FP: Another manual, called the “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” contains detailed diagrams on how to break into buildings using tools like crowbars, clamps, metal cables, chains, bolt cutters, and a miniature saw known as an angle grinder. thefp.com/p/student-prot…

So free speech and camping/occupying are synonyms?

“I think here in the District of Columbia, we allow people the opportunity to have freedom of speech, and that’s what we’re seeing right now...” Chief Pamela Smith said, according to an MPD spokesperson. thehill.com/homenews/educa…

Yuval Levin on Congress's ambition problem.

Congress Is Weak Because Its Members Want It to Be Weak

understandingcongress.org/2024/05/02/con…

True.

'At the end of the day, even when Congress doesn’t do its job, federal policy is made. The president and the executive branch agencies eagerly fill the gap by improvising policy solutions.'
johnhaskell.substack.com/p/congressiona…

As found at a Panera in DC. You can always count on the commies to proclaim high salience political conflicts are the fault of capitalism. It's a cult. What gibberish.

This is where I get confused.

The encampment folks at UCLA have completely vandalized Royce Hall.

What purpose does that serve? Who are you winning over by defacing property?

We warned this might happen back in spring of 2020. rstreet.org/research/the-c… Marc Hyden Steven Greenhut

The uniparty is now defined as anyone who disagrees with the 3 of them (Green, Gosar, & Massie) on particular issues.

Gotta love the Lefty who wags a finger at another person for excessive breeding. Seriously? Do you not hear yourself? How exactly is it your business to judge such a private matter? Sheesh.

Kevin R Kosar is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A Freedom Conservatism signatory, he edits UnderstandingCongress.org and hosts the Understanding Congress podcast.

Before joining AEI, Kosar served as vice president of policy and director of the Governance Project at the R Street Institute. He…

Crowlista Flockhart visited me this morning.

Thanks to Mark Pulliam for his fine essay on Government Project and Edward C. Banfield. A great book and a sage scholar.
chroniclesmagazine.org/remembering-th… American Enterprise Institute Mark Pulliam

'So here we are, with public opinion exceedingly sour even though Congress is doing things—things that voters may sometimes like. If anyone can figure out how to fix this situation, I bet there are deep-pocketed philanthropists who would be eager to help.' understandingcongress.org/2024/04/29/yes…

So the University should help you continue your illegal occupation?

The radical, entitled mind at work!

I am pretty sure this is not free speech or peaceful protest. I am guessing it is breaking and entering.

There is a lot of rambling and scatterbrainedness.

time.com/6972022/donald…

'Alcohol has lubricated American politics from the beginning of our republic. George Washington gave voters free rum and punch, beginning the tradition of wooing voters with booze and bands. It is no longer legal to trade liquor for votes, but...'
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/…

Fixing Congress!
✅Better data for better decision making
✅Flexibility for members to connect constituents w/ local community resources for help.

Bipartisan Policy Center congratulates Bryan Steil Joe Morelle Rep. Stephanie Bice Rep. Derek Kilmer House Admin. Committee GOP Committee on House Admn. Democrats! 🧵👇

A bill to strengthen CBO's ability to access executive information is on the House floor this week and a bill to strengthen CRS's ability to do the same was just favorably reported by Committee on House Admn. Democrats House Admin. Committee GOP. This is all great news for Congress.

“There are almost an unlimited number of ways in which students or other members of the University community can protest that violate no policies of the University at all; the spectrum of ways to express a viewpoint and seek to persuade others is vast. But establishing an…