April 27, 2026

THEIR “PRINCIPLES” ARE LARGELY BASED ON AN UNINTERRUPTED FLOW OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Houston, Dallas And Austin Cave On ICE. “When last we checked, Democrat-controlled Houston was ready to cave on their anti-ICE police guidelines under the pressure of having the state withhold $110 million for their scofflaw ways. Now we have the follow-up: Houston, Dallas and Austin all caved.”

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Melania’s Right, But Firing Jimmy Kimmel Would Be Wrong.

The First Amendment allows for Kimmel’s brand of misinformation and hate. It’s up to audiences to either tune away or hang on every bit of his propaganda.

Firing Kimmel now is akin to wiping conspiracy monger Alex Jones off of social media a few years back. It might have felt good and righteous, but what happened next? Well, we all saw that scenario.

At this point, if ABC actually did the moral thing and fired Kimmel it would look like the Trumps made it happen. Instead of the truth – a late-night show host has lost his way, spreads rage on a nightly basis and has forgotten what his job description entails.

Still, what the First Lady said needed to be shared. It matters. Now, it’s up to the rest of us to reject Kimmel or allow more of his unhinged commentary.

That’s the American way, for better and worse.

Kimmel only gets about “2.17 million viewers,” according to TV Insider in March, so it seems as if the vast majority of Americans have rejected that “unhinged commentary” already.

Posted at 12:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:

Posted at 12:26 pm by Stephen Green

EUROPE IN THE TWILIGHT:

Tweet continues:

Today I do not see this anymore.

The men have become weak and subservient to women

The women have become masculine and lost all femininity

It is not pretty anymore

LGBTQ? Mass Immigration? Islam? Great!!

This all started because men tried to be nice and listened to women. But it destroyed Europe.

If the West, Europe or Germany wants to become great again, we need to not let women rule society.

Flashback: The Merkel Catastrophe:

Angela Merkel on Monday downed what she no doubt viewed as a poisoned chalice. To keep her power and her grand coalition, the German chancellor agreed finally to stanch the flow of migrants by setting up camps at the border and turning away those who had already applied for asylum in other European countries. The concession comes three years after Merkel flung open the gates to more than a million newcomers from the Middle East and Africa. For much of that time, she refused to put a cap on the number Germany would accept.

Whatever the immediate political outcome—Merkel’s position remains tenuous amid a mighty anti-immigration backlash on the center and far right—she has already cemented her legacy. And it is a baleful one. Inspired by what can only be described as a kind of liberal fundamentalism, Merkel’s response to the migrant crisis destabilized Europe and discredited the Western project in the eyes of global multitudes. Behind Donald Trump and Brexit and other populist uprisings of our time lies the figure of “Mama Merkel,” as Syrian refugees to Germany lovingly nicknamed their patroness.

As Jim Geraghty tweeted in 2015:

Related: We’ve “defined deviancy down.” What happens when the real thing shows up en masse? 

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE SECWAR WE NEED:

Posted at 11:55 am by Stephen Green

I CAN SEND A MESSAGE TO NEWSOM IN JUST TWO WORDS: Gas station owner speaks for every Californian with four-word message to Gavin Newsom — as another hike looms.

“Adding insult to injury,” Dave Bohorquez, a local gas station owner told ABC 10. “We are just holding on, hoping to ride through it.”

The comment points to a looming July 1 hike in California’s gas tax — an annual increase tied to inflation — set to hit drivers already paying among the highest prices in the country.

Across California, gas prices hovered around $5.93 a gallon Sunday morning — well above the national average of $4.09 — even after a temporary easing of global oil tensions tied to Iran.

Gooder and harder, California.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

I’D LOVE TO SAY HE’S JUST BEING PARANOID, BUT…:

Posted at 11:24 am by Stephen Green

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: No Conspiracy Required. “They just amp up the rhetorical pressure, 24/7/365, until somebody pops.”

Posted at 11:09 am by Stephen Green

REMEMBER, WHEN DEMS SAY “MY DEMOCRACY,” THEY REALLY MEAN “OUR MOB VIOLENCE”:

Posted at 10:53 am by Stephen Green

OUT WHERE THE BUSSES DON’T RUN:

Former Fox News anchor and current Fox News contributor Brit Hume concisely nails the condition of the Democratic Party in comments compiled by Michael Rothman on X: “The Democratic Party has drifted farther to the left than I’ve ever seen. They are out where the buses don’t run.”

“Conservatives tend to be proud to be Americans, no matter who is in office. But liberals in this country have gone sour on America. They’ve given up on America. They’re rooting against America.”

“Out Where the Busses Don’t Run” was the title of one of Miami Vice’s best second season episodes. Network TV has gone far downhill in the decades since: Kimmel Mocks Melania’s ‘Glow Like an Expectant Widow’ in Fake WHCD Roast – Just Days Before Real Shooting.

UPDATE: Melania Trump breaks silence on ‘coward’ Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘hateful and violent’ skit and calls on ABC to fire him. “‘People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,’ she continued. ‘A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community,’ Melania concluded.”

Posted at 10:45 am by Ed Driscoll

WHAT A GUY: Trump dodges another gunman, unbowed but grounded: ‘Not going to deter me.’

First he wanted to return to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner before it was canceled, hoping to send a signal to a nation gripped by political vitriol and shaken by recent assassinations — from Charlie Kirk to Minnesota legislators – that “sick people” cannot “change the fabric” of the United States.

Then he quickly posted on social media a photo of the gunman – a 31-year-old from California armed with a shotgun, a handgun and knives. The image showed him handcuffed and stripped to his waist after his attack was foiled. There was no accident in the message: a failed shooter laid prostate, face-down and now harmless on the ground.

“This thug that attacked our Constitution, they seem to think he was a lone wolf, and I feel that too” Trump said. “My impression is he was a lone wolf, whack job. … These are crazy people, and they have to be dealt with.”

Three whack jobs in less than two years gives the impression that whack jobs are mainstream.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Posted at 10:22 am by Stephen Green

AND DEMS ARE ALL-IN:

Posted at 9:51 am by Stephen Green

HE IS THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN-DAY DEM:

Posted at 9:20 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Leftist Lunatics and Gun—Free Zones Are a Dangerous Combo. “No one on the left is going to stop with the smears and the violence-inducing rhetoric about President Trump. The Secret Service does a great job but I still have my suspicions about some of the Swamp people and whether they have the president’s safety prioritized highly enough, especially higher up the food chain.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

NOT A BAD IDEA: Secret Service ‘needs to reconsider’ Trump-Vance joint appearances after WHCA gala shooting.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that the Secret Service should “reconsider” whether President Trump and Vice President Vance attend the same events in the wake of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner.

“The takeaway I got was that the line of succession,” McCaul, who attended the Washington event, told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“You had the president and the vice president at the head table, both of them together, and [House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La)]. Had an explosive device gone off, you would have knocked out the president, vice president, Speaker. The three in line of succession,” the Texas Republican noted.

When Bash asked McCaul whether he was saying that those three should not be in public together, he replied, “I think the Secret Service needs to reconsider having both the president and vice president together.”

Related:

An even better idea would be if the Secret Service tightened the damn perimeter.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

THIS:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green