Kevin O'Brien

Retired deputy editorial page editor at The Plain Dealer.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Hello all. The 220 million voter files China "hacked" are readily available for you too to get your hands on from the various Secretaries of State. Some commercial firms sell them too with more information in them. Also, if the President will sanction China, right?

[Virginia Postrel @vpostrel]

People getting sick from cyclospora or avoiding fresh produce to avoid sickness are all casualties of the superstition against irradiating food.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

I agree, China has been trying to undermine the U.S. for a long time.

But until I see less fawning praise of Xi, Chinese student visas revoked, and a ban on selling China AI chips, I’m not gonna believe anyone is taking this seriously.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

Listen to JD Vance’s conspiracy theory spewing, strawman tearing interview with Joe Rogan, and then Marco Rubio’s brilliant speech today and ask yourself: Hmm I wonder who the GOP should nominate to succeed Trump.

[Matt Slotnick @matt_slotnick]

the most confusing part of the odyssey is how this took 10 years

[Kimberly Ross @SouthernKeeks]

Just one reason why I’m #NeverVance.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

If I ever got to question nominees I'd try to come up with the most confusing-but-potentially-viral questions possible.

"Sir, are there exactly two sexes and did President Trump win the 2020 election? One-word answer, yes or no."

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

I use talk to type to draft most of my communications and I almost just sent a professional message that caught the tail end of what my son was telling me. I almost proclaimed to a colleague “I pooped. Also I love you.” 🫠

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

Best qualification by far?

RFK doesn't like her.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Democrats trading their most loyal voting bloc for a bunch of backstabbing socialist Islamists who don’t even really identify as Democrats (the DSA) will be the most hilarious political development of the decade.

[Legal Phil @Legal_Fil]

New York is imposing a state-wide moratorium on data centers partly because of a moral panic and partly due to energy-cost concerns.

New York has energy-cost concerns because of a prior moral panic about natural gas led them to block pipeline construction from PA.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

This is basically the anti-vaxx movement for the Left.

Imagine, *bragging* that you crippled the computing/processing power being utilized in everything from improving response times by cops/firemen/EMTs, to optimizing hospital care efficiency, to medical research.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

This platform could win the next 10 elections.

Which party grabs the brass ring 1st?

[RBe @RBPundit]

This literally how you get bread lines and famine.

Literally.

How do they never learn this lesson?

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

This is fundamental. It used to be broadly accepted on the right. Then the GOP and the "conservative movement" reverted to Smoot and Hawley, in the persons of Trump and Vance and the rest. Thus was flat-earth theory revived. A moronic era in politics.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

So much of the anti-AI movement is absolutely being driven by China, which wants the U.S. to fall behind.

Hochul should especially be wary of this given that one of her former top aides, Linda Sun, was recently prosecuted for getting paid millions to act as an agent of the CCP.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Most data centers use the same amount of water—or less—than an average large office building. Meanwhile, they're helping lower electricity costs by financing new power generation. The hysteria over AI data centers is going to age very, very poorly.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

There’s a reason why the communists built a wall to keep people in East Berlin

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

We live in incredibly stupid times.