December 12, 2025

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Quiet, Captivating Genius of Kamala Harris. “We all saw Harris for four years. Rare was the occasion when she could string together three coherent sentences. Typically, she would get stuck on a word or phrase and then repeat it. I called it the hamster wheel in her brain. Once she realized that she wasn’t getting off the wheel, she would begin gesticulating wildly, as if that made everything clearer.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

THIS IS THE CORRECT TAKE:

“Brussels saps the economic power and the morale of our European allies while purporting to unite and strengthen them.”

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

HOW TDS BLINDS DEMS TO REALITY: A Senate SBA hearing earlier this week gave a host of uniquely vivid illustrations of how Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) blinds its victims like Democratic senators Ed Markey and Mazie Hirono to the reality of chronic, deeply rooted, and horrendously costly waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.

Posted at 8:28 am by Mark Tapscott

OH, CANADA:

You can look in vain for a Community Note, but there aren’t even any pending.

Yesterday, I wrote about the five steps of “postmodern reverse colonization,” and here they are again:

  • Migration, often at the behest of the local population or their elites.
  • Non-assimilation.
  • Formation of ethno-religious political blocs.
  • Street violence/mob tactics/mass rape as power tests.
  • Demographic tipping points.

Parts of the UK are well into the fourth step, and it looks like Canada is doing its best to catch up.

Posted at 8:22 am by Stephen Green

ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: One Cheer for Colonialism! “It is unseemly, untimely, unjustifiable, distasteful, and surely flat-out wrong to offer even one cheer for colonialism. So here I go.”

Posted at 8:07 am by Stephen Green

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Viagra goes pink (finally!): First-of-its-kind cream promises to jump-start arousal in women.

The topical treatment — which contains sildenafil, the same active ingredient in Viagra — is filling a long-overlooked need.

Studies show that women experience sexual dysfunction as much as men, and it can be treated with similar drug mechanisms, said Sabrina Martucci Johnson, president and CEO of Daré Bioscience.

“We have this scientific evidence that sildenafil as an active ingredient can work if only it were designed and formulated specifically with women in mind,” Johnson told The Post, “and that’s really then where we came into the equation.”

Well, good.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES DEFLATING: Fewer EVs need fewer batteries: Ford and SK On end their joint venture.

Cast your mind back to 2021. Electric vehicles were hot stuff, buoyed by Tesla’s increasingly stratospheric valuation and a general optimism fueled by what would turn out to be the most significant climate-focused spending package in US history. For some time, automakers had been promising an all-electric future, and they started laying the groundwork to make that happen, partnering with battery suppliers and the like.

Take Ford—that year, it announced a joint venture with SK to build a pair of battery factories, one in Kentucky, the other in Tennessee. BlueOvalSK represented an $11.4 billion investment that would create 11,000 jobs, we were told, and an annual output of 60 GWh from both plants.

Four years later, things look very different. EV subsidies are dead, as is any inclination by the current government to hold automakers accountable for selling too many gas guzzlers. EV-heavy product plans have been thrown out, and designs for new combustion-powered cars are being dusted off and spiffed up. Fewer EVs means a lower need for batteries, and today we saw that in evidence when it emerged that Ford and SK On are ending their battery factory joint venture.

Ending subsidies really meant finding out what the actual EV market could sustain.

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green

HAHA. ALSO, OUCH.

I dunno what the hell happened with Tucker. At first I thought he was bought off, but he had plenty of money. Maybe blackmail? Who knows?

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

2026 PREVIEW:

Posted at 7:20 am by Stephen Green

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia University Faculty Behaving Badly. “A new report out of Columbia University documents abuses of faculty prerogatives and general outrageous misbehavior on the part of full-time faculty, instructors, and graduate assistants. Academic freedom does not include being abusive to students, using your classes for political organizing, teaching material unrelated to your classes ideological reasons, and otherwise treating your classroom position as if its your personal platform to pursue an ideological agenda. All of these teachers should face sanctions ranging from suspensions to being fired, but I’m not holding my breath. While these incidents all involve misbehavior on behalf of ‘Palestine,’ it’s reasonable to assume that it reflects a broader culture of politicization of the classroom and perceived impunity more generally, and not just at Columbia.”

Posted at 7:09 am by Glenn Reynolds

FROM GRAHAM BRADLEY:  Rebel Heart (Engines of Liberty Book 1).

For centuries the British Empire has ruled territories the world over, maintaining its grasp on its far-flung colonies by way of magic and brute force. Any successful attempt at rebellion is short-lived, as the rebels do not have the benefit of wizardy on their side.

The most recent attempt at secession happened in the New World in 1776, some two hundred years ago. General George Washington nearly succeeded at rallying his countrymen in a military revolt against the Crown. But disunity and infighting ultimately brought them down, and Washington was executed in a public spectacle.

Most people gave up. But not all.

The cleverest and most driven survivors went to ground. They learned from their mistakes. They planned, they plotted, they tinkered and they toiled. They began to develop new weapons and machines that would level the playing field. With technology at their fingertips, anyone could stand toe-to-toe with a British mage and come off conqueror.

The uprising has been a long time coming. The arsenal is as large as it’s going to get. Now all the “technomancer” army needs is soldiers, young patriots like Calvin Adler, who has had enough of the mages pushing him around.

Freedom beckons, if he will but pay the price in blood, sweat, and tears.

This is the New Revolution.

Posted at 7:07 am by Sarah Hoyt