July 15, 2026

FASTER, PLEASE: 5 Cases This ATF Needs to Make Right… Right Now.

Joe Biden’s ATF didn’t care about the law. They didn’t care about right or wrong. They didn’t care about evidence or proper procedure or telling the truth while asking the court for a search warrant while under oath. They didn’t even care about what was legal. All they cared about was terrifying gun owners, splashy headlines and making arrests regardless of the law.

Guns are bad, Joe Biden’s ATF believed. This untruth was reinforced by a team of anti-gunners working inside the White House and by others whom they collaborated with outside of the public eye.

While Biden napped, his ATF hit hard. They lied, kicked down doors, seized personal property for no legitimate reason, and they even took an innocent man’s life. In other words, they killed a man solely because of their own piss-poor planning.

ATF’s new director Rob Cekada is a good man who tells the truth and understands guns and gun owners, but the task in front of him is massive. He will certainly need help to fix the horrors Biden’s ATF left on his plate. If he can make the fixes, he will become a hero. If he ignores them, he will become just another in a long line of milquetoast ATF leaders who weren’t up to the job.

Here’s where he should start.

Full details at the link.

Posted at 5:23 pm by Stephen Green

“THE CNN STRATEGY:”

Posted at 5:20 pm by Ed Driscoll

SIGNPOSTS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): When you realize its goal is to cement losers into power, it never fails. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Posted at 4:46 pm by Stephen Green

JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE HAS “WRITTEN A BOOK” ABOUT HIS TIME AS PRESIDENT: (I can’t wait to color* mine in).

I’m sure all of Joe Biden’s 81 million enthusiastic voters who totally exist are excited about this.

Well, at least the five or six dozen of them that can read.

Joe Biden has “written” a book.

A whole lot of edits in the video, and it still required subtitles to make out what Sundown Joe is mumbling:

Is there a cut in these two minutes that lasts longer than three seconds? Even with the quick cuts and splashy video clips, Biden barely sounds coherent at times. It looks very much like the 2024 campaign did – another attempt by the Bidens to extend their business plan and revenue sources long after their only product had gone past its shelf date.

At the Spectator, “Cockburn” asks: Who wants to read Joe Biden’s presidential memoir?

Cockburn can’t help but feel for the elder statesman, dragging himself trembling to the coalface once more. While the video attempts to show an honorable past leader reflecting on America, it instead comes across as a Hail Mary to redeem Biden’s image.

There is reason to be suspicious of such an agenda, at a time when the 46th president is battling metastatic prostate cancer. Biden’s book follows memoirs from his son Hunter, Beautiful Things, and wife Jill, View from the East Wing. Is Sleepy Joe being pushed to publish by his relatives, in order to keep the Biden family gravy train rolling?

Time and time again, the spotlight seems to do Biden more harm than good. Cockburn will watch the former president’s fall press tour through his fingers.

Of course, nobody wants to read Biden’s memoir, but it’s a useful money laundering exercise:

* No need to wait — the Joe Biden coloring book was published six years ago. Its cover image and subtitle look even more ironic now that we’ve survived the “moderate” Biden (p)residency than they did back in the summer of 2020:

 

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

GLEICHSCHALTUNG:

UPDATE (From Ed): How racist is Gone with the Wind? So racist that Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award, for..Gone with the Wind:

 

Posted at 4:30 pm by Stephen Green

FIRST REVIEWS ARE IN FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S ODYSSEY:

Kyle Smith: ‘The Odyssey’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Aptly Epic Adventure.

Certainly “The Odyssey” is among the year’s best pictures. Yet I can’t call it one of Mr. Nolan’s best pictures; nor is it as satisfying as Peter Jackson’s“Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which constitutes perhaps its nearest contemporary equivalent. Its characters are not as sharply drawn, nor the confrontation with evil as urgent, as in Mr. Nolan’s Batman films; the emotions are not as deep as in “Interstellar” or “Dunkirk.” Its many action scenes, spirited as they are, sometimes feel rushed and squeezed in to keep the running time (just) under three hours; oddly enough, “The Odyssey” isn’t as propulsively exciting or as suspenseful as “Oppenheimer.”

Speaking of Oppenheimer, Sonny Bunch describes The Odyssey as “The concluding epic in Christopher Nolan’s Death Drive trilogy:”

In a way, both films are about men who ended the world; as I wrote in my reviewof Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb sees the world as both intact and consumed by nuclear fire simultaneously, existing in a sort of Schrödinger’s Annihilation. Humanity, in his view, is incapable of being trusted with the gift of nuclear fire. Odysseus, too, sees a civilization coming to ruin thanks to his works, sees chaos spreading to all corners of the known world as cherished norms are torn asunder. He sees the fall of one empire and the rise of another, knowing “our mistakes will once again be forgotten.” And Tenet is centered on the efforts of a dying Russian to reverse the flow of entropy at the behest of future dwellers convinced that the past’s destruction is the only way to ensure their own existence.

These films, like the bullets in Tenet, flow backward through time, from the near future to the recent past to ancient history. Yet we speed headlong toward our own destruction ever faster, the Freudian iteration of thanatos compelling us.

Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post writes: Christopher Nolan’s magical epic is mammoth and fantastic.

