bryan booy

big-idea guy

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”

— Ronald Reagan

[bryan booy @bryanbooy]

Timeless!

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

There’s only One who can save us and save this country, and that’s the Lord Jesus Christ.

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

Thomas Sowell turned 96 yesterday. From Harlem and the Marine Corps to Harvard, Columbia, and Chicago, he became one of his generation's most independent minds.

Watch some of his best @UncKnowledge moments with @P_M_Robinson below, and explore his legacy: https://t.co/vD04aJfjdk

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

This is an outrage. I heard rumblings about this at the time and feel shame that I did not take it seriously. Probably I did not truly believe that government would actually distribute a product so harmful. I know better now. https://t.co/ZMjHbLj18v

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species.

It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence.

Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance.

These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above.

If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does.

This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it.

@brownstoneinst

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Simulate What Would Happen If AOC Was Forced To Learn Economics

Made with @grok.

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

REVOLUTION is the #1 Bestseller in History on Amazon! https://t.co/UYBl4EEbAM

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

We are a Christian nation. but not an "officially" Christian nation. We are MORE Christian than merely "officially" Christian, because out of Christian faith you get freedom -- including Religious Freedom. We don't FORCE our citizens to believe. We're not a theocracy.

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

@LeeStrobel’s FAVORITE Medical Miracle! #Theology

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Wonderful time meeting with @SpeakerJohnson and a few faith leaders at the Capitol today where the speaker gave us a spiritual heritage tour.

He pointed out how the embarrassing display on MSNOW (where they didn’t recognize the sentiments of the declaration) highlights the great need for education about this part of our history.

The stories he shared were such a tremendous reminder of how faithful Christians obeying God’s commands and trusting in his promises made this nation a force for good in the world.

As he told us in the House Chamber, pastors who insist they don’t want to be political are derelict in their duty because they are failing to preach the whole counsel of God.

Our faith requires something from us in every sphere, and that includes the political.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

“Our rights do not derive from the government. They come from You, our Creator and Heavenly Father.”

Wow - thank you @SpeakerJohnson for this prayer over our country.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Two hundred and fifty years ago today — on May 17th, 1776 — the Second Continental Congress called for a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer.

Today, exactly 250 years later, we gather to do the same. To humbly ask once more for God's mercy and guidance — as we enter the next 250 years of this republic.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

From our country’s beginning, for as long as America has embodied freedom and exceptionalism, the soul of our nation has been rooted in the Christian faith.

Today we gather, as our forefathers did on this day centuries ago, to rededicate our nation to God.

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

What is happening in DC today marks the Day of Fasting and Prayer precisely 250 years ago, to thank God for our victory in Boston two months earlier, when the British fled. May 17th is a sacred day in American history.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.” 2 Peter 3:18

May our nation continue to be guided by the light of our Savior.

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

Why is the mainstream media still silent?

Those who approved the COVID shot ignored safety signals and lied to the American public.

@CBS, @ABC, @NBCNews, @MSNOWNews, @PBS, @CNN — time to start giving this major scandal the attention it deserves!!!

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Last night U.S. forces, in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria, killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki and other ISIS leaders.

Back in November 2025, President Trump declared to the world that we will help protect Christians in Nigeria and instructed the Department of War to prepare for action. So, for months, we hunted this top ISIS leader in Nigeria who was killing Christians, and we killed him—and his entire posse.

In conjunction with Nigeria’s President, and at the direction of President Trump, U.S. Africa Command oversaw a precise operation to remove this terrorist.

Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was the senior ISIS General Directorate of Provinces Emir — the number two for ISIS globally — responsible for overseeing the planning of attacks, directing hostage-taking and managing financial operations. The removal of him and other ISIS personnel makes Americans safer by further degrading ISIS’s ability to plan and carry out attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, American citizens, and innocent civilians.

Operations like last night’s demonstrate the exceptional lethality, patience and skill of U.S. forces, amplified alongside willing and capable partners, to address shared threats. This should serve as a reminder that we will hunt down those who wish to harm Americans or innocent Christians, wherever they are.