I love how The New York Times headlines this like there’s some equal right an illegal has to someone else’s social security number. “Two men, one identity” No, it’s one man, one identity. The other guy is just a thief.

I’d have some words with the executives of a company who employed a Guatemalan named “Dan Kluver”

The New York Times tells the story of two men. One is a blue collar American from rural Minnesota who has lived in the same town his whole life and works at the same factory that his father did. He has never been arrested, coaches baseball, and teaches Sunday school on the

I’m sympathetic to some of these issues and frustrations. Politics is a team sport & the needs/morale of the team matter. But also, Americans elected a GOP House & all of these people asked voters for a 2 year term. Quitting midterm, with rare exceptions, is dishonorable. Do the

It's slowly dawning on me that yet another outrage unfolded in the Covid years that sort of snuck by. It was that huge increases in health insurance cost via the ACA exchanges were covered up with government subsidizes, starting in 2021, to disguise the outrageous increases.

"Immigration is not a group level question" I'm sorry, but that's empirically absurd. Chain migration is pretty much the norm.

Once again, I don't think anybody sane is arguing that we should disregard individual-level information and only use group-level averages, but it's also irrational to disregard group-level averages just because you have individual-level information. As long as the

I wonder if they will resurrect the Trump classic: replace the ACA with the ability to buy insurance across state lines and replace the employer exclusion with an individual deduction for health insurance premiums.

Just had time to read this NYT story that has gotten a lot of comment today. The 'They Both Paid the Price' headline is disgraceful. But the story makes clear that 2 years in prison followed by immediate deportation is the very least the identity-stealing thrice-deported illegal

There needs to be a much greater penalty for resigning in the middle of a term. Especially for House people - you can’t make it 2 years with all those ridiculous taxpayer funded perks?

He does not lie. Link in followup.

Policy gets messed up when we confuse equilibrium outcomes as structural constants, but we simply can’t resist.

I keep observing this in the hopes someone will notice, but Boomers in the areas with housing shortages probably aren't selling their houses, because they have way more than $250K or $500K equity in them and paying capital gains on that is like hahahahaha no. Or is that just me?

It would be truly awesome if anyone in the education policy space would understand that "what ed schools do" matters FUCK.ALL.

My dad married his girlfriend at 48 when she was 26 (three years older than me). Although he had to marry her twice, because the first time he wasn't actually, er, divorced from my mom. My family has a high divorce rate, we don't take these things personally. And I must say that

Daniel Buck could tell you that water was wet and I'd advise a second opinion.

Yikes, people this movie is just not that good. It's passable but come on.

Might want to make sure the Christians surveyed aren't immigrants.

I'm on the left.

If true, I believe this will be a huge mistake.