Jeff Cunningham 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

Ex publisher of Forbes, ASU journalism professor. @RC_Markets contributor | Author of LIFT: the forces that launch remarkable lives | Grandad to six.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Scott Pelley Was A Highly Paid Propagandist https://t.co/2uFMnGDeAJ

[Big Fish @BigFish3000]

The only decent journalist CBS had they fired.
Scott Pelley was silent.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Senators Schumer and Gillibrand responded to the Graham Platner scandals by simply saying that he would deliver Maine and give them back Senate control. In other words, we found the right Nazi-tattooed, sex-texting, rape-dismissing, veteran-defaming, self-proclaimed communist...

[Jeff Cunningham 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @cunninghamjeff]

@shellenberger @OhMelodylane The elite make such sore losers. No one has ever told them the truth about themselves.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Scott Pelley says CBS demanded he "inject falsehoods," and wants to "murder" 60 Minutes. There's no evidence for either claim and good reason to think they're false. Pelley joins Dan Rather, Katie Couric, and Chuck Todd in spreading misinformation and then denying he had done so

[Sara Eisen @SaraEisen]

“I’d rather get a negative editorial than a positive obituary.” @netanyahu

[Jeff Cunningham 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @cunninghamjeff]

@Variety He was an overpaid overblown hack, and the only thing wrong with the firing is that it came far too late.

[Mass Daily News @MassDailyNews]

COMMENTARY: Only in Wu's Boston can you be accused of slamming a woman against a wall and grabbing her by the throat — and still get your six-figure job back, if you're a woke BLM activist

https://t.co/FKU8hTbyDb

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"The system taught [the police], in effect, that an allegation of racism is a trump card that overrides normal investigative procedure, normal medical common sense, and normal human judgement. That system was built with the best of intentions, by people who genuinely wanted to address real injustices. And it has produced a policing culture in which a killer can stab a teenager five times, claim to be the victim of racism, and the police won’t ask questions, until it’s too late."

[Jeff Cunningham 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @cunninghamjeff]

Overton Window is flung wide open.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Platner is being used to widen the window formally on the sort of candidates the Dems can run w/o apology. Of course this move is being promoted as a defensive measure against Trump, the way everything is.

Nazi sex pests welcome -- if they can get the job done!

This will allow Luigi to run when he goes free.

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

I was an intern at @CBSNews when Pelley would fill in for Katie Couric on the evening news. I watched in the control room one day as he directed them to slowly push the shot in on him as he took his glasses off. It was so fake I’ve remembered it for 15 years.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

And this is why we must also abolish restaurants. cc @AOC

[Alex Volkov @altryne]

.@satyanadella just put the whole "water" debate to rest.

Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant!

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

Longtime friends and colleagues Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell have warned the West for decades that its most poisonous enemies are white guilt and the racially engineered diversity racket. They argued that it would breed tribal hatred and undermine the West's greatest creation: the individual. Henry Nowak was not treated as an individual but as a representative of a race deemed guilty due to its white skin.

“White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic. And this, of course, only inflames the narcissism of the ineffectual.” -- Shelby Steele

“We are among the biggest fools in history if we keep on paying people to make us hate each other. Whether it is called by pretty names like 'multiculturalism,' 'diversity' or gender awareness,' that is what it all boils down to.” -- Thomas Sowell

[Jeff Cunningham 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @cunninghamjeff]

Nails the problem

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

What happens when intellectuals decide they can redesign society from scratch?

In 1790, Edmund Burke warned that it would end in terror and dictatorship. Most educated opinion laughed at him, but just two years later, France proved him right.

When the French Revolution erupted in 1789, two of the greatest political minds of the age reached opposite conclusions about what it meant - a disagreement still defines the divide between conservatism and radical progressivism.

Edmund Burke, in his Reflections on the Revolution in France, argued that society is not a machine to be dismantled and rebuilt according to abstract reason. It is a partnership between the living, the dead and those yet to be born. Institutions, customs and inherited rights evolve over time through trial and error. To tear them down in the name of pure theory, Burke warned, is to destroy the very restraints that make ordered liberty possible. The result, he predicted, would be chaos followed by tyranny.

Thomas Paine, in Rights of Man, took the opposite view. He saw tradition and inherited institutions as little more than chains. For Paine, the revolution represented the triumph of reason and natural rights over superstition and privilege. Old structures should be swept away so that a new, rational order could be constructed from first principles.

History vindicated Burke. The French Revolution descended into the Terror and then Napoleonic dictatorship. Paine’s faith in abstract rights detached from culture and tradition proved dangerously naïve.

Liberty is not created by declarations or revolutions; it grows out of evolved institutions, rule of law and the accumulated restraints that prevent power from concentrating. Paine was right to oppose arbitrary authority, but Burke understood something deeper: that tearing down the old rarely produces the freedom revolutionaries promise. It usually produces something worse.

[NizNellie3 @NizNellie3]

🚨 Christopher Eisgruber is the President of Princeton University.

An anti-Zionist course on his campus features a book called "The Right to Maim." The course teaches that the IDF "intentionally targets and maims Palestinian children to keep them disabled and controlled."

This is what American students are being taught at Princeton.

President Eisgruber calls it "academic freedom."

His yearly compensation package is $1.52 million and perks that would make you throw up.

His campus is about to get upwards of $500 MILLION in federal funding for the 2026-2027 academic year.

[Handre @Handre]

One of the most devastating indictments of socialism sits buried in Soviet agricultural statistics: private plots representing just 3% of farmland consistently produced 25-30% of the USSR's total food output. Private ownership generated output that collective ownership could not match, even at vastly smaller scale.

Picture this absurdity. A collective farm worker tends 1,000 acres of state wheat with the enthusiasm of someone filling out tax forms. The same worker then rushes home to lavish attention on his quarter-acre private vegetable patch, working until sunset to coax maximum yield from every square foot. The difference in productivity per acre often reached 10:1 ratios. Sometimes higher.

On collective farms, additional effort generated zero additional reward for the individual worker. Your extra sweat benefited the collective (meaning nobody in particular) while you bore the full cost of that effort. Workers rationally allocated their energy toward their private plots where they captured 100% of marginal returns.

Soviet planners grasped the embarrassing implications and repeatedly restricted private plot sizes and banned certain crops, fearing that obvious productivity comparisons would undermine ideological credibility. The restrictions backfired spectacularly. Every limitation on private plots worsened food shortages and strengthened black market prices.

You can dress up collective ownership in whatever intellectual framework you prefer. You can invoke solidarity, social justice, or the greater good. But you cannot escape the fundamental reality that human beings respond to incentives, and collective ownership systematically destroys the connection between individual effort and individual reward.

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

So the Dem tent is apparently big enough for a Nazi degenerate and actual Al-Qaeda — but not AIPAC

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

You’ll notice there is no look-back celebration or remembrance of this or virtually any of the other great moral victories from that era. It’s all been memory holed, a will-o'-the-wisp dimming out in the far distance.

[Jeff Cunningham 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @cunninghamjeff]

Didn’t age well at all.

[NPR @NPR]

Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests.

"White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," they wrote.
https://t.co/EewPNgDSu3