Brilliant take by @FareedZakaria on the challenges facing California. This is a state worth saving, but changes need to be made.

God bless the beaver.

Europeans filming themselves losing it over American gas stations, restaurants, and stores aren't discovering "American culture." They're experiencing the delicious fruits of a free(-er) market. These sprawling Buc-ee's with endless pumps, spotless bathrooms, and walls of snacks didn't emerge by accident. Entrepreneurs spotted real problems (crappy highway stops) and solved them ruthlessly because profit rewards whoever serves customers best. It's why Elon is now a trillionaire. Competition forces excellence. Europeans are reacting to consumer sovereignty in action. In heavily regulated systems like the EU, entry is tougher, scaling gets punished, and variety shrinks. Innovation stagnates. Places like Buc-ee's are emergent results of property rights, price signals, and voluntary exchange. No central planner decrees abundance. It flows from individuals free to build, risk, and keep the upside. Protect those conditions, and everyday life keeps improving. Choke them with rules and bureaucratic decrees, and the wonder disappears into familiar scarcity. These videos prove the point that free markets don't just work. They wow the world.

Will we see a cameo from Jurickson Profar at the Germany vs Curacao World Cup game?

Sign this man to a 14-year contract extension!

Watching Brazil vs Morocco and I'm thinking about Morocco Mole.

The World Cup absolutely mogs every other sporting event. It’s what the Olympics wishes it was X100. You’ve got Europeans road-tripping across America and having their minds blown by Buc-ee’s and Bass Pro Shops. You’ve got a small Kansas town falling in love with an Algerian club that chose Kansas City as their homebase. You’ve got South Korea training in Utah to prepare for the altitude in Guadalajara. For one month, the whole world forgets we’re supposed to hate each other over differences that barely matter. It’s the closest thing we have to world peace.

Look at that @landondonovan swagger! Good for him. 😉 #gousa #teamusa #worldcup

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World Cup #Padres edition ⚽️

Ok, who did this?

Liberty begins the moment you realize your life belongs to you, and that every power demanding ownership over it bears the burden of justification, not the other way around. Most people never notice how much of their life is spent asking permission. Permission to build. Permission to work. Permission to travel. Permission to spend their own money. Permission to defend themselves. Permission to speak too loudly against the wrong institution.

The real cause of inflation

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

Europeans visiting the US for the World Cup

#ANIKA #Rush #limelight

The dominant metaphor to describe the economy, particularly by those on the left, is that we have workers working while billionaires and other business owners are taking more of the wealth than they deserve. As if all of the workers of the United States are sitting around a table with a pie in the middle. The pie represents the total amount of wealth created. Then there is disagreement on how that pie should be divided. The people think they should be able to vote on how to divide that collective pie of wealth. Or they want to elect politicians to divide it, because we certainly can't trust the business owners and/or billionaires to decide. They have clearly screwed over the workers, right? But there is no collective wealth. There is no pie. All of that combined wealth generated doesn't sit in the middle of a table waiting for someone to divide it. The proper concept is that we are all individual traders. We buy. We sell. We produce. We invest. We lend. We cooperate. We work for companies. We employ workers. Each of us is an individual trading with others for mutual gain. Each of us is building our own wealth.... not contributing to a collective wealth. We are all individuals pursuing our own happiness seeking to benefit by cooperating with others. So when people make statements like: "They are not paying their fair share!" "There is wealth inequality!" "The Top X% control Y% of the wealth!" etc. etc. These are arguments of the first metaphor... the collective pie... which does not exist. It is a figment of the imagination. It is a conceptual tool used by those that want to make us fight each other rather than cooperate with each other. The goal should be to build individual wealth not to argue over slices of a fictional pie. forums.craigslist.org/?ID=34…

Wow 😳

Capitalism is the only system that helps the poor

USA vs Germany friendly on D-Day. Coincidence?