MADE IN THE USA: Anti-Aging Face Moisturizer with Retinol, Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid. #CommissionEarned

MADE IT, MA! TOP OF THE WORLD! The Coolest Video Ever Shot on Everest. Ma Chunlin has created one of the best videos we’ve ever seen come out of the Himalaya.

This dude captures aerial footage taken by his drone above Mount Everest, the world's highest peak and it looks insane pic.twitter.com/VvRv4Nqf6l

— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) May 16, 2026

(Classical reference in headline.)

THE NEW VETTING: The broker standard of care after Montgomery. “The question is no longer whether brokers have responsibilities when selecting carriers. The question is what courts, juries, insurers, and the industry itself will consider reasonable in a modern transportation environment where enormous amounts of safety data are publicly available.”

Related: What’s next after Montgomery?

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 6 to 1: Democratic speakers dominate 2026 commencement stages at Top 100 universities.

Also, these places are supposed to be “nonpartisan” 501(c)(3)’s.

IT’S ALL FAKE: A student movement for the ‘99%’ is being bankrolled by the same billionaire-backed networks it claims to oppose. More Perfect University sells campus populism as grassroots activism, but its funding, messaging, and political ties tell a different story.

The reason why leftists think everything on the right is fake is because everything they do is.

PORTENT OF PROBLEMS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA: A recent survey of congressional aides working on Capitol Hill for senators, representatives and committees find a big portion of them have in the past year either significantly reduced their social media scrolling or stopped it altogether. Check it out on HillFaith this morning.

SHERYL LONGIN: Spencer Pratt is Where It’s At.

TRUMP, XI AND THE THUCYDIDES TRAP: Few Americans these days have read “The Peloponnesian War” by Thucydides, so the significance of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s two references to the “trap” associated with the great Greek writer is undoubtedly lost on most, including especially the journalists covering President Donald Trump’s Beijing visit.

That said, Rod Martin lays out the amazing changes in the U.S./China relationship on the world stage in the two years since the Biden administration closed and the second Trump term commenced. Read it and you will quickly forget what the talking heads of the MSM are saying about Trump’s alleged Beijing failures:

“Xi is very aware of his own problems. Two years ago, he was on the verge of controlling the approaches to North America. Today, America has flipped that script. So isn’t it at least possible that Xi is recognizing how we’ve kicked his butt out of the Caribbean, humiliated his armaments industry in Venezuela and Iran, and locked down Malacca, Sunda, and Lombok with our new Indonesian defense pact(s)?

“And that’s not even mentioning Japan’s reassertion as both a major power and arsenal to our allies, South Korea’s and Australia’s nuclear submarine deals with the U.S., the defensive implications of the Taiwan arms deals, the growing forest of missiles in Luzon, and the recently announced $1.5 trillion Trump defense budget, up from under $1 trillion. If we obsess about China’s strengths, do we really think they don’t obsess about ours?”

And speaking of Thucydides, here’s a reading project that will both entertain and instruct the inquiring mind: Read his book on the great conflict between Athens and Sparta, then sit down with Shelby Foote’s masterful three-volume “The Civil War.” So many similarities among the combatants in both conflicts and innumerable lessons to be learned from the character portraits each author provides of the men leading each side.

NOBODY FIXES A PROBLEM THEY’RE BEING PAID TO MANAGE: The Fix for Homelessness? Get Rid of All the Big Money to ‘Fix’ Homelessness.

AT AMAZON: Up to 40% off at the Memorial Day Sale. #CommissionEarned

BILL KRISTOL FINALLY MAKES IT OFFICIAL:

It would just be refreshing if every other person employed by the bulwark expressed this level of professional honesty. You took the money so just admit it. https://t.co/xx4hrs4o6i

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 16, 2026

Saying you are a Democrat because you are "pro-limited government" is like saying you are vegan because you like bacon. https://t.co/VvmW7A1GeC

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 16, 2026

THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S NOT NEWS, BECAUSE IT ISN’T TRUE: The Big Tell: NYT Not Reporting Kristof Accusations on its News Pages. He’ll always be Nick “Dog Rape” Kristof to me, though.

Or maybe Nick “Nazi Dad” Kristof: Times Columnist Kristof’s Father Fought on Nazi Side in World War II. Hamas prison-rape-dog propagandist’s dad also defended Vichy war criminal, then committed suicide after decades of nightmares.

As if we didn’t know this…you can call it gaslighting, denial, or just manipulation: it stinks, no matter what you call it.

Just The News reports:

“Former President Barack Obama ripped a page from the Pravda playbook with his recent appearance on Steven Colbert’s show on CBS, suggesting the Trump Justice Department’s crackdown on intelligence politicization and law enforcement abuses was somehow a “retribution campaign […] But the 44th president’s rhetoric can’t mask the growing body of evidence chronicling the direct role he played in shielding Hillary Clinton and concocting a false Russia collusion narrative that was designed to fool American voters during the 2016 election and hamper the start of Trump’s first presidential term.”

CUTE:  The Perils of Dirty Dishes. In which Donnal the apprentice wizard wonders whether he’s made a very small mistake or a very large one.

BOB GRABOYES: Virginia Supreme Court Ruling Made E-Z: The logic was simple: “Before an election” means “before the first votes are cast.”

INDEED IT IS A VERY GOOD BOOK. ALSO A PROMETHEUS AWARD FINALIST:  Review: Storm-Dragon by Dave Freer. On a storm-tossed world, an unlikely friendship may bring salvation – or damnation!

I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY GRIFFIN WOULDN’T WASTE TIME TALKING TO MAMDANI:  Billionaire Ken Griffin ghosts Mamdani after NYC ‘Tax the Rich’ video flap.

MOST COSTS ARE WELL HIDDEN, OF COURSE, TO AVOID ALARMING THE RUBES:  The truly staggering cost of ‘cheap’ renewable energy.

TOOK THEM LONG ENOUGH:  The Justice Department Found Yale Discriminated Against White, Asian Med School Applicants.

MONEY UP, READING SCORES DOWN:  As Gavin Newsom Touts CA’s Education Spending, Spot What He Doesn’t Brag About.

IT RETURNS:  History Friday: Mr. Mulholland’s Big Oops!

LAWS FOR THEE AND NOT FOR WE:  What If Dems Are Shut Out of the CA Gov Race? Newsom Says There’s a ‘Break-the-Glass’ Contingency Plan.

I’M A DINOSAUR. THIS REMINDS ME OF SOME SIMAK NOVELS:  What If Fully Autonomous Combat Drones Are Already Here?

YES, HOPEFULLY LBJ IS WRONG:  Manufactured Victimhood as the Ultimate Narcotic.

WELL, I UNDERSTAND THAT:  A Texas Military Vet Dropped Out of Penn State Law School Rather Than Submit to Its Mandatory Anti-Racism Course.