Hassett: If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the U.S. economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, but that's really the last of our concerns right now.

I was told today by a 17-year-old that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without Al. Dude, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

started/going h/t @jwilcox79

Exactly

Never forget that rape and pedophilia weren’t a dealbreaker for MAGA, but grocery prices were.

Why do the liberals feel like they're entitled to Elon Musk's money? I don't get it

Rep Troy Nehls (R-TX): Donald Trump is the greatest thing to happen in this country in 100 years

You want to fix education? Fix #8: Make attendance mean something again. Let me break down Fix #8. We have spent years debating curriculum, methodology, technology, and testing while a significant number of students are simply not in the building. Not struggling in the building. Not disengaged in the building. Not in the building. A child who misses thirty days of school in a year has missed six weeks of instruction, and no curriculum in the world closes that gap if she is not present to receive it. We talk about chronic absenteeism the way we talk about the weather, as something that happens to us rather than something we have the power to address. We have that backwards. What does it mean in practice? It means the first unexcused absence triggers a real response and not an automated phone call that nobody listens to. It means someone in the building knows why the child is not there and has a plan to address the barrier, whether that barrier is a bus that does not come, a parent who needs help getting her out the door, a situation at home that makes school feel impossible, or a building that never gave her a reason to want to be there. It means attendance data is looked at weekly and acted on immediately instead of reviewed at the end of the semester when the damage is already done. It means we stop accepting independent study packets as a substitute for being in the room, because a packet completed at home is not the same as a lesson taught by a teacher who can see when the student is lost. How does this help kids? Attendance is not a compliance issue. It is a learning issue. Every day a child is not in the building is a day she is not being taught, not building relationships with adults who can help her, not practicing the habit of showing up that she will need for every job she ever holds. Chronic absenteeism is one of the strongest predictors of dropout and it starts early. A student who misses ten percent of kindergarten is already on a trajectory that will follow her through every grade level unless someone intervenes. The intervention has to start with someone noticing and someone caring enough to find out why, and right now too many buildings have too few people with the time and the mandate to do either. How do we make this happen? We need attendance policies with real consequences that are applied consistently and humanely, which means understanding the difference between a family in crisis and a family that has decided school is optional and responding to each accordingly. We need counselors and social workers with actual caseloads that allow them to follow up with chronically absent students instead of adding names to a list that nobody gets through. We need schools that are worth attending, where kids have at least one adult who knows their name and notices when they are gone, because belonging is one of the most powerful attendance interventions we have, and it costs nothing except attention. We need to stop making it easy to be absent by accepting every excuse and issuing every waiver, and start asking honestly whether we have made the building a place the child wants to enter. The goal is not perfect attendance for every student. The goal is a system that treats a missing child as a problem worth solving instead of a number worth recording. #YouWantToFixEducation

Christians: “Why are churches empty?” Also churches:

Elementary school damages some kids. Middle school damages most of them. Little kids are still hopeful and optimistic. But middle school? Brutality, vulgarity, exposure to sex and drugs, bullying. Your sweet, innocent child you raised carefully, put in an environment with the worst elements you can imagine. And you don’t know about it. Ralph Waldo Emerson said it: parents pay the schoolmaster to teach their child, but it’s the schoolboys who actually educate him. Peer pressure is massive. What your kid won’t tell you about is what everyone else is doing. If you could listen in, you wouldn’t want your child exposed to half of it.

Trump: "You take a look. The Lincoln Memorial -- it was built, I guess, a little after the Lincoln Memorial. It's embarrassing. It was so horrible. It was filthy dirty. It was Biden."

NEW: Rep. Nancy Mace proposes no property tax for senior citizens.

I don’t give a fuck that Trump went to the hospital. Call me when he goes to the morgue.