Cory Wilkinson

[RealClearPolitics @RCPolitics]

"If it works out, I'm taking the credit. If it doesn't, I'm blaming JD... You'd better be careful, JD!"

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President Trump jokes about why he's sending VP Vance to sign the latest deal with Iran.

"It might not be the kind of document I should be signing."

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Daily Mail got millions of views with a lie intentionally meant to mislead and generate clicks. I guarantee this FNC post will get far less traction, despite, actually being based on facts and expertise.

You should remember who chose to promote the lie and ignore the truth.

[Zac Mabry @ZacMabry]

Every few years Tiger Woods gets another DUI and Colorado loses a SCOTUS decision over a law that sounds like something Fox News made up to scare your grandparents.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.

[ESPN @espn]

The Lightning pulled up to Stadium Series in full Buccaneer creamsicle uniforms 😱

Baker Mayfield and Tristan Wirfs lead the way!

[Joseph Kruger @JosephKruger58]

Dr. Charles Krauthammer on Churchill:
It is just a parlor game, but since it only plays once every hundred years, it is hard to resist. Person of the Century. Time magazine offered Albert Einstein, an interesting and solid choice. Unfortunately, it is wrong. The only possible answer is Winston Churchill.

Why? Because only Churchill carries that absolutely required criterion: indispensability. Without Churchill the world today would be unrecognizable—dark, impoverished, tortured.

Without Einstein? Einstein was certainly the best mind of the century. His 1905 trifecta—a total unknown who published three papers (on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and the special theory of relativity), each of which revolutionized its field—is probably the single most concentrated display of genius since the invention of the axle. (The wheel was easy; the axle hard.)

Einstein also had a deeply humane and philosophical soul. I would nominate him as most admirable man of the 20th century. But the most important? If Einstein hadn’t lived, the ideas he produced might have been delayed. But they would certainly have arisen without him. Indeed, by the time he’d published his paper on special relativity, Lorentz and Fitzgerald had already described how, at velocities approaching the speed of light, time dilates, length contracts and mass increases.

True, they misunderstood why. It took Einstein to draw the grand implications that constitute the special theory of relativity. But the groundwork was there. And true, his general theory of relativity in 1916 is prodigiously original. But considering the concentration of genius in the physics community of the first half of the 20th century, it is hard to believe that the general theory would not have come in due course, too.

Without Churchill
Take away Churchill in 1940, on the other hand, and Britain would have settled with Hitler—or worse. Nazism would have prevailed. Hitler would have achieved what no other tyrant, not even Napoleon, had ever achieved: mastery of Europe. Civilization would have descended into a darkness the likes of which it had never known.

The great movements that underlie history—the development of science, industry, culture, social and political structures—are undeniably powerful, almost determinant. Yet every once in a while, a single person arises without whom everything would be different. Such a man was Churchill. After having single-handedly saved Western civilization from Nazi barbarism—Churchill was, of course, not sufficient in bringing victory, but he was uniquely necessary—he then immediately rose to warn prophetically against its sister barbarism, Soviet communism.

Churchill is now disparaged for not sharing our multicultural modern sensibilities. His disrespect for the suffrage movement, his disdain for Gandhi, his resistance to decolonization are undeniable. But that kind of criticism is akin to dethroning Lincoln as the greatest of 19th century Americans because he shared many of his era’s appalling prejudices about black people.

Who Else?
In essence, the rap on Churchill is that he was a 19th century man parachuted into the 20th. But is that not precisely to the point? It took a 19th century man—traditional in habit, rational in thought, conservative in temper—to save the 20th century from itself. The story of the 20th century is a story of revolution wrought by thoroughly modern men: Hitler, Stalin, Mao and above all Lenin, who invented totalitarianism out of Marx’s cryptic and inchoate communism (and thus earns his place as runner-up to Churchill for Person of the Century). And it is the story of the modern intellectual, from Ezra Pound to Jean-Pierre Sartre, seduced by these modern men of politics and, grotesquely, serving them.

