September 19, 2026

BEWARE THE DEEP SEVEN: A new arms race is unfolding on the ocean floor. “It comes amid growing concerns of so-called hybrid warfare, a broad term which can include cyberattacks, energy sabotage, disinformation, and economic pressure, with or without being accompanied by conventional military methods.”

Posted at 12:41 pm by Stephen Green

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT OPENLY DEMANDED HIGHER GAS PRICES:

Tweet concludes, “Do you see why they have to desperately obsess over the temporary increase in gas prices? It’s all they have.”

Obama and his cronies obsessed over creating a permanent increase in gas prices. As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

 

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

ANALYSIS: TRUE. They were, in fact, being dicks about it.

Posted at 12:13 pm by Stephen Green

GOOD ADVICE:

Exit quote: “As a journal editor, I’m not sure what to do with this. If I gave up on human reviewers and used GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus instead, my bosses would fire me, probably rightfully so. The only constructive thing I can recommend is that, before submitting something to a journal, researchers and scholars use this tremendously valuable resource. (Just don’t tell the models that it’s your paper, because they do suffer from sycophancy.)”

Posted at 11:17 am by Stephen Green

THE NOT SO FINAL COUNTDOWN: If You Were Born Before 1980, The Left Has Killed You With Climate Change At Least 17 Times!

That’s SEVENTEEN. Dated. Sourced. Expired. Verifiable in about twenty minutes by anyone with an internet connection and the mild curiosity to actually look. And I didn’t even reach for the ones still technically ticking, AOC’s 2031 deadline, Bernie’s “eight or nine years” from 2019 running out around 2028, Bill McKibben’s “nine years left” from 2021 expiring 2030, or Leonardo DiCaprio’s “nine-year window” from 2022, which lands, shockingly, right around 2031 too. Funny how the math always seems to land somewhere comfortably past the speaker’s own current relevance and never, ever inside it.

Here’s the pattern, and I want to be fair about it, because I don’t think these are all stupid people. Some of them hold genuine credentials. What they’re responding to is an incentive, not a conspiracy. “Sea level may rise a meter or two over 150 years under a specific emissions pathway” does not get you a Vanity Fair cover or a standing ovation. “TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET” does. Every single time, somebody got the applause and moved on to the next stage before the receipts caught up with them.

NOW WATCH THE BODY COUNT CLIMB, BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE IT STOPS BEING FUNNY AND STARTS BEING GENUINELY STRANGE.

Once “years left” stops scaring people, the next move is always the corpse count. Watch the actual number inflate, in order, name by name.

Rush Holt, 2013: “millions will die.”

Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006: showed Florida, Shanghai, and Calcutta going under from a Greenland-and-Antarctica collapse, and warned about the impact of “a hundred million or more” refugees. A UK High Court judge who reviewed the film for British classrooms called that specific section “distinctly alarmist,” and pointed out that a full Greenland melt plays out over MILLENNIA, not a news cycle.

Florida? In 1982, Dan Rather believed that would be underwater with (say it with me now) ten years:

Exit question: What Is Their Next Lie?

That’s a pretty easy one, to be honest:

Posted at 10:41 am by Ed Driscoll

“SHUT UP, NAZI,” THEY EXPLAINED:

More:

Rupert Lowe says one of his team was hospitalised with burns.

Read that again.

A legal party, standing a candidate on 8 October, handing out leaflets. Then a mob. Then hospital. Then the attackers boast about it.

You can hate Restore Britain’s policies. Debate them. Vote against them. That is democracy.

What is not democracy is driving campaigners off the street and treating an injury as a win.

If the establishment keeps calling mass deportation voters “Nazis” this is what it produces. Not debate. A mob.

Ask yourself: would the same people cheer if the colours on the leaflets were reversed?

Mob rule is democracy in its purest form.

Posted at 10:19 am by Stephen Green

NOT TIRED OF WINNING YET:

Posted at 9:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

ALWAYS TRUST CONTENT FROM SALENA ZITO:

Posted at 8:53 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE MAP HASN’T CHANGED, BUT GREENLAND WILL EFFECTIVELY BECOME A US PROTECTORATE:

Protrumptorate?

Posted at 8:26 am by Stephen Green

THE PRESS CAN STILL AMPLIFY, OR MUTE, STORIES AND MOODS: A Booming Economy: Who Cares?

I believe President Trump’s approval rating on his “handling of the economy” now stands consistently below 40%. This is rather weird, given that the U.S. economy is as strong as it has ever been. I suppose when most people say “the economy,” what they mean is gas prices.

But the most recent numbers released by the Census Bureau indicate that in 2025, the U.S. poverty rate was the lowest it has ever been, while median household income was the highest it has ever been, at $87,460. The stock markets hit record highs, too.

One would think that Americans would be happy about such a strong economy, but my guess is that most aren’t even aware of it. Either that, or the current anxiety about gas prices has overshadowed everything else.

I’m reminded of a passage from Mark Penn’s book on how the media treated the economy in 1992:

I have found over the years that there is often a huge disconnect between belief about the economy and the true economic state of affairs. Until the statistics are actually published, people tend to assess the economy through the eyes of the national media. In 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidency based on worries about the economy, the statistics that came out after the election showed that the period leading up to November had actually been a period of record growth. . . . In his 1996 State of the Union speech, President Clinton said we had the best economy in thirty years — a statement that sent a flurry of reporters to check actual statistics rather than popular political movements and sweeping, politically motivated statements. The more people looked at the facts, the more they agreed, and six months later, there was near-unanimity that the economy was in good shape. Had the economy changed? No, what had changed was knowledge about the true facts of the economy.

Hmm. Regardless of the data, we get bad economic “news” when there’s a Republican in the White House., and good economic “news” when a Democrat is running for reelection.

Trump isn’t on the ballot, though.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE EV BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Blue BlueOval City? Tennessee Taxpayers Deserve an Explanation.

The original vision was clear: Ford and SK would build a vertically integrated campus producing next-generation electric F-Series trucks and batteries. Production was scheduled for 2025. Ford later said the plant could eventually produce 500,000 electric trucks annually.

That is no longer the project being built. Ford now calls the assembly facility the Tennessee Truck Plant. Approximately 2,300 Ford employees are expected to manufacture new gas-powered “Built Ford Tough” trucks beginning in 2029.

The original electric truck is gone. The 500,000-EV annual production target is gone. Vehicle production has been delayed four years. Ford and SK On have also dissolved their BlueOval SK joint venture, with SK On taking ownership of the Tennessee battery operation. Layoffs were announced in March.

Will the AI boom turn out to be similar?

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds