Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
- Mar 15
- 5 min read
An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The Framers of the Constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.” — Justice William Douglas in Beauharnais v. Illinois
Demography is NOT destiny notes this article.
Will future students conclude America just got bored and tired of freedom and stability?
Did fracking kill Khamenei?
Unpacking the axel tilt and the sunlight benefit we receive.
2026 new license plates, here.
Ouch: The Democrat Party is less popular than ICE and AI.
Misandry on demand: Uber allows women to discriminate against male drivers.
Unpacking the bloody life and legacy of El Mencho.
Congress: Do your job - legislate.
More tax-funded fraud found in California.
Canada apparently, can’t stop killing itself. Truly sad.
How our university system is undermining “democracy” in America.
Research suggests that at the state level, female legislators, are less effective than male counterparts.
Create a font from your handwriting, here.
Visualizing credit card debt by state.
What it takes: In each state, the average cost for owning a home.
Stigma ground zero: Study finds bias developed in first teaching assignment outlasts reality.
Save your focus? Deep reading is a solution.
Climate harm: Taylor Swift concerts empirically bad for air quality per this study.
Remembering: 3,000 Americans captive in Japan following their attack on Pearl Harbor.
Saving animals: Species hunted get conserved this study notes.
Newsom Diaspora: Yamaha pulls out of California heads to Georgia.
Exxon looking to leave New Jersey for Texas.
Starbucks is moving to Nashville, Tennessee to escape Democrat taxation.
Stubborn things: Likely controversial, but a scientific study further documenting the differences in IQ based upon sex.
Mauritania: A nation with active slave markets where people are still bought-and-sold.
CNN: Voter ID is not controversial almost all American’s support it - consensus.
U.S. State Department green lights arming Sweden.
Reflections on how smart phones are killing relationships.
Ukraine is helping the U.S. and its allies fight Iran.
Filibuster: The last time a real filibuster was broken - where they have to stand and talk, not a Zombie Filibuster like today’s Senate - was in 1893.
Rut-roh: Ye old (checks notes, not UFOs), Big Foot distraction (re)appears.
Clarity: One demographic apparently has the best mental health in America. And it’s not Oprah’s Book Club.
Coke v Pepsi, listen here.
The art of becoming “socially wealthy.”
Bloom: “No one reads my books.”
Counter narrative: Incels are apparently less violent than non-incel males.
Another trans-shooter plot foiled.
Picturing where the world’s oil comes from, here.
A massive study that could lead to liability for Social Media companies is wrapping up.
Leftwing “intellectual” (in the French sense of the word), is profiled in a recent Soros-fueled love fest.
End it, don’t mend it: The Jones Act under review.
Oscars: An eulogy for Hollywood.
An ode to friend-group reality.
Sadly, there is a surge in solo-living in the US.
The importance of committing to a annual friendship ritual.
In defense of the "Irish Goodbye."
Acronym soup: FBI + UFC is actually a big positive, studies show that the more enforcement is with non-lethal force training the less they turn to the former.
No longer a nation: Countries without heroes are merely a zoning jurisdiction. A week after getting hit, “Great” Britain sends its warship to help its own team because it was not kept ready and the crew had strict work (union) hour rules.
AI:
Promptfoo, a cyber security firm is acquired by OpenAI.
Like kids playing with matches, AI is leading to burn out.
Meta is acquiring Moltbook.
Argument: AI can do work, can it do a job?
Rut-roh: McKinsey has some explaining to do.
The AI-impact on news consumption and production is not yet clear per this study.
Strange: Celebrating your "relationship" with an AI-chatbot.
CHINA & RUSSIA, IRAN & TERROR:
Reflecting on China’s options vis-a-vie Iran.
Russia’s turmoil continues to simmer but its only speculation as to Putin’s instability.
DPRK’s attempt to weasel in on the space race.
After losing two-thirds of deployed troops, Russia has now lost land on the front it occupies.
Unpacking the fact that much of the “agitprop” against Operation Epic Fury is coming from foreign actors.
Russia caught in self-sabotage “false flag” operation.
Out of many, one: China pursues cultural unity through legislation.
COURTS:
ECONOMY:
Deposits held by quartile, stabilizing? Wage growth has improved.
Heightened margin debts, multiplies the risk of a stock downturn.
Americans are not saving enough for retirement. Apparently an unintended consequence of out-sourcing personal responsibility for it to Social Security.
Quince valued at 10b.
Personal incomes continue to rise!
POLS BEHAVING BADLY:
Dems
Reps
DOJ attorney has some explaining to do!
TRAVEL:
The cost of a trip to Disney for the average family.
Comparing today’s travel to 1950s, here.
Top Spring Break 2026 destinations - and - remembering spring break from the 1980s.
Best U.S cities for St. Patrick’s Day noted.
Mapping interstate travel.
Yes! Moderation. Daily ice cream intake linked to lower diabetes risk.
Brain cells grown in a lab taught to play video game Doom. WTF!
Lazy. Already work 25% less than professionals, NY teachers who in aggregate work 9 years less than career professionals want another decade off to be tax-funded pension eligible.
Avoid: Paraskevidekatriaphobia.
When it comes to crime-and-punishment, a data-driven argument for an “eye for an eye.”
Alleged veteran attackers was deported four times previously.
Cuba admits it is in talks with the U.S. seeking resolution to the nation’s differences.
The power of monotheism revisited.
