April 3, 2026

MAYBE IT’S TIME TO UPDATE YOUR SHOPWORN 1968 TALKING POINTS:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The combat arms are disproportionately white, male, and from the South.

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green

NICE WORK HERE BY FLOTUS: 6 Ukrainian Children to Return From Russia, Reunite With Families.

A seventh Ukrainian child will also be returned to their family later this month, the first lady’s office said in a statement.

Ukraine says close to 20,000 children have been illegally sent to Russia and Belarus, where they are sometimes subject to military training and forced to fight against their own country’s troops.

Melania Trump wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin in August about the plight of Ukrainian children separated from their families by war. It was the fourth time the U.S. first lady had expedited such a return, the White House said.

“Reunifying children with their loved ones in this region of the world remains one of the most important global issues today. I am encouraged that both sides remain committed to ongoing cooperation, raising the safety and well-being of children above this abhorrent war,” the statement said.

You’d never hear the end of this story if it involved DOCTOR Jill Biden or Michelle Obama, but our press is happy to largely ignore the loveliest First Lady — inside and out — in my lifetime.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

2028 PREVIEW:

He’s running.

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

THE COUNTRY HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH CRAZY RICH WHITE LADIES:

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

HMM: The case for Trump’s tariffs looks strong a year on from ‘liberation day.’

The manufacturing sector began to respond as well. Demand for capital equipment grew faster after “liberation day” than in 2024, and faster still over the past three months. Industrial output, which had declined over the past decade and fell 0.3 per cent in 2024, has posted a 1.6 per cent gain. Surveys of purchasing managers by the Institute for Supply Management and S&P Global have found increasing optimism among manufacturers. Anna Wong, chief US economist for Bloomberg, confirmed the overwhelmingly positive data last week, noting that it is “corroborated by a very strong signal from the latest earning transcripts” and also that “tariffs probably played a role”.

To deny that reality, opponents of tariffs have seized on the decline in manufacturing employment as the metric that matters and proof that the project is failing. But they are doubly wrong: First, the trend has in fact improved. As compared to the sector’s 167,000 jobs lost in the 11 months prior to “liberation day”, losses in the comparable period since have been only 93,000.

Second, employment is a lagging indicator of re-industrialisation, a process that will take years.

Reshoring was never going to be instantaneous or pain-free, as Trump himself said.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SELL ME, I’M ALREADY IN FAVOR OF DEFUNDING THE UN:

Posted at 9:24 am by Stephen Green

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN FALSIFIED:

Posted at 9:14 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Kamala Effect — Some Dems Want Off the Diversity Train for ’28. “Harris is still floating the possibility of presidential run in 2028. The Democrats aren’t really casting their eyes her way, however, just like they didn’t in 2020. In fact, they might end up running as far away from the idea of Kamala Harris as they can.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

Posted at 8:53 am by Stephen Green

THAT SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE LEG CAN BE TOTALLY WORTH IT? There’s a Basic Lesson From the Jill Biden Secret Service Detail Negligent Discharge. “What the spokesperson couldn’t or wouldn’t explain was why an on-duty Secret Service agent, away from his protectee and with no threat present, drew his service weapon, therefore requiring him to re-holster in a manner that led to him negligently shooting himself in the ass. That seems a bit fishy even to the casual observer.”

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

EUROPE IS FUNCTIONALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE:

Posted at 8:23 am by Glenn Reynolds

REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL!

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

“SO YOU’RE SAYING YOU’LL MISS HER?”

Heh. Flashback to the infamous 2018 train wreck “interview” that instantly made Peterson a superstar by easily swatting back all of Newman’s hectoring interviewing techniques: Jordan Peterson, Hero. Clinical psychologist triumphs over ideologically-driven journalistic idiocy.

As Rod Dreher wrote at the time, “The interview ought to be shown in journalism classes as an example of what happens when a journalist believes that ideological ardor substitutes for reason, and that contempt for her interview subject should rightly override professionalism.”

Similarly, the London Spectator responded, “If I was Channel 4 I would take it down. If I was Cathy Newman I would sue or seek a super-injunction. I don’t think I have ever witnessed an interview that is more catastrophic for the interviewer.” In response, Newman initially tried to shrug off the debacle, before descending full-on into victimhood:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

DEPOSING NON-EXISTENT MONARCHS IS A LUCRATIVE GRIFT:

I looked into these two last year during the anti-Tesla/DOGE/Musk protests, and here’s what I found:

Indivisible Project’s parent organization — more on that in a moment — was founded and is run by the husband-wife team of Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin. Greenberg is your typical NGO type — nice upbringing, good schools, brief Capitol Hill career with Tom Perriello (D-Va.) and at State. She followed up with the creation of an online anti-Trump publication called “Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda,” and the establishment of the Indivisible Civics organization.

While DataRepublican doesn’t show Indivisible Civics receiving any taxpayer money, it has received $5,424,005 from somewhere, with about half of those funds going to wages and salaries and another 10% to benefits.

But here’s where it gets fun. The fine print disclaimer at the bottom of the since-deleted signup page reads, “Indivisible.org is a joint website of Indivisible Project and Indivisible Action. Indivisible Project is a registered 501(c)(4). Indivisible Action is a Hybrid Polítical Action Committee. They are separate organizations.”

That’s legalese for “the parent organization (Indivisible Civics aka Indivisible.org) is legally and financially shielded from any stupid stuff people do with the money and encouragement of the new organization (Indivisible Project).” But again, money is fungible — so wink-wink, nudge-nudge, comrade.

Back in the ’80s, we called that “plausible deniability.”

And now we know they’re more well-to-do red-diaper grifters shilling for George Soros — surprising exactly nobody.

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green