The uniqueness of the 20th century lies not in its science but in its politics. The 20th century was no more scientifically gifted than the 19th, with its Gauss, Darwin, Pasteur, Maxwell and Mendel—all plowing, by the way, less-broken scientific ground than the 20th.

No. The originality of the 20th surely lay in its politics. It invented the police state and the command economy, mass mobilization and mass propaganda, mechanized murder and routinized terror—a breathtaking catalog of political creativity.

And the 20th is a single story because history saw fit to lodge the entire episode in a single century. Totalitarianism turned out to be a cul-de-sac. It came and went. It has a beginning and an end, 1917 and 1991, a run of seventy-five years, neatly nestled into it. That is our story.

And who is the hero of that story? Who slew the dragon? Yes, it was the ordinary man, the taxpayer, the grunt who fought and won the wars. Yes, it was America and its allies. Yes, it was the great leaders: FDR, de Gaulle, Adenauer, Truman, John Paul II, Thatcher, Reagan. But above all, victory required one man without whom the fight would have been lost at the beginning. It required Winston Churchill.

[Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman]

This is not just an atrocity and a tragedy but a watershed moment. Pray for his family first.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

The summer of 2020 was legitimately insane

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Throwback to the greatest dog scene in cinematic history

[Pat Forde @ByPatForde]

Congrats to @TexasLonghorns on the 2024-25 Learfield Directors Cup for top overall athletic program, in a very tight battle over second-place @USC_Athletics and third-place @GoStanford. Fourth in the last five years for the Longhorns, breaking Stanford's vise grip on the award.

[Foster @foster_type]

Good news: We're gonna have both!

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats & firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of “national conversation” would we be having?

[Cory Wilkinson @jcorywilkinson]

@bendreyfuss @bendreyfuss Ben “back the Blue” Dreyfuss

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

Relatively soon, and far too late, you're gonna miss the religious right

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

I'm sure this post has nothing to do with the fact that Tucker just got done licking the boots of the Qataris, who just so happen to be in league with Iran.

For someone who constantly tells us we can't care about anything but Fentnyl, he sure spends a lot of time outside the US.

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

Again, I don’t really get why it’s portrayed as up to Ukraine to stop this and not Putin who can leave at any time and never should have invaded in the first place.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

A truly devastating, gut-wrenching piece by @SethAMandel. How painful it must have been to write these words:

"The crimes against the Bibas family are indeed the symbol of the anti-civilizational menace that is Hamas—but also of the cowardice of the political and cultural leaders of the enlightened West. Yes, we should be ashamed of our fellow Americans, who not only won’t mention the Bibas family but won’t even learn the name of a single American hostage held in Gaza throughout the war....

Kfir’s face became a symbol of the conflict because it represented a line that had been crossed and cannot be uncrossed. Members of Congress giddily attended tentifada demonstrations that were no longer simply 'pro-Palestine' or 'anticolonial'; they were about defending those who stole Kfir from his home and dragged him to Gaza where, according to Hamas, he died. And it is impossible for the rest of us to pretend that we didn’t see a chunk of society, whether in person or online, rush to cross that line and cheer the people who kidnapped a baby....

Kfir became a symbol because he is the answer to every relevant question about this conflict. His case is the war boiled down to its essence. Kfir is the dividing line. In a better world, there’d be no one standing on the wrong side of it."

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is bad because it was a way of taking the civil rights movement - which was about prohibiting economic discrimination at its core - and corrupting it to serve corporate interests. Here are some examples, starting with UnitedHealth Group.

[Matt Welch @MattWelch]

Tuesday's 10-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre is a timely reminder that the West's free speech knees got wobbly long before the millennials hit middle school. And it was political leaders, not stinky college kids, who led the retreat.

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

Are the Syrian rebels that maybe are about to defeat Assad the Syrian rebels who liked us or the Syrian rebels who didn’t like us?