February 6, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE WASHINGTON PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM: Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen dies at 91.

Sonny Jurgensen, the Hall of Fame quarterback whose strong arm led to passing records for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders and affable personality made him a beloved figure, has died at the age of 91.

ESPN was on in the locker room of the gym this afternoon, and I watched the newsreader discussing Jurgensen’s pro career by uttering something like “his time playing football in Washington,” as a way to avoid the R-word entirely.

Similarly, if the WaPo’s readers are wondering what happened to its sports section, rest assured its demise was entirely self-inflicted:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:

Posted at 8:35 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WINNING:

Posted at 5:32 pm by Stephen Green

KRUISER: This Awful Thing That the Super Bowl Has Become Belongs on the Hallmark Channel. “Real sports fans loathe commercials. In fact, if there were an Olympic event that involved racing to grab a remote and mute an ad while we’re watching a game, we would all be contending for gold medals. Heaven help the person who gets between me and the remote as a football broadcast goes to a commercial about medication for leaping chlamydia.”

Posted at 5:25 pm by Stephen Green

THAT WOULD BE TRULY AWFL:

Posted at 5:21 pm by Stephen Green

VIDEO REVIEW: Precision Armament’s TiTrex .30 Cal Suppressor Sets a New Bar. “3D-printed from Grade 5 titanium, the TiTrex is one of the smaller, lighter .30 cal cans on the market at just 6.2 inches long and weighing only 9.2 ounces including the mount and front cap (5.9 in and 7.2 oz for the body alone). Inch-for-inch, it just might be the quietest .30 cal suppressor available. Even when paired up against longer, fatter, heavier cans, it beats out nearly all of them.”

It’s nice-looking, too.

Posted at 4:54 pm by Stephen Green

SHE’S BACK! Douglas Murray: Kamala Harris returning to the political landscape can be best described by Gen Z as ‘cringe.’

If you´re still not clear on what is going on, well, at least Kamala and her team have given us a couple of clues. One is that they have decided to adopt the X-label of “@headquarters_67.”

This is a reference to an online meme briefly popular with some youths some while ago.

The meme — which, like a lot of online memes, is too complicated and unimportant to go into here — signals a desire to be down with the kids.

Unfortunately, the meme was already long dead and buried even before Kamala and her social media geniuses decided to dig it up and batter its corpse one final time.

Even CNN has admitted that this attempt to look cool is almost the epitome of what the kids might call “cringe.”

Kamala couldn’t have looked more out of sync if she’d started talking about Pepe the Frog.

Which is why her clueless social media team decided it was time for a quick re-rebrand:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

‘VERY REVEALING!’ One Short Word in AOC’s WaPo Layoffs Take Gives Away How Dems View the Media.

The left have viewed the Post as “our media” for quite some time. In the fall of 2006, Bill Clinton told a Washington Post interviewer, that “There is an expectation among Democrats that establishment old media organizations are de facto allies — and will rebut political accusations and serve as referees on new-media excesses.”

That’s a pretty mild way to describe what the media would shortly morph into a year later, as Obama worship went into overdrive, followed by everything we’ve seen over the last decade to attack the Bad Orange Man.

Posted at 4:15 pm by Ed Driscoll

UNEXPECTEDLY: More WA businesses considering leaving the state due to high taxes.

The latest Association of Washington Business quarterly survey shows bad news on the economic front, with 44% of business leaders saying they are considering moving their personal residence out of state and businesses indicating they are now more than twice as likely – 30% to 14% – to expand outside the state than within it.

The results of AWB’s winter survey are based on 429 responses collected by email from business owners and operators across the state between Jan. 12 and Feb. 2.

“Washington employers signaled a continuing collapse in confidence in the state economy in this quarterly survey, with significant year-over-year deterioration across multiple metrics driven largely by the state’s growing tax burden,” according to the survey’s executive summary.

I wonder if part of the “no hire, no fire” economy is due to uncertainty created by ham-fisted blue-state governance.

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: She Drove the Rental Like She Rented It. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how not to get your rental car out of an impound lot, the very worst time to cop a feel, and the stupidest reason to impersonate an FBI agent.”

Posted at 3:21 pm by Stephen Green

BLUE CITY BLUES: 5 largest U.S. cities don’t have enough money to pay bills.

At the end of fiscal 2024, all five cities didn’t have enough money to pay their bills despite having balanced budget requirements. In order “to claim their budgets were balanced, as is required by law in the five cities, elected officials” didn’t include “the full cost of government in their budget calculations and shifted costs onto future taxpayers,” TIA said.

Combined, the five cities had $144 billion in assets; their combined debt, including unfunded pension and other post-employment benefits (OPEB), totaled $384 billion. Their combined shortfall was $240 billion, according to the analysis. This included $92 billion in pension debt and $112 billion in OPEB, mainly retiree health care, debt.

A “common and pressing challenge persists” in all five cities, the report notes: “long-term costs of pensions and retiree health care benefits continue to strain their financial health despite short-term improvements or varying circumstances.”

“While investment gains have temporarily eased pension liabilities in cities like New York City and Houston, these gains remain unrealized and uncertain,” it says. New York City’s growing retiree health care obligations “remain vastly underfunded,” as do the other cities’ it notes.

“Chicago exemplifies the consequences of chronic pension underfunding, with liabilities exceeding assets and recurring budget shortfalls,” it adds.

“Los Angeles and Philadelphia, which have made progress in funding, face limitations in financial flexibility due to increased capital investments and rising expenses,” it adds.

The report also grades each city based on its taxpayer burden. New York City and Chicago received F grades; Philadelphia received a D; Houston and Los Angeles received C grades for fiscal health.

Aside from bad finances, guess what else all five cities have in common.

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green