April 14, 2026

PEOPLE MAKE DECENT MONEY SPOUTING GIBBERISH ON X:

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green

THE BIG PICTURE: All in All, It’s Just Another Brick in the Wall Around China. “Last year, Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping played the rare earths card, forcing President Donald Trump to slow his roll on decoupling from the Middle Kingdom. This year, Trump played the oil card against China — first in Venezuela, then in Iran — and he just slapped it on the table again in Indonesia.”

Posted at 11:10 am by Stephen Green

THAT’S RIGHT, WHEN YOU GO TO THE MOON, YOU GET TO NAME STUFF:

According to her website, Halligan “has independently researched systems theory and the neurological basis for cycles of collapse, mapping how consciousness, trauma, and non-linear time affect human systems, identity, and the evolution of intelligence in form,” and now “writes, teaches, and consults on the evolution of intelligence and the design of future-conscious systems.”

But still can’t figure out how naming stuff works.

Posted at 10:54 am by Stephen Green

I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS: House Republican: ‘Rapists should be hung, period.’

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said Monday that “rapists should be hung” in the wake of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) recently facing sexual assault allegations, but he insisted he wasn’t talking about the California Democrat.

“Rapists should be hung, period. No questions. And so — now I’m not — I don’t want the Secret Service to come, I’m not talking about Eric Swalwell, I’m not threatening a member of Congress,” Ogles told conservative influencer Benny Johnson on his show when asked about the allegations against Swalwell.

“But the point is, is we got to say enough is enough, we can’t allow this type of behavior,” he added.

The word Ogles left out is “public.”

Also, public hangings for rape and other high crimes might make a nifty alternative for those term limits we can never seem to get.

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green

QUESTIONS ASKED: “I would have to ask his holiness very frankly: You had 30,000 people gunned down in Iran just a few weeks ago, we heard nothing from the Vatican on that at all…You have a terror, a government, close to a nuclear weapon. Is it acceptable for the Catholic church to look away from that?”

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

“DEMOCRACY” MEANS WHATEVER DEMOCRATS NEED IT TO MEAN:

Posted at 10:23 am by Stephen Green

RIDE THE PAPAL RECURSION!

 

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll

“AUTHORITARIAN” NOW MEANS “ANYONE AUTHORITARIAN LEFTIES DON’T LIKE”:

More:

Poisoning the well is Obama’s specialty, always has been.

Posted at 9:52 am by Stephen Green

CONRAD BLACK: Trump Will Win the War With Iran.

There is not the slightest pretense of bipartisan support for the war effort and as the Democrats demanded peace they went on record proclaiming that Iran was not a threat to America, that the United States is losing the war, and had been dragged into a quagmire.

When the negotiations came, they denounced them. The negotiations did not last long. Iran’s failure to concede the verifiable and permanent elimination of its nuclear military program and the abandonment of funding for international terrorism, particularly on the borders of Israel, and end all pretense of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, means the war will be resumed and those goals will swiftly be achieved by the Americans and the Israelis.

At that point all the scaremongering of the Democrats as the “progressives” devour and intimidate whatever is left of moderate Democrats, will be exposed as a fraud. Congressman Ro Khanna’s demand for Mr. Trump’s removal because of mental incompetence and the disintegration of Congressman Eric Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign because of his aggressive womanizing have lowered the farce of the California Democrats to hitherto unexcavated levels.

There is little that the voters of America like better than victory in a “splendid little war” at a low cost (Theodore Roosevelt on the Spanish-American War). This was the story of Presidents Polk in Mexico, McKinley in Cuba and the Philippines, and even, for a time, the Bushes in Iraq. In the aftermath of Iran’s refusal to concede the nuclear and terrorism issues, the United States and its allies will seize Kharg Island, close Iran as tightly by sea as it is by air, strangle it of the ability to support terrorism, and impose a permanent aerial arms embargo on nuclear military development; all at minimal cost to the United States and Israel in the lives of their servicemen.

Don’t get cocky.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

AND ANOTHER ONE:

From the replies: “Trump has been the ‘great revealer’ of these folks.”

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green

CUTTING TO THE CHASE:

Posted at 9:20 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Just Wondering How Long Adam Schiff Gets to Lie About, Well, Everything. “He was also one of the taxpayer abusers on the United States House Soviet Select Committee on J6 Daddy Issues, lying about an insurrection that never was. The Dems’ justification for the first impeachment trial that we now know Schiff directed was the claim that Trump interfered with the 2020 election. That’s super rich, given the Democrats’ expertise in election tampering.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

I HAD BEEN ASSURED IT WAS TOTALLY SAFE:

Posted at 8:50 am by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Life in a Soros Prosecutor City: Defender Faces Murder Charges While the Mob Runs Free.

Following a Friday night incident in Austin, Texas, a Central Texas Gun Works employee deserves a medal for heroic self-defense, rather than the murder charges he’s facing thanks to Soros-backed District Attorney José Garza. Garza is living up to his well-earned reputation for prosecuting good guys while letting the bad guys walk free.

Two off-duty employees from Central Texas Gun Works had just arrived at an east Austin club when they came under attack from a dozen thugs who had been kicked out of the watering hole for getting into it with another group inside. They apparently mistook the two gun store employees for being members of the group they’d been arguing with inside and were still looking to scrap.

The mob swarmed the two without provocation. One employee was beaten and knocked unconscious, suffering a skull fracture and broken ribs. That’s when the second man drew his gun. Seeing the attack continuing on his friend and fearing for their lives, he opened fire.

One of the attackers was killed. The employee then wisely retreated from the still-chaotic scene to avoid the remaining assailants. He sought medical treatment, and was later taken into custody. He now sits in the Travis County jail facing a murder charge. His injured colleague is recovering in the hospital. None of the thugs who attacked them is facing charges from Garza.

The man who murdered my niece in cold blood more than two years ago still hasn’t gone to trial, thanks to foot-dragging in Garza’s office.

Los Angeles and even San Francisco got rid of their Soros prosecutors — what the hell is wrong you with you, Austin?

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

MARKER LAID DOWN:

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll