In 2011’s Moneyball, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his assistant, Peter Brand, use a sabermetric analysis method to evaluate underrated players to cobble together a competitive Major League Baseball team on a shoestring budget. The film somewhat faithfully captures the beginning of baseball’s analytics boom, during which numbers and formulas unseated much of […]
Often erroneously attributed to John Wayne, the quote “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid” actually comes from George V. Higgins’s 1970 novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. The phrase is spoken by a gunrunner trying not to get killed during a deal, but its applications are truly universal. Let’s not be so […]
It is amazing what Americans can accomplish without involving the government. There are, of course, multiple highways that crisscross the Lone Star State, but if you want to bike, run, or ride across the state, you are out of luck … until now. Bike enthusiast Charlie Gandy, along with his friends at Bike Texas, a […]
Had the Democrats picked a different candidate, they would have won. All the talk of realignments, Latinos, blue-collar workers, and whatnot, while interesting, is beside the point. Around the world, the politicians in office when the bills for the pandemic came in were walloped. Voters in the United States displayed the same selective amnesia about […]
When people complain about how much they must spend in taxes, big government Democrats often mock them. Who, then, is going to fix the roads? Or keep schools running? Or launch SWAT team raids to detain and execute people’s pet squirrels? That last one is what your tax money helps fund if you are a […]
Back in the early 1990s, anxious about long-term regional decline and hoping to put my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, back on the map, local leaders embarked upon constructing a totally new light rail system that was to provide living proof of our dynamic vision for the future. The MetroLink promised to unite the diffuse […]
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, some demonstrators held up signs that said, “IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAKE.” Oddly enough, the activists are right. It wasn’t about the cake then, and it isn’t now in 2024. It is especially not for custom cake baker Jack Phillips, […]
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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is seeking to lead the Republican Senate campaign arm ahead of the 2026 Senate elections. Scott ran for president in the 2024 Republican primary.
The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over how to fund the federal government through September 2025.