April 20, 2026

PRIORITIES: Harvard investigates Republican club for filming Muslim event on campus.

On April 4, the Harvard Republican Club posted a short video and one photo on its X account of an Eid al-Fitr event hosted by the school’s Islamic Society.

“Today, students were interrupted from their midterm studies for several hours by loud music and prayers outside their windows,” the group wrote on X.

“Harvard’s historic Quincy Courtyard had been turned into a bazaar selling Hijabs, Burqas and Qurans for an Eid Mubarak celebration hosted by Harvard’s Islamic Society,” the club wrote.

The group also said the university had been “captured.”

Someone filed a complaint against the club for filming and taking photographs at the even that occurred out in the open, which has prompted a school investigation.

But no investigation of the disruptions, got it.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

SPARE THE ROD…:

Posted at 3:01 pm by Stephen Green

KILL ‘EM ALL, LET PALPATINE SORT IT OUT:

On Friday, I finally saw Project Hail Mary. Its efforts at detailed SF worldbuilding and distinct lack of a “Mary Sue” character stand in stark contrast to the Kathleen Kennedy-era Star Wars movies. Speaking of which, I wonder how Solo: A Star Wars Story would have turned out if Kennedy hadn’t fired its co-directors — who went on to make Project Hail Mary. 

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

YOU GET LESS OF WHAT YOU PENALIZE:

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green

GONNA CRY! Elise Stefanik Turns Jake Tapper Into a Simpering Mess Over Trump/Iran and It’s GLORIOUS (Vid).

Rep. Elise Stefanik took Jake Tapper to the cleaners… just one look at his pouty, cranky, smug little face while she was going off about his claims that Trump had called for genocide against Iran, and you know she had him where she wanted him.

And where he did not want to be.

Watch this:

As Stefanik tells Jake, “President Trump effectively brought the Iranians to the table. He effectively delivered a ceasefire.”

Would that be a bad thing from CNN’s leftist point of view? CNN’s Man in Iran Tacitly Admits He Had a ‘Minder’ Who Informed Regime.

To answer that question, it’s worth noting:

 

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

THIS IS THE OBAMA YEARS FINALLY SNOWBALLING:

But as Salena Zito noted in the replies, “He votes with his party for the majority of the time.” If Fetterman wants to actually do something about his party’s radicalization, maybe he could try costing them hard votes. Until then, it’s hard to take his protests very seriously.

And this, now more than ever:

Posted at 1:59 pm by Stephen Green

FALLOUT: Ruben Gallego’s Political Career May Be Toast.

For Democrats, Gallego wasn’t just a senator from Arizona; he was the future of the party.

That was before Eric Swalwell.

Last week, Swalwell resigned his House seat and withdrew from the California gubernatorial race following a wave of sexual assault allegations, and Gallego has been caught in the fallout. They were close friends, and he chaired Swalwell’s 2020 presidential campaign and publicly backed his gubernatorial run. When the Swalwell allegations broke, the questions about Gallego’s proximity followed almost immediately. What did he know? When did he know it? His answers have satisfied almost no one.

He held a press conference on Tuesday, attempting to distance himself from Swalwell. “I fell for it,” he told reporters, saying Swalwell “lied to all of us.”

Unfortunately, it didn’t go so well for him.

Democratic strategist Anthony Coley, a Capitol Hill veteran who once worked for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, didn’t even try to sugarcoat it.

“If Gallego’s press conference was meant to reassure potential voters, donors and activists, it failed,” he said. “Folded arms and incomplete answers don’t shut down a story, they extend it. The party faithful will want real clarity on his relationship with Swalwell before he gets serious consideration for higher office in 2028.”

Swalwell is toxic, and was from the start.

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green

NEWS YOU CAN USE? Skunk Works Is Looking for a U-2 Pilot.

When I was a kid, I never thought so many of the Air Force planes of my youth — the C-130, the U-2, the Warthog, and of course the B-52, would still be flying well into the 21st century.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

PULL IT ALREADY:

Posted at 1:28 pm by Stephen Green

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Michigan Dems Nominate Lawyer Who Praised Hezbollah, Called Israelis ‘Demons’ for Powerful University Post.

Michigan Democrats nominated Amir Makled, a radical Dearborn-based lawyer, for the University of Michigan Board of Regents over incumbent Jordan Acker, a Jewish board member who has faced intense backlash for his support of Israel.

Makled secured the nomination for one of the board’s two open seats at the Democrat’s convention on Sunday and will appear on the general election ballot in November. The eight-person board governs the University of Michigan, the state’s largest university and flagship public school.

Throughout his campaign, Makled argued that the university should divest from Israel. In recent years the left-wing lawyer has taken to praising the U.S.-designated terror group Hezbollah and attacking Israel in antisemitic terms on social media. In one since-deleted tweet, surfaced by the Detroit News, Makled described Hezbollah official Abu Ali Khalil, who was killed in a June 2025 Israeli airstrike, as “a martyr on the road to Jerusalem.” In another post, Makled referred to Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as a “martyr.”

Makled also reposted and then deleted a message on X praising Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June 2020. Makled used the honorific “Haj” ahead of Soleimani’s name, a title of respect given to a Muslim person who successfully completes the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca. As commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Soleimani directed terror operations that claimed thousands of lives across the Middle East and around the world.

Makled also reposted social media posts from far-right influencer Candace Owens, including one post in which Owens referred to Israelis as “demons.”

The 21st century isn’t turning out as I had hoped, to coin an Insta-phrase:

 

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

VOTING WITH THEIR DOLLARS:

Posted at 12:57 pm by Stephen Green