May 31, 2026

CHANGE:

I may retire to Argentina. Or Cuba, which I expect will be hospitable by then.

Posted at 9:51 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PRATT SUMMER:

Being angry about having your home burned down and having to share city streets with drug-addicted mentally ill homeless people, that’s definitely “MAGA-encoded:”

UPDATE:

Tweet concludes, “The carpenters, electricians, and delivery drivers keeping the cities functional pay the highest gas and income taxes in the continental United States. They fund the programs but receive none of the benefits. They earn too much to qualify for state subsidies but lack the millions required to buy their way into secure zip codes. Time for Spencer Pratt.”

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOUSTON, HERE I COME: Heading back to tell folks about HillFaith, as explained on my latest Substack column.

Posted at 5:22 pm by Mark Tapscott

100 MILLION SEEMS (AHEM) A LITTLE MUCH, BUT POINT TAKEN:

UPDATE (From Ed): And that’s why the left no longer sounds like this anymore:

 

● When Rahm Emanuel Called for “Record Deportations of Criminal Aliens.”

● Harry Reid in 1993: It’s insane to reward illegal immigrants by giving their children birthright citizenship.

● “Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to remind Democrats that even former President Barack Obama spoke out against illegal immigration. Trump dug up a 2011 tweet from former President Obama which said: ‘I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration.’ ‘I totally agree!’ Trump wrote, retweeting the former president.”

—The Daily Caller, December 27, 2018.

Posted at 4:40 pm by Stephen Green

GREAT MOMENTS IN ASTROTURFING:

 

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

AT LEAST SHE’S NOT IN TOTAL DENIAL: And thank goodness, the execrable phrase “mostly peaceful” won’t fly with common-sense people. Just the News reports that Gov. Mikey Sherrill:

“Shortly after midnight Sunday, Sherrill put out a statement acknowledging the severity of the violence and saying it had “put peaceful protesters and law enforcement in danger.” She blamed agitators outside New Jersey for the escalation.”

Newark’s mayor added that: “Mayor Ros J. Baraka admitted some were arrested in possession of weapons, necessitating a curfew.”

This can go one of three ways:

(1) it’s funded by Soros or Singham-linked people but only after the detective work is done by investigative reporters;

(2) there are too many stupid people (Prof Glenn says “embrace the power of ‘and‘.); or

(3) this gets ignored by major media. It just never happened*

*Many lefists, especially of the reporter variety play dumb. Case in point, one young lady, very nice, but suffered what we call in First Amendment law “reckless disregard for the truth.” I asked her her views on “Fast and Furious” and she said (I believe her) that she’d “never heard of it.” If you live in a  particular media bubble, the odds are good there’s a lot of stuff you’ve never heard of.

You can trash talk it as “conspiracy theory” but normal Americans just can’t ignore it anymore. And this underscores the power of Justice Brennan’s Times v. Sullivan‘s emotive authority to paraphrase:

“‘The free marketplace of ideas'” necessarily broadens the discourse of public understanding.

And now you know why I’m such a fervent supporter of non-legacy (or “new”) media: I want you to be heard.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Charles Glasser

IT’S MEL BROOKS’ WORLD; WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT: Scientists Discover Surprising Anti-Aging Power Hidden in Aged Garlic.

Well yes, the 2,000 Year Old Man admitted to this 60 years ago: “In the classic comedy routine, The 2,000-Year-Old Man, Brooks is the title character and his good friend Carl Reiner is interviewing him. When Reiner asks Brooks how he has been able to live so long, he says, “It’s simple. I eat garlic. I’ve eaten it with every meal for 2,000 years. Whenever the Angel of Death came for me, I looked him right in the eye and said, ‘Whoooo are youuuu? The garlic on my breath always sent him packing.’”

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

HAPPY SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL FROM AMERICA’S SOCIALISTS!

Tweet concludes, “Trump is president so life must suck. If concert held, people might think Trump not bad.”

Democrats in 1976 knew they had to muster some patriotic spirit to celebrate the Bicentennial. It helped that Gerald Ford was the last liberal go-along to get-along Republican president to date (unless you were worked on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, where he was viewed as the Antichrist).

More on that from a post I wrote last week:  The Past is a Foreign Country; They Sell Cola Differently There.

UPDATE:

Tweet continues, “There is this Gen Z misconception that the ’70s and early ’80s were some sort of economic golden age of readily available, well-paying jobs, low cost housing and an all around sense of prosperity. WRONG. Google ‘Stagflation.’ Google ‘gas lines.’ Google ‘mortgage interest rates in the 1980s.’ Our economy today is a golden age by comparison, without exaggeration. Yet somehow in 1976 we could gleefully celebrate our nation’s birthday without Democrats turning it into a Howard Zinn-inspired anti-history hatefest.”

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

AS ORWELL NEVER SAID, PEOPLE SLEEP PEACEABLY IN THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT ONLY BECAUSE ROUGH MEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE ON THEIR BEHALF:

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME:

UPDATE: Metaphor alert:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 12:55 pm by Ed Driscoll