August 25, 2026

IT’S NOT TOO FEW RESOURCES. IT’S TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT:  America has no shortage of copper, what America has is federal and state governments who’ve thrown up so many regulatory and permitting barriers to exploiting our proven domestic resources that, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, the time between beginning the process of opening a new mine and actually opening the mine is as much as 29 years or more… the longest permitting process of any nation on earth other than Zambia

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Posted at 2:01 am by Sarah Hoyt

WE SHOULD BE TEARING THE WALLS DOWN INSTEAD:  Building Walls.

Posted at 1:01 am by Sarah Hoyt

August 24, 2026

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE.”

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UPDATE: It’s a low-T problem.

Posted at 10:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PRETTY SURE BESSENT AND TRUMP KNOW THIS AND ARE READY FOR IT:

The anaconda strategy strikes again.

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Posted at 8:04 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BILL KRISTOL IS A SAD GRIFTER:

Posted at 7:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds

‘WASHINGTON MATH:’ That’s when your congressmen only want CBO to provide part of the projection of the long-term costs of proposed legislation. And we wonder why spending and deficits and debts keep increasing?

Posted at 6:35 pm by Mark Tapscott

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

STEPHEN MILLER: How Would a Jason Arday Scandal Play Out Here?

Lauren Michele Jackson at The New Yorker wrote “Other prominent figures have been received with levity when their stories have unraveled in public,” and, “Arday was not greeted as a risible scammer endemic to the times. Suspicions surrounding this person demanded an exorcism,” as though previous cases of academic fraud have just been laughed off and it was only Arday who faced media scrutiny.

The New England Journal of Medicine published a piece titled “Jason Arday and the Perils of Being Black in Academia,” where author and MD Kemi Doll argues, “I want to be clear that I don’t care whether any of these allegations against Prof. Arday were true. None of them were worth his career.” Clearly stating that academic integrity should not matter because Arday was black.

This is already a very dangerous standard being entertained in certain corners of our media, and as far as academia and journalism in America goes, how is it not only a matter of time before someone credibly accused of stealing their work or research and passing it off as their own under the guise of fraud, states they cannot be professionally punished because they might commit an act of self-harm?

These are the lessons to be gleaned from Jason Arday’s death, as the political Left, instead of examining their own roles in elevating these types of cases under the noble cause of DEI, are already seeking to exploit it.

In his Commentary newsletter, Abe Greenwald adds, “Catch Cambridge If You Can:”

I like to imagine Jason Arday’s story with an alternate ending. In my fantasy version, he admits to the whole thing and pats himself on the back for orchestrating a brilliant social experiment illustrating the bigotry and fatuousness that prop up elite education.

At the least, he could have gone on to make a passable living as a pop-culture celebrity. We love our conmen. George Santos, the former congressman and convicted identity thief, will make his debut next month on a Fox reality show titled Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. Don’t forget Frank Abagnale, who spent his young adulthood as a petty criminal, passing bad checks and scamming his way through the U.S. and Europe. He impersonated doctors and airline pilots to impress his marks and pick up women. After a few stints in prison, he used his skills to go legit, educating banks and other businesses on how to spot fraudsters. Abagnale’s autobiography, Catch Me If You Can, which itself was largely fabricated, became a hit movie directed by Steven Spielberg and a Tony-nominated musical.

But Arday would have had a shot at a second act even more spectacular than that. Because he was really the one who caught them.

Greenwald writes, “One cannot honestly defend Arday either for his deceptions or his apparent suicide. And, in fact, no one really is. What the protesters and petitioners are doing is defending themselves. University administrators, professors, writers, and other liberals are out in the streets screaming at the press for revealing the depths of elite academia’s racism, gullibility, and dishonesty. They’re focusing on the media to take themselves out of the spotlight.”

That and plenty of what Heather MacDonald calls “the very therapeutic machinery that contributed to the apotheosis of the patent fraudster Arday in the first place:”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

YUM? Scientists Just Made A Cookie Out of Recycled Plastic ‘Slurry’. Welcome to 2026. “”The µBites system is a tunable and portable device that integrates all necessary components… These units could be deployed in submarines or disaster relief vehicles to produce on-demand, on-site food. The process is particularly suited for using carbon waste in extreme environments such as deserts, the Arctic, or the Antarctic to make food – and yes, potentially one day on Mars or the lunar surface.”

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green