May 10, 2026

L.A. DEMOCRATS MAKE SURPRISE IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO SPENCER PRATT CAMPAIGN:

Posted at 6:43 pm by Ed Driscoll

A BIGGER PAYCHECK THAN HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN IN SOME SERVICE INDUSTRY, TOO:

Posted at 6:36 pm by Stephen Green

PASSING THE SAVE AMERICA ACT WOULD HELP, TOO, SEN. THUNE:

Posted at 5:34 pm by Stephen Green

STEVE HAYWARD: The Sun Sets on Great Britain.

But it was the second aspect of Trump’s speech that contained multiple layers and triggered the Left even more:

The American founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic…. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride, and that’s what it is: glory, destiny, and pride. The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance.

A conspicuous lack of courage, “glory, destiny, and pride” marks Great Britain’s current retreat from its historic confidence and greatness, as Trump has candidly declared in other settings recently. While he referenced Churchill in this speech, surely some listeners had to recall his recent remarks that when it comes to Kier Starmer, “We aren’t dealing with Churchill anymore.”

His reference to Churchill and his close cooperation with FDR in World War II contained a subtle point that verges on the esoteric. After a typically Trumpian recollection of his mother, who came from “the very serious Scotland…where they had their greatest of warriors,” he circled back to King Charles, noting he had been the longest-serving Prince of Wales in British history. What few listeners likely remembered was that Churchill and FDR launched their World War II grand strategy on the decks of a British battleship, Prince of Wales.

Here, perhaps, only World War II history geeks will recall that the Prince of Wales was ignominiously sunk off Singapore in the earliest weeks of the Pacific theater, rolling over to port (that is, its left side) before slipping beneath the waves. Today, Britain is listing heavily to port and is in danger of drowning on account of its lack of courage.

On Friday, Mark Steyn wrote “The Future Shows Up,” noting that despite gains made by Reform in last week’s UK elections, “Last time round, ‘independent Muslims’ won thirty-one council seats. Yesterday, they won 208. How many next time? As my former GB News colleague Colin Brazier observed:”

“Unlike me, [Brazier] presents as very moderate and reasonable, but he takes demography seriously, and, unlike most of the British media, he knows what yesterday’s results are telling us about where we’re headed,” Steyn adds.

Exit quote: “To put it another way: for two decades now, we have been told — sotto voce — that the reason hundreds of thousands (likely millions now) of schoolgirls have to be gang-sodomised, urinated on and doused in petrol in towns up and down England is because the Labour Party needs the Muslim vote. Alas for the nominally ruling party, the Muslim vote no longer needs Labour.”

Posted at 4:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

BRYAN CRANSTON, EXPERT ON THE BLACK EXPERIENCE:

Posted at 4:33 pm by Stephen Green

RAGE AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT MACHINES:

Tweet concludes, “There’s literally zero reason for cities like Memphis or St. Louis to still have city councils or mayors that serve as nothing more than patronage machines to prop up Leftism in a state where it would otherwise cease to exist. Dissolve the city councils, abolish the office of mayor, and have the Governor directly appoint a Viceroy to rule these cities with an iron fist.”

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOW IT STARTED: An Ecological Kristallnacht. Listen.

—Al Gore, the New York Times, March 19th, 1989.

How It’s Going: David Marcus: New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax.

For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.

“Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore,” blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.

Of course, there’s two reasons for the change of heart by the left. One is that AI is Silicon Valley’s latest bright shiny object, replacing virtual reality in the late 1980s, and the World Wide Web during the next decade, and AI requires power and lots of it. And the other is purely tactical:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

KURT SCHLICHTER: Democrats Say ‘Heil Platner!’

That’s Excuse Number One, that he’s a half-wit. Excuse Number Two is, “Well, I was in the military, and you know how they are, and I just kind of fell in with that bad crowd.” Yes, he’s blaming the military for his Nazi tattoo. The guy is adding blue falconry to his lengthy list of personal failures. I spent 27 years in the military and never met one single guy with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe I just didn’t get around as much. Maybe we didn’t run in the same circles. Or maybe he’s just That Guy, the problem child dirtbag that every single unit has, and who everyone wants to throw a blanket party for.

