My tweets and retweets last night during the State of the Union address and the GOP response by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), in regular rather than reverse chronological order:
I’ll be live-tweeting the #SOTU as part of the @catoinstitute commentary team. Check us out at twitter.com/CatoInstitute/… or cato.org/blog/live-blog…
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Odds are 99-1 against Obama backing copyright reform in #SOTU, but Virginia Postrel lets herself hope bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-1…
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
From the Guardian: how the language sophistication of #SOTU addresses has drifted down over 2 centuries guardian.co.uk/world/interact…
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Per AP, “Missing this year: Scalia, Thomas and Alito.” Obama’s lucky he got six after #SOTU browbeating Court (falsely) on Citizens United.
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
If sequester’s so horrible, why’d Obama sign the bill that had it? #SOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Pres: “deteriorating roads and bridges.” It simply isn’t true. bit.ly/10gEvbn #SOTU
— Chris Edwards (@CatoEdwards) February 13, 2013
Instead of curbing subsidies that fuel tuition hikes, Obama will add red tape and put gov in the US News-style rating biz. Sigh. #SOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Paycheck Fairness Act is a trial lawyer bonanza but does nothing for real fairness: cato.org/blog/lame-duck… #SOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Admin will partner with 20 of the hardest-hit towns? Model Cities program was Great Society’s biggest flop: christopherdemuth.com/deregulating-t… #SOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Justice and law — “I want our country to be like that.” Don’t we all. #SOTU
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) February 13, 2013
President’s emotionally manipulative “they deserve a vote” on gun control = everything I dislike about politics #SOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
“this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.” Don’t bankrupt them. #SOTU
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) February 13, 2013
“We’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples” That’s vague. Such as? #SOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Rubio: “We need to incentivize local school districts to offer more AP courses and more voc/career training.” We need GOP for this? #SOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
Also, by way of pleasant contrast:
Gene Healy on Amity Shlaes’s new Calvin Coolidge biography buff.ly/14Rc9so
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 13, 2013
And here’s Cato’s response video with scholars Michael Tanner, Julian Sanchez, Alex Nowrasteh, Simon Lester, John Samples, Pat Michaels, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Michael F. Cannon, Jim Harper, Malou Innocent, Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus and Neal McCluskey.
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Just ran across this which tends to confirm that “the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples” consist largely of subsidies obtainable by the unmarried, and that a plan to “remove” these deterrents is likely to take the form of boosting spending so everyone can have a subsidy: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340539/renewing-marriage-america-w-bradford-wilcox