Today I drink from this mug as I pray for the people of Mississippi devastated by tornadoes. The mug is from Empower Mississippi Grant Callen.

Mug of the day is my custom one of a kind Pelican Institute mug made by Aly Landry Rau

A state tax revolution is underway. The unanticipated gusher of state tax revenue set the table for income tax cuts across a near super-majority of states. Remote work and new federal tax rules accelerated interstate competition. My latest in National Review.

nationalreview.com/2023/03/strong…

This needs repeating ad nauseam until it sinks in. Endlessly offshoring western manufacturing capacity in the name of efficiency has left the nations who engaged in it critically under industrialized as it relates to the defense sector.

.Kansas Men’s Basketball 🤝 Kansas City Chiefs

Never count us out at halftime 😏🏆

America's housing market remains incredibly tight—the homeowner vacancy rate has returned to the lowest level in history, and the rental vacancy rate remains near the lowest level in decades.

There's still an acute nationwide housing shortage.

BREAKING: Utah Senate Education Committee voted to legalize microschools.

These innovative schools are one step closer to having a unneccessary regulations removed.

If you're an American citizen wondering how Washington DC could spend $850+B of your tax dollars on defense annually and yet can't manage to shoot down a foreign spy balloon in US air space - you're not crazy & you're not the only one thinking it.
#ChineseSpyBalloon

'The ability of Mahomes is like nothing I've ever seen. It creates great clarity... No run game. One leg.'

— Colin Cowherd reacts to Chiefs returning to Super Bowl

Let's break news.

Wisconsin got 1.49 BILLION dollars to help kids catch up after corona.

The public hasn't known where the money is going...until now.

IRG analysis shows Wisconsin has allocated just 34.0% so far. $985 million sits idle while kids wait.

Click for more context.

I’m running into multiple infant-childcare waitlists going to 2025. I don’t understand that but maybe I missed a biology class?

It's common to hear: 'the challenge is, we're in times of rapid change.'

But it appears the opposite is true. The challenge is that we're in a time of exceedingly slow change.

grid.news/story/science/…

This week offers stark contrast between Americans and the clowns in DC.

DC-Clowns: gridlock, showboating, & temper tantrums

Americans: overcome rivalries, unite behind Damar Hamlin's recovery.

'US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment.' cepa.org/article/its-co…

Russia's own propaganda: Russia is so broken there is no opportunity, so go to war.

2 new mugs from two organizations leading on education reform! Thank you Empower Mississippi and schoolforward!

Sleak new mug just arrived! From my friend CJ Szafir at Institute for Reforming Government

Covid provides a case study of how democracy, separation of powers, & the rule of law are far superior to the rule of an authoritarian old fart.

wsj.com/articles/chine… via The Wall Street Journal