S. T. Karnick

Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute. Read here:

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

There is only early-stage communism. This catastrophic parasite infestation has latched on to America's children and is infecting them with the virus of Marxism. There Is No Such Thing As Socialism! By Larry Sand @HeartlandInst @HeartlandGR https://t.co/UmvsWvRwwN

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Central banks create inflation and recession by manipulating interest rates and printing money.

It's not "greed" -- which, after all, is a constant.

And it's not "capitalism" -- which functions best *without* government.

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

Housing prices could start dropping soon, a new study warns the mortgage industry. Who will benefit, and who will lose out? Read and find out which side you’re on. Are Houses About to Become TOO Affordable? https://t.co/goWX7RBSsh

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

Are Houses About to Become TOO Affordable?, by @stkarnick https://t.co/goWX7RBSsh

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

It is still awfully difficult for a median-income family to buy a house in the United States. It should not be so! Home Construction Activity Reinforces ‘Renter Nation’ Trend, by @stkarnick https://t.co/vSj5X0yMkj

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

Federal intervention will resolve the issues of college athletes' pay, possibly by destroying professionalized college sports. Sports Socialism: The Federal Government Wants to Rule College Sports, by Daniel Sutter. @stkarnick https://t.co/UPe2hTDW10

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

I will keep saying this until Washington understands it:

Fraud is not an ordinary cost of government. Fraud is theft.

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

We need to eliminate the income tax entirely.

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

Stop the AI Dooming: Artificial Intelligence Cannot Eliminate Human Values https://t.co/12mAm8YUx3

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

Governments at all levels created the modern affordability crisis. Reversing the cronyist policies that caused the problem will spark a recovery. But when? Have We Turned the Corner on the Affordability Crisis?, by @stkarnick https://t.co/5fjxMSdMXt

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

The latest National Education Association convention focused on the union’s radical political and social agenda. Their power may be waning, however, Larry Sand writes. "More Madness and Greed from the Radicals Who Are Indoctrinating America's Children "https://t.co/nGKM1okdAB

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The crime they see: 15,415 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Every campaign, every documentary, every leaflet through the door since about 2012.

The crime they do: not reading the paper.

The figure is real. It comes from Mekonnen and Hoekstra at the University of Twente, and it is careful, peer-reviewed work. What the campaigns strip out is that the same authors split that number into three parts, because the three parts are not the same thing at all.

Green water is rain. It falls on the grass. The cow eats the grass. For beef, green water is about 94 per cent of that headline.

Blue water is the stuff that matters. Rivers, lakes, aquifers. The stuff that gets pumped, metered, fought over in court, and does not come back.

So here is the blue water, in litres per kilogram, from the same authors, same method, same units.

- Pistachios: 7,602
- Almonds: 3,816
- Walnuts: 2,451
- Dates: 1,250
- Cashews: 921
- Beef: 550

Read that last line again, then go and look at what is in your granola.

The 15,415 counts rain that fell on a Welsh hillside as a cost, against an animal that was standing in it, on land where nothing else grows, in a country where rain is the one thing we have never once been short of.

The pistachio is drinking fourteen times more of the water that actually runs out.

She is outside in the rain right now, getting blamed for it.

[John Huppenthal @HuppenthalJohn]

"why do corporations need tax breaks" Clinton and Obama jacked up the corporate tax rate to 35% and then auctioned it off slice by slice, reducing the average corporate tax take to 22% in 2016. Trump just cut to the chase and set it at 21%, enabling corporations to shut down their huge tax-avoidance departments and reassign those employees to operations.

[Steve Milloy @JunkScience]

The only way to solve the Colorado River water problem is to provide more water to meet increased demand. There is a big ocean to the left of California. We can desalinate water. We can make and lay pipe. And we can pump water. But we are wasting hundreds of billions of dollars building pointless wind and solar farms in vain hopes of changing the weather.

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[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

December 2025: Jack Smith swore under oath that he didn't spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress.

Today: New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included.

This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned about.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Evil ideas have horrible consequences.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

The “terror” comes from imagining people of the DSA ilk trying to manage the economy.. It’s like stepping in a 757 and seeing sheep in the pilot seats.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is because Big Tech has done a terrible, bottom-tier job at explaining their plans and vision to the public and generating buy-in.

This is not merely because of lack of social skills, but because so many of them are wealthy autists, who have been surrounded for decades almost entirely by those who work for or do business with them.

And they resent having to do the work to influence others with persuasion rather than purchase.

Many of them do not fully grasp, on an emotional level, that the success of their visions and project is not dependent on the lack of outside interfere, but on genuine widespread understanding and alignment.

They imagine themselves to be heroes in an Ayn Rand novel. But they recapitulate Ayn Rand's basic error of attribution.

The Great Work is not built by the Great Man alone. No man can build anything bigger than himself without others who share his vision.

The Great Work is built by the Great Man and his Expert Team...

in the Permissive Environment.

Think of it multiple ways.

Think first that Elon Musk built 80% of the world's lift-to-orbit capacity. This is true.

Then think that Elon Musk's team, executing his plan, built 80% of the world's lift-to-orbit capacity. This is true as well.

Then, finally, think, America built 80% of the world's lift-to-orbit capacity, using ONE Elon Musk.

And this, also, is true.

Think how many Elon Musks Europe would need. A hundred? A thousand?

Now imagine how many South Africa would need.

The answer is "enough to seize the country by military force".

Those who have a vision of the future must share it in a way that can be understood and accepted. So they have a place to build.

They cannot shirk this responsibility. They cannot simply punish those who do not agree by "going Galt".

You are not Atlas. You do not hold up the sky.

You merely have a dream of reaching beyond it. And dreams are meant to be shared.

[S. T. Karnick @stkarnick]

@wesbury I agree. 💯

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

Warsh said inflation is priority #1 and said the Fed had the tools to bring it down. Many think he was looking at a rate hike. I don’t think so. I think he means QT. That’s why he said we will have a “good family fight” about “extent and timing.” That’s all about QT.