Now, there’s a third possibility, and it’s not really an excuse. It’s that he is lying. He totally knew what Der Tramp Stampen was and liked it and got it on purpose and only covered it when he got recruited for this Senate campaign, but before it became known. Being entirely consistent with his entire worldview, this explanation seems the most likely one. After all, he’s a big fan of Hamas, and Hamas feels about Jews like…well, Graham Platner feels about Jews. By the way, this is the first time I mentioned his name, yet you knew exactly who I was talking about—the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

Don’t be stupid, be a schmarty, and read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Today Maine, tomorrow the world? In a concentration of camp, the Bulwark sees an even bigger kampf for the totenkopf man: The Bulwark Floats the Idea of Graham Platner Running for President in 2028.

(The underlying article is behind a heavily guarded and barbwired paywall, appropriately enough.)

Posted at 3:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT DOES: Yes, Creatine Can Cause Weight Gain. This is How Much Is From Muscle Vs. Fat Mass.

The scale may tick up after you start taking creatine because the supplement can increase the total amount of water in the human body, explains Aubrey Grant, MD, director of sports and performance cardiology at MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. “This happens because creatine is stored in skeletal muscle, where it pulls water into the muscle cells through osmotic effects,” he says.

The result is usually a 1- to 3-pound weight gain in the first week or two of supplementation. “It is a predictable physiological response, and for most users, it is not harmful,” Dr. Grant says.

Again, he emphasizes that the extra pounds is not from fat.

Good to know.

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE UNLIKELY LINK BETWEEN NUREMBERG AND THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA:

Hungary is a country still feeling the long aftershocks of World War Two and the Holocaust. Those shocks seem clearer than ever after the years I have spent researching The Nuremberg Women, my new book on the trials. We all have an image of those trials in our head: the famous men judging and being judged in the courtroom, immortalized in photographs, or in Laura Knight’s painting, which is on permanent display at the Imperial War Museum. Women are pushed to the margins. But so many intriguing women played their part, from Knight herself to Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, the French Resistance hero who gave the most devastating testimony of the trial.

Anyone who launches a new book is hoping desperately that no other big cultural event will come along and eclipse it. So imagine my horror when I checked the publication date of The Nuremberg Women – April 23 – and realized I was going head-to-head with the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2. A film about Vogue may not appear to overlap with a book about the first trial for international war crimes, but I have my fears.

That’s understandable. One story is about a ruthless totalitarian feared by all. The other is about Hermann Goering.

Speaking of whom: Judgement of Nuremberg and Russell Crowe as Hermann GĂśring.

Posted at 12:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

DIVERSITY WAS THEIR STRENGTH:

Exit quote: “Import the third world, get third world elections.”

As Ezra Levant tweets, “I think this is the first time a Liberal MP who brought in 5 million migrants has ever had those migrants affect his life.”

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

DREW HOLDEN: A COVID Autopsy, Part 2: ‘Should coronavirus lock down protesters waive their medical care? Some medical ethicists think so.’

NBC was on the story, too: “Conservative activist family behind ‘grassroots’ anti-quarantine Facebook events: A family-run network of pro-gun groups is behind five of the largest Facebook groups dedicated to protesting shelter-in-place restrictions.” The takeaway was clear: rather than these protests reflecting the desire of real people to leave their homes for the first time in over a month, protests, to the media’s telling, were just a collection “of fringe activists and ardent Trump supporters.”

Stories like this (and there were many) from NBC make one wonder what today’s legacy media would’ve said about the American Revolution. Would that pursuit of freedom have gotten the same scare quotes: “Armed militia members, other protesters demand ‘freedom’ from Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s stay-home order”

Maybe protestors should be kicked out of hospitals if they get sick, so life-saving ventilators can be reassigned? The Philadelphia Inquirer asked and answered in what was billed as a straight-news piece, titled “Should coronavirus lock down protesters waive their medical care? Some medical ethicists think so.”

Despite this, liberal outlet The Nation went even further, alleging that the legacy press was in fact critical of lockdowns in a piece titled “The Press Is Amplifying a Dangerous Know-Nothing Ideology: The anti-lockdown protests aren’t the first time the media has been swindled into cheerleading an extremist faux libertarianism.” Merely talking about the protests, apparently, was a bridge too far. Repeating a now-common refrain, the outlet lamented that “While the absolute numbers involved in the protests are tiny, their effect—when amplified by the credulous, cheerleading tone of the coverage—is massive and dangerous.” As ever for the media, protesters weren’t just wrong, but evil.

This was all until protests were about something far more important to the legacy press than the separation of powers or individual freedom: racial justice. You probably don’t need much of a reminder how the press vouched for these lockdown-busting protests, but just in case:

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll