July 14, 2026

COOL. NOW DO MOSQUITOS. AND MAYBE FRUIT FLIES:

Posted at 6:24 pm by Stephen Green

CNBC: Here Are The Ten Worst States to Live In or Start a Business In. They’re All, Get This, the Red States Experiencing The Highest In-Migration.

You will not be surprised to learn that one of CNBC’s main criteria for deeming a state the “worst” to live in is whether they… allow transexuals in opposite-sex bathrooms.

Bennett’s Phylactery @extradeadjcb

Reasons states wind up on this list (not exaggerating)

  1. Not enough abortions
    2. Not gay enough
    3. “food insecurity”
    4. Not enough HR rules
    5. Not enough gun laws
    6. Not enough therapists
    7. Not enough working moms
    8. Not enough affirmative action

Colin Wright @SwipeWright

Here are the reasons CNBC ranked Tennessee as “America’s Worst Place to Live in 2026.”

  1. Laws require people to use facilities matching their sex.
    2. Localities can’t create laws circumventing 1.
    3. The Governor designated June “Nuclear Family Month.”
    4. TN isn’t “inclusive,” meaning the state knows that men who claim to be women aren’t women and should not be treated as such.

Do these sound like negatives to you?

I moved from California to Tennessee in 2022 and it was probably the best decision I’ve ever made. I love it here.

In his 2013 biography of Roger Ailes, the man who built Fox News, Zev Chafets wrote of his earlier stint at CNBC:

CNN had gone on the air in 1980 to considerable derision: Ted Turner, its founder, was called crazy for imagining that a station based in Atlanta could make money providing around-the-clock news from all over the world to an initially small cable audience.

But Turner was right. Over time the cable audience grew and so did CNN’s reach and reputation. During the 1991 Gulf War, it was the only American station with journalists in Baghdad, and its war coverage became the talk of the media world. Cable appeared to be the wave of the future, and the big networks wanted a piece of the action. NBC was especially keen to explore the new terrain. It already had a struggling business channel, CNBC, which it hoped to expand. NBC president Bob Wright saw that as just the beginning, and he reached out to Roger Ailes to run the channel. Jack Welch, the outspoken, politically conservative head of NBC’s parent company, General Electric, blessed the decision. Both he and Wright had reason to be pleased by the results. When Ailes took over, CNBC’s asset value was $400 million. When he left, two years later, it had more than doubled.

* * * * * * * *

Ailes insisted on not insulting the audience. He informed his staff that he didn’t want an antibusiness climate on a business network, or a lot of financial jargon. “Roger is a guy from the middle of Ohio, and he knows how people think,” says Cavuto. Reporters who acted superior to the corporate leaders they interviewed or conveyed the message that capitalism was selfish and crass didn’t find the Ailes’s regime congenial.

As Conquest’s Second Law of Politics states, “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.”

To be fair, this isn’t exactly a new development at the cable network: CNBC’S John Harwood Advises Hillary Campaign, Gloats About Provoking Trump At Debate.

Posted at 6:18 pm by Ed Driscoll

I’D TAKE IT OFF THEIR HANDS FOR HALF THAT MUCH:

Posted at 5:22 pm by Stephen Green

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Ann Widdecombe ‘murder’ suspect had communist literature at home.

The brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe was last night being treated as a suspected politically motivated terrorist attack.

In a dramatic escalation, counter terrorism officers yesterday took over the investigation into the killing of the former Tory minister. It came after the discovery of Russian communist literature and other items of political ideology at the home of the suspected killer.

And it marked a U-turn after the local force, Devon and Cornwall Police, spent days insisting that there was no link to terrorism. Officers, it is understood, are probing whether the 78-year-old may have been bludgeoned to death in a premeditated attack on Reform UK.

Reform Slams Police Over Botched Probe

They are looking at whether a self-radicalised loner may have considered the pensioner an ‘easy target’ in comparison to more prominent party figures, such as Nigel Farage, who have security.

