Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
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An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Should colleges actually try to teach students, asks this essay?
Violent crime is apparently plunging.
Remembering America’s founding creedal principles.
Sasse: Habits of humanity.
Some of the oddest photos from the UFO release.
Is Bigfoot a Buckeye?
List of states without GOP representation.
Netanyahu calls for a redefined U.S.-Israel relationship.
Hate group, SPLC, is now under another investigation.
NYT exposed for pro-Islamist terror propaganda while platforming anti-semitism.
Public officials are leaving the Democratic Party because they’ve become so anti-Jewish and bigoted. At a minimum, hopefully, they bankrupt the Old Grey Lady.
Inside movies debuting at Cannes.
50 under-appreciated movies.
Searchable database to calculate how prevalent your first and last name is within the U.S.
Ranking Spotify’s most-streamed songs - ever.
Ranking all NFL logos from worst to first.
Apparently, sitting on the ground is a new superpower.
Tiger Mom, RIP. Long live the Beta-Mom.
Redistricting: Things got redder, but not enough to prevent a Democrat takeover of the House in 2026.
A free documentary on the first financial crisis - watch here.
Explore “health” data in the U.S.
Check out the religiosity of each state.
Understanding how Daraxonrasib is beating pancreatic cancer.
Is Stephen Miller’s impact fading?
Smart: Princeton moves to in-person testing to ensure students are not leveraging AI.
Recess is now doctor-approved.
The CIA has escalated its war against the Cartels in Mexico. Bravo!
Neighborly: Ouch, apparently Americans no longer socialize with their neighbors. Sad.
French President battered by his wife, on camera.
Why are many Latin American nations so violent?
A meditation on the abuse of words.
Government k12 schools are apparently ideological education camps.
No fun zone: Apparently, America is experiencing a fun drought.
Experts strike back: This is not a joke, these “credentialed” researchers argue it is ethical to spread a disease to biohack a better human species.
Deep dive into Property Taxes in each state.
Utter failure: Check out the latest stats on 3rd Grade Reading. If another country did this to us, we’d declare war. But this is merely the result of an overfunded government k12 system.
A new super donor emerges: Andreessen Horowitz.
In my hometown, there are some big changes. Listen for a preview here with the legendary Michael Patrick Shiels.
Reflecting on the incessant search for “Tariff authority.”
Perceptions of the economy have flipped the lead on the “Generic Ballot.”
Great advice from Jonathan Haidt that apparently upset some students.
A major U.S. city’s government K-12 teachers’ union just elected someone as their leader who is on leave for the alleged sexual assault of a third grader. There is something deeply wrong with our “teachers.”
DOJ investigation finds Yale Medical is racist.
U.S. News & World Report ranks the nations.
Unpacking the reality that the algorithm distorts “reality” for almost everything.
Reflections on the real Joan Didion.
The legendarily odd conversation between John Lennon and Bob Dylan - remastered.
AI:
Apparently, the University of Michigan invested in OpenAI early.
OpenAI launches a finance product.
CHINA & RUSSIA, IRAN & TERROR:
Russia downsizes its “Victory” parade this year.
DPRK constitutionally requires a nuclear counter-strike in response to a “Dear Leader” assassination.
China allegedly was paying a U.S. mayor for information and to have her post pro-China propaganda online.
Ukraine and the U.S. are nearing a record deal on drones.
Iranian Islamists execute another young person.
CCCP companies are looking to snag “underused” capacity from European factories.
The world is still learning ot he horrors of Islamic Hamas terrorists on October 7.
COURTS:
Justice Gorsuch’s new “Heroes of 1776” book is just what we need.
ECONOMY:
Tariffs continue to nudge inflation up.
POLS BEHAVING BADLY:
Dems
The rise of anti-Trump violent adjacent messages.
Is the modern “outrange” machine just a fake renta-protest?
State official calls for secession.
Election denier Stacey Adams hit with legal violations.
A vast number of Democrats admit to a thin grasp of reality.
Newsom: Let the death-row inmates watch tax-funded porn as a part of his “equity” vision.
Apparently, Democrats paid off Hollywood and Broadway with your tax dollars.
Another Islamic fraud - meet Mr. El-Sayed.
Reps
Congressman Mills has some explaining to do.
Allegations of misconduct mount against Representative Edwards.
TRAVEL:
An architect ranks the top 10 most interesting bridges in the world.
Fourteen unique bookstores around the globe.
Mandatory Marxism is still a thing at tax-funded “universities.”
The 100 “best” novels of all time, listed.
Divorce rates charted by occupation.
Murderer pleads insanity by transexual surgery in a legal first.
Apparently, a 16-year-old getting married is a thing we tolerate.
Civil Rights icon Bob Woodson takes on the on-going racism of America's left.
