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Judge Glock

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

Director of Research and Senior Fellow, @ManhattanInst. Author of "The Dead Pledge." Opinions are my own.

Fairfax, VA

Joined November 2014

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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jun 2
In the @WSJ today, I review Brink Lindsey's "The Permanent Problem" which argues that capitalism has failed to bring "spirtual riches." Lindsey misunderstands what an economic system is for, and his "solutions" would make us materially poorer.
‘The Permanent Problem’ Review: The Soul and the Market
From wsj.com
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
May 25, 2025
Wait, Britain arrests 1000 people a MONTH for online posting? I knew it was bad but not this bad.
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jul 15, 2024
Unfortunate evergreen quote
Jeff Stein
@jstein_star
Jul 15, 2024
Scoop: Biden WILL announce plan to cap rents at 5% nationwide, sources say Would strip tax benefit from corporate landlords who dont comply Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress, comes as Biden emphasizes populist econ ideas after debate W/ @rachsieg
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Apr 24, 2025
This is the house of Margarita Howard, who the government declared "socially and economically disadvantaged" as part of its vast program of awarding contracts based on race. I was happy to write on @JTLonsdale's blog about how minority contracting breeds corruption. Read👇
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jun 16, 2025
It looks like a whole new shipping preference law is coming. The House overwhelmingly passed the American Cargo for American Ships Act that would require 100% of transportation project materials to go on US ships, driving up infrastructure costs.
govtrack.us
American Cargo for American Ships Act (H.R. 2035)
To amend title 46, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that all cargoes procured, furnished, or financed by the Department of Transportation are transported on...
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Dec 14, 2024
People act like this is some new idea. No, this is socialist utilitarianism 101. Mao banned people from planting flowers because that took resources away from food production. Who could want flowers over food? Of course, as a result, they got neither.
Zach Freitas-Groff 🔸
@zdgroff
Dec 11, 2024
Banger quote from @dylanmatt: "If I were to file effective altruism down to its more core, elemental truth, it’s this: “We should let children die to rebuild a cathedral” is not a principle anyone should be willing to accept."
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jul 2, 2024
Many commentators on Trump v US, including the dissents, are acting like criminal prosecutions of former presidents are a very important check on abuse of power. The fact that we’re seeing the first ones in our history right now show they’re clearly not.
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jun 16, 2025
Replying to @Eccentrist2
It was bipartisan and most objections were R
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jun 28, 2024
The Grants Pass decision by Gorsuch, restoring Western cities' right to ban street camping, is a strong repudiation of everything the 9th Circuit has said about homelessness over 6 years. It's a shame so many cities had to suffer for this foolishness. supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
May 22, 2023
It's worth remembering that Pete Buttigieg's "cathedral mind" somehow can't comprehend that the Jones Act is bad transportation policy.
Pete Buttigieg: “I support the Jones Act”
From marinelog.com
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jun 29, 2024
This tweet wonderfully shows many progressives’ and even some excited conservatives’ confusion about the Loper-Bright case. Congress can still write a law that says “regulate tank cars generally” and agencies can then do what they want. Congress just has to SAY it.
Hayden
@the_transit_guy
Jun 28, 2024
With Chevron gone, ask your local congress representative what their stance on a railroads’ use of bearing defect detection systems is and their thoughts on DOT-111 tank cars.
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Oct 31, 2023
The encounter of citizens of socialist countries with supermarkets actually was transformative, and it was not just Yeltsin. Socialism justified itself as a path to economic abundance for the masses, and when Western stores proved that was a lie they felt betrayed. A thread/
Helen Andrews
@herandrews
Oct 30, 2023
Honestly I wish Americans wouldn’t feel so smug about the Yeltsin supermarket story. Consumer abundance had been a staple of our Cold War propaganda going back to the Kitchen Debate in 1959. Russians knew we had that advantage. But it wasn’t quite so simple. /1
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Jun 19, 2024
I don't want to trigger anybody, but the OECD housing ranking of total affordability, size, and quality metrics has US at # 1. One can quibble about plenty, but this is not an unimportant fact. If your mental model has the US as an outlier the other way, it needs to be adjusted.
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Judge Glock
@judgeglock
Feb 18, 2025
It's amazing to me that @politico attacks the pause on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants by citing the "detailed work plans" submitted by the nonprofit winners. The Climate United Fund received $7 billion, the biggest nonprofit grant in history, in exchange for a 49-page plan.
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