April 15, 2026

CALIFORNIA DEMS LOVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: And just days after indy Internet journo David Delaiden won his 11-year battle against multiple spurious charges filed by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris, Democrats in the California Assembly filed legislation that is clearly aimed at giving state officials media censorship tools. But Democrats using government to censor pro-life/Conservative/Evangelical media and researchers is nothing new. Check out my report today for The Washington Stand.

Posted at 3:41 pm by Mark Tapscott

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Now Comes the Gun-Grab: Rhode Island Dems Go for Full-On Confiscation. “At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing, lawmakers pushed 18 gun control bills in a single slate. The package goes well beyond sales restrictions. It includes legislation aimed at unconstitutionally dismantling the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act through so-called ‘public nuisance’ liability schemes, along with gun rationing, ammunition background checks, mandatory training requirements and liability insurance mandates.”

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLANKET PARTY: Eric Swalwell Finds Out About Sudden ‘Investigative Reporting.’

California Democrats have been growing increasingly panicked at the polls in their “jungle primary” for governor — where the top two vote-getters (regardless of party) advance to a general-election runoff. It had become disastrously possible that the top two could both be Republicans — Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. Democrats needed to shrink their field of candidates. So, voila, “investigative reporting” dropped a bomb on Swalwell — from the liberal San Francisco Chronicle and liberal CNN.

That’s not to say that Swalwell’s accusers don’t have deeply disturbing facts on their side. It’s all about the remarkable timing. Swalwell ran for president in 2020, which would have been an obvious occasion for investigative reporting, even if Swalwell wasn’t exactly a front-runner in that cycle. Swalwell was one of many Democrats that CNN rewarded with a primetime “town hall” program for national publicity.

It reminded me of the early months of the 2011-12 presidential primaries on the Republican side. They started with Sarah Palin, who never even proclaimed her candidacy. NBC ran with wild allegations from leftist author Joe McGinniss that Palin and her then-husband had used cocaine, and he claimed Palin slept with NBA star Glen Rice when she was a sports reporter in Anchorage.

“Just last year, Swalwell showed himself wearing a ‘No Kings’ protest shirt, bragging to a bunch of supporters that he’d come up with a new Democrat Party campaign slogan: ‘It’ll All Come Out.’ Then it did. He didn’t see the train coming until it hit him.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

INDEED:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: Why justice keeps failing Asian hate victims in San Francisco.

The preferred storyline demanded framing every incident through the lens of systemic racism, mental health, or “root causes” rather than straightforward criminal accountability. So the hour-long interview with my terrified 14-year-old son sat on the shelf and never aired.

Even harder is exposing what happens inside the San Francisco Superior Courts themselves. For years, the courts have shielded ideological judges by refusing to submit required criminal disposition data to the California Judicial Council, as mandated by state law. They spent five years claiming their case management system was “too new” to produce disposition numbers, yet somehow found ample time and resources to build their own public judicial dashboard filled with conveniently skewed metrics. What we do know is that the vast majority of crimes in San Francisco are diverted, reduced, or delayed for years, with few, if any, receiving timely trials. On an annual basis, Alameda County averages 11 trials per judge, while San Francisco manages just one.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

BBC LAYOFFS TO IMPACT 2,000 JOBS AS PART OF MAJOR COST-CUTTING PLAN:

The BBC is to cut as many as 2,000 jobs, affecting 10% of its 21,500 employees, in what is being described as the biggest scaling back in 15 years.

According to The Guardian, staff at the broadcaster were to be informed of the cuts on Wednesday afternoon in an all-staff meeting, with interim director general Rhodri Talfan Davies expected to announce the redundancies.

News of the cuts — representing the biggest job cuts at the BBC since 2011 — come before top Google exec Matt Brittin takes the reins as director general in May.

Live look at the reaction of one former BBC employee:

Related: Learning to code ‘will seriously change your life.’

—The BBC, March 25th, 2021.

As Kier Starmer looks to violate Brexit and reintegrate Britain with the EU, I’m sure its jet-setting president will applaud the reduced energy output of the shrinking Beeb:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Sex Exists.

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

(HOPEFULLY NOT A ) NOVEMBER PREVIEW:

Posted at 1:29 pm by Stephen Green

THE BETTER MAN:

In accordance with the prophecy:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

A MODEST TAX-DAY PROPOSAL: There they go again, those rebellious minds behind Issues & Insights, thinking thoughts contrary to the accepted wisdom on just about any and every issue of which you can think. Today’s thoughts concern getting rid of the current tax code, lock, stock and barrel, and replacing it with either a Flat Tax or a Fair Tax (i.e. a national sales tax on consumption).

Posted at 1:03 pm by Mark Tapscott

ONE MAN IS ANGRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1945, THE OTHER IS ANGRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1991:

UPDATE:

Posted at 12:55 pm by Ed Driscoll

THIS:

More:

‘Cea Weaver-style’ housing policy is an insidious and purposeful effort to shift that political power to the state and make people dependent on the state either directly through more public housing OR indirectly through price controls that make housing ‘affordable.’ Either way this policy seeks to effectuate a huge power transfer from individuals (homeowners) to the state who ‘provides’ or ‘ensures’ housing.

That’s why I generally think blue states are fine with no housing being built and real estate prices being out of control: the more desperate people are for housing and the more dependent they are on the state for housing, the more power government can arrogate.

Creating a permanent underclass of reliable Democrat voters is what Democrats do best.

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green