September 21, 2026

“WHAT WILL BRING WORLD WAR III?” “IT’LL PROBABLY BE SOME DAMN FOOL THING IN THE BALTICS.”

Posted at 8:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

LOS ANGELES: Dead Last In Housing Affordability.

Los Angeles spends a lot of taxpayer money on affordable housing, $399,228,000 in state funding and $1,919,897,000 in federal money for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Given all that spending, how does Los Angeles rank nationwide in housing affordability? Dead last.

Thanks to gobs of government spending, armies of regulators, and the tireless efforts of Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles has managed to make itself the least affordable city in America! A fine demonstration of what the Democrat Party can do to a city if they just run it long enough.

If Angelenos want to choose another direction… tough. The mayoral election runoff is between a Cuban-trained closet socialist, or an India-born, out-of-the-closet socialist.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green

YOU DO NOT DESPISE THE MEDIA ENOUGH: The $6.7 Billion DOGE Headline Is True. It Also Leaves Out Half the Story. “The $6.7 billion figure is an estimated one-time cost of removing workers from the federal payroll. OPM Director Scott Kupor has said the Deferred Resignation Program is expected to save more than $20 billion every year because those salaries disappear after the employees leave.”

Posted at 8:03 am by Stephen Green

ONG0ING WAVES OF MASS HYSTERIA ARE HOW DEMS MAINTAIN POWER:

Related: Neurosis and the Curley Effect.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

QUESTIONS ASKED:

 

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE USUALLY IN HYSTERICS ABOUT SOMETHING: Congressional Democrats in Hysterics About Saving the World From AI.

One way to react to these demands for public money, cartel-like behavior, and something approaching extortion is to haul everyone involved with these companies into police stations for questioning. But rather than stopping tech tycoons taking the law into their own hands, lawmakers have descended into hysteria, demanding that somebody “do something” to save the world. House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and get to legislating. A bipartisan Senate group including Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is negotiating an AI safety bill that, among other things, would pre-empt the only existing state laws on AI safety.

Lawmakers have a poor track record on panic-induced lawmaking over the past quarter-century. After the September 11 attacks they compromised American liberty with the PATRIOT Act and struck out to start an endless war with Iraq, which had nothing to do with anything. After the financial collapse they used billions in taxpayer money to bail out banks while 10 million families lost their homes. In both cases, members of Congress had minimal understanding of the capabilities they were enabling, and listened to those who had better semblances of a plan, whether in the national security or banking establishment.

A smarter way to respond to the latest disaster is to avoid codifying the preferences of the very companies who are generating the panic.

The shocker is that this piece is in The American Prospect.

Re-upping this from Sunday:

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green

STACY MCCAIN:

Full post here.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

BURIED LEDE: Gen3 Starlink will be SpaceX’s orbital data center before SpaceX builds its Starmind orbital data center.

Posted at 7:16 am by Stephen Green

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 7:09 am by Glenn Reynolds

ROBERT SPENCER: Yes, They Really Want to Destroy Us: The Startling Details of the Islamic/Leftist Coalition. “Simpson exposes the interlocking structure of tax-exempt organizations that fuel what he describes forthrightly as a Communist movement — not socialist, certainly not democratic, but full-on Communist in its desire to destroy the United States as a free society and establish in its place a totalitarian government that will, due to modern technological advances, be able to control every aspect of individual lives more than the Soviet Union or East Germany or Democratic Kampuchea ever dreamed of doing.”

Posted at 7:01 am by Stephen Green

STEAK AND SHAKE WEIGHS IN:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

September 20, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

“WHEN THEY GET IN TROUBLE, THEY SEND FOR THE SONS OF BITCHES.”

The quote is attributed to Admiral Ernest King, right after Pearl Harbor. But I predict that the necessary demographics in Europe will be slow to answer the call after the last decade.

Posted at 8:46 pm by Glenn Reynolds