IT’S NOT NEGLECT, IT’S HATE:
Josh Stein and Roy Cooper, the two liberal governors through this tragedy, did not help Western North Carolina. Remember that. https://t.co/ouMogc7Y8L
— Margo (@MargoinWNC) March 29, 2025
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 29, 2025
ROGER SIMON: Greenland Yes, Canada No.
EH, THEY TOLD US A LOT OF STUFF:
Reminder: virtually every person in the political information distribution complex told you that Tim Walz was the Dems secret weapon for attracting moderates and rural men. https://t.co/ZLJ5YUhAOZ
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 29, 2025
CHANGE: RFK Jr. Unveils Plan to Transform HHS into MAHA Powerhouse: ‘We’re Going to Do More With Less.’
To demonstrate how dysfunctional the department was when he took charge, he revealed that it’s organizational (Org) chart was incomprehensible.”
“There was no chain of command,” he explained, adding that “territorial” and “self-serving” employees were operating in “all these different silos and fiefdoms.”
According to Kennedy, within these silos, officials were “selling patient information to each other.” He told Cuomo that when he tried to obtain Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) depersonalized patient data—which belongs to HHS—”the sub-agency said we have to buy it from them!”
“It doesn’t make any sense. There were sub agencies that wouldn’t give us patient data,” he complained.
Kennedy told Cuomo that HHS has 100 communications departments, 40 procurement departments and “dozens” of IT and human resources units.
“None of them talk to each other,” Kennedy said. “And what we’re trying to do now is to streamline the agency, to eliminate the redundancies and to focus the mission so that everybody at HHS is going to wake up every morning and say, ‘What am I going to do today to make America healthy again?’”
To alleviate fears being drummed up by Democrats and their allies in legacy media, he stressed that they are not going to cut services.
Faster, please.
I GUESS IT’S TIME TO GO A-PRIVATEERING, THEN! Russia’s Shadow Fleet: A Masterclass in Sanctions Evasion. “In the wake of Western sanctions surrounding the Ukraine war, Russia developed a network of clandestine oil tankers to ensure the continuity of its energy exports – the so-called ‘shadow fleet.'”
#CHANGE:
You mean it was that easy to close the border? Is it possible that all Europe can scrape up is a "reassurance force". This isn't the world I though I was in.
It's like discovering that the family money was long gone and your rich relatives had drawers full of discount coupons.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 29, 2025
#JOURNALISM:
Sorry, @WSJ, but you don’t get to play this game after yawning when Jill Biden ran cabinet meetings because Joe Biden’s brain was pudding—a fact you helped cover up for years. pic.twitter.com/1q1xUnPezD
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 29, 2025
FLASHBACK: “Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn’t the least bit true.”
SAD: The average college student today: How things have changed. “Most of our students are functionally illiterate. This is not a joke. . . . I’m not saying our students just prefer genre books or graphic novels or whatever. No, our average graduate literally could not read a serious adult novel cover-to-cover and understand what they read. They just couldn’t do it. They don’t have the desire to try, the vocabulary to grasp what they read,2 and most certainly not the attention span to finish. . . . Their writing skills are at the 8th-grade level. Spelling is atrocious, grammar is random, and the correct use of apostrophes is cause for celebration. Worse is the resistance to original thought. What I mean is the reflexive submission of the cheapest cliché as novel insight.”
On the upside, they’re ready for careers in journalism.
Plus: “I can’t assign papers any more because I’ll just get AI back, and there’s nothing I can do to make it stop. Sadly, not writing exacerbates their illiteracy; writing is a muscle and dedicated writing is a workout for the mind as well as the pen.”
March 28, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s megaconstellations take off, government backs commercial space.
REMEMBER, IT’S IMPORTANT TO PRESERVE RESPECT FOR THE JUDICIARY:
RIGHT NOW: Wisconsin Attorney General is suing to stop Elon Musk from giving away $2 million during the Supreme Court race between conservative Brad Schimel and liberal Susan Crawford. The judge assigned to the case? No joke: Susan Crawford. https://t.co/OZnI2AFT9x
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) March 28, 2025
Apparently, she’s recusing herself but that she’d even be assigned is crazy.
USEFUL DATING ADVICE:
At this point, if I were a young man, I would rule out any woman that has a social media channel where they give one-sided talks to a camera. It seems pathological. https://t.co/AqefDlJIog
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) March 28, 2025
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Exercise Boosts Brain Function Across All Ages, Massive Study Confirms.
THREAD:
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Another win for Trump with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals "staying" the lower court's decision Musk and others can't work with USAID. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 28, 2025
MICHAEL WALSH TALKS WITH director Tony Palmer.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: South Dakota Governor Rhoden Signs Pro-Carry Bills.
I’VE BEEN IN FAVOR OF MOVING FEDERAL AGENCIES OUT OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT FOR A LONG TIME. Jamie Raskin’s snit-fit only makes it better.
Dismantle the government itself?
Is this an ad for Trump? https://t.co/nU2z8Iyyiw
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 28, 2025
Flashback: “A few decades ago, Washington was a sleepy town, famously mocked by JFK for being a combination of “northern charm and southern efficiency.” You could dine at the fanciest restaurants on a senior civil servant’s salary, real estate prices were reasonable, and the cultural life was, well, pretty lifeless. This is what we should aspire to for D.C.’s future. . . . The nation’s capital shouldn’t be a place of extravagance and vibrancy, because those are basically byproducts of graft. It should be boring.”
A D.C. CIRCUIT WIN FOR TRUMP IN ABILITY TO FIRE FEDERAL OFFICIALS. Thread:
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump win in case involving his firing of executive officials. Lawyer version thread to be followed by layman's thread. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 28, 2025
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Youngkin’s Vetoes Save Virginia’s Lawful Gun Owners From Disaster Yet Again.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers.