The fact that Europe embarked on a disastrous "expansionary austerity" experiment based on a paper that only reached significance because an Excel average left out half the data points proved to be such a disaster it made *Larry Summers* look like a bleeding heart keynesian

The Carter ones are crazy because it's was about Senate Democrats arguing with House Democrats about allowing Medicaid to be used to pay for abortion for rape victims.

This is like a bartender posting "Just served Jim his 10th beer of the night. Proud to hand him back his keys❤️"

Everyone wants to blame fertility declines on their pet issues. The WORLD has dropping fertility. Danes have gobs of equality and government help, and their fertility is below ours. Japan is rich and safe, and theirs is lower. This is a wealth problem, not a poverty problem.

With the passing of Jesse Jackson, it's worth remembering his second-greatest influence on the English language: Making people think that "reverend" is a title rather than an adjective. As memorably put by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities:

As Dan McLaughlin correctly cites PJ O’Rourke, covering Jackson’s 1988 DNC speech: nationalreview.com/corner/on-the-…

Prosecuting a Prince doesn’t feel right to me He should be banished, exiled, locked in a tower unceremoniously, married off to a rival royal family against his will or something to that effect

If you had said 10 years ago that a college Republican group would advocate a constitutional crisis in order to uphold import taxes, they’d gave thrown you in an asylum.

martin struck some sort of bargain where the next book series he would write would become incomprehensibly famous at the price of him dying upon its completion, but the demon forgot to close all the loopholes so he's immortal as long as he never finishes ASOIAF

the Philadelphia mob slaughtered itself in an orgy of violence in the 80s and early 90s, which did nothing but bring attention from law enforcement and get the organization practically destroyed by RICO Its former head has a podcast and opened a cheesesteak restaurant now

this is the most superfluous addition to a band maybe in the history of rock n roll. Morello brings absolutely nothing. It's like if Lenny Kravitz or Machine Gun Kelly joined the Rolling Stones or something.

thinking of this anecdote about the first McDonald’s in Russia

You live in *Boston, Massachusetts*. You’re absolutely surrounded by libs every time you go to a Bruins game. You just don’t notice because they are there to watch hockey, like you!

This is clearly a facility someone wearing an oddly skimpy outfit is going to try to escape from after discovering the dark secret beneath the apparent utopia

What Crockett did is bad, but I think it will become more common. Politicians used to need the media more than we needed them. That is now reversed.

Wild times A teacher? Taxed Income A police officer? Taxed Income Health Care Worker? Taxed Income 3rd string cornerback? Tax free $$$

Maura Healey went from a 60% reelection to a record landslide.

What do you mean you can do karaoke and eat great food in the building where Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was plotted