Brady Leonard

Host @nogimmickspod. Fellow @IndependentInst. Contributor @dcexaminer Washed up rocker @sbfearing. Outdoorsman. Retweets ≠ endorsements.

[Arthur Boreman (yes, that Arthur Boreman) @ArthurBoreman]

Incisive legal analysis.

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

Excellent!

[Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12]

The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to end youth transgender care and has committed millions of dollars for detransition care.

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

These guys are gonna move here

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

Time is a flat circle

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨 President Donald J. Trump on cancelled scheduled strikes against Iran.

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

@MiddleearthMixr Just a bunch of people at a fenced in watering hole

[Luke Hilgemann @LHilgemann]

Would you be surprised to learn that groups whose top goal is to end hunting in America raise and spend nearly $1 Billion every year?

I’ve said for years that the opposition to our sport is well-funded, organized, and determined. But until now, the scale of that funding had never been laid out publicly.

I did the research on the top 10 anti-hunting groups and their annual operating budgets.

The numbers are staggering.

Just the top five alone have a combined $948.8 million in annual budgets.

For perspective, the organizations I lead @IOTRofficial and @IOTRAction will raise and spend $6 million on our efforts to protect and defend our hunting, fishing and conservation traditions.

The fight is real. And we must win it by punching well above our weight class.

#StandInTheArena

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

Gird your loins, folks

[Stephen Gutowski @StephenGutowski]

SCOTUS now has 20 cases left to release and maybe 2 weeks to do it? That's going to be a cluster.

[Scottish Banter @1scottishbanter]

Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States.

Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.

[Kenny Webster @KennethRWebster]

A sitting member of congress just admitted she would bring a knife to school and stab someone if they asked her to leave an area she wasn’t supposed to be in

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

Coming to a Federal Reserve near you

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The European Central Bank officially hikes interest rates by 25 basis points, citing renewed inflation amid the Iran War.

This marks the first major central bank interest rate hike since 2023.

Rate hikes are officially back.

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

Yikes

[Washington Examiner @dcexaminer]

Three Indian mariners killed by US strikes on tanker in Gulf of Oman https://t.co/G71fPX843T

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

Please consider hiring Jarvis for ALL of your electoral disappointments

[Holden @Holden114]

Bernie Sanders and AOC have made a career out of vacuous sloganeering and gibberish.

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

As a journalist, I embedded with multiple groups of migrants during 2015-16 "Syrian" wave (only about a third were fleeing the civil war in Syria, from my observation). I even lived in a smuggler's safe house in Istanbul, waiting for weather conditions to permit a dinghy crossing from Izmir to Lesbos.

I went into that experience basically an open-borders person and left a restrictionist. Merkel's flinging the gates to more than 1 million newcomers was madness, sheer madness.

Even if these were the most aspirational migrants imaginable --- and they weren't, gotta be honest --- the numbers, the cultural distance, and the conditions of European society should've prompted a rethink. But no. Wir schaffen das.

I tried to put myself in the shoes of native working classes in the transit countries (the Balkans, Hungary, etc.) and the recipients (Germany, Sweden, etc.). It was obvious that they would experience it as a cataclysm.

Even if most wouldn't become victims of crime, this many newcomers were bound to generate acute incohesion experienced at the street, social services, and housing levels, mostly burdening the native poor and those on the lower rungs of the labor market.

The engine of assimilation, not particularly robust in most of Europe to begin with, breaks down in the face of sheer numbers. In retrospect, I've come to believe that this was the single worst and most consequential decision taken by European leaders in the 21st century.

I don't understand it. I remember @DouglasKMurray telling me at the early stages that the best way to help was in-country, meaning humanitarian assitance in the Middle East and North Africa, not by bringing them over. He was 100% correct.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Without question.

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

It is technically illegal to vote after election day. And yet, CA allows ballots collected after election day without a postmark if they are "self-dated" by voters.

How do you prove a ballot is fraudulent in that scenario? You can't. And that's the point.

[Brady Leonard @bradyleonard]

Haha goodness gracious

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

Asked Kirsten Gillibrand if she had concerns with Platner after NYT report given her role in the Franken saga. She responded by saying: “I think Graham showed a great deal of support in the primary, and I think .. that's going to build momentum and will assure that we win Maine”

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Incomes not keeping pace with inflation has been the persistent economic issue for tens of millions of Americans for quite some time.

When Congress borrows trillions and runs massive deficits, it is still an effective tax increase — it just comes in the form of higher prices.

[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

All of America watching Euros rave about Waffle House, Chilis apps, buying Combos at a rural gas station, floating the Chattahoochee, and ranch dressing on the internet:

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

If you listen to what Spielberg actually says (as opposed to headlines), it's not unreasonable. He asks a pertinent question: Is our God the God of the entire universe or just our planet?

Judaism and Christianity were born out of a strongly pagan time and place, where people worshiped gods of tribes and nations. Then along comes Judaism and says there's just one God, the Creator of Earth and the entire universe, which must have been a profound shock.

Even more shocking, centuries later Jesus Christ, the Word - through whom the universe was created - enters our world to preach about the kingdom of heaven and how we are all intended to be brothers and sisters in Christ. No tribes, no nations in heaven. One kingdom ruled by Christ.

God is OUR God. Our God created the entire universe. He is the God of the universe, not just of the people of Earth.

What I find amusing, even in these dumbed-down and sensationalized headlines, is that anyone thinks Christians as a whole will question their faith if it turns out there's life elsewhere.

As Christians, we believe in an eternal, uncreated transcendent Being who spoke the universe into existence; we believe God has the capacity to enter our world in the flesh; we believe that a powerful unseen enemy rules our planet; we believe in angels and demons, and heavenly messengers who show up on earth and whose appearance is so other-worldly and terrifying that they have to tell people not to be afraid. We believe people can be possessed by evil spirits. We believe people can die and be resurrected. We believe we'll go to an entirely different place beyond the universe after we die; we believe we'll get new bodies on a brand-new Earth in a renewed universe.

Some people think we're crazy to believe all this outlandish stuff. They can think that if they want.

But does anyone really think we're going to be dismayed by little green men from Alpha Centauri?