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As Megan McArdle already laid out in the Washington Post, the Musk Twitter thing has sent everyone’s political sensors spinning around. In the last 5 years, conservatives have had to reckon with the reality that having a handful of monopolies control the internet is a really bad idea. And that there has to be some…

This is fine. Portland police responded to four shootings and four major traffic incidents Friday night and Saturday morning, in what officers labeled an “extremely busy night” that left them unable to respond to some lower-priority 911 calls. The shootings left at least five people injured and two dead in a murder-suicide. The traffic incidents…

The only positive economic argument that the media had to make for the Biden administration was that the economy was growing and jobs were being added.  t was a transparently bad argument because when you plunge a nation to the bottom of a well, anything after that is likely to look like growth. Pandemic shutdowns…

A different kind of identity politics. The Survey Center on American Life has a new survey, “The Growing Gender Divide in American Life”. -Republican men are far more likely than Democratic men to identify as traditionally masculine. A majority (54 percent) of Republican men say they are very manly or masculine, compared to one-third (33…

Some arguments are not really worth having. The debate over how much American military equipment had been left behind in Afghanistan is one of those. The real answer is that we don’t know and by ‘we’, I don’t just mean us, but the White House and the Pentagon don’t really know. The sheer amount of…

Democrats enjoyed a largely compliant Big Tech cartel that was eager to censor conservatives. Now that might change, at least on Twitter, they’re reacting with the grace and dignity that tinpot fascists are always known for. Some key Senate Democrats are considering calling Elon Musk to testify on his plans to remake Twitter, amid broader…