June 22, 2026

IOWAHAWK ISN’T WRONG:

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green

WE NEED MORE WOMEN COAL MINERS, PLUMBERS, AND SEWER WORKERS, TOO:

Posted at 12:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BRENDAN O’NEILL: Good riddance to Keir Starmer’s tyranny of greyness.

Everything Starmer did was about ‘lowering the temperature’ of the public. His rule laid bare the calculated authoritarianism of a ruling class that considers management of the masses to be the highest goal of public life. From his attack on trial by jury to his mad insistence on bringing in a new definition of ‘Islamophobia’ to his allergic reaction to the public fury over Henry Nowak, he was always driven by a patrician impulse to subdue the popular will. To neutralise political contestation itself in order that the mythical competence of his kind might enjoy free rein. All the civil unrest we’ve seen these past two years – some of it democratic, some of it violent and ugly – is best understood as a fuming reaction against the rule of the boring and its black dream of public disenfranchisement.

And now we have the prospect of prime minister Andy Burnham, the man who edged Starmer out of Downing St with his victory in the Makerfield by-election last week. The elites want Burnham to do what Starmer failed to: quell the ‘mayhem’ of Britain’s resurgent democratic spirit. Only where they thought Starmer’s dearth of charisma might achieve that, now they hope Burnham’s much-hyped charisma will. They’ve tried boring us into submission, now they’ll try Burnhaming us into submission. They’ve learned nothing. Ten years since Brexit and we’re still lumbered with an expert class that is breathtakingly dumb.

And dangerously malevolent:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY:

Posted at 11:55 am by Stephen Green

M.O.U. UPDATE: Vance suggests US, Iran could ‘transform’ relationship but Tehran officials insist they’re not making friends: ‘Primary option is jihad.’

Vice President JD Vance floated the possibility Sunday that the US and Iran could “transform” their relationship through the negotiations in Switzerland— but officials in Tehran made clear they were not there to make friends, and instead were trying to use the negotiations to pry billions out of the US and its allies.

Iran’s president said Sunday that the Islamic Republic will not give up its right to enriched uranium as part of the peace deal with the US — while noting that a deal could save the country’s economy by unlocking sanctioned cash.

And this wasn’t a good look:

Vance has a great personal story, but he seems in over his head with this stuff.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): My own opinion is that it’s all choreographed. This is the “nice doggie” part before the stick. We’ll see if I’m right.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

PRIORITIES:

Not being a murder capital might be something to take “pride” in.

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green

FAIL, BRITANNIA: Meet the New Commie, Worse Than the Old Commie. “The U.K.’s most destructively feckless prime minister (since the last one) is history, but Keir Starmer’s likely successor could prove Britain’s final undoing — if the radical Liberian-born advisor who serves as Andy Burnham’s ‘brains’ gets her way.”

Posted at 11:09 am by Stephen Green

2028 PREVIEW: Will AOC suffer the same fate as Bernie and RFK Jr. in the next Democratic primary?

You might remember that the Democratic leadership was found to be putting its fat thumb on the scale for months to crown Hillary Clinton as the 2016 nominee — at the direct expense of the Sanders campaign. The scandal rose to such proportions that DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had to resign the position because of the outrage directed at her and the DNC by millions of Sanders supporters.

Speaking of which, the same entrenched leadership of the Democratic establishment went on to sideline Sanders again in 2020. Then they did it to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2024.

Some in the Democratic Party fear that the same entrenched leadership will try and knock Ocasio-Cortez out of the primary contest, should she choose to run. But that’s not going to happen. If anything, AOC and her growing powerbase might be able to run the Democratic elites out of town.

Why? Well, a recent headline from ABC News offers up one potential reason: “Democratic socialists think fatigue with mainstream politics could open paths to victories in the midterms.”

You might be tempted to laugh off AOC and the rest of the vocal fry wing of the American left, but remember Reagan’s warning: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

DOWN GOES STARMER! DOWN GOES STARMER! DOWN GOES STARMER! Starmer resigns as Prime Minister.

In an emotional resignation speech in Downing Street on Monday, Sir Keir said he would bow to pressure from Labour MPs with “good grace” and trigger a leadership contest.

An election would take place this summer, allowing a new prime minister to be installed by Sept 1, he said.

Addressing the media in front of No 10, Sir Keir listed his achievements in office and in opposition, saying he had “changed our party” by tackling anti-Semitism and “restoring trust in the economy, defence, and national security”.

But he added: “I know the question being asked now is not ‘who was best placed to change the Labour Party to take us into power and to begin the vital work of improving lives for millions of people?’ Those questions have been answered.
“The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election.

“I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace.”

Meet the likely new boss, same as the old boss:

(Apologies to Howard Cosell for the headline.)

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING GAINS CHEERED: There is a huge transparency and accountability difference between cash accounting and accrual accounting approaches to tracking income and outgo, particularly at the level of the federal government. Truth-In-Accounting (TIA) has been pushing for the latter for years, and there are encouraging signs the message is being heard.

“Accrual accounting captures the full reality of government obligations and resources. It recognizes liabilities such as pensions and retiree health benefits when promises are made, not years later, when payments come due. Cash accounting often hides these long-term costs, allowing short-sighted decisions that burden future taxpayers,” TIA reports.

The good news is that governments worldwide are, according to TIA, “moving from cash-based accounting, which records transactions only when cash changes hands, to accrual accounting, which records the economic substance of transactions when they occur. This provides a far clearer, more honest picture of a government’s true financial position.”

Posted at 10:31 am by Mark Tapscott

HA-HA, NO:

Posted at 10:23 am by Stephen Green

REMOVE ALL THE SOROS WRECKERS: Judges Tire Of Soros-Backed DA Krasner Lying To Them. “Judges hate it when people lie to them, and when they do it over and over again, they start to get pissed. And the office of Soros-backed Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner seems to be lying to them an awful lot.”

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green