"The best unifying foundation for Americans remains work. When people leave welfare for work…they meet more people and people meet them. They don't necessarily find their calling, though some do. They find their fellow Americans. A check can't do that." https://t.co/9VqSTGQtMm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 15, 2021
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March 15, 2021 at 04:49PM
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Not MSM's finest hour: "Media misquoted Trump in notorious phone call with Georgia investigator" https://t.co/U5CXy5BP4S
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 15, 2021
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March 15, 2021 at 03:37PM
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This should go to a Hill piece on the 4 reasons Dems could sneak through a temporary revival of welfare … https://t.co/deBTkOms1j
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 15, 2021
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March 15, 2021 at 07:40AM
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Thoughtcrime at Georgetown? "It Is … Wrong for Faculty to Be Thinking—Not Just Speaking—…" https://t.co/yRovhQGByp via @reason
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 15, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 09:59PM
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If no family has children, society collapses!
If every family has children, but sends nobody to work in the outside labor market (while the family is supported by the government for all that parenting) … society also collapses.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 15, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 08:33PM
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This was probably an excessively raunchy episode. I blame Bob. https://t.co/pmpA7CmEBY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 15, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 08:06PM
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MAKING THE JOE DOLE PERMANENT? Maybe it's hard to get "something out of the [tax] code," or to take away payments to the vast middle class. But is it hard to put in a restriction that they go to earners (like the EITC)? Vast MC would still get checks. https://t.co/anYv8CIQiK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 07:04PM
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The classic example of the press making too much of one thing to highlight preexisting, gnawing, unpublicized concerns was making a big deal of Muskie's "crying" in NH 1972–because they worried about his volcanic anger/temper tantrums https://t.co/ayGoxHUwHd https://t.co/nQhbyIK2fr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 05:06PM
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So they are "attempt[ing] to combat the rampant surge of migrants at the southern border" by making it easier for them to get in? That'll stop the surge. https://t.co/tLJecvySPs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 04:49PM
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"'Lunch bucket Joe' is frantically working to immiserate the working class and middle class…all because Trump said some mean things about immigrants." https://t.co/EKyM7nIPM4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 04:44PM
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Maybe Breitbart's @brandondarby can get a leaked photo, as he did in 2014 (one of first to alert non-experts to the problem) https://t.co/bjF8yAd0iH https://t.co/N3SS6AwJ1Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 04:37PM
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Interesting possibility about the lack-of-press-conference stories, which otherwise seem to be a cheap see-we're-being-tough-on-Biden story line (ie there's an obvious and not-so-disturbing reason for not having the press conferences, namely the high % chance that he'll screw up) https://t.co/LZEcuPQ57s
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 04:19PM
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No wonder GOP is losing the PR battle over the COVID bill. Worry about the deficit is a proven loser. Worry about welfare–which the "child tax credit" is–is a proven campaign-changer. Is the RNC worried about offending @HughHewitt and @DouthatNYT? https://t.co/dt27OxMD8e
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 05:47AM
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"A Republican National Committee news release this week denounced the rescue plan’s expansion of the national debt, its funding for liberal states and cities…and $1.7 billion in aid to Amtrak, but made no mention of the expanded child tax credit." https://t.co/ObYY3ReIP5 https://t.co/tNKZ3MsOIl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 05:43AM
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So if the EU has banned >1000 chemicals in cosmetics, while US has only banned 11–and the EU is a stricter regulator across the board–has their fertility improved vs. ours? https://t.co/DyoI3uo7x8 via @financialtimes
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 05:02AM
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The checks go to the parents, not the children. https://t.co/Le2nlTHwqo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 04:21AM
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How much of the conservative cave on Biden's "child check" welfare is driven by support for religious schools (& opposition to abortion)? Suspect a lot. PS. That's fine, Keep the checks for working families. Just not the ones to non-working families. Most are in former category. https://t.co/AWY9DSN1wy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 04:00AM
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So Biden might succeed — in moving the wall 2500 miles south. And Mexico will pay for it? https://t.co/ZNITzDWJ8I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 14, 2021
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March 14, 2021 at 03:56AM
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"director of progressive thought"? https://t.co/vzKYz2oWtr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 13, 2021
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March 13, 2021 at 03:10PM
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If @rkylesmith thinks Downey is a reverential liberal … https://t.co/LYdJwxs201
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 13, 2021
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March 13, 2021 at 02:45PM
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In latest episode we plumb the depths of depravity at the heart of "Walking on Sunshine." [53:40 in $$$]https://t.co/XgxpKnFooJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 13, 2021
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March 13, 2021 at 11:00AM
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"If Jeffrey Epstein were alive today he'd have a helluva Substack." https://t.co/XgxpKnFooJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 13, 2021
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March 12, 2021 at 11:28PM
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New Parrot Room https://t.co/XgxpKnFooJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 13, 2021
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March 12, 2021 at 11:28PM
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CORRECTION: As @PrimeNewYork points out, the institution of the "top 2" or "jungle" primary (under Schwarzenegger!) may have changed this calculation. https://t.co/kDHOZaM2id
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 13, 2021
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March 12, 2021 at 08:09PM
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Alternatively: The recall is the only way a moderate Republican/centrist can get elected. Otherwise won't make it through primaries of either party. Was Schwarzenegger a disaster? (A: No. Made some valuable reforms) https://t.co/CpSF5BLiYH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 12, 2021
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March 12, 2021 at 02:53PM
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