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Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals: “The engineer is judged by the end product: if he builds a building that collapses, he’s ruined.” “Conversely, if an intellectual who is brilliant has an idea for rearranging society and it ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”

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You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. (...)" — Ayn Rand

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Between 2007 and 2012, scientists drilled deep into Greenland's ice as part of the NEEM project to uncover the climate story of the last interglacial around 125,000 years ago. What they found puts today's climate panic into perspective. Back then, Greenland was around 8C warmer than today. Sea levels were 4 to 8 meters higher. Yet the planet didn't collapse and Greenland didn't melt. There were no tipping points and no mass extinctions. The planet was far warmer and life flourished. So when activists claim that 2C of modern warming spells "catastrophe", the ice, the data and the history all say otherwise.

The goal isn't better government. It's less government.

To lower gas prices, Trump will issue 30-day waivers for the Jones Act, allowing foreign tankers to supply refiners on the East Coast with fuel from the Gulf Coast & other U.S. locations. Since this is an admission that the Jones Act raises gas prices, why not repeal it entirely?

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I support @MassieforKY. He's effective, he's principled, and he's the most fiscally conservative member of the House.

Prohibition didn't stop drinking. It created the mafia. The war on drugs didn't stop drug use. It filled prisons and funded cartels. Banning encryption won't stop secrets. It'll just make criminals out of citizens. This is the oldest pattern in civilization: ban a fundamental human behavior and watch it go underground. The behavior doesn't disappear. It just becomes dangerous, unregulated, and controlled by the worst people instead of the best. Privacy is a fundamental behavior. People have always whispered. Always kept things from others. Always kept parts of their lives separate from other parts. This isn't deviance, it's architecture. The human psyche requires rooms with doors. When governments push to ban strong encryption, mandate backdoors, or outlaw privacy tools, they're not preventing crime. They're creating a world where only criminals have privacy because criminals don't follow bans. Law-abiding people surrender their encryption keys. Criminals don't. Law-abiding people use KYC exchanges. Criminals don't. Law-abiding people comply. Criminals route around. The result? The people who need privacy most - journalists, dissidents, abuse survivors, activists - lose it. The people doing actual harm were never using compliant systems anyway. Every privacy ban is a prohibition. And every prohibition creates the exact underworld it claimed to prevent. The alternative: build privacy into infrastructure so well that it's not a choice. Not a political stance. Not suspicious behavior. Just how the system works. The way cash always worked.

When Congress votes to increase spending, they’re voting to increase your taxes, because you’ll pay for the additional spending through inflation and debt and taxes later, if not through taxes today. I’m the only Member of the House who hasn’t voted to increase your taxes.

@skumWgmi That's not what jobs are for, and neither you, nor anyone else gets to decide what jobs are for. Only the person paying the wage and the person receiving the wage get to decide that.

Yes, a cashier at Starbucks SHOULD be able to afford rent, groceries, & bills on just that 1 paycheque alone. THAT'S WHAT JOBS ARE FOR.

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Why did Ludwig von Mises love gold? He loved it because politicians hate it. Gold has one specific virtue: It cannot be printed by a government bureau. It is a geological constraint on the state's ability to rob you. Mises viewed the gold standard as part of the Bill of Rights. It separates money from the state, just like we separate church and state. If the government controls the ledger, they own you. If the ledger is anchored in reality (gold), you own yourself.