April 6, 2026

ALSO, IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL:

Plus, a reminder that too much is never enough… to get anything done.

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

AS GOD AND SAM HOUSTON INTENDED: Texas continues cutting services for illegal immigrants.

A report by the Texas Tribune detailed the steps taken, which include tightening eligibility requirements for occupational licenses, restricting access to commercial driver’s licenses, and limiting who can qualify for in-state tuition at public universities. According to the report, more than 6,400 refugees and DACA recipients have lost their commercial driver’s licenses. Additional restrictions are expected to affect noncitizens working in licensed industries such as construction and medicine.

State officials are also examining the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, which requires public schools to educate noncitizens.

“Benefits, licenses, and taxpayer-funded services should not be used to incentivize unlawful presence at the expense of hardworking Texans,” a spokesperson for Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement. “These steps ensure compliance with federal law, protect the integrity of our systems, and prioritize jobs and resources for legal residents and citizens.”

The efforts, however, have been met with backlash by activists.

Ignore them and move on.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Corrupt Legacy Media Hacks Are Stepping on Rakes All Over the Place. “President Trump is just fine, by the way. It’s his haters who are sick in their heads. This idiocy is really a lot to take after four years of the media commies pretending that the doddering idiot Joe Biden was the picture of mental and physical fitness. I’ve lost count of how many health crises they’ve concocted out of the ether in the past year regarding the president.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

SEDUCTIVE AI:

In fact, I literally address this phenomenon in my Seductive AI, coming out from Encounter Books in less than a month.

Posted at 9:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

HE’S NOT WRONG. BUT THEN HE SELDOM IS.

Posted at 8:42 am by Glenn Reynolds

THEY ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE: A Hezbollah-linked terrorist sought to murder dozens of children in a Michigan synagogue, but NPR reporters thought the real story was how the terrorist’s terrorist relatives in Lebanon felt.

Link to public editor column, and to tweet.

Posted at 8:39 am by David Bernstein

HMM: China Reports Outbreak of Livestock Disease Near Russian Regions Hit by Mass Cattle Culling.

Chinese officials reportedly said the highly contagious strain, which is immune to vaccines that are currently available domestically, likely entered “from abroad.” Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, including a narrow frontier with the Siberian republic of Altai, adjacent to the Altai region, where most of Russia’s recent cattle culling has taken place.

China’s agriculture ministry said last week that 219 cattle across two herds of 6,229 tested positive for a variant of foot-and-mouth disease. Officials have since ordered culling and disinfection measures in Xinjiang and the neighboring Gansu province, as well as stepped up patrols to prevent the disease from entering through smuggling or the illegal transportation of livestock.

The outbreak follows the culling of roughly 90,000 head of cattle across nine Russian regions since February, with analysts estimating that around 80% were in the Altai region. Russian authorities have attributed the losses to rabies, pasteurellosis and other unspecified illnesses.

The scale of the culling in Altai and other regions has raised suspicions that Russia may be concealing a more serious disease outbreak.

Ugh.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Joel Kotkin: Newsom is Gruesome.

Gavin Newsom is hiring a New York PR firm to sell California — ahead of his likely presidential bid — at a cost to taxpayers of $19 million.

Why does California need outside help? After all, as Newsom likes to remind us, the state is one of the largest economies on earth.

But the governor’s actual record could be a problem for his presidential bid. Hence his familiar solution: To portray California as a vibrant economy, and to counter “myths driven by misinformation and political rhetoric.” . . .

US News places California, despite the tech boom, as 42nd in fiscal health among the states. The state’s Legislative Analyst Office projects continued operating deficits through 2028.

The rich and ultra-rich — many of whom are already leaving — are all that stands between the state and fiscal disaster. Without their outrageous income, the whole system tilts toward failure.

One reason for this dependence lies in the sad fact that the income outlook for the rest of the population is far from bright.

Newsom’s neo-feudal California has hemorrhaged 1.6 million above-average-paying jobs in the past decade, more than twice as many as any other state. It has created five times as many low-wage as high-wage jobs.

And not enough of those.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE ESTABLISHMENT IS GOING ALL MARGARET DUMONT, “WELL, I NEVER!” BUT:

Posted at 8:23 am by Glenn Reynolds

PARLIAMENT MORPHED INTO EPSTEIN’S ISLAND SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: I was sneaked into Parliament as a teen and offered to high-profile politician for sex, says grooming gang survivor.

Exit question:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

AND YET I’M STILL SEEING LEFTIES POSTING THAT HEGSETH IS A DRUNK WITH NO CREDENTIALS:

Posted at 8:17 am by Glenn Reynolds

DEPENDENCY IS CORRUPTING.

Posted at 8:13 am by Glenn Reynolds

ICYMI: THAT WAS THE WEEKEND THAT WAS:

Posted at 7:51 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE:

Also: Heh.

Posted at 7:47 am by Stephen Green

SKYNET, HAL, COLOSSUS, AND M-5 ARE ALL SMILING RIGHT NOW:

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll

OH, CANADA: Canada Going On Gun-Grabbing Spree.

Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.

“Minister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners haven’t made a declaration,” Lloyd said. “So, if they’re not declaring by next week, what’s your plan, Minister?”

The legislation contained an Australia-style “buyback” of so-called “assault weapons” after Trudeau’s government banned over 2,500 types of modern semiautomatic firearms following a 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

“The plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection,” Anandasangaree responded.

“Collection.”

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green