January 30, 2026

THE WORST OF DON LEMON (Post-Arrest Edition):

On Friday, it was reported that Don Lemon was arrested for his part in the invasion of a St. Paul, MN church. The notoriously leftist Lemon (he’s a multiple winner of MRC’s Worst Quote of the Year) was so biased that he actually got fired from CNN.

For a look at the worst of Lemon’s time at CNN see here.

Since Lemon was canned from his CNN show, he has continued his horrible ways as podcaster.

The following are just some of the worst outbursts from his post-CNN career:

And from Jim Treacher: Don Lemon Arrested for Breaking the Law.

The only people whose First Amendment rights have been infringed here are the congregants at the church Don Lemon invaded. He was part of the planning, he trespassed and refused to leave, and he called those churchgoers “white supremacists.” To make matters worse, he’s even profiting from his crimes. And we know everything he did because he was stupid enough to record it the whole time.

Don Lemon’s desperation for relevance is not a pass to break the law. A microphone is not a shield against the consequences of his actions.

If you disagree, why don’t you give us your home address so we can do the same to you?

No? Well, why do you hate journalism?

If only Mohamed Atta had brought his smart phone:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

WELL, GOOD: Canadians Tell Their Authoritarian Government Where They Can Put Their Gun Confiscation Scheme.

Canadian media is reporting that half of all the provinces, plus the Northwest Territory and Yukon governments are telling Ottawa the country’s massive gun “buyback” scheme is a non-starter, and they will not participate.

“This is a remarkable—and welcome—wake-up call to Canada’s liberal national government, and it is long overdue,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, one of the largest U.S. gun rights organizations. “Gun control in Canada has crossed the line when it pushes a massive ‘buyback,’ which is really nothing more than compensated confiscation. What the governments in those provinces, and the territories are saying on behalf of the citizens is that this massive gun control scheme is a non-starter.”

According to published reports, the Newfoundland and Labrador government is the latest to reject the gun “buyback” proposal, for which Canada’s federal government has reportedly allocated $250 million to compensate gun owners for the firearms they would be required to surrender because they were banned by the stroke of a pen.

Canadians might need a lot more guns before Mark Carney and the Liberals are done with them.

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

Posted at 12:32 pm by Stephen Green

TRUE:

Posted at 12:17 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ED MORRISSEY: Don Lemon Arrested On Federal Charges.

Lemon has hired Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell to represent him…Lowell is a very accomplished attorney, and if I were in this kind of trouble, I’d be lucky to have him (and very, very broke in the end). However, this defense is a loser for several reasons, the first of which is that Lemon wasn’t the only party to this incident that had First Amendment rights at stake. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of religious expression, the core of which is the right to worship in one’s own church in peace. Even people claiming to be journalists can’t interrupt worship services and demand impromptu “interviews” with the minister or celebrant, especially inside the church on private property. Lemon filmed himself preparing with the instigators outside before invading the church, and his “interview” consisted of demanding answers to the instigators’ claims and demands.

Next up, the criminal statutes involved do not have “journalist” exceptions. Neither the FACE Act nor the Ku Klux Klan act allow for disruption of church services for the purpose of “journalism.” Nate the Lawyer covered both of these statutes in the video below shortly after the crime occurred, mainly focusing on the Klan Act. Nate’s conclusion is that Lowell has his work cut out for him.

But he was just speaking truth to power…:

Related: I had no idea the iPhone contained a virtual “Get Out of Jail Free” card within it:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

TO BE FAIR, FAVREAU ISN’T JUST A HACK, HE’S A HAM-FISTED HACK WHO HELPED CREATE THE CURRENT MESS:

More:

We warned the Left for 15 years that they wouldn’t like it when the Right started playing by their new rules, but they didn’t listen.

Posted at 11:59 am by Stephen Green

WHERE’S THE OFF SWITCH? AI’s HAL 9000 Problem, and What It Portends For the Future.

We are repeatedly told that large language models (LLM) will soon “plateau.” Likewise, we were repeatedly warned that “Moore’s Law,” the observation that microchip transistors double approximately every two years, was dying. But both claims miss the point.

Even as raw transistor scaling has dramatically slowed, real computing power has accelerated through architectural specialization, algorithmic efficiency, massive parallelization, and domain-specific hardware. AI supercomputer performance is currently doubling every 9 months, fueled both by increasing the number of AI chips and improving chip efficiency. A new chip from NVIDIA apparently will compress that, at least temporarily, to six or seven months.

Likewise, we will find a way around the LLM plateau. When one scaling regime saturates, engineers invent another. And even at a 9-month doubling, in 10 years the computers will crunch 10,000 times faster and a million times faster in just 15 years. Yet, it was beating us at GO a decade ago.

The implication is simple: AI won’t level off; it will change gears.

And once it changes enough gears, it stops being a tool and becomes a system, widely referred to as “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI.

That matters, because systems do not “obey.” They optimize.

I’m still dubious about AGI, but smarter people like Michael Fumento here insist it’s just a matter of time.

So here’s to hoping we don’t get “optimized.”

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green

EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, BUT THEN THE FO COMES ALONG:

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

WELL, GOOD: Meta Restricts ICE Agent Doxing Site Across Facebook, Instagram. “Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told the outlet the decision was tied to the company’s policy prohibiting the sharing of personally identifiable information or content that asks users to provide such information about others.”

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green