KRAUTHAMMER’S LAW IN ACTION:

Republicans generally have religious beliefs that are separate and distinct from politics.

Democrats = Politics IS religion

— ⤴️ The_Pseudapigraphist (@FissileFinance) August 19, 2026

Or to put it in visual terms:

There’s nothing more insufferable than being with a group of liberals who assumes you share their politics. https://t.co/kFllpYS9P5

— (Formerly) Brooklyn Mom (@graciefacelove) August 15, 2026

Classical reference in headline: “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil,” Charles Krauthammer wrote in 2002. And viewing someone of a differing ideology as being evil is a very different stance than viewing him as simply uninformed or otherwise somehow misguided.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT SO: ‘Illegal’ Trial of George Floyd ‘Murderer’ Derek Chauvin Was Complete and Utter Garbage. “I haven’t seen such a recklessly steered case since the McMartin family was sent to prison based on emotion and politics instead of logic, reason, and evidence. And now, finally, a Minnesota judge will mete out a little justice in the case of Derek Chauvin, the cop who is alleged to have purposely killed George Floyd.”

SHE THOUGHT WELL OF IT:  Review: The Timeless by Richard Paolinelli and Gibson Buffa.

PERSONNEL IS POLICY:

TLDR maybe but I’m so glad you brought this up! Here’s why we can’t have iconoclast generals in the U.S. anymore:

1947: Officer Personnel Act. We standardized “up-or-out.” Officers increasingly advanced through centralized boards and prescribed career timing instead of being… https://t.co/Og5M2Zk2jG

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) August 19, 2026

CULTURES ARE NOT THE SAME!  Still More Tales of the Base Tour Guide – Host Nation Sensitivities.

THE AD SHOWS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE DRIVING A PICKUP TRUCK, KLANSMEN DROVE PICKUP TRUCKS, SO YES, IT’S JUST LIKE THAT:  El-Sayed Staffer Just Compared This Campaign Ad to the KKK.

SHE’S A DEMOCRAT; DEMOCRATS DON’T MATH:  Democrat Mary Peltola’s Economic Math Ain’t Mathing.

IT WAS TIME:  America Sanctions ICC President and Trial Lawyer.

HIS GUEST SAID THE BIBLE AND QURAN ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME BOOK, JUST IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES?  Bill Maher Shut Down a Muslim Comedian When the Conversation Veered Into This Topic.

MOSTLY BY STEALING WHAT WORKS:  China today finally succeeds in vertically soft-landing a first stage.

I SWEAR THAT’S THE ENTIRE PURPOSE. KEEPING THE “PEASANTS” FROM DRIVING:  California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs.

ARE WE SEEING MORE FOODS RECALLED FOR ISSUES, OR JUST MORE REPORTING?  Blueberry recall over deadly E. coli fears hits FDA’s highest-risk level — with 12 sickened, 4 hospitalized.

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION HAS A FAILURE OF THE FUNNY BONE:  Looks like I’m going to prison for posting memes

X-cancel.

THIS SEEMS MISGUIDED:  Thousands of North Korean IT workers are infiltrating corporate America.

TURNS OUT HARVARD WAS LITERALLY HIDING BODIES:  Harvard to pay $53M in suit over selling donated corpses on black market.

UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH BOTH:  Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.

I’M DOING A SERIES OF POSTS ON GOING INDIE AS A WRITE, ON WEDNESDAYS AT MAD GENIUS CLUB:  First Clean Up Your Act.

ABSOLUTELY:  In 2026, all Remaining China Doves & Apologists are Suspect. They are not distracted trying to police the world–they want to dominate it.

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: UK Home Office prints guide to teach migrants not to rape women and kids.

This is not satire.

The government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain is handing out guides to migrants upon entry to teach them why raping people is bad.

Don’t rape. Don’t be a pedo.

(Pretty please.)

If only they had these pamphlets years ago, then the whole rape gang issue could have been avoided, right?

We can just educate the rapists out of being rapists, right?

As we saw last summer, this is already going, err, swimmingly in Germany: Drowning in Lies:

Exit quote: “I’ll leave you with this frustrated news anchor who can’t believe this is happening:”

'It's very rare a story comes in that completely takes my breath away, but this is it!'@MartinDaubney shares his outrage as migrants are issued a guide by the Home Office on how to avoid committing rape in Britain, and other guidance on harassment and paedophilia. pic.twitter.com/hhTRpmir1k

— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 19, 2026

UPDATE:

https://t.co/Fu1ulXWgDD pic.twitter.com/KSuS8ceoSU

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) August 19, 2026

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

If you want migrants to get the idea about rape, publicly hang a few rapists. Or burn them in the public square, or draw and quarter them, or subject them to other traditional public English penalties. They’ll figure it out PDQ. The posters, by comparison, are a joke and, in the absence of strict and public penalties, convey weakness.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin adding second pad to Cape Canaveral launch complex amid rocket explosion repairs: When life gives you lemons (exploding rocket), make lemonade (a second launch pad).

MICROBIOME NEWS: Parkinson’s Link to Gut Bacteria Hints at Unexpectedly Simple Treatment.

HEROIC BOY GEORGE WAS NOT ON MY BINGO CARD: Boy George Isn’t Alone: Watch a Muslim-Born Swedish Politician’s Courageous Stand for Jews.

Heroic Muslim Swede even less so.

WELL, GOOD: FDA-Approved Drug Shows Promise for Reversing Osteoarthritis Damage.

NEW FRACKING REVOLUTION IS HERE: If you haven’t read Rod Martin’s latest on the all-but-unheralded development of petcoke-blend proppant, you might as well be back in the days of whale oil. And oh by the way, if the DSA looneys get in power, we can all forget being warmed in the winter and A/C-cooled in the summer because they will kill this new technology.