July 24, 2026

UKRAINE DRONES ARE KILLING PUTIN: Rod Martin documents how Ukraine is giving the world a brutal demonstration of the power of drones to turn Russia’s greatest defensive asset — its vastness — into the Bear’s worst handicap. Question: Why didn’t the U.S. military/industrial complex figure this out before Ukraine?

Posted at 9:00 am by Mark Tapscott

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: America’s AI Regulation Should Be Rooted in Free Enterprise Principles.

If you think super-advanced AI isn’t on the horizon—which is the forecast of five out of six AI technologists, according to one recent survey—then we can treat AI models and their corporate creators in a more “normal” fashion. These open and near-frontier models should be treated as engines of competition and diffusion. As tech analyst Ben Thompson argues, the economic panic over Chinese models like Kimi K3 mostly misreads market economics:

Right now there is a price umbrella that is downstream of the lack of compute; I highly doubt that Chinese models are cheaper to serve on a marginal cost basis, they just seem cheaper because Anthropic and OpenAI are so supply constrained that they are charging far more than they would if there were sufficient supply to meet the demand for intelligence.

Washington should think hard about how policy currently works against a proliferation of advanced American models—starting with the informal national-security review process that, as tech policy analyst Adam Thierer has explained, can hold up a model’s release with little public explanation or transparent process. That’s a dicey situation for a wealthy frontier AI company—and an impossible one for an open-model startup.

There are genuine security problems here. My AEI colleague Ryan Fedasiuk has usefully catalogued many of them, such as user data flowing to Chinese servers subject to Beijing’s National Intelligence Law and tampered model files in the supply chain. The right response is targeted rules on AI models used in government systems, sensitive data, and what major American platforms distribute. So an argument for safeguards, not suppression.

I’d add that rules and regulations written in the heat of a panic are even worse than those that aren’t — and the ones that aren’t rarely work as intended.

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

BLACKPILLERS BE REMINDED:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

JUST ANOTHER OBAMA MESS FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO CLEAN UP:

“So many of our black contractors have NOT GOT THEIR MONEY! A lot of the black community do not know these people have not been paid!”

Posted at 8:22 am by Stephen Green

DR. STRANGEVIEW, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB: The View Claims Trump Is Being Bribed By Saudis to Let Them Nuke U.S.

[Joy] Behar’s hysterics started with her spinning a new nuclear energy deal into Trump plotting to allow Saudi Arabia to stockpile nuclear weapons:

The thing that I really can’t stand about him right now is that he starts a war in Iran because they’re going to get a nuclear weapon. Now, he’s making a deal with the Saudi Arabians that will allow them to produce a nuclear weapon.

In an instant, Behar’s psychosis escalated the situation into Trump plotting with the planners of 9/11 to drop a nuclear bomb on Cleveland. She then lashed out at Republicans for only acting against him after it happened:

BEHAR: Now, where is the head of the Republican Party in this, because they have the power to get rid of him?!

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And they will say that the Saudis are not allowed to make a nuclear weapon but they’re allowed to enrich.

BEHAR: Oh, I see. Then we’ll go to war with the 9/11 group. The Saudis were behind 9/11 and – and – Are they waiting for him to drop a nuke on Cleveland?! What are they waiting for to do something?!

The media’s schizophrenia regarding Trump is completely out of hand. For years, they told me he wasn’t a president obsessed with the environment. And now the women of The View have done a complete 180:

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll

QUIT MESSING WITH TEXAS: Austin: Soros DA = 74% Higher Homicide Rate. “The difference between having a real DA who prosecutes criminals, and a Soros-backed DA who doesn’t is stark. While most of America was seeing a drop in murder rates, Austin under Soros-backed DA Jose Garza has seen murder rates rise by 74% since 2019.”

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green

GOLIATH’S WEAPONS, ARMOR FOUND? Frank Turek of cross-examined.org talks on HillFaith about the recent finds in Israel of spear tips, swords and armor that are so big they clearly were intended for use by giants like Goliath, the Philistine champion killed by the young shepherd boy David with a sling and one smooth stone. Or maybe the finds were nothing more than ancient ceremonial or decorative items? What do you think?

Posted at 7:30 am by Mark Tapscott

HAHA:

A man who can do this:

Doesn’t care much about the feelings of media midwits.

Flashback:

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Posted at 7:09 am by Glenn Reynolds