Yep, the Hoover Institution has zero credibility with real academics. Stanford should worry about it harming it’s reputation.
Not only were the authors relying on Austin’s Chamber of Commerce, the lead author has a major conflict of interest. He is a “relocation coach” for companies moving from CA to TX. Give me a break. 
That’s an insult to cat piss.
Ones a stinky and caustic waste product, the other is cat piss.
From America’s mayor to America’s drunk uncle
Also - superstar lawyer doesn’t know that the Titles of Nobility Amendment was never ratified?
“Nine of the jurisdictions have Republican governors and 14 have Democratic governors. The report finds “no difference in crime trends between Republican-led and Democrat-led states” from 2019 to 2020. Crime rose in some blue states and fell in some blue states; it rose in some red states and fell in some red states.
And the paper said there was no apparent disparity in crime trends between states that changed police laws and states that did not.
“There seems to be a hysteria that began about a year and half ago to try and convince Americans that we’re undergoing another crime wave,”
How can they say that when most major American cities were burnt to the ground several times in the summer of 2020? (In the FoxVerse.)
Our baseline is pretty high?
But those are facts. It feels like things are so much worse in blue areas! And those are alternative facts, even better than your liberal “reality based” “facts.” So there, with perfect, logic! (Omfg, I wish this was stupid sarcasm, but we all know better.)
I was driving through downtown Portland yesterday, and you wouldn’t believe how quickly they can completely rebuild a city overnight, every night! It was spotless! They even rebuilt every building just like it looked the day before! /s
Neither you nor I are from countries where that slur is considered generic rather than misogynistic, and yet:
Part of my family is British, it’s something I grew up with.
Well then, you have even more right to use it in this circumstance!
This is not the comment I expected from longtime right-wing asshole Joe Walsh but I guess he’s been growing apart from the Trumpists in his party over the last few years, even endorsing Biden in 2020. I guess it’s a good thing?
I’m not exactly ready to take it on faith that he’s seen the error of his ways and joined the side of the angels but it’s hard to see a path forward for America that doesn’t involve more of these people starting to reflect on their past positions.
Politics has no place in football! /s
Locally, we have this asshole. The city council voted to rename a pedestrian bridge after a Black mayor who passed away last year, but not before hearing from one of the councilors…
He said Wednesday that he heard from local people “who were upset about what they were seeing” on videos from hurricane-hit areas of “Black people looting and breaking into places.”
“It left a bad taste in everybody’s mouth,” Walker said, and caused some to worry the city was only naming the bridge for Jenkins as a carrot for the fast-growing Black community.
Yeah, sure, he “heard from locals.” 
I’m not buying it.
Another “prime” quote:
He proceeded to say that “since we’ve had the floods that have happened down in Alabama and them areas” — perhaps a reference to the damage done by Hurricane Ida this month — “it really has made a black mark toward John Jenkins because of what’s going on down there with the dark-colored people breaking in, lootering, stealing and every other thing.”
Given all the atrocities carried out by white men, I guess we shouldn’t name anything after any of them anymore.
He’s running unopposed for his seat (not my ward). 
