June 28, 2026

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Posted at 7:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHEN REALITY BITES … NEWSOM: He mocked Justice Alito’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s Hawaii decision on individuals carrying firearms in public. The Chief Executive of the state with the highest poverty rate and the most tax-paying citizens fleeing to Texas, Florida, Arizona, etc. etc. ought to know better.

Posted at 4:49 pm by Mark Tapscott

JOHN NOLTE: Citizen Vigilante Review: Cathartic Rebuttal to the Amoral One Battle After Another.

The left has their pro-terrorist One Battle After Another, an overlong, mediocre, $100 million studio movie told by a major director (Paul Thomas Anderson) using one of the world’s biggest movie stars (Leonardo DiCaprio). The result? It flopped at the box office and was still predictably showered with unearned critical praise and major Oscar wins.

Basically, One Battle After Another is angry that America enforces the law by deporting illegal immigrants and demands violence against the government to make it stop.

Today we have a rebuttal, and a pretty effective one… Best of all, it’s deliciously subversive.

Citizen Vigilante is a briskly-paced (at 89 minutes) low-budget exploitation movie told by a director who was long ago written off as a joke (Uwe Boll), using an unjustly disgraced star (Armie Hammer). The result? Despite the best efforts of left-wing censors, a brilliant guerrilla campaign has already driven it into the national conversation. Elon Musk then did what he does best: overturned the whole enchilada by releasing it to everyone for free on X.

Basically, Citizen Vigilante is angry that European governments agree with One Battle After Another in that they refuse to enforce the law against the millions of unvetted migrants they imported who have brought their appalling and dangerous Third World values with them.

Let me tell you: Boll isn’t screwing around. His righteous fury against what the government has done to Europe, and especially its women and girls, flames across every scene. That’s one reason the movie works. Another reason it works is that Boll is telling the truth. The primary reason it works is that Boll is the only one telling the truth.

For all its flaws, Citizen Vigilante does what all good movies do: it delivers. Watching a movie where the truth about migrant crime and the government’s obscene acceptance of it is not only spoken out loud but openly dealt with is something beyond cathartic.

Boll’s movie is currently number one in purchases at Amazon Prime Video:

Earlier: Rod Dreher on The Fascist Film That Plays As Prophecy.

Posted at 4:47 pm by Ed Driscoll

RIDE THE ENVIRO-AUTOMOTIVE MOBIUS LOOP!

I’m so old, I can remember when Michael Bloomberg, then mayor of New York City (the past really is a foreign country, kids) reversed the equation: Stupid Mayor Tricks: Bloomberg Pimps His SUV With Window A.C. Unit. “In April 2009, Mayor Bloomberg signed a bill giving NYC the toughest laws against vehicular idling, with stiff fines for repeat offenders. Three months later, AP reporters caught the mayor repeatedly flouting the law, with his chauffeur and security detail sometimes leaving their engines running for an hour while waiting for the mayor. Bloomberg had to apologize, but ever since he’s presumably had a team of engineers working around the clock to come up with a solution to keep his SUV cool when he’s not in it. Well, they finally had a major breakthrough, and yesterday they did some beta-testing!”

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

I TOLD YOU SO, YOU F***KING FOOLS: ‘In the End I Was Right:’ How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism.

Fortunately for America and for those under the jackboot of Soviet Communism, there were some who saw past the propaganda to the cruel truth. Among them was [Richard] Pipes, a historian of Russia who also served the U.S. government during the Ford and Reagan administrations.

After Pipes first visited the Soviet Union, in 1957, he wrote a colleague: “All the buildings on the streets were in a state of disrepair, the gateways crumbling, the façades patched up, the courtyards invisible for the mud which covered them. … Everything made the impression of being decayed or dead, even the people walking on the streets, somberly and paying no attention to each other. … I found it difficult to suppress the tears as I viewed about me the effects of 40 years of Soviet rule which had exacted such suffering from the population.”

Pipes later recalled it: “in Leningrad everyone looked gloomy and did not look at each other but seemed deep in their own thoughts. Because one could be executed under Stalin merely for an association with someone deemed guilty of counterrevolution, the only reasonable defense was to have nothing to do with other people.”

Daly quotes Pipes in 1996 summing up his own contribution: “Whereas the profession as a whole regarded the Soviet Union as an essentially popular and stable regime, I saw it as an unpopular and weak regime, which we ought to press very hard. That was very much a minority view, but I think that in the end I was right. Sound, stable popular regimes don’t collapse suddenly, as the Soviet Union did.”