[Nolan’s] stunning and captivating “Odyssey” is the director in his David Lean era, eschewing the cerebral topics that tickled him in “Tenet,” “Inception” and, to an extent, “Oppenheimer,” and building his own “Lawrence of Arabia” with a transportive, sprawling and emotional adventure with visuals that will reduce even the most jaded movie buff into a giddy child.

Curiously though, Stephanie Zacharek, now with the left-leaning Time, but previously with the very leftist Village Voice isn’t impressed by Nolan’s film: The Odyssey Is Just Another Reason for Despair.

It doesn’t help that Nolan’s Odyssey—even when viewed, as he hopes audiences will see it, in IMAX—looks muddy and underwhelming. The Return was shot in Greece and Italy, and its landscapes are part of its vitality; cinematographer Marius Panduru made Ithaca look like a place worth coming home to. In Nolan’s Odyssey, shot by his frequent collaborator Hoyte van Hoytema in a host of locations including Italy, Greece, Morocco, Iceland, and Scotland, almost every landscape—a churning sea here, a set of cliffs there—just looks like business as usual, only bigger. There’s soil, but you don’t feel its texture; there’s sun, but you don’t feel its warmth. When Damon’s Odysseus is greeted by his ancient, dying dog Argos, who has waited patiently and poignantly for his return, Argos’s little tail wriggles mechanically as he takes his last breath. Odysseus expresses a flash of grief, and then it’s on to the next beat. There isn’t a minute to lose here, even in a runtime of nearly three hours.

There are other problems, among them Nolan’s failure to make use of Nyong’o’s gifts. The issue isn’t that her casting plays into any of the advance criticism the movie has received; it’s that it barely feels like a choice at all, representing not a burst of imagination but a failure of nerve. Nyong’o plays two roles here, that of Helen and of Clytemnestra, Helen’s twin sister. But there’s so much decorously, Homerically faithful story swirling around these two figures, glimpsed mostly in passing—and so many men around them, doing seriously manly stuff—that neither role registers. Through no fault of Nyong’o’s—who’s both accomplished and, though it should go without saying, uncommonly beautiful—these are almost blink-and-you-miss-them portrayals, the kind of thing a director can magnanimously hand out like candy. We’re supposed to applaud Nolan for bravery in casting, but the result comes off as tokenism, surely the opposite of what he intended.

Nolan’s stunt-casting has alienated both the hyper-online right and the left. A uniter, not a divider!

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SAY IT LOUD AND PROUD: The West Is a Superior Civilization (And I Don’t Care If That Offends You). “The West has experienced wars, harbored atrocious dictatorships, and served as the birthplace of a great many foolish ideas, including the wokism that ravaged civilization in this century. But what has made this civilization great is its ability to recognize those deviations and try to correct them, or at the very least condemn them. Many of the misguided ideas the West has produced are themselves products of freedom. And freedom is, for us, an unquestionable good. We embrace it knowing exactly what it exposes us to, and we prefer it that way. That is one of the greatest distinctions between the West and other civilizations and cultures.”

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

NICE WORK, FELLAS:

Update: Another mysteriously nonfunctional X embed, so you get a screencap and this handy link.

Posted at 3:34 pm by Stephen Green

SCHLICHTER: James Talarico Has Got a Secret.

I don’t know what that blasphemous little imp’s secret is, but he’s got one. Don’t be fooled by that creepy smile on his creepy face; there’s something wrong with James Talarico. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I don’t ever want to see his browser history, and I’d sooner have somebody from The Lincoln Project babysit my kid. It’s just a vibe, but there are rumors out there, and unfortunately, no one has shared the specifics with me. I don’t know exactly what they are, but we have no moral obligation to default to a presumption of normality regarding Democrat Senate candidates this cycle. After all, we just lived through Der Platnerdämmerung.

Is it related to his gender ambiguity? He’s already famous for apologizing for his white male identity. Well, let’s just say we can be pretty confident that Talarico has never beaten up or assaulted one of the many ex-girlfriends he’s tried to convince us were his girlfriends. This is because, to the extent they actually ever were his girlfriends, they all look like they can kick his butt. And he looks like he might dig that.

Let’s call out the pink donkey in the room. There’s widespread speculation that the guy is in the closet, and anybody who’s lived a few years has known guys in the closet, and well, this dude gives off vibes like he’s in the closet. I don’t know if he’s in the closet. I do know that if he is in the closet, he should have come out and been honest about who he was. If he’s lying about that, what else is he lying about?

Indeed.

And I don’t know whether this was intentional or not — but great callback, Kurt.

Kevin Spacey Has a Secret

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOE:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

JON CALDARA: A glimpse into Colorado’s future with Weiser at the helm.

The national media is focused on the anti-Semitic socialist who won the Democratic primary to replace [Democrat Rep.] Diana DeGette. More important to Colorado’s future, though, is what happened in the legislative primaries.

Several Democratic lawmakers lost to candidates even further to the left. Even if Democrats don’t gain a single legislative seat this fall, the legislature itself is going to become more progressive.

Given the anti-president environment that usually accompanies a midterm election, and the hefty anti-Trump hate in Colorado, don’t be surprised if Democrats expand their legislative seats to a veto-proof majority.

We’ll likely have a progressive academic as governor paired with the most left-leaning legislature in Colorado history.

And you’ll find yourself casually browsing real estate listings in Texas.

Much more at the link, none of it good.

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green