Steve Barry

Christian, Husband, Dad
-Barton College Men's Soccer Asst. Coach
-Owner: AQWA
-Owner: Casita Brewing Co.

[Steve Barry @CoachSteveBarry]

In life. Be this guy.

[Waterloo Voodoo @WaterlooVoodoo]

@EchoesofWarYT Texas A&M graduate Lt Col James Earl Rudder

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

After being fired from CBS, former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley yesterday said that “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.”

Those are remarkable claims for which Pelley presented no evidence. Indeed, it would be extraordinary for CBS to demand such things of a correspondent, either verbally or in writing, given the reputational risk to the network.

A more likely explanation is that Pelley disagreed with someone at CBS and then declared a difference of opinion to be a demand to lie. Support for this interpretation comes from the fact that he claimed Tuesday that CBS’s new management, led by Bari Weiss, was trying to kill “60 Minutes,” something for which he also did not provide evidence.

Moreover, the accusation makes no sense. CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss took the job to rebuild CBS News, not to wreck it, and a ruined “60 Minutes” would hurt her. Paramount’s owners did not pay billions for the network to burn its best asset for spite. So the simpler reading is that Pelley is the one stretching the truth.

Doing so appears to be a habit for Pelley. He told The New York Times, “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq,” but being in a combat zone as a journalist is not the same as being “in combat.” The remark is yet more evidence of Pelley’s propensity to exaggerate to the point of lying.

For decades, mainstream liberal journalists have displayed remarkable levels of arrogance, even as they get major stories wrong.

Consider the case of CBS News’ former anchor Dan Rather. In the fall of 2004, two months before the election, Rather presented documents purporting to show favoritism in George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Experts called them forgeries. CBS apologized: “We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry,” Rather said. On air, he added, “I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry.”

But then, a decade later, Rather told Variety he still stands “100 percent” behind the report and reframed the apology.

Or consider NBC’s Katie Couric. In her 2016 documentary “Under the Gun,” editors inserted roughly eight to nine seconds of silence after she asked Virginia gun owners how to keep guns from felons and terrorists without background checks, making them look stumped. The raw audio revealed that they answered immediately.

Couric’s first instinct was to defend what she did, saying she was “very proud of the film.” Only after sustained backlash did she apologize.

In her 2021 memoir “Going There,” Couric admitted she cut Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s harshest anthem-kneeling comments from her 2016 interview. Ginsburg had said kneeling players showed “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life, which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”

NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in the spring of 2020, aired a clip of Attorney General Bill Barr that omitted part of his answer, misleading the public.

When Catherine Herridge interviewed Barr for CBS Evening News, she asked what history would say about his decision to drop the case against a former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Michael Flynn. The Obama administration’s FBI had illegally targeted Flynn for entrapment and prosecution. Barr replied that ”history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

"Meet the Press'" anchor at the time, Chuck Todd, said on air that Barr “didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.’” But “Meet the Press” had left out the second part of Barr’s answer to Herridge, in which he said, “But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law.”

The safeguards the journalism profession built against error did not work when it mattered. The corrections, the editors, the fact-checkers, and the standards desks all sat in place while the press got the border, trans medicine, climate, the sixth extinction, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, Covid and much else wrong. Gerth described how reporters sought to “shoot the messenger” rather than grapple with evidence contradicting the Russia collusion narrative...

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[Steve Barry @CoachSteveBarry]

@BasedMikeLee Jefferson was right! 😃
Madison won! 😔

[Steve Barry @CoachSteveBarry]

To every government agency, media outlet, and NGO hoping to weaponize Ebola for compliance:

I will never lock down again.
I will never wear a mask again.
I will resist with everything I have.

Signed,
This Guy

[Steve Barry @CoachSteveBarry]

Epic speech.

[Dan Proft @DanProft]

Life is like a guitar. @ericchurch offers a brillianct commencement address (and guitar lesson) at his alma mater, UNC, that belongs in the pantheon of addresses of this sort with those of Steve Jobs (Stanford) and David Foster Wallace (Kenyon College).

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Time in Federal Government…

Alexander Hamilton: 5 years
George Washington: 8 years
Thomas Jefferson: 10 years
John Adams: 12 years

Bernie Sanders: 35 years
Nancy Pelosi: 39 years
Mitch McConnell: 41 years
Chuck Schumer: 45 years

It explains everything.

Founders vs Grifters

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Do you believe?

Everything can happen when the FIFA World Cup 2026™ kicks off June 11 on FOX.
https://t.co/KYf1hGQcpt

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Poverty is the natural state of mankind. For 99% of human history, every person on earth lived in what we now call extreme poverty. Capitalism did not create poverty. It inherited it and reduced it on a scale no other system has ever approached. When absolute poverty began disappearing, socialists invented "relative poverty" so that as long as anyone has more than anyone else, the crusade never ends. The goal was never to eliminate poverty. The goal was to ensure the justification for redistribution could never be satisfied.

[foley (follard) @follard]

The next hill I am ready to die on is that there is no breakfast food item in the United States better than a Texas Breakfast Taco.

Y'all can keep your pancakes, waffles, omelets, french toast and breakfast burritos.

Texas breakfast tacos are undefeated.

[Steve Barry @CoachSteveBarry]

Grok says this. Is he wrong?

"California's tax system is highly progressive, especially for personal income taxes (PIT), which make up the largest share of state General Fund revenue (around 50-60% or more in recent years, often $100+ billion annually depending on the year and economic conditions).1f2b61b914b1
Total state and local tax revenue (including PIT, sales/excise, property, corporate, etc.) is paid disproportionately by higher-income residents, though sales, excise, and property taxes are more regressive (hitting lower/middle incomes harder as a share of their income).e1c2036a8320
Key Facts on Who Pays (Primarily PIT, the Dominant Progressive Component)
Top 1% (roughly AGI over ~$800k–$1M+, varying by year): Pay ~37–50% of PIT (e.g., ~37% in 2023 tax year; averaged ~45% over 20 years through 2023). They account for a large share of volatile capital gains and high wages/stock compensation.020fb236b720
Top 5%: Pay around 60% of PIT (e.g., as of recent data for filers with AGI ≥ ~$331k).8de4b9
Top 10%: Pay ~75% of PIT."

[Grok @grok]

@BasedMikeLee According to the latest IRS data (tax year 2022), the top 1% of taxpayers paid 40.4% of all federal individual income taxes.

The top 10% paid 72.0%.

The bottom 50% paid just 3.0%.

[Steve Barry @CoachSteveBarry]

@ClayTravis Face up, dropped hips, wrapped up, leg drive . Probably a LB back in the day Still got it 💪.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Steve Barry @CoachSteveBarry]

The xenophobic psychopathic repressive caliphate that currently controls the civilization that invented algebra is getting its ass kicked by the country that perfected the hamburger.

/fixed

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

The civilisation that invented algebra is currently doing battle with the one that invented the hamburger.

This is all you need to know.

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇺🇸🇯🇵 Everyone in Japan knows "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver.

We cover it all the time so I hope our American friends can appreciate it.

[Steven Bank @ProfBank]

Thousands of US youth club parents/team managers contact players/parents weekly to remind them to bring BOTH kits to the games just in case and US Soccer couldn't figure it out? It's our one comparative advantage!

Fine. Send me the roster and I'll create a TeamSnap account

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

My mom and dad had 7 photos of me between 1971 and 1983, and I have 253 of my dogs from 7:00 to 7:05 this morning.

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

On National Medal of Honor Day, we honor heroes who earned the highest award for valor.

Here’s one Army story every American should know: Maj. Audie Murphy.