July 23, 2026

YES:

Posted at 9:23 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Rally Trump Is Still My Favorite Trump. “Trust the process, that’s what athletes say. Trump’s process is all about winning. Sure, that’s a new focus for the GOP, but the president has been able to convert a lot of the party to the winning mindset.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

NAILED:

Posted at 9:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

NO, SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION ISN’T TULIP MANIA: If the tulip mania reference escapes you, then you really need to read Issues & Insights’ (I&I) explanation for why the recent dips in stock value for VIP space commercialization ventures is NOT a sign of a bubble. And if the tulip reference is familiar to you, the I&I suggestion of the significance of space commercialization will make perfect sense to you.

Posted at 8:54 am by Mark Tapscott

I WENT LONG ON POPCORN YEARS AGO, WHEN BERNIE SANDERS WENT BIG:

Posted at 8:52 am by Stephen Green

DID CHINA BUY US JOURNOS? President Donald Trump made the allegation official, saying in his July 16 speech that China paid U.S. journalists who were writing negative stories about him during his first term. Trump didn’t, however, name names or specify how much was paid to any specific journalist.

Given the constitutionally protected nature of journalism, the American people have a right to know the facts on this allegation from Trump. If there were indeed payments made and accepted, then on what basis would/could there be prosecutions? Conversely, if there weren’t actually Chinese bribes to U.S. journalists, then he will have handed defenders of the Mainstream Media a huge gift that could cripple responsible critics of biased reporting.

Posted at 8:43 am by Mark Tapscott

THEY’RE DOING THE MEME:

Posted at 8:21 am by Stephen Green

VANCE OUT ON IRAN: Richard Pollock points to multiple signs Vice-President JD Vance is no longer President Donald Trump’s man on foreign affairs, and in particular on Iran. But that doesn’t mean Vance will never return to a foreign policy role, and if he does, that could be bad news for Israel.

Posted at 8:10 am by Mark Tapscott

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: We Need to Talk About ‘The Odyssey.’

We need to talk about The Odyssey, which now looks like it’s going to be writer-director Christopher Nolan’s second billion-dollar picture in a row.

This isn’t really a movie review. It’s more of a look at how a celebrated writer-director, tasked with turning a 3,000-year-old epic poem into a modern Hollywood blockbuster, tried and partly failed to thread that needle.

I did not hate The Odyssey. I do not love it.

Mostly, I’m perplexed.

Much more at the link.

Posted at 8:06 am by Stephen Green

BETTERIDGE’S LAW OF HEADLINES REMAINS UNDEFEATED: Are the British the most evil people in history?

If you have not spent a great deal of time on the internet, you will probably know the British actress Jameela Jamil for her starring role in the popular comedy series The Good Place, or alternatively from her appearance in the Marvel miniseries She Hulk: Attorney at Law. 

However, for the terminally online, Jamil is either a savior who is unafraid to say controversial things that her peers would shy away from, or someone whose batshit crazy utterances are given far too much attention given her modest celebrity status.

The latest of her pronouncements is on Brexit, ten years on, along with sundry instances of racism and horror in her home country. Jamil declared that “Britain is fucked. It doesn’t feel as though I’m going back to some haven. There’s literally a race war happening now.. Brexit paved the way for American chaos.”

For good measure, she also declared in the Yestergays podcast with Justin Sylvester,“I had to make [her Good Place] character Tahani more of a bitch. Americans think British people are so sweet, which is crazy because British people are truly the most evil people in history.”

Jamil went on to declare that Britain owed £43 trillion in reparations to India, as well as saying that “We colonized the world. Rich British people are not likable to anyone. They are horrible.”

Could be much worse through — back in 2005, Glenn quoted an Insta-reader who noted that “Harry Turtledove had an excellent short story, ‘The Last Article,’ about how Gandhi would have fared in a Nazi occupied India. It’s a short story. Both in context and content.” As Glenn replied, “Yes, I read that. Some of the Nazis feel slightly guilty about killing him and his followers.”

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll

ALL FRAUD ALL THE TIME:

Posted at 7:44 am by Glenn Reynolds

DAVID HARSANYI: America needs a new Red Scare.

Even a few years ago, accusing a Democrat of Marxist leanings would have sparked great indignation. Today? Democrats campaign with Piker. Once-respected institutions invite him to pontificate on history. Leading progressive media outlets such as Pod Save America and The Bulwark treat him as a normal political operative, never grilling him on his support for an ideology that’s put tens of millions of people into the ground.

Many more elected Democrats have welcomed Hasan-style “democratic socialists” — the preferred euphemism of modern communists — into their “big tent” than criticized them.

They do so because polls find young people increasingly prefer the red-green alliance of Islamist and communists to anything resembling traditional American political coalitions. Theoretically, at least, they prefer collectivism to markets. They prefer protest and “action” to debate and governing. They prefer violent theocratic regimes such as Hamas to free capitalistic nations such as Israel. The Overton Window is in warp drive.

When President Donald Trump stood at Mount Rushmore on the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary, delivering an unapologetically patriotic speech, he threw in a few words to denounce this rise of communism as “a mortal threat to American liberty.”

This greatly offended many in the media.

Of course it did — the media largely agrees with the commies.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green

TRUMP, OCASIO-CORTEZ SPAR OVER COMMUNISM LABEL AS DSA’S INFLUENCE GROWS IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back Wednesday on GOP accusations that her fellow democratic socialists will drive into Congress a communist agenda, saying Republicans “are seeking to usher in a new McCarthyism for this era.”

“Their only way in a time of deep unpopularity is to try to stoke fear and new conspiracies. And so they’re trying to inject conversations about communism to scare people,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat said, before ticking off DSA policies she supports, including Medicare for all, raising the minimum wage and stronger unions.

“If a Republican wants to call a stronger union ’communist,’ they’re more than welcome to do that. I’m not going to be deterred,” she said.

That’s what frightens the rest of us — we remember your “ban all the things” Green Nude Eel phase in 2019, and believe you still very much want to implement every bit of it.

Exit question:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Posted at 7:09 am by Glenn Reynolds