@HicksCBER

Father of 3 marvels. Lucky husband. Parent lottery winner. Ret’d infantryman. Eldon R. Lindsey Professor of Economics, Shenandoah University.

 Winchester, Virginia
su.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/michael-hicks/
Joined September 2010
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The ideals of the Enlightenment returned to an enslaved French beach by the wretched refuse of her teeming shores. June 6, 1944. goo.gl/images/d3bKZI
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Good point from @hbkazemi33. Most of the "manufacturing jobs" charts and stats on here include managers. The numbers for production and nonsupervisory workers look a little different. Down 84,000 since January 2025. (Link in reply)
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A real statesmen and most deserving of a 2nd term. Side note, real men take defeat with honor; they don't trash their country and its institutions to try and keep power.
The Bush Archive@TheBushArchive11h
President George H.W Bush conceding the 1992 election.
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Robert Clark
@RobertClark6213h
We are a nation of dimwitted rubes, I literally laughed out loud when I read this.
Sam Stein
@samstein18h
In a new poll, 15% of Americans said they believe between 1 and 5% of NCAA athletes are transgender. 14% think between it's between 6 and 25%. Meanwhile, an NCAA spokesperson confirmed that the current number is "effectively" zero thebulwark.com/p/new-poll-bu…

Hegseth Needs More T—Poll Shows He’s No Male Role Model

Our new survey explores masculinity, sports gambling, and whether Americans want their commentators running the country.

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Dominic Pino
@DominicJPino17h
US automakers might be able to hide behind government favoritism at home, but export markets are going to dry up as American cars become less competitive. Clifford Winston asks the right questions here:
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Dave Thul@davethulOct 27
In this day and age of precision drones and missiles, there is no excuse for targeting of civilians. This is intentional. This is a war crime. Trump’s assistance to Putin makes the US complicit in war crimes. @RepFinstad
Jay in Kyiv
@JayinKyivOct 26
Monday night and Russia has just launched a ballistic missile strike on the dormitories of Kyiv's State University of Trade and Economics. Students are dead.
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For a bit of political economy perspective, this is the Biden economy vs. the Trump economy (Trump's presidency is highlighted) It's a mistake to give Biden credit for the job growth, but it is correct to blame Trump for most of these job losses.
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Phil Magness
@PhilWMagness19h
Hey @grok. Redraw this chart to mark the point when the Supreme Court struck down IEEPA tariffs.
E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
@RealEJAntoniOct 26
Presented w/o comment:
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Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatch21h
I think it’s mostly lame that MAGA and Fox types are trying to make the Saddam-Cheesecake Factory line into an outrage. But I think it’s hilarious that nearly all of them are offended on behalf of the Cheesecake Factory and not Trump. I haven’t heard anyone defend Trump’s interior design. The logic of their freakout is, “How dare you say the Cheesecake Factory looks like the Trump White House!? The Cheesecake Factory is awesome!”
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Yep indystar.com/story/opinion/c…

How Project 2025 became the blueprint for Republicans' failure | Opinion

The damage Republicans inflicted on government through Project 2025 will be long-lasting. Will midterm voters write its epilogue come Election Day?

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All-time Kinsley gaffe
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 26
JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"
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Vance Ginn
@VanceGinnOct 26
👇👇👇
Iain Murray
@ismurrayOct 26
1/10 In my latest for @AIER, I argue that America already has a conception of the common good, rooted in its founding. It is ordered liberty, sustained by constitutional institutions. The real threat to that common good came from progressivism, not classical liberalism.
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If only there'd been warning.
Marc Goldwein
@MarcGoldweinOct 26
Anticompetitive contracts are driving up health care costs
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Well deserved award. The administration is lying, and LaPorta revealed the truth. this took actual courage, grit and damned good reporting.
Jim LaPorta
@JimLaPortaOct 26
I won a @Milreporters Award for two stories I wrote about the Iranian drone that killed six Americans in Kuwait at the start of the U.S.-Iran war. @SeanParnellASW disputed the reporting. He said it was a "secured facility" because it had 6-foot walls, soldiers on the ground disagreed. Story 1: cbsnews.com/news/iran-strike… Story 2: cbsnews.com/news/iran-appear… Award announcement: militaryreporters.org/2026/1…
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mass ave curmudgeon@mass_aveOct 26
Couldn’t be more clear if they wore white and black hats
Michael J. Hicks@HicksCBEROct 26
The war in Ukraine is the cleared moral issue in the world today. If you struggle to see Russia and Putin as aggressors and Ukrainian and Zelensky as heroic defenders of freedom, you are a moral infant.
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Ozon and Wildberries in Russia will not be holding a "Black Friday" event this year.
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Mac the Lefty@ColinTheLeftyOct 26
I don’t think you’d make it, bud. I’ve been in a war as you can see me here commanding my tank. I can tell you that war is awful and every last person who sounded just like you, stayed home. Enjoy your protein shakes.
The Misfit Patriot
@MisfitPatriotOct 26
Let’s just do the civil war now instead of waiting. I’m tired of these protein deficient fairies telling me “we have guns too” Cool story, let’s fuckin go!
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Jesus Chrysler@JesusChryslerIIOct 25
This old fool is demented
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Matt Ridley
@mattwridleyOct 26
That's what genocide looks like
Simon Kuestenmacher
@simongerman600Oct 26
This 260-year demographic timeline of Poland’s Jewish population reveals the devastating scale of the Holocaust. Source: buff.ly/MEHJWla
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Dominic Pino
@DominicJPinoOct 26
"If submitting a housing permit application on the same day, the average aspiring homeowner who wants to build in Miami, San Francisco or Boston — the cities with the longest permitting times — will still be stuck in paperwork when the average aspiring homeowner in Indianapolis, El Paso, Colorado Springs, Phoenix or Fort Worth is moving into a completed home." @PostOpinions washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Opinion | How a paperwork bottleneck adds 39 percent to your rent

See how many housing permits your metro area authorized this year and how that pace compares with previous years.

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The war in Ukraine is the cleared moral issue in the world today. If you struggle to see Russia and Putin as aggressors and Ukrainian and Zelensky as heroic defenders of freedom, you are a moral infant.
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