J Edward Foley

Father, husband, son, the least of My brothers, In God We Trust, E Pluribus Unum, Ut Prosim

[Common Sense Bob™️ ☕️ @BobChoate54]

More hyperbole from @GeneforTexas WuhanFlu-Shay. 🤦‍♂️

[sabine hazan md @SabinehazanMD]

@stkirsch
If it cannot be patented, it cannot become a pharmaceutical product — and it cannot become a publicly traded stock.
On the flip side: If it is protected as a trade secret, it can be patented, it can become a pharmaceutical product, and it can become a stock.
Which brings me back to my original statement to @SenRonJohnson:
The pandemic exposed that the price of the stock mattered more than the price of a life.
It’s never a problem for those who care only about the price of the stock — until they become the patient… and wish no one had interfered with good, independent research.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

The largest children’s hospital in the world - backed by the best legal team money can buy - is fighting tooth and nail against a family’s right to determine the medical care of their child.

If you can, please donate to help the family cover mounting legal and medical expenses.

https://t.co/e28aD2pWg2

[J Edward Foley @JedApollo]

@MilPAStrategist Said the spokesman from the Ministry of Truth

[J Edward Foley @JedApollo]

@MilPAStrategist @FAHayekSays You are right. Just ignore everything anyone who was willing to die for your liberty ever said. Smartest move ever.

[3D Ideology @3DIdeology]

@FAHayekSays Just wrote a post about this

[J Edward Foley @JedApollo]

@FAHayekSays Write this on the blackboard 100 times after school if you quote from a Mamdani speech.

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

“There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[J Edward Foley @JedApollo]

@elonmusk @CommunityNotes Sweet!

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

[Handre @Handre]

Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.

The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.

Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.

The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.

After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.

Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

Folleagues knew first... 😐

[J Edward Foley @JedApollo]

@ReviewsPossum It is as though post modern thinking is perversely based upon this notion.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Is Texas Children’s Hospital going to kill this child as retribution because they are angry at AG Ken Paxton for successfully blocking them from doing trans surgeries on children?

This tiny little girl has shown some signs of recovery nearly drowning on Memorial Day and multiple doctors agree the hospital needs to give her time for the swelling on her brain stem to go down - but the Hospital is pushing to do a brain function test and wants the family to donate her organs. Debra Sukin is the President & CEO. She will not let this child be transferred to another hospital - she is blocking the parents from fighting for the life of their little girl and violating their religious belief in the sanctity of life. The parents got a temporary restraint order against the hospital to give jen time & a radical Progressive judge blocked it & gave the hospital the right to do the brain function test now before she has had time to heal.

There are TWO other Texas hospitals in the area standing by ready to take this child. How can anyone let Texas Children’s murder this little girl?

Please share, please raise your voices, please do anything you can. #releaseannelise

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[J Edward Foley @JedApollo]

@Handre Another example of the US government using a crisis to enact oppressive policies “for the duration” which really means “forever”.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

After Mar-a-Lago was raided, Andrew Weissmann claimed that the raid was proof that Trump had done something wrong.

After John Bolton's house was raided, Weissmann claimed it was proof of Trump's political retribution.

Democrats have so many professional liars on call.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Let me get this straight

> 84% of Americans support requiring a photo id to vote

> every major democracy in the world does this except the US

> even under our very eyes, the mail-in ballots in California are highly suspiciously slanted toward only one party

And yet majority can’t push this through?!

This is a traitorous level of incompetence

Pass the SAVE Act!!

[Rebecca Mistereggen @RMistereggen]

Suicidal empathy isn’t the core threat, it’s homicidal empathy.

What we’re witnessing isn’t misguided kindness. It’s a ruthless, ideologically driven strategy of reproductive suppression and lineage destruction, fueled by feminist intrasexual competition. Certain strains of feminism don’t just compete with men, they indoctrinate women to sabotage their own fertility, demonize traditional family structures, and actively undermine the reproductive success of rival women and lineages. The result is civilizational self-harm dressed as empowerment.

If you watch only one thing this week, watch Hannah Spier’s interview with evolutionary psychologist Dr. Dani Sulikowski.

It’s brilliant, unflinching, and genuinely terrifying. Sulikowski lays out how modern feminism functions as an intrasexual competitive strategy, one that suppresses motherhood, distorts mating preferences, and accelerates fertility collapse under the banner of “equality.”

Feminism, in this form, has proven every bit as destructive to human flourishing and societal stability as Marxism. Both ideologies weaponize grievance, promise utopia, and deliver demographic and cultural ruin.

@hannahspierMD