May 28, 2026

WEIRD, THIS KEEPS HAPPENING:

Posted at 12:08 pm by Glenn Reynolds

POTUS 47: Trump in Iran leaders’ ‘head’: Retired US general.

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg said on Wednesday that President Trump was in the heads of Iranian theocratic rulers, arguing that the fractured state of Tehran’s inner circle was the Trump administration’s biggest obstacle to finalizing a peace deal.

“I think the president’s in their head. They know it. They’re on the losing side right now,” Kellogg, who served as Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine until January, told Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on “America’s Newsroom.”

Living the rent-free skull life is his speciality.

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green

“CLEVER”:

WAPO implies that there’s a problem with Americans “scrutinizing his every move,” but the real problem is that New York voters didn’t.

Either that, or they did — and approved.

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green

TRUMP, HOUSE GOPERS NEW APPROACH TO WASTE, FRAUD: The President and a couple of GOP House Committee Chairmen are implementing a new approach to fighting waste, fraud and abuse. We can only wonder how much better the federal government’s financial health would be had this approach been tried decades ago.

Posted at 11:18 am by Mark Tapscott

SHARKS GOTTA SWIM, BATS GOTTA FLY: Maryland Governor Wes Moore Signs GLOCK Ban Bill Into Law.

Maryland becomes the second state to enact such a gun ban after California. For now at least, existing owners can keep their firearms. Violations carry fines up to $5,000 and up to three years in prison. Anticipating the all-too-predictable move by Governor Moore, the National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition have already filed a lawsuit challenging the law.

GLOCKs are among America’s most common pistols due to their simplicity, durability, and widespread adoption by civilians and law enforcement. Critics of the ban call it symbolism intended to burden lawful gun owners while being ignored by criminals. It’s akin to locking up shampoo and deodorant in stores instead of locking up shoplifters.

Despite some well-documented problems he’s had with the truth and falsifying his resume, Governor Moore is rumored to have presidential aspirations.

More to come…

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green

DEMS ARE ALSO ABOUT TO NOMINATE A NAZI FOR SENATE:

Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

FACE, MEET PALM: Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it.

In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said it’s hard to draw a connection between the company’s rising use of Claude Code and innovations meant to serve consumers.

“That link is not there yet,” he said. “Maybe implicitly there’s more that is getting shipped, but it’s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and ‘Okay now we’re actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features.’”

The comments follow reports that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage. It’s the latest development in a complex quandary arising in enterprise AI adoption: increasing AI use comes with higher costs, even as per-unit AI pricing falls.

“If you’re not actually able to draw a direct line to how [many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that trade becomes harder to justify,” Macdonald said.

Do I understand this correctly? Uber incentivized employees to burn through AI tokens regardless of outcome, and wonders four months later how the company wasted so much money?

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 9:23 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Bidens Really Need to Shut Up and Go Away. “Jill Biden and the rest of the Democrats aren’t going to stop trying to do retroactive damage control on the unmitigated train wreck that was Joe Biden’s unfortunate occupation of the Oval Office. Perhaps they figure that, if given enough time, a lot of people will forget what a bumbling moron Biden was while he was pretending to be president. Dr. Jill’s decades in public education have greatly contributed to making America dumber, so it just might work.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

NO. WAY.

That thing that never happens sure seems to happen a lot.

Posted at 8:52 am by Stephen Green

STUART BROTMAN: Eisenhower’s D-Day Lesson for America at 250: Make the Problem Bigger.

This month, American moviegoers will watch Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in “Pressure,” alone in a storm-lashed Portsmouth headquarters in June 1944, weighing weather reports, casualty estimates, and the fate of the free world. The film’s power lies in what Eisenhower refuses to do: Narrow the decision, delegate the doubt, or pretend the problem is smaller than it is.

Eighty-two years later, as America approaches its 250th birthday, we are doing precisely the opposite.

In Philadelphia this spring, interpretive panels describing the enslaved people who labored in George Washington’s President’s House were quietly removed, then partially restored, then contested again. A few blocks away, a school group’s history tour was canceled after parents on both sides objected to what their children might hear. In Washington, D.C., two federal commissions, each claiming authority over the semiquincentennial, are issuing competing guidance on how the nation should commemorate its 250th birthday.

A republic anchored in the First Amendment cannot agree on how to talk about itself.

The instinct, on every side, is to make the argument smaller: Strip the panel, cancel the tour, narrow the commission, silence the other camp. Eisenhower would have recognized the impulse and rejected it. “Whenever I run into a problem I can’t solve,” he told his staff. “I always make it bigger. I can never solve it by trying to make it smaller, but if I make it big enough, I can begin to see the outlines of a solution.”

Eisenhower’s enlargement principle has never been systematically applied to free expression. It should be.

Indeed. And do read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

PRATT SUMMER:

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: DNC Insults Trans Community in Vulgar Response to Stephen Miller Post About James Talarico Making History.

Yes indeed, decency is back on the ballot!

That ad hominem caught the attention of Larry O’Connor and others:

Past performance is no guarantee of future results:

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Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll