April 12, 2026

THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF SACRAMENTO’S “TRAVEL BANS” TO THE RED STATES:

Posted at 8:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

ORBÁN CONCEDES DEFEAT IN HUNGARIAN ELECTION:

Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s pro-Russian prime minister, conceded defeat on Sunday, bringing an end to his authoritarian 16-year rule after an election seen as the Europe’s most consequential election this year.

Peter Magyar, the 45-year-old leader of the centre-Right Tisza party, won a landslide victory and promised to repair relations with the EU and Nato, which were badly strained by Mr Orbán’s blocking of policies helpful to Ukraine.

In the campaign, the Fidesz party leader accused Volodymyr Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, of plotting with Mr Magyar to drag Hungary into the war.

“Together we have freed Hungary,” Mr Magyar told a delirious crowd of supporters on the banks of the Danube, “My friends you have worked a miracle. Hungary has written history.”

Worst. Autocrat. Ever:

But is the globalist left celebrating a little too much and too early?

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHAT IF? What If Consciousness Exists Beyond Your Brain? “Is consciousness produced by the brain, or is it a deeper feature of reality? This question is a key focus of Christof Koch, one of today’s leading neuroscientists, in his presentation at the 15th ‘Behind and Beyond the Brain’ Symposium, organized by the Bial Foundation and held April 8 to 11 in Porto. . . . Koch outlines three major areas where current understanding struggles. First is the challenge of fully reducing conscious experience to physical processes in the brain. Second is the difficulty modern physics faces when trying to define what is truly ‘real.’ Third is the persistence of unusual experiences – including near-death experiences, mystical states, and episodes of terminal lucidity – that do not fit neatly within existing scientific explanations.”

Somewhat related, I was interested in the story of the woman who spent three weeks in a medically induced coma and dreamed an entire life, which seemed so real that upon awakening she grieved for her “lost” children.

Posted at 7:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

VOTE WITH YOUR FEET, EH:

It says that Canada is turning itself in a third-world nation.

If Alberta and Saskatchewan would like to put a stop to that, we could help.

Posted at 6:29 pm by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Posted at 5:49 pm by Stephen Green

IF THE ISRAELIS WANTED A GENOCIDE, THERE’D BE NO GAZA. PERIOD:

And from the replies: “They want to exaggerate the crimes of Netanyahu, whilst simultaneously diminishing the crimes of the Nazis.”

Posted at 5:08 pm by Stephen Green

IF IT’S DAMAGING TO AMERICAN INTERESTS, THE SAFE DEFAULT IS TO BELIEVE OBAMA PROBABLY DID IT:

Posted at 4:37 pm by Stephen Green

YEAH, IT’S ALL BULLSHIT.

Posted at 3:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The anti-ageing tools biohackers are counting on to live to 150. ““It’s interesting that despite all the developments in medical science in the past 30 years, that world record for human ageing hasn’t been beaten. . . .In fact, despite more people than ever celebrating their 100th birthday, there are still only 77 people known to have reached 115.”

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GREAT TRAINING SHOES: I went to a training event recently and got to wear the new Brooks Women’s Glycerin Flex Neutral Running & Walking Shoe. The shoes are supposed to move with your feet and be more flexible and they were, but also provided stability. I bought a pair and am very happy with them Give them a try if you need a cross-purpose shoe.

Posted at 1:02 pm by Helen Smith

I DON’T THINK THE BIG BANG THEORY WAS INTENDED TO BE A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR HOSPITAL ROBOTICS:

Deploy the Shelbots!

To be fair, the Shelbots are brilliant tailors as well. They were the forerunners of the oversize suit craze of the 1980s:

 

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

ROBERT SPENCER: Truth-Teller Encounters the Buzz-Saw of the Establishment Narrative.

What happens when someone dissents from the leftist establishment narrative in a way that is so compelling and convincing that the continued wide acceptance of that narrative is imperiled? What happens is that the leftist media establishment deploys its strongest rhetorical weapons against the offender, hoping to destroy or at least cripple the dissident before he or she is able to amass a significant following, or to dishearten and disperse that following if it already exists. This is why the April 2026 issue of Tablet magazine contains a massive article, over 6,000 words long, damning with faint praise the pioneering scholar of dhimmitude, Bat Ye’or.

Former New York Times writer Judith Miller, who for decades has been a reliable conduit for the establishment line, pulls out all the stops to ensure that her readers will come away with the idea that Bat Ye’or, for all her admirable qualities, is a bit of a nutter. It is a shabby way to treat one of the great thinkers of our age, and demonstrates how deeply threatened the academic left is in the face of the truths Bat Ye’or has uncovered.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

NEVILLE AGAIN:

 

On Friday, London Telegraph columnist Jake Wallis Simons wrote: Starmer has just shown the world what a truly pathetic leader he is.

At least Neville Chamberlain had rhetoric. The phrase may have represented the nadir of British appeasement, but “peace for our time” had a lovely ring to it. Keir Starmer, however, probably finds its resonances with the Book of Common Prayer distasteful, given that modern Britain is for “people of all faiths and none”. So he plumped for “fed up” instead.

“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses’ bills go up and down on energy,” he told Robert Peston in the Gulf. Forgive me if I do a little sick. The Prime Minister didn’t seem to mind when, thanks to Ed Miliband, Britain had the highest industrial electricity prices in the OECD even before the war in Iran. But when prices rise because of a struggle against the most evil regime on Earth? That gets right up his nose.

If I were an Iranian parent, say, who had lost a child when the regime massacred more than 30,000 people in 48 hours in January, or a relative of a victim of Tehran’s recent surge in executions, my sympathies for Starmer’s irritation at rising domestic bills might be limited.

The inevitable made-for-Netflix movie depicting Starmer as the eight-dimensional chess playing mastermind of Operation Epic Fury should make for mind-blowing viewing.

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

TRUMP ANNOUNCES BLOCKADE OF STRAIT OF HORMUZ AFTER IRAN PEACE TALKS COLLAPSE:

President Trump on Sunday announced plans to blockade the Strait of Hormuz after negotiations in Pakistan to end the Iran war collapsed.

“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION.”

The president said the blockade will be enforced in an effort to stop Iran from policing the strait to its economic benefit while other countries suffer.

“At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them,” he said. “THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted.”

He additionally said the U.S. Navy will “seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran.”

Earlier: “Iran played its biggest card and the main result is that the United States became the world’s emergency gas station and China’s cheap energy subsidy evaporated. This is either the most elaborate coincidence in the history of geopolitics… or someone planned the sequence Venezuela -> Iran -> profits!”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll