Steve Hoogland

Christ follower; former ink-stained wretch; current sporting goods; Vikings and Twins fan; MSM’s Left-wing propaganda will lead to no good outcome.

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.

People rejected this.

We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.

The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Watching the Free Luigi crowd outside the courthouse today, I find them repugnant — but they're not the real danger. Manson and Bundy had sick groupies too; that's an old, ugly feature of criminal celebrity.

The real danger for those of us who report on these cases is different: Mangione has inspired actual plots and violence.
* Riley Jane English drove to the U.S. Capitol with Molotov cocktails intending to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — having earlier targeted House Speaker Mike Johnson and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — telling police she'd been "thinking about this for a while because of Luigi Mangione."
* Jonathan Rinderknecht, charged in the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people, was "fixated on" Mangione in the hours before he struck the match, prosecutors say.
* Federal prosecutors cited Shane Tamura's NFL HQ shooting — 4 dead — as an example of the violence Mangione's cult has normalized.
* A Minnesota man impersonating an FBI agent — armed with a barbecue fork and pizza cutter — tried to break into the Brooklyn jail to free him, the kind of devotion that's now hardening into action.
That's the copycat effect — not cosplay, bodies. Keeping him locked away for life is accountability for the crime he committed, but it will not necessarily slow this copycat violence.

[Shane Vander Hart @shanevanderhart]

A good piece on the @TheDemocrats complicity in the 2020 #iacaucua meltdown.
https://t.co/mRX07BvXdE

[Jota @jota_snchez]

En 1979, un presentador de TV le preguntó a Milton Friedman si no le daba vergüenza defender un sistema basado en la codicia.

La respuesta se estudia hasta hoy:

«—Cuando ves la mala distribución de la riqueza, tan pocos que tienen tanto y tantos que no tienen nada… ¿nunca has dudado del capitalismo, de si la codicia es una buena idea?

—Primero dime: ¿conoces alguna sociedad que NO funcione con codicia? ¿Crees que Rusia no funciona con codicia? ¿Que China no?

¿Y qué es la codicia? Ninguno de nosotros es codicioso, claro. El codicioso siempre es el otro.

Los grandes logros de la civilización no salieron de despachos del gobierno. Einstein no construyó su teoría por orden de un burócrata. Ford no revolucionó el automóvil así.

Los únicos casos en la historia en los que las masas escaparon de la pobreza son aquellos donde hubo capitalismo y libre comercio.

—Pero parece premiar la habilidad de manipular el sistema, no la virtud.

—¿Y qué premia la virtud? ¿Crees que un comisario comunista premia la virtud? ¿Un Hitler? ¿Crees que los presidentes americanos eligen sus cargos por virtud… o por peso político?

Dime: ¿dónde están esos ángeles que van a organizar la sociedad por nosotros?

Yo ni siquiera confío en ti para hacerlo.»

[Craig @TheLawyerCraig]

Caitlin Clark killed dozens of Dalmatian puppies in order to skin them and make a spotted fur coat.

*Clarification: Caitlin Clark did not kill any puppies. She actually saved dozens of puppies and opened up a dog rescue and sanctuary.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

The Times has to decide if it wants to be the best news organization in the world (and risk its reporters' lives in places like China to get crucial stories almost no one else can) or a shill for lefty politicians, because it can't be both

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

They left home as boys 8 decades ago to go out and save the world. Last night they sat at the WWII Memorial together and celebrated their country's 250th. Still heroic.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[AG @AGHamilton29]

DSA leaders: We think America is irredeemable, support seizing the means of production, want to abolish police/prisons, and plan to destroy the entire societal structure to redistribute wealth.

Media: Democratic Socialists just want everyone to have healthcare and housing.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Americans "are all immigrants who were fleeing from…dictatorship, tyranny, socialism," says @DanielDiMartino.

That history makes their descendants "not only willing to take more risks, but also willing to defend their liberties."

Here’s what else makes America successful:

[𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 @txsalth2o]

@GavinNewsom

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

How would modern American media cover World War II? I ask because I think two things are true: 1. Modern media is unable to cover good & evil because they believe America is largely evil therefore her foes can’t be. 2. Identity politics have replaced individual responsibility.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

A quick Sunday musing on how polarization and activism make it more difficult to have fair trials.

As a non-practicing attorney, I know how hard it is to seat unbiased jurors in high-profile and emotionally charged cases. Prosecutors in the Luigi Mangione murder trial face a minefield: self-identified “Luigi fans” who despise insurance executives would gladly sit on a jury hoping at a minimum for a hung verdict rather than justice.

Now consider this: if ICE officers involved in recent fatal shootings ever face trial, how many prospective jurors already believe those agents are “modern-day Nazis”? That’s a predetermined guilty verdict—evidence be damned. And the reverse is true too: ICE defenders locked into absolution narratives often mean no accountability, regardless of conduct.

This isn’t about politics or sympathy. It’s about whether we still believe in fair trials. When jurors become activists first and fact-finders second, justice collapses.

[Kassy Akiva @KassyAkiva]

Really annoyed at the Charlie Kirk tributes that start with “I didn’t agree with him on everything but…”

Who cares what you agree with. Is there anyone you agree with everything on? Why does it matter.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Elon Musk: "Free speech is only relevant if you allow people you don't like to say things you don't like."

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

@elonmusk A lot of today’s fans of socialism might have to look up ‘the Berlin Wall’ - they might be surprised that a wall was built to keep people in, not out.
There is no fix for stupid

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.”

— Walter E. Williams

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again."

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Always correct.