Here are three things for April 25th, 2019.
Reading Twitter is not reality
According to a Pew Research survey, only 22 percent of Americans use the social media platform Twitter. To narrow it down further, 80 percent of the tweets from those 22 percent are made by only 10 percent of those on Twitter. That means that Twitter is mostly made up of tweets from only 2.2 percent of the U.S. population.
Read more from the Pew Research survey
We cannot continue to borrow from the future, and both parties are complicit
George Will of National Review penned a piece about the national debt ($22 trillion) and what is being done (or not done) to address it. Our nation is on the verge of running trillion-dollar budget deficits, and neither Republicans, including the president, nor Democrats seem very serious reductions in spending that would help balance it. Will points out that on the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders’ everything-for-all approach would drastically make things worse, while Republicans haven’t taken action while in power. Will sums up the current problem with the word “decadence.”
Read more from Will’s piece
Just what exactly was the Mueller investigation into Trump and Russia?
Did we just experience one of the biggest waste of our time, attention, energy and resources via Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into what has been determined to be no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia? In Victor Davis Hanson’s most recent editorial, he says the entire process was driven by pious hypocrisy. He writes that the very people who expressed outrage and condemnation over mere unproven allegations about Trump, Obama administration officials (former FBI director James Comey, former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan), are the same ones who have been shown to be previously engaged in the behavior they are so vociferously decrying.
