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March 10, 2025 — Steven Hayward
So Democrats and the media (but I repeat) are in full whoop war cry about an uptick in measles cases this year, and it’s only sheer coincidence that the Dem-media are shining a spotlight on this story right after RFK Jr. became secretary of Health and Human Services. Stop the presses: measles is not “making a comeback.” Here’s the long-term trend in measles in the U.S., showing that measles cases
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March 7, 2025 — Steven Hayward
We have previously noted that leftism and mental illness seem to be correlated (and increasing—especially among women), and the same thing appears to be true overseas as well. Here’s data from Finland:
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March 6, 2025 — Steven Hayward
One of the biggest handicaps of environmentalism has always been that it’s an elite, upper-income cause. The cliche used to be that environmentalists all drove Volvos, before they moved on to Priuses, and then Teslas, before they started hating Teslas because Musk. In any case, the environmental movement has long tried to appeal to minorities and low income communities by attempting a fusion with civil rights, in the form of
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March 5, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Sunday night offered the Academy Awards, and the TV ratings show yet another drop in viewership, to something like 18 million. Keep in mind that the Academy Awards used to draw near Super Bowl numbers 50 years ago, back when the show featured films that Americans had heard of and even gone to see. Nowadays the odds of winning the Best Picture Award seem to be inversely correlated with how
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March 4, 2025 — Steven Hayward
The Pew Research Center is out with an interesting new report: Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off After many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians shows signs of leveling off – at least temporarily – at slightly above six-in-ten, according to a massive new Pew Research Center survey of 36,908 U.S. adults. Actually their panel data show a
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March 3, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Germany’s ruling uniparty ought not to be so secure in thinking that the failure of the AfD to break out of its stronghold in the former East Germany means that the AfD is a receding force. Turns out that like Trump’s strong improvement in deep blue states like California and New York can also be detected in Germany. Someone had the bright idea to look at the vote shift to
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February 28, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Proof that the Democratic Party is in fact run by the faculty lounge and its progressive base comes from the shocking results from the latest Gallup poll about attitudes toward Israel by party. Since October 7, and after the pro-Hamas movements on campus and in our streets began, support for Israel among Democrats has fallen by half—to 33 percent. Republican support remains basically unchanged at around 80 percent. Democrats are
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February 27, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Our friends at Issues & Insights provided today’s graphic, showing the Trump Effect at the border, and showing that securing the border requires no more than government resolve and competence. And keep in mind that for the first 20 days of January, we still had Biden’s wide-open border, which means the change reflected here is rally only for a 10-day period. Chaser:
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February 26, 2025 — Steven Hayward
I got into some trouble here once before when I suggested that the three-point shot had ruined the NBA. But now I have the Wall Street Journal on my side, which recently reported: NBA Players Can’t Stop Shooting 3s. Have They Broken Basketball? . . . In 1991, the year Michael Jordan won his first title with the Chicago Bulls, 3-pointers accounted for 8.2% of field-goal attempts leaguewide. By 2000,
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February 25, 2025 — Steven Hayward
I’m much less impressed than John about the results of the German election, which will see an SPD-CDU-Green coalition government replaced by a CDU-SDP coalition government. Merz is just Merkel in trousers. I do note one parallel between German and American political trends. Here in the U.S. we’ve noted trends in the gender gap among young voters. I like this latest chart to come my way: Turns out much the
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February 24, 2025 — Steven Hayward
As I have observed before, we can forget the old FDR-era 100-Day yardstick for this term of the Trump Administration, which I have observed before looks and feels much more like a first term than a second term. And in fact I suspect that future historians will make a big deal out of how Trump serving non-consecutive terms made a huge difference in everything. In one respect Trump is on
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February 23, 2025 — Steven Hayward
[NOTE: The special edition Daily Chart will be updated as news comes in.] The polls have now closed in Germany, and we should get some results soon. The main question is whether the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party will exceed its pre-election poll estimates, which project it finishing second. I have been predicting for weeks that AfD will exceed its pre-election polls, but this depends in part on turnout among
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February 21, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Listeners of the 3WHH podcast will know that it is the position of Lucretia, the International Woman of Mystery, that the 19th Amendment should be repealed. This is more radical than the late Kate O’Bierne’s argument that women should only be allowed to vote in local elections, like school board and city council, but not for state and national offices. In any case, here’s some data in support of the
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February 20, 2025 — Steven Hayward
If Orwell were alive today, he’d be on the warpath about how governments are concerned about “disinformation,” the definition of which curiously intersects with what governments want you to believe and accept. In fact the whole domain of mis- and disinformation really does qualify as something that is “socially constructed,” that is, by the power elites of the nation. Just as a stopped clock is right twice a day, so
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February 19, 2025 — Steven Hayward
We keep hearing that 2024 was the hottest year on record—a record that extends back, keep in mind, only to about 1850 or so, and there’s some doubt about even this short time frame—which, let us recall, many climatologists predicted would happen after the massive Hunga Tonga volcano eruption in the South Pacific two years ago, and yet both Arctic sea ice and northern hemisphere snow cover are bursting above
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February 18, 2025 — Steven Hayward
I use a lot of eggs, because I long ago swallowed the propaganda campaign of Big Egg about the “incredible, edible egg.” I cook them fried (up and over easy), scrambled, poached, boiled, in omelettes, several styles of breakfast burritos, as an ingredient for other complex dishes, and even cooked in an air fryer. (Aside: if Ronald Reagan came back and was a contestant on a Food Network cooking show,
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February 17, 2025 — Steven Hayward
The European, especially the German government that is about to get tossed out on its keister next weekend, is mightily upset at Vice President Vance’s Munich speech, not to mention other statements that a Europe that is worried about Russian aggression needs to step up. This is a stark depiction of how weak Europe has become: Long past time for the U.S. to stop subsidizing Europe’s welfare states. Chaser: Macron
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