David H Feldman

More aspens! 😀

Hey, what about going national with this. I'm soon joining the ranks of retired professor ... kinda freeing! I can say just about anything without worrying about my employer being unhappy!

Trump supplies an almost unlimited supply of situational "logic" and an equally unlimited supply of reversals as the situation requires.

Every voter who voted for Trump owns this tragedy as well.

When will NYPD move to arrest those ICE agents for clear violations of what Shipman so delicately called "protocol."

I faux-created the "Tuberville Award" for the dumbest, most inane thing a Congress-critter said in the previous week.

I wish some influencer would pick up on that "award" (giving credit to me, of course ... 😉).

Tuberville still seems to earn a significant fraction of the awards I "give out."

Gestures.

What needs to be "warmed" are all the power plants that electrify Moscow and St. Petersburg ...

Fighting is a problem. We all know the adage about "never argue with an idiot." Dismissal is the appropriate response. Dismissal with biting sarcasm.

In a galaxy far far away ... like last year ... this kind of government failure would be big news for weeks, and heads likely would roll.

Colossal government failure is now not even very newsworthy thanks to the GOP.

You and me both.

I love it when the "main driver" of a result is selection!

If only medical journals understood that ...

U.S. women's hockey team declines Trump's invitation to the State of the Union President Donald Trump invited the men's and women's hockey teams after both won gold medals in overtime games against Canada.

What about the women's team?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Does that include ⛷️? Asking for a friend…

That wasn't an argument. It was pretextual bullshit in the same mode Trump uses all the time. We should be better than that.

Watching that self-serving drivel would be a colossal waste of time.

US economy is 'in dire need' of fiscal responsibility: Maya MacGuineas | Fox Business Video Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas explains the 'three basic ways' Biden could reduce national debt.

I seem to recall Maya MacGuineas on this very same show in 2024 complaining about deficits.

Bessent should be shunned by all sane, sensible, ethical people. He is a hypocritial shill for an obscene administration.

www.foxbusiness.com/video/634966...

Thomas Paine knew a thing or two about how to express this ...

"These are the times that try men's souls ..."

I hope UM is helping out.

Eh?

They Did Deals With Trump to Get Lower Tariffs. Now They Are Stuck.

No, not really. We're in a world without rules, and nations that see a current US tariff schedule that is lower than the one they "negotiated" can simply renege, or in Trumpian terms, "renegotiate."

They Did Deals With Trump to Get Lower Tariffs. Now They Are Stuck. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...

Greer isn't wrong.

What did you get ... 😀

Well, this was back in 2018 right after "The Road Ahead" came out, and while "Why Does College Cost so Much?" was still getting press. Now I'm back to being largely ignored ... 😀

Tuition freeze raises Purdue's profile -- at what cost? Holding tuition flat since 2012-13 has raised the land-grant university’s profile and helped it grow, but it is fueling competition for resources by academic departments -- and Purdue is still working...

Reminds me of the time that I was quoted in IHE about Mitch Daniels' frozen tuition and noted that Purdue pushed the envelope on non-resident enrollment. Daniels' chief of staff quickly contacted me to invite me to Purdue so he could show me how Purdue was assuring both quality and affordability.

Who plans to run? That's a big issue since early voting stars in March.

Will Cheryl Smith run in the special election? Will her name recognition help, or hurt?

2/ US tariffs in 2025 have likely added .7% to the rise in the US price level over 2025 -- that's a quarter of the total inflation over the same time period. A rough doubling of the effective tariff likely will do the same thing again in 2026.

State of U.S. Tariffs: SCOTUS Ruling Update

Just to be clear, a global 15% tariff without all the usual Trumpian exceptions -- for this country or that, for this industry or that, for these firms that have paid him off, and so on, -- will raise the US effective tariff far higher than the bullshit bloviating of the recent past.

State of U.S. Tariffs: SCOTUS Ruling Update

Just to be clear, a global 15% tariff without all the usual Trumpian exceptions -- for this country or that, for this industry or that, for these firms that have paid him off, and so on, -- will raise the US effective tariff far higher than the bullshit bloviating of the recent past.

In years past, friendships developed across divides. RBG and Scalia come to mind.

I haven't heard much recently about comity on the Court. Are budding relationships (Barrett/Sotomayor, Roberts/Kagan) doing something to move the Court away from the brink?

Republicans will scream about politicization in 2029 when the next Democratic president re-staffs the DOJ with professionals and gives them free rein to investigate financial crimes during the Trump administration.

Let 'em scream. That's the only way to begin getting back to governing norms again.

In an interesting twist, Judaism becomes the state religion of Louisiana ...

Imagine their surprise. 😏