission to make this clear to more people.

Katie Couric Asks Gavin Newsom, 'Are You Just Ridiculously Good-Looking?' nationalreview.com/corner/katie-c…

@scottlincicome Central planning is a tough job. Lots to stay on top of...

Hahahahaha.

@DominicJPino On Canon formation, I found Craig D. Allert's book helpful: A High View of Scripture? The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon

Aside from all of the politics, lying about the composition of the Bible itself should raise any Christian's alarm. Jeff explains it well: