May 12, 2026

#JOURNALISM IN THE TRADITION OF WALTER DURANTY:

Posted at 8:45 am by Glenn Reynolds

GREAT MOMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTALISM: Lambo Fury as Green councilor proudly posts footage of himself driving gas guzzling Lamborghini days after his election — despite his party’s ‘war on motorists.’

A Green councillor has proudly posted footage of himself driving a Lamborghini just days after he was elected – despite his party’s ‘war on motorists’.

Mohammad Baghdadi Khan uploaded the video of him at the wheel of the gas-guzzling supercar alongside footage of him winning his seat last week in the Halliwell ward of Bolton, Greater Manchester.

The film featuring the Lamborghini Huracán Spyder – which cost up to £270,000 – appears to have been taken during a wedding in 2023 when a fleet of supercars ferried guests to the venue.

He also posted footage of himself driving what seems to be his regular car – a Mercedes with personalised number plates – which he used while campaigning.

He boasted if elected he would be ‘standing up for the people, the community, fighting for what’s right’.

In his campaign pledges, also posted online, Mr Khan – known as Baggy Khan – promised to work for ‘greener spaces’ and supported taxes for ‘billionaires not workers’.

His decision to flaunt his cars was branded an ‘absolute joke’ and ‘hypocrisy’ by many, given his party’s motoring policies.

I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.

Related: The Greens: the new nasty party.

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

MONEY: However you feel about their creator, TrumpIRAs are sorely needed.

As a progressive economist, I wrote a paper in 2021 with a generally conservative colleague, Kevin Hassett, who now directs the National Economic Council in the Trump White House. We agreed then on the basic arithmetic of the American retirement crisis. We still do. That’s why people like him and people like me can all say: Trump’s executive order establishing TrumpIRAs, signed last month, is simply the right move for American workers.
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Trump’s executive order targets the most fundamental failure in this system: access. Roughly 56 million American workers have no employer-sponsored retirement plan — no account to contribute to, no match on offer from their employers, no on-ramp to the capital markets that have built wealth for everyone else.

The order establishes a federal retirement account — TrumpIRA.gov — paired with a refundable $1,000 annual government match and automatic enrollment. That last part matters enormously. The research Hassett and I conducted found that automatic enrollment paired with a government match substantially increases participation among low- and moderate-income workers. When saving is the default and the government matches your first dollar, people save. A worker earning $40,000 who contributes $1,000 annually and receives a $1,000 match, over 40 years at a 6% real return, retires with more than $310,000 in today’s dollars. Most of that is compound growth. Getting workers into the market early is the entire intervention.

It’s a good plan — and it’s always nice to see a progressive who doesn’t suffer from TDS. A near-miracle, really.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

THIS REMOVES THE WHOLE POINT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE: No Drinks At Sea? The New Crackdown On Cruise Ships. “Vacationers were not thrilled to hear the news.”

Ya think? It seems to me like the Bahamas are going out of their way to be less hospitable lately.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST STANDARDS BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY:

That should clear things up for you.

Posted at 8:28 am by Stephen Green

JOHN LUCAS: Enough Already!

Personally, I think jerking the Iranians around with negotiations that never go anywhere is fair turnabout.

Posted at 8:25 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

IT’S CALVINBALL ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Posted at 7:48 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE: Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice leaves Democratic Party over antisemitism concerns.

Justice David Wecht, who was elected to the court as a Democrat in 2015, said in a statement he is switching his party affiliation to independent due to an “acquiescence to Jew-hatred” becoming “disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.”

“I can no longer abide this. So, I won’t,” Wecht said. “I am no longer registered within any political party.”

In his statement, Wecht said he’s long felt antisemitism was most potent on the fringes of the right — especially after the 2018 shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where Wecht was married and is a former board member. But he said that since 2018, “that same hatred has grown on the left.”

Like kudzu, it’s taken over the left.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

Still no official word from SpaceX, but NextSpaceFlight has Friday afternoon penciled in.

Posted at 7:17 am by Stephen Green

MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH: Jones “failed to change templates..because this one is still going to the Supreme Court of Virginia. The incompetence is mind blowing:” 

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

TEMPERAMENT.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

FROM PAM UPHOFF:  Mercenaries.

#CommissionEarned

A hundred and seventy years before the Fall of the Alliance . . .

Anatoli Vyatkin and Wolf Offen have graduated from college into a major economic slump, and no job offers at all.

So why not check out some property Wolf inherited? Previously rented to a mercenary company, a desperate mayor from a world under threat mistakes them for real mercenaries . . . well, why not give it a try?

Posted at 7:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

THEY DON’T DO GRADUATION ADDRESSES LIKE THIS NOW: Every Tuesday on HillFaith there appears a featured post entitled “FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS” that provides readers with a quote illustrating the deep influence on that remarkable generation.

Today’s installment is a passage from the address by then-Columbia University President William Samuel Johnson to the first graduating class after the American Revolution’s successful conclusion. Johnson was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and was subsequently elected to the Senate. His father had previously served as Columbia’s first president.

The contrast between his deeply faith-informed address and the typical Critical Race Theory-based orations heard on today’s campuses points to the vast distance our nation has travelled in the wrong direction.

Posted at 6:23 am by Mark Tapscott