As I did last year I’m tweeting reactions to President Obama’s State of the Union address so you wouldn’t have to watch. Here are Twitter highlights, mostly in regular rather than reverse chronological order:

Joining the #CatoSOTU Twitter convo with @CatoInstitute scholars tonight? Here's a list of scholars live-tweeting: http://t.co/W3F0yoCS4E

— CatoEvents (@CatoEvents) January 20, 2015

I'm thinking I don't need to learn the details of Obama's new tax plan, since it's never going to pass. #RationalIgnorance #CatoSOTU

— Jason Kuznicki (@JasonKuznicki) January 20, 2015

Per rumor, Obama to unveil details of manager overtime mandate. Terrible idea (1/2) http://t.co/tRF2eovU5q http://t.co/jxcF7DjG8k #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 20, 2015

More on why manager overtime edict could be among Obama's worst legacies (2/2) http://t.co/PfwyWmWAzQ http://t.co/eEeBo0v1ux #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 20, 2015

MT @PGEddington Obama to push more regulation of cyber security, yet feds can’t even protect own bldgs http://t.co/Z4Z8tbM7uZ #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 21, 2015

To me, #SOTU's modern low point came in 2010 when Obama hectored #SCOTUS justices. You bet they remember http://t.co/syxtcCTmVh #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 21, 2015

What POTUS will say tonight: I plan to pay for free community college with tax hikes on college savings accounts #CatoSOTU

— Nicole Kaeding (@NKaeding) January 21, 2015

"Free from the grip of foreign oil" — yet so much of his own base has fought the drilling and pipelines that made that possible #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 21, 2015

"Will we allow ourselves to be sorted into factions and turned against one another…?" And then on to the let's-get-the-1% pitch #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 21, 2015

The SOTU is always a good time to remember that it’s a *very* limited set of *enumerated* powers the Constitution actually allows. #CatoSOTU

— Aaron Ross Powell (@ARossP) January 21, 2015

Politics creates factions. #CatoSOTU

— Trevor Burrus (@TCBurrus) January 21, 2015

At @overlawyered I just RT'd tweet re: Prez's lame "pay gap" talk. Didn't mention it was from last year's #SOTU — if that matters #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 21, 2015

So depressing to hear big applause for the oft-refuted demagogy on gender pay gap. Here's Cathy Young: http://t.co/QXESJKuAuU #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014

“@MTannerCato: Yes, let's make it more expensive to hire workers. That will do wonders for low skill employment. #CatoSOTU” ????

— C.Conrad ?? (@CConrad78710) January 21, 2015

“When we react to the headlines instead of using our heads…” But I have 10 dubious proposals in response to the Sony hack. #CatoSOTU

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) January 21, 2015

Glad that President mentioned falling crime rate and is happy about falling incarceration rate. #CatoSOTU

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 21, 2015

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