EvanTh
13d ago
Whether or not Trump "likes" transgender people, he's certainly instituted some policies they very much perceive as hostile to them.
EvanTh
22d ago
I do think there have been experiments to see if people who were prayed over recovered at better rates than people who did not, and my recollection is that there did not seem to be a statistically significant difference. But it's been years since I read about that and I don't know any of the internals of the study, so I have no real informed opinion of its validity.
Here's a quick look at the methodology of several studies. One of the largest studies, which famously reported a negative result, included people from many religions but barely any Protestant Christians.
EvanTh
26d ago
And because they didn't give it to him for a limited time in the first place. Congress needs to learn the same lessons about power grants that the English Parliament learned about taxes.
EvanTh
28d ago
It is, as you say, unlikely.
But I am still concerned when the US Department of Justice argues that if it did happen to me, I would have no redress.
EvanTh
29d ago
If I were writing those letters, I very well might do that. But I would never disclose that I would do that.
EvanTh
1mo ago
I wonder if that's exactly why they're using a standard-issue commercial app.
EvanTh
1mo ago
I want to agree, but that's the same thing leftists will say when they try to make every red state allow abortions and teenage gender changes.
EvanTh
2mo ago
The actually useful parts of USAID are mostly still happening, just under state department purview
They are? Do you have a link?
EvanTh
9mo ago
Interesting! And rather reassuring!
Is there anything published where I can read more about this?
EvanTh
9mo ago
The median voter owns a house with a 3% mortgage.
Do you have numbers on that?
EvanTh
9mo ago
I live in Washington; we've had universal vote-by-mail for a while now too.
I don't know if all our elections are fraudulent. They're doing a lot of good things to secure them, but there're still inherent gaps. And I'm very uncomfortable about that.
EvanTh
10mo ago
Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Co.
8-0. (Yes, eight. Alito recused himself.)
Apparently it's unclear why, or at least I haven't been able to find out why in a little websearching. But the best guess from Twitter is that Alito owns stock in one of the litigating companies.
EvanTh
10mo ago
Or it could be Calvin Coolidge taking the oath in the parlor of his father's vacation home, before his father who was a justice of the peace.
EvanTh
10mo ago
I think some people's minds will be changed by the headlines trumpeting "Trump convicted on all counts!"
EvanTh
11mo ago
Does Uber collect payroll taxes?
No, their drivers are all considered independent contractors. A driver's supposed to pay the payroll taxes himself when he files income taxes.
EvanTh
11mo ago
Princip did nothing for Serbian nationalism.
Princip started a chain of events that led to the Serbian-dominated Kingdom of Yugoslavia. On the other hand, there was a bloody war in-between which he deeply regretted (and didn't live to see the end of).
EvanTh
11mo ago
I agree, the odds of Trump being assassinated are low but worth some attention.
However, the odds of Trump dying, or losing his mental function, of natural causes are significantly higher. For that reason even if nothing else, he should choose a good VP candidate.
EvanTh
11mo ago
No, they don't know it. I volunteer with the VITA program doing tax prep for low-income people, and most of my clients don't appreciate that the government is taking money from their paychecks to pay tax. I explain it to them every year, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't stick.
I'm pretty sure half my clients don't even read their W-2's or other tax forms, except to go "this's a tax form from my employer / bank / charity / etc; guess I'll bring it when I go do taxes."
EvanTh
11mo ago
The IRS does publish just that, with two pie charts and text, at the end of the Form 1040 instructions!
- Social Security, Medicare, and other retirement: 29%
- National defense, veterans, and foreign affairs: 15%
- Social programs: 33%
- Physical, human, and community development: 13%
- Net interest on the debt: 5%
- Law enforcement and general government: 5%
In fiscal year 2022... federal income was $4.897 trillion and outlays were $6.273 trillion, leaving a deficit of $1.376 trillion.
Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, hardly anyone reads it.
He's still regularly posting on DSL, and he's also got his own Substack.
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