February 1, 2026

THE LEFT HAS TO CONTROL SCHOOLS AND MEDIA AND UNDERMINE PARENTS BECAUSE IT’S BEING OUTBRED:

Posted at 9:49 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHURCHMAGGEDDON: When Are Half Your Members Going to be Dead? The tipping point for many denominations is not that far away.

While most major denominations have been experiencing decline for a while, their ship has remained seaworthy. Yeah, some water will lap over the sides every once in a while, but there are still enough buckets and enough laborers to toss it back into the ocean. That won’t be the case in a very short time horizon, and I don’t think many people realize just how quickly the buckets and the workers are going to disappear. . . .

This should come as a shock to no one who is vaguely aware of American religion — Episcopalians are old. In fact, two-thirds of their adult members have celebrated their 60th birthday. In contrast, just 6% are under the age of thirty. Put simply: for every young adult Episcopalian in the pews this Sunday, there will be about ten retirees. Oof.

And they aren’t alone in this. The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is in almost exactly the same spot. So are the United Methodists, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutherans. You basically see a whole bunch of mainline Protestants clustered at the top of this graph.

But let me also point out that some big evangelical groups aren’t exactly swimming in young adults, either. For instance, just 6% of Southern Baptist adults are under the age of 30. That’s no different at all than the Episcopalians. Only about one in five are under the age of 45. The Assemblies of God is doing a bit better here, but their numbers are still pretty anemic — 11% in the 18–29 bucket and 19% in the 30–44 age group.

The future belongs to those who show up.

FLASHBACK: Is Methodism’s decline inevitable?

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE PEOPLE WHO CAST THE VOTES DECIDE NOTHING. THE PEOPLE WHO COUNT THE VOTES DECIDE EVERYTHING:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

SALENA ZITO REMEMBERS:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Something very unexpected is happening to Norway’s polar bears: Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research.

Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious reasons: They hunt seals from the ice, and as fossil fuels warm the planet, the ice where these bears live is melting.

For more than three decades, scientists have been warning that climate change could drive polar bear populations extinct. That message infiltrated the public psyche, perhaps more than any other about the scourge of global warming. . . .

Now, research in the journal Scientific Reports adds yet another wrinkle of hope for the species. The study, an analysis of hundreds of polar bears in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, found that declining sea ice is not causing polar bears to starve. They actually appeared healthier in the last two decades of the analysis, from 2000 to 2019. The overall population, meanwhile, is either stable or growing, according to Jon Aars, the study’s lead author and a scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute.

“I was surprised,” Aars told Vox from Svalbard. “I would have predicted that body condition would decline. We see the opposite.”

Maybe fundraising-letter science is simplistic and incomplete.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

January 31, 2026

THEN IT WAS COMMON-SENSE DEMOCRATIC POLICY. NOW IT’S FASCISM BECAUSE SHUT UP.

Posted at 10:20 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HMM. STAY TUNED.

Posted at 8:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YES. But most “journalists” are obedient regime stenographers.

Posted at 5:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OLD AND BUSTED: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.

The New Coldness? Two Memphis leaders question whether snow was man-made.

A new debate on snow is heating up online with posts from two Memphis City Council members, one of whom claims she’s getting threats over the post.

Pearl Walker and Yolanda Cooper-Sutton shared social media posts this week questioning whether the snow that fell across the city was real, or possibly man-made. The topic is trending on TikTok.

The comments quickly took off online, drawing strong reaction as crews across Memphis were still dealing with icy roads, school closures, and cleanup from one of the city’s more significant winter storms in recent years.

I blame the Rothschilds.

Much more here:

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHO WANTS TO TELL HIM? In the early 20th century, we not only did not have pre-Reagan tax rates, until 1913 we had no federal income tax at all, and the original NYC subway lines, the BMT and the IRT, were built by private companies, and operated privately until 1940.

Posted at 5:16 pm by David Bernstein