April 6, 2026

JUST REFUGEES, FLEEING PERSECUTION, TRYING TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE. NO LOVE FROM THE DEMOCRATS, THOUGH.

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: How Texas Kicks Europe’s Ass. “Through all of that, the Texas economy just kept climbing. The productivity gap tells the same story. Between late 2019 and mid 2024, labor productivity per hour in the Euro zone rose by 0.9%. In the US, it rose by 6.7%. Texas led that charge.”

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green

HOW DO WE REFORM LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS? Some suggestions here, because let’s face it, AI is not going to make lawyers obsolete. (And that’s not just because we lawyers will make that illegal…)

Posted at 4:37 pm by Robert Shibley

“IF YOU FIX THE PROBLEM, THE MONEY STOPS. SO NOTHING EVER GETS FIXED:”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

HMM:

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

LABOUR HAS A SEX PROBLEM:

Exit quote: “While Labour lectures the nation about protecting women and girls, they have quietly built one of the most predator-friendly environments in British politics.”

Posted at 2:54 pm by Stephen Green

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…: Artemis II is going so well that all we’re left to talk about is frozen urine.

By Friday night there was another problem. Urine is collected in a small tank, about the size of an office trash can. From there it is supposed to be vented into space, which is to say, dumped overboard to sail around the cosmos until the end of time. However, flight controllers noted that astronaut pee had frozen in the tank. There were no issues with using the toilet for no. 2, but no. 1 was a no-go.

To address the problem, Orion was maneuvered into an orientation such that the urine tank and vent lines received the maximum amount of sunshine to un-freeze the urine. This helped a little bit, but did not entirely solve the problem. So for now, the astronauts are continuing to pee into, essentially, bags.

During Saturday’s news conference, the chair of the Mission Management Team, a NASA engineer named John Honeycutt, was asked about the public fascination with Orion’s toilet.

He said he understood the interest. “I think the fixation on the toilet is kind of human nature,” he said. Honeycutt added that it is not a mission risk, but said if the astronauts were essentially camping out in space, the current setup makes the whole situation a little more difficult. “I know we’re in a good state, but I would really like it to be in the best state it can be,” he said.

It is worth noting that space toilets are difficult.

It’s been a good mission — let’s not jinx it.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

CBS SETS COLBERT’S REPLACEMENT: Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed.

After The Late Show With Stephen Colbert ends — as in, one day after — CBS will usher in its next era of late night programming.

The network will air Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen in the 11:35 p.m. beginning May 22, followed by another Allen-produced series, the comedy game show Funny You Should Ask, at 12:35 a.m. The Late Show will sign off on May 21.

Comics Unleashed has been airing in the later spot this season and also aired there during the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes.

Notably — especially for CBS’ bottom line — Allen is buying time from the network to air the two shows, with his company, Allen Media Group, selling the available ad spots in the two hours. The change will likely see CBS turn a profit in late night.

“I created and launched Comics Unleashed 20 years ago so my fellow comedians could have a platform to do what we all love — make people laugh,” Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, said in a statement. “I truly appreciate CBS’ confidence in me by picking up our two-hour comedy block of Comics Unleashed and Funny You Should Ask, because the world can never have enough laughter.”

Setting aside Allen paying the network for the timeslot, the idea that people might want to wind down after a busy day with comedy and laughs rather than an extended MSNBC talk show is so radical, so experimental, that it’s clearly worth taking a chance on.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

JONATHAN TURLEY: We might need to amend the Constitution.

In my Supreme Court class, I call this a “default case” in which justices tend to run home. When a record or the law is uncertain, conservative justices tend to avoid expansive, new interpretations. That was precisely what Trump said he wanted in nominees.

These justices are not being “disloyal” to him, but rather loyal to what they view as the meaning of the Constitution. I have at times disagreed with their view of the law, but I have never questioned their integrity.

None of this means we should accept the expected outcome in this case as the final word on birthright citizenship. Justice Robert Jackson once observed that he and his colleagues “are not final because we are infallible, we are infallible because we are final.”

The final word actually rests with the public. We can amend the Constitution to join most of the world in barring birthright citizenship. There is no more important question in a republic than the definition of citizenship.

We are becoming a virtual mockery as we watch millions game the birthright citizenship system. China alone has hundreds of tourism firms that have made fortunes in arranging for Chinese citizens to come to U.S. territory to give birth and then return home.

No republic can last without controlling its borders and the qualifications for citizenship. We have allowed U.S. citizenship to become a mere commodity for the most affluent or unscrupulous among us.

One way or another, that has to change.

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘SNL’ Audience Cheers Trump Assassination Joke.

Once upon a time, we frowned upon wishing death on a sitting president.

Kathy Griffin’s career collapsed in 2017 after she shared an image of her holding President Donald Trump’s bloody head aloft, ISIS style.

That same year, actor Johnny Depp apologized after suggesting it’s time for another actor to kill a president, a Lincoln-Trump gag that landed badly.

That was then. Now?

Griffin wears that bloody image like a badge of honor. And “Saturday Night Live” not only joked about Trump’s possible death last night, but the show’s far-Left audience celebrated the crack.

This isn’t shocking. It’s the new, ghoulish normal.

Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che noted that President Trump attended a showing of the Broadway musical “Chicago” this week.

“What’s the worst that could happen?” Che said, alluding to actor John Wilkes Booth’s infamous act.

Wild, sustained applause and cheers ensued. Not laughs, mind you. Cheers. Co-host Colin Jost couldn’t have smiled any wider at the crowd’s reaction to the Trump assassination joke.

That this joke aired also shows how badly NBC’s Standards and Practices Department have slipped. In their 1986 book Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad wrote that about the time of the show’s second or third season writers Al Franken (yes, the same) and Tom Davis attempted to write an assassination sketch, only to be rejected by one of NBC’s censors:

A similar idea F&D had that never made it on the air was a David Susskind talk show featuring four guests who wanted to assassinate Ted Kennedy. Dan Aykroyd was to play a twisted character who lived over a muffler shop. “He’ll know me when he sees me,” was one of his lines. Garrett Morris was a man who had been dishonorably discharged from the Army and wanted to kill not only Kennedy but also the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gilda Radner had seen Kennedy on TV and thought he was the Devil. F&D were invited to Herminio Traviesas’s office to discuss the sketch.

“I don’t believe you guys wrote this,” Travie told them. “Usually when I see the things you write they’re at least funny, but I don’t see what’s funny about this.”

F&D thought the piece was hilarious and explained its point: “It’s about how much insanity there is, about how stupid and out of control it all is.”

At length Travie began to concede the humor, but he still refused to let it on. “Suppose we air it and Kennedy gets shot next week?” he said. “If anything could ever get NBC closed down, that would be it. And this might increase the chance of that happening.”

It was F&D’s turn to concede the point, and they left the office.

As Toto concludes, today’s SNL audiences “are cheering on death, assassination dreams and arson. Hope Lorne Michaels and co. are proud of what they helped build.”

And I hope NBC’s censors are proud of the material they’re signing off on these days.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

NOT ANTIWAR, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE:

Posted at 1:27 pm by Stephen Green