June 28, 2026

YES, DECOLONIZE NORTH AFRICA, THE LEVANT, CENTRAL ASIA…

Mehdi knows better, he just hopes you don’t. And isn’t his real message that Western civilization would have been wiser to cultivate racism and xenophobia, as protective measures, instead of suicidal empathy?

Posted at 8:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NOW OUT FROM CYNTHIA YOCKEY: The Brain Fog Diagnosis Checklist. “An 83-page diagnostic intake system you complete before your next doctor appointment, so your doctor sees the full pattern in 30 minutes and has clear indications of what to do about it. Includes a complete Doctor Appointment Toolkit, 30+ causes of brain fog organized into 10 categories, symptom scoring guides, a tiered lab request list, and scripts for the most common doctor pushback scenarios.”

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