Last night, Reform accused Devon and Cornwall police of misleading the public in the initial stages of the investigation.

Senior officers were under pressure to explain why they so publicly ruled out terror or a political motivation.

Related: It’s time to talk about left-wing violence. “It used to be hot-headed Islamists who issued fatwas to anyone who blasphemed against their dodgy religious principles. They are still a threat, of course. But now they’ve been joined by radical left-wing activists who spew out death threats to Nigel Farage and JK Rowling, while urging everyone to ‘Be Kind’. Sadly, these are not all empty promises. Last year, Bash Back really did attack Streeting’s office. They sprayed red paint on the building and wrote ‘child killer’ on the windows. And they also disrupted a feminist conference in Brighton by smashing windows and spraying paint.”

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

I SOMEHOW MISSED THIS FROM FRIDAY’S ROCKET REPORT: Impulse Space enters military launch competition.

This week, the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company, cracking into the lucrative US military launch market is both a sign of maturity, as well as an important source of revenue. The inclusion of Relativity Space, which is making credible progress toward the launch of its heavy-lift Terran R rocket, is perhaps not a huge surprise, Ars reports. But the other company, a provider of in-space propulsion, was.

The Space Force gets creative … Impulse Space is developing a “kick stage” it calls Helios, which can provide up to 9 km/s of delta-V to a payload, rapidly boosting it from low-Earth orbit to geostationary orbit about 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface. Essentially, this allows the company to transform a medium-lift rocket, such as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 vehicle, and give it the performance of a larger and more powerful rocket.

Nifty.

Posted at 4:51 pm by Stephen Green

QUESTION ASKED AND NOT ANSWERED:

Posted at 4:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

FAIL, BRITANNIA:

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

WHAT’S A FEW MISSING ZEROS AMONG FRIENDS?

In the summer of 2020, NPR gave an approving interview to the author of the book In Defense of Looting. Minnesota’s Somali Pirates are performing larceny on an industrial scale, which they presumably also admire.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

QUEERS FOR PALESTINE OR WHATEVER:

Posted at 4:04 pm by Stephen Green

UGH: George Floyd in medical journals: Analysis documents rise of ‘woke terminology’ in research.

The analysis covers the use of words such as indigenous knowledge, microaggression, justice, safe space, and health equity in medical journals.

Published recently by James Nuzzo, an exercise scientist and men’s health researcher, it documents “woke medical terminology” found on the PubMed database.

For example, the phrase “lived experience” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 10,631 articles indexed in PubMed, and “transgender” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 15,741 articles.

George Floyd’s death “markedly increased discussions on race in academia, including in health and medical journals,” it states. “In fact, George Floyd’s name appeared in the titles or abstracts of 269 articles indexed in PubMed between 2020 and 2025.”

Nuzzo said the trend is alarming.

“There is no evidence that implementing woke medicine improves health outcomes,” Nuzzo told The College Fix in an email interview. “In fact, the shift away from the individual patient to the patient’s group identity is presumably harmful to the patient.”

You don’t say.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

I HAVE NO CORK TO POP FOR THESE THINGS: Don’t pop the cork yet on Colorado’s renewables ‘milestone.’

The trouble is that this jubilant announcement of a “majority” renewables power grid owes more to a stark drop in coal-fired generation than the wind and solar that was added. Percentages rely on both the numerator — how much wind, solar, and hydropower was generated — as well as the denominator, or how much total generation there was.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Electric Power Monthly net generation by state data, released June 25, demonstrates this. Renewables’ utility-scale generation rose 15.8 percent year-over-year between the first quarters of 2025 (5,934 Gigawatt hours, or GWh) and 2026 (6,872 GWh). However, coal generation dropped by 62% between over that same period, from 4,342 to 1,643 GWh.

Overall, Colorado’s total in-state generation actually dropped by 922 GWh in Q1 2026 compared with Q1 2025.

The state produces less energy, and more of what we do produce is higher-cost — which explains my electric rates.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

NICE WORK, INEZ:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green