- Via the AP: Alabama to allow concealed guns without permit in 2023. This does not, contrary to the claims of the “constitutional carry” crowd, make me feel safer. I suppose that since it wasn’t that hard to get a permit in the first place, and since I expect many people ignored the rule anyway, this doesn’t materially change things all that much. I still think it is the wrong direction: it should be harder to carry around a weapon, not easier, and we should be cultivating a culture of training not the misguided notion that everyone is an action hero in their own person movies.
- Even the NY Post find George Santos to be problematic: Shameless George! Santos plans ‘questionable’ fundraiser off swearing-in.
- Business genius at work? Via Axios: Fidelity slashes Twitter value by 56%
- Speaking of politicians who want power more than anything else (via the NYT): The Invention of Elise Stefanik. It is a well-written and researched piece. Power corrupts, and all that.
over dozens of interviews, former aides, advisers and friends going back to Ms. Stefanik’s Harvard days struggled to identify any of her deeply held political beliefs at all. Most recalled, instead, her generic loyalty to the Republican Party, her intense competitiveness and her unerring ability to absorb what she thought people around her wanted and to reflect it back at them. Eager to advance, skilled at impressing more powerful figures with her intelligence and work ethic, she has spent years embedding herself wherever the action seems to be at the time. “She knows exactly what she’s signed up for,” said Kate Yearwood Young, a former friend from Harvard. “There was no radicalization.”
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Her revisionism still shocks those who have known her the longest and who remember the disdain she expressed for Mr. Trump back then. “I suspect there are a lot of Republican members of Congress who take positions on Trump that they don’t hold privately, for their own political security or gain,” said Mr. Tucker, the Arkansas lawmaker. “Elise is the only one I know for certain who has.”