The preference cascaded rather spectacularly back then, much to the chagrin of the DNC-MSM.

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

OLD AND BUSTED: Republicans Pounce!

The New Hotness? Republicans Flounce!

Posted at 1:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

ENDER’S GAME, WITH UKRAINIAN SUBTITLES:

Posted at 1:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

LET NEW YORK SUFFER:

Whatever the case, passive or active, the people of New York voted for all of this or tolerated its support. The sane people are gone, having fled the march of communism for greener pastures.

So, with that in mind, and the fact that people have not only received ample warning of the destructive nature of radical leftist policies, let the city have what it so desperately wants: let New York suffer.

California is going broke – the coming crush of pensions and the “compassion” in the form of welfare and health care benefits for illegal aliens are going to overwhelm the system and be a foot to the groin of their economy. Good. The same goes for New York.

I have zero interest in helping anyone who hits themselves in the head with a frying pan while complaining about a headache. Once I tell you that, you might want to stop hitting yourself in the head, and you don’t, I’ve lost all interest in your pain or the damage it’s doing.

New York City can die. There was a time when the fate of the economy of New York was the fate of the US economy. Not anymore.

The financial and stock economies are so decentralized now, with many brokers working remotely in places like Florida, that “Wall Street” is now more of an address than anything tangible. Let New York get a giant dose of what they voted for.

As Ed Koch was quoted as saying when he lost his primary against David Dinkins, “The people have spoken, and now they must be punished.” (And boy, were they.)

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

BUTTIGIEG SEPARATED FROM CHILDREN AFTER BEING TARGETED BY FALSE CPS REPORT: “Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he was briefly separated from his 4-year-old twins after an anonymous caller filed a false report with Child Protective Services concerning his family. Buttigieg wrote about the swatting-like incident in a lengthy Substack post on Friday, detailing his encounter with Michigan State Police.”

Related:

UPDATE: Questions asked:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

DATA REPUBLICAN: The grants behind David French’s convenient theology.

In March 2026, David French wrote in the New York Times that James Talarico is “one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian.” I challenged him on this, and he blocked me for it.

Talarico has cited the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas as scripture in a sermon. He told Ezra Klein that all religions “point to the same truth.” He said on the Texas House floor that “God is nonbinary.” He preached that Matthew 25 tells us “exactly how you and I are going to be saved. By feeding the hungry, by healing the sick. Nothing about going to church.”

Every one of these is a doctrinal claim. Every one contradicts historic Christian orthodoxy.

French addressed none of them. When Allie Beth Stuckey pressed him on April 17, 2026 — “these aren’t policy positions, David, these are theological claims” — French said: “I’m just not willing to say James Talarico is not a Christian… I’m just not writing these people out of Christianity.”

Fair enough.

But here is French in August 2024, endorsing Kamala Harris in the New York Times: “There are many churches and Christian leaders who are now more culturally Trumpian than culturally Christian.”

That’s a claim about what Christianity is — and it excludes.

David French won’t question one man’s Christianity when that man cites Gnostic fan fiction as scripture. But David French will question the Christianity of entire denominations when they vote wrong.

Related: Where Are the Bill Kristols and Michael Steeles on the Democrat Side Today?

When the Bushie Republicans were turned out of power in the GOP by the MAGA crowd, many of them updated their belief systems to meet the new reality, and several profited from the change. Others delighted in their obsolescence, mostly because they found paymasters willing to make it worth their while. And that’s how we got the Bill Kristols, David Frenches, Michael Steeles, and the Lincoln Projects of the world, who for the last 10 years have bitched and complained and performatively declared alliances with the Left.

What now of the Clinton Democrats? Why are we not seeing a similar turning of the coats?

What say you, James Carville? For years, you’ve screeched at the Hard Left and complained that they would destroy your party. Well, now that you’ve been proven correct, now that you had the power to stop it, are you going to knuckle under to the DSA? Are you going to champion a third party to replace the loons of the Hard Left? Will you say, as some of the NeverTrumpers said, that your home must be with the GOP until the contagion on the Left burns itself out?

We won’t hold our breath.

For about 60 years now, you could make a very good living in the Northeast Corridor as a columnist who appears on the Sunday talking head shows as a would be Republican who somehow could just never seem to find actual GOP politicians suitable enough to vote for. With the exception of one or two cable TV news channels, the reverse has never been true.

As for rank and file Dems:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll