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Want to understand the federal-state conflict over marijuana? I've got something for you:
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
"An environmentalist’s case for permitting reform," via @PostOpinions wapo.st/3W9Satz
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There is a simple solution. Make residents of DC count as residents of Maryland or Virginia for purposes of federal representation and allow them to vote for representatives there. For some reason this quite sensible solution never goes anywhere.
As a 13-year resident of Washington, DC, I have just one question:
Why shouldn't Washington, DC, be a state?
Why should the 690,000 DC residents not have the same rights and representation as the rest of our fellow American citizens?
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
A lot of analysts are going to look pretty silly when the exit polls show that undecided voters’ #1 issue in these midterms was the quality of Jon Husted’s ass.
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
Notice that no one thinks that immigration makes it more difficult for people to buy phones, shoes, food, etc.—the discussion always focuses on housing. So the takeaway should be that there is a problem with the housing supply, not immigration.
Q: How does the right and yourself expect us to start families young when the average price of a home in America costs more than $415,000 which feels out of reach for us.
Vance: The reason why housing exploded is in part because we allowed 20 million illegal aliens into our at ought by right go to American citizens.
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This is not the SAT you remember.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
Cultural decline statistically measured and documented.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
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Decline is a choice.
We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
This is what actual TDS looks like. Criticizing the man's persistently bad policy decisions, betrayals of his voters, and constant stream of unhinged statements is not TDS but just intellectual honesty. And comparing such criticisms to actual TDS is intellectual dishonesty.
This is so incredibly lame. And every Princeton freshman was required to sit through this during orientation.
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
When you are unable or unwilling to answer arguments, you have to resort to the childish response, 'he's not one of us, he's one of them!'
Apparently, being cited by someone on the ‘hard right’ is now enough to make you guilty by association.
That is the Guardian’s case against me. It has published an article about my opposition to the Church of England’s £100 million slavery reparations scheme, smearing me through tore Britain and associating our campaign with wealthy financiers.
Yet its evidence of my ‘hard right’ connections amounts to a Restore Britain paper citing my work. As for Paul Marshall, he has never funded our campaign.
What about my arguments against reparations? What opposing reasons and evidence did the Guardian offer? None whatsoever.
Read my response to the Guardian at The Biggar Picture: nigelbiggar.co.uk/p/my-answer-to…
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
In @Econlib, @Reinsch84 pens a thorough review of my @EncounterBooks THE CIVILIZATION OF COMMERCE.
"Gregg observes that much of the case for understanding commercial civilization turns on what leading Scottish thinkers identified in their developing society in the eighteenth century." 1/3
"Gregg observes that much of the case for understanding commercial civilization turns on what leading Scottish thinkers identified in their developing society in the eighteenth century." 1/3
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Congrats to both!
We are pleased to share the appointment of Hiram E. Chodosh, President Emeritus of Claremont McKenna College, as our next President and CEO. We are also pleased to announce that Vince Stango will become Deputy CEO and Co-President.
Read full announcement: conctr.org/48mQRtW
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Yesterday, it looked as if 2026 would go down in Israeli electoral history as the year of unprecedented Arab turnout. After the latest news, it may end up remembered as the year of unprecedented malign foreign interference.
Qatari envelopes of cash raise huge questions, and more in today's edition of It's Noon in Israel.
open.substack.com/pub/amitsegal/…
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
Turns out Alan Charles Kors, @TheFIREorg co-founder, was right about pretty much everything he warned me about in higher education. I thought he was too cynical. In retrospect, I was guilty of something I call, with all the seriousness it deserves, Political Cooties. 1/2
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
One further point on the two-Dans-Sullivan:
Americans are used to the kind of lying in politics that lawyers call "fraud in the inducement." Candidates make fake claims and wild promises to persuade you to vote their way. That's life in a free country; politics ain't beanbag, etc., etc.
What we're less used to is the kind of lying that lawyers call "fraud in the factum": trying to confuse your fellow citizens about what the very *act of voting* involves. (Circulating fake mail-in ballots so people think they've voted already, etc.) That isn't an effort at persuasion; it's an attack on the electoral process itself.
If you think Our Democracy Is Under Threat, you should see it as under threat here too.
Americans are used to the kind of lying in politics that lawyers call "fraud in the inducement." Candidates make fake claims and wild promises to persuade you to vote their way. That's life in a free country; politics ain't beanbag, etc., etc.
What we're less used to is the kind of lying that lawyers call "fraud in the factum": trying to confuse your fellow citizens about what the very *act of voting* involves. (Circulating fake mail-in ballots so people think they've voted already, etc.) That isn't an effort at persuasion; it's an attack on the electoral process itself.
If you think Our Democracy Is Under Threat, you should see it as under threat here too.
Lawyers have been getting ready for this two-Dan-Sullivans situation for a very long time:
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
New: A lawyer’s misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown stemmed from a hearing during which she repeatedly directed racial insults at him, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg Law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/te…
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/te…
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Jonathan H. Adler retweeted
Russia is about to embark on a massive propaganda campaign in Oleshky. Zarina is right.
"Within days, Russian soldiers poisoned their dog, an Alabai, along with all the other large dogs in Oleshky. They killed Liudmila’s nextdoor neighbor and raped his wife. A local butcher disappeared; no one knew whether he was also killed. Some neighbors were detained and beaten. searched Liudmila’s home three times, confiscating the couple’s Ukrainian passports and leaving them with no documents. And yet, Liudmila and Andriy stayed. They got a new puppy, also an Alabai. Russian troops started to move into civilian houses, parking tanks in what once were gardens."
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