September 9, 2025

COMPLETE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF MARKETS:  A Marxist Tell.

Posted at 2:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

September 8, 2025

BUT OF COURSE:

Posted at 9:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SANER AND MORE DECENT THAN THE NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS, WHICH ADMITTEDLY IS A LOW BAR. BUT GOOD FOR HER.

Posted at 9:21 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MARK JUDGE: The Anti-Communist Film Fest Invite List: Alec Baldwin? “Baldwin also writes about God as a guiding force in his life – especially after he got sober in the early 1990s. Baldwin hates the press and played Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October. How can he not be a closet Republican?”

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SHE DESERVES TO BE BLISTERED:

UPDATE:

Everything is fine, I’m sure.

Posted at 8:36 pm by Glenn Reynolds

JACINDA ARDERN: ‘I made mistakes — but I was human.’

Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern says her five years in office felt like a decade.

Speaking on Brodie Kane’s Kiwi Yarns show, Ardern reflected on guiding the country through a turbulent period marked by the Christchurch terror attacks, the Whakaari/White Island eruption, major floods, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

“So much happened to New Zealand in a short space of time. I think it’s understandable that the country is still reeling a bit from that period.”
Ardern stressed that Covid-19 was not the sole reason for her decision to step away from politics, but acknowledged the pandemic’s heavy toll.

“I never pinpointed Covid specifically, because in part I think it was just an accumulation of crises. Five years of leadership felt like 10 – that’s probably what I would say.

“As much as you were trying to make the best possible decisions, inevitably there were consequences for people, and people didn’t always believe it was the right thing to do.”

Mistakes were made: Why Jacinda Ardern’s COVID-19 elimination strategy was doomed to fail.

When Jacinda Ardern made the decision to lock down New Zealand – hard – in an effort to eliminate COVID-19 from her island nation, the Australian left cheered: If only we went down the same road, we likewise listened to the experts, we too could get rid of coronavirus and, perhaps, get back to our normal lives.

But now, New Zealand stands as a cautionary tale about the nature of coronavirus: No matter how hard you try to fight the virus by smashing businesses, civil liberties, and lives, the thing always seems to find a way to come back.

—The Sydney Telegraph, August 12th, 2020.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is No Saint. “The population of New Zealand is smaller than New York City. The entire country has a fraction of the air traffic of London alone. The UK had a high number of cases because its capital is one of the biggest cities in the world, is a melting pot of cultures, and is a banking powerhouse… What is motivating British liberals who are singing the praises of New Zealand? It can only be hypocrisy, or just plain ignorance. What happened to open borders and freedom of movement? Wouldn’t they be the first to criticise Boris Johnson for imposing similar restrictions at the border?”

—Spiked, August 14th, 2020.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOW IT STARTED: Cal Thomas Stumps Leslie Stahl, Who Can’t Name a Conservative at CBS.

—The Media Research Center, January 21st, 2023.

How it’s going: CBS Taps Conservative Policy Veteran for New Ombudsman Role.

The new ownership of CBS News on Monday selected Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former chief executive of the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning policy think tank, to review complaints about its coverage in a new post as ombudsman at the network.

Mr. Weinstein, who has no experience overseeing news coverage, was an unexpected choice for the role. He will report to Jeff Shell, the new president of CBS’s parent company, Paramount, which recently merged with the Hollywood studio Skydance.

Installing an ombudsman at CBS News was one of Skydance’s commitments to the Trump administration this year when the company sought approval for its merger with Paramount.

Skydance’s founder, David Ellison, has pledged to revamp CBS News, which regularly lags ABC and NBC in the Nielsen ratings and recently endured a standoff with President Trump over accusations of editorial bias. Mr. Ellison is in talks to acquire The Free Press, an independent news outlet, and install its co-founder Bari Weiss in a senior editorial role at CBS News; last week, the network changed its rules for handling some political interviews after pressure from the Trump administration.

Mr. Weinstein has had a long career in right-leaning and neoconservative public policy circles. He is a firm and vocal champion of Israel and a frequent critic of the Biden administration, once comparing the Biden White House to the bumbling characters of the television show “Veep.”

—A petulant New York Times today. Why, it’s as if the New York Times is a liberal newspaper or something.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

POOR KIDS: The Famous “Unhappiness Hump” Has Vanished, and Youth Are Paying the Price. “Their analysis revealed that in both the U.S. and U.K., the midlife peak in unhappiness has disappeared. Instead, levels of ill-being now tend to decline steadily with age. Among people in their late 40s and older, mental health patterns have remained relatively stable. The shift seems to stem from worsening mental health in younger age groups, rather than improvements among older adults.”

Wokeness and progressive economic policies have ruined youth.

Posted at 7:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IF YOUR MOVEMENT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH, YOUR MOVEMENT SHOULD BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH:

Posted at 4:39 pm by Glenn Reynolds