Jason Chipman

Believer. Husband. Father of 5. Recovering politician. Blues. Cards. Star Wars. Strength. Remnant conservative.

[Libertas Institute @Libertas]

Who really owns the ball? 🤔⚾️

Sometimes this is how neighborhood zoning works. At Libertas, we think property rights should be as simple as a home run ball — if you caught it, it’s yours.

#PhilliesBaseball #PhilliesKaren #Zoning #ZoningLaws #ZoningRegulations #ZoningReform #Phillies

[Jason Chipman @Jason__Chipman]

They obviously don't live in Utah

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

The average 🇺🇸 American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt and $22,612 in auto loans according to a survey by PolicyGenius.

[Jerry Z. Muller @jerryzmuller]

A non-profit company made this 7 minute video about the misuse of data, based on my book, THE TYRANNY OF METRICS. Take a look...

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

If you work for the Dept. of Education and are posting on Twitter about how angry you are about losing your job, please realize only 27% of school-aged children between 4th and 12th grade will be able to read it.

[Dr. Derwin L. Gray @DerwinLGray]

The grace of Jesus is scandalous—it welcomes the broken, the outcast, and the sinner, not because we deserve it, but because love always moves toward the undeserving.

[BucciOT.Com @Buccigross]

This was always an impactful, iconic photo for me growing up. 1968 Gold Medalist. Little American flag in the giant hand of a powerful athlete. I'm drawn to the understated athlete. Foremen transformed himself and became a man with an inner light and joy...and then used his country's powerful turbo boosters: personality, capitalism, sport, a comeback. In 1999, he sold the commercial rights to his grill for $138 million. George Foreman. A one of a kind American success story. "We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”  – Aristotle. Rest, big George.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"the biggest barrier to entry to the pursuit of happiness these days is making it harder to move. Oh, we’ve made transportation easier and cheaper. But we’ve made the ability to set up in a new destination much harder" - @JonahDispatch https://t.co/uuEAWGY2nW

[Ryan Smith @RyanQualtrics]

This is going to be a summer project. We believe that every municipality in Utah should have an Ice Rink. Utah has the youngest demographics in the USA & is the fastest growing state.
With Basketball… we have 70,000 kids playing Jr. Jazz and more basketball courts per capita than anywhere else. Should be the same for hockey. More to come….

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Friends who travel to South Asia talk a lot about the incredible, charming, quirky tiny businesses that you find everywhere, run out of homes - themed tea shops and craft shops and antique shops and mini-bakeries, a testament to the diversity of human interests and fascinations. You cannot do that here. You cannot do that here because it is illegal. Converting your garage into a tiny walk in tea shop is barred by municipal regulations in nearly every major US city; even running a home daycare is restricted by zoning laws in many of them. If you want to build a ADU in your backyard for your aging parents, you often need to spend years working through incomprehensible and expensive processes for permission. You need to be a determined, stubborn, bureaucratically fluent person with an absurd amount of time on your hands in order to do things in your own home, in your own community, to make it richer and healthier and better. That's a bad thing.

[Curtis Chang @curtischangGF]

I hear this question all the time: How do we move forward as Christians when we feel politically homeless? I look around and just don’t know where I fit anymore. Where do we find community while still loving those who see the world differently?

It’s not easy, but it is possible. David French and I wrestle with this tension—how to hold both conviction and grace—on the latest Good Faith Podcast.

If you’re feeling stuck, you’re not alone.

Listen here! https://t.co/tOyurPXmcZ

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

Tariffs will increase the number of certain kinds of jobs and the wages of the workers in those jobs. But it will lower the overall standard of living because it means producing goods at a higher cost than before. Self-sufficiency is the road to poverty. We trade with the rest of the world because it enormously expands what we can enjoy materially. If you try to make everything yourself, yes, you will have all the jobs and be desperately poor. See my novel, The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

My latest in @TheAtlantic pushes back hard against the misguided idea - now (unfortunately) popular with Trump-aligned Republicans - that high prices are actually good and access to "cheap" (ie, affordable) stuff isn't part of the "American Dream"

https://t.co/jO2QUK2pUv

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

If you have little talent, the quickest way to turn things around these days is to go on social media and accuse the Jews of starting the Vietnam war or blame them for seed oil replacing beef tallow. You’ll be on Tucker Carlson’s podcast in no time. https://t.co/cuGSIBBlyD

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The Banana Republic stuff shall continue until morale improves.

[Jason Chipman @Jason__Chipman]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

The government tends to ignore farmers, Brooke Rollins says in an interview with @sierradmcclain, except to impose “burdensome and costly regulations that hamper innovation.” She wants to ease off.
https://t.co/TPAJsw6cZS

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Seeing the people who dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into EVs and EV infrastructure (because of climate change) sell their Teslas for gas-powered SUVs to spite Musk is hilarious to me

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Just total nonsense from start to finish.

[Jason Chipman @Jason__Chipman]

My shocked face 🫩

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

A miracle has happened. The NY Times ran an oped acknowledging not only that the covid virus likely originated in a lab, but that government officials and scientists conspired to keep the substantiating evidence secret. The lab leak theory was censored on social media because of "pressure from the administration ... we shouldn't have done it."

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

I had a fun interview on the @Freakonomics podcast discussing conservative tax myths, liberal tax myths, deficit reduction, and whether my long Washington DC career as a deficit hawk has been a miserable failure. Transcript and audio recording below: https://t.co/Qh9dTGaHGk