Lance Gentry

Where Americans moved to and from in 2025. Massachusetts experienced the most loss of any state, Kansas the most of any Republican state, and South Carolina grew the fastest of any state. In contrast, Delaware grew the fastest of any Democrat state. Republican states dominated in growth overall. Follow: @AFpost

By 1900, the United States had achieved a 90% literacy rate largely by using McGuffey Readers in one-room schoolhouses.  But, yeah, NYC’s problem is it’s not spending enough money.

They don’t teach that from 1920-1970, the US had severely restricted immigration… In those 50 years we won WW2, became a global economic and military superpower, created a booming economy, a thriving middle class and a strong common culture. The America everyone talks about.

A fascinating survey!

@RachelVT42 Although you have to explain that gay originally meant happy before it was culturally appropriated.

By the way, let me be clear about this: if you’re serious about teaching your kids how to read properly in English, you *must* use texts and books published before the 1960s. No, this is not about rejecting modernity, this is about making sure your kids can learn to read a wide variety of sentence structures as well as a wide enough vocabulary scope. It’s ridiculous that my 6yo can read much harder texts than most English speaking kids her age just because she learned decoding and blending in French before doing so in English. As a bilingual kid juggling with two sets of phonetics rules, she should be late compared to her peers, not well ahead of them.

In 1879, the United States returned to the gold standard after seventeen years of greenback inflation during and after the Civil War. Prices had roughly doubled during the war as Lincoln's government printed paper money to finance the conflict, and now gold convertibility meant those inflated dollars had to shrink back to their pre-war purchasing power. The political class screamed about "cruel deflation" while farmers and debtors demanded more paper money (sound familiar?). During the 1880s and 1890s, wages stayed roughly flat while prices fell by about 30 percent. Your dollar bought more food, more clothing, more everything. The deflation was returning stolen purchasing power to everyone who held money. The greenback inflation had been a hidden tax on savers and wage earners, and deflation was simply the refund. When governments inflate the money supply, they're not creating wealth—they're redistributing it from money holders to the first recipients of new money. The farmers howling about deflation in the 1890s were really complaining that they couldn't keep benefiting from this transfer. (William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech was basically a 19th-century version of today's calls for "quantitative easing forever.") Today's Fed officials would have you believe that 2% annual inflation is somehow natural and necessary. Those 1880s workers watching their paychecks buy more every year knew better. Deflation in a growing economy is supposed to be the feature.

Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments: 1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint. 2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. 3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. 4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States. 5. First President to violate the War Powers Act. 6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. 7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party. 8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs. 9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters. 10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. 11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions. 12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. 13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign. 14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space. 15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation. 16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. 17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. 18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases. 19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. 20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN). 21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. 22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal). 23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case. 24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. 25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists. 26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office. 27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records. 28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. 29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours. 30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers. 31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife. 32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense. 33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense. 34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth. 35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona). 36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences." 37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. THERE I FEEL BETTER NOW!

Feminists never talk about this because it was a classic example of the real world debunking their fantasy of gender pay gap. >Google >Conducted internal pay equity study in 2019 >Expected to find women underpaid compared to men >Instead discovered more men were underpaid for similar work >Gave pay raises to thousands of men (majority of $9.7 million went to men) >Feminists and media immediately called the study “flawed” This is what happens when a company actually checks the real data instead of pushing the narrative.

Have to admit, Elizabeth Warren endorsing a candidate sporting a Nazi tattoo and bragging about Latin American prostitutes was not on my bingo card for 2026.

@b_fink What does this imply about AIs, that now can write at least as well as half the population?

Clear writing is evidence of clear thinking. And the opposite.

Super PAC backing Ken Paxton just dropped a brutal ad against James Talarico, using nothing but his own words against him. God is nonbinary. Six genders. Transgender kids. ends with: “Low-T Talarico.” Texas WILL NOT buy what this guy is selling.

@news_jul @nbcsnl What a graceful response, good for you!

I'm glad I could take one for the team with @nbcsnl on summer break Thanks for the memes, internet! Hope you'll stick around for the reporting 🙇‍♀️

There is something to this, but it is not absolutely true. I know because I teach students with a wide range of intelligence, and then test their understanding on the topics I teach. While intelligence is important, and people need a minimum amount to grasp concepts and then determine the implications and consequences, effort is also a key factor and matters just as much, if not more. Attitude plays a role too. I would much rather teach - and converse - with a person of average intelligence, a good work ethic, and an open mind than with a genius who coasted through school and thus believes he knows everything and doesn't need to apply himself. Incidentally, I believe your perspective is shared by a number liberal professors, most Democrat politicians, and many government bureaucrats. That's part of the second- and third-order efforts of the superiority theory. It impiles that poor normal and low-IQ folk need government regulation and assistance to live in an increasing complex and competitive world.

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

Very curious to know…Why won’t Virginia turn over its registration data over to the DOJ? What is there to hide?

@ashleyschendel Many of Gen Alpha cannot read analog clocks. No real reason why they should either.

Rotary phones feel ancient until you remember every generation has some basic piece of technology that makes them look ridiculous. Kids don’t know how to dial a number on a wall phone. Plenty of adults can’t rotate a PDF, find a download, or work the TV remote at someone else’s house.

@TheBabylonBee Bruh… you watching me? *unplugs complexa devices* 🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂

Hunter Biden's Reputation In Ruins After Talking To Candace Owens buff.ly/a9QLRT0

So long as we no longer have to swap between standard and savings time, I couldn't care less which option becomes permanent. Local schools and businesses can set whatever starting times they want, so they will determine if students and others start their days in the dark or not. And nothing we can do will add more hours to the day. I used to live in Lansing, Michigan. They barely get 9 hours of daylight in the winter. People who live farther north get less...

Please amend this bill to reflect Permanent Standard Time instead of Permanent Daylight Savings Time. This is a school safety issue (among other things...). -Thank You- @RepDarrenSoto @RepLuna @SecKennedy @GOP

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Just to reveal your idiocy: The MASH finale was broadcast on an over-the-air network available to any TV owner with an antenna . The Yellowstone Finale was broadcast on the Paramount Network, a cable TV channel available in 61 million homes. The Johnny Carson Tonight Show was also broadcast on a television network -- NBC. The Stephen Colbert Late Night Show was broadcast over a television netork -- CBS. The viewing habits of the TV audience is more fractured. But there are about 124 million households in the US with TV. All of them had the ability to watch Colbert. Only 6 million chose to do so.

@Murk441 Microsoft