April 28, 2026

LET THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND:

Posted at 10:29 am by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Posted at 10:23 am by Stephen Green

PENCIL IT IN: Iran Has DAYS Until This Crisis Hits. “The Islamic Republic is ‘scrambling’ to find places to put the oil that President Donald Trump’s blockade stops the regime from selling before suffering ‘irreversible’ damage to the country’s oil production.”

Posted at 10:08 am by Stephen Green

REMEMBER THIS GUY?

Politico: The Benghazi Patsy: “Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws. You won’t find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn’t be in jail today if he hadn’t produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad. . . . Very few people have been willing to stick up for Nakoula (with “Instapundit” Glenn Reynolds a prominent and dogged exception).”

Posted at 9:59 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE RECORD SO FAR:

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

Posted at 9:45 am by Glenn Reynolds

BACKGROUND: Tech titans Elon Musk and Sam Altman head to court in trial over OpenAI: What to know.

Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI claims that the company violated its founding mission as a nonprofit to develop AI for the benefit of humanity by creating a for-profit entity in 2019.

His suit seeks the removal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, as well as more than $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, which Musk has said he would provide to OpenAI’s nonprofit entity. Altman and Brockman were among OpenAI’s co-founders.

OpenAI is countering Musk’s claims by noting that the Tesla CEO pursued a merger with OpenAI and was involved with discussions about creating a for-profit entity for the company before his departure from its board of directors. They also view the suit as a tactic to boost his own AI startup, xAI, as a competitor to OpenAI.

The company’s 2019 creation of a for-profit entity governed by OpenAI’s nonprofit arm allowed the company to raise money from investors to scale up its computing capacity to facilitate AI research, which helped spur the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.

OpenAI restructured again last fall, transitioning into a public benefit corporation in which its nonprofit arm as well as its other investors, including Microsoft, hold stakes. The nonprofit arm has a 26% stake with additional warrants if OpenAI’s valuation hits certain targets.

Musk’s legal team arrived at its estimate of damages owed to him by OpenAI by multiplying its valuation and a portion of the nonprofit’s stake that could be attributed to his contributions, claiming that between 50% and 75% of the OpenAI nonprofit’s stake can be attributed to him.

“Never before has a corporation gone from tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon – and in just eight years. Never before has it happened, because doing so violates almost every principle of law governing economic activity,” Musk’s suit claims.

Big tech, big money, big egos… this trial has it all.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

SECURITY ‘N’ CIGARS: Patterns in Presidential Assassinations. “This post-1900 record does not mean every disturbed individual is politically motivated, nor does it excuse mental health failures or security lapses. But it does reveal an asymmetry: ideologically driven attacks on American presidents and candidates have overwhelmingly come from the radical left or been filtered through left-coded cultural influences. Acknowledging this pattern honestly, without dismissing the role of mental illness, is essential for understanding political violence in modern America — and for lowering the temperature in our bitterly divided times.”

Posted at 9:25 am by Glenn Reynolds

GOOD QUESTION:

Democrats have spent the last 10 years saying, “Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest, who also happens to be literally Hitler pedo rapist bent on murdering people and ending our democracy?” and have no intention of stopping until they get the desired result.

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green

FOR, LITERALLY, NOTHING:

But from the California Blue Machine’s standpoint, it’s not a failure. All of that money went somewhere.

Posted at 9:13 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Hakeem Jeffries Isn’t Man Enough to Argue With Karoline Leavitt. “House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is one of the biggest ‘have his cake and eat it too’ crybabies among the Dems right now. He’s desperately trying to step out of Nancy Pelosi’s shadow, which he will never have the political chops to do. Like so many politicians, Jeffries spends a lot of time trying to talk over the fact that he’s not very bright. Absent the intellectual firepower to make a name for himself as a policymaker, Jeffries works on getting face time in front of the press so he can play tough guy.”

And in case you missed Kruiser last night, here it is again: If You Can’t Say Something Nice About Someone, You Must Be Talking About a Democrat.

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

KASH PATEL: Security protocol will look ‘completely different’ for White House media dinner redo.

“I think we are going to do it entirely differently,” Patel said on Fox & Friends. “You heard the president say on Saturday night that we’re going to do this again in short order, maybe in 30 days or so, and we’re going to be ready for that. The security posture, I imagine, is going to be completely different.”

Though the suspected gunman, a 31-year-old teacher from California named Cole Allen, was apprehended by law enforcement before making it into the event room, he did breach the security screening checkpoint within the hotel and came close to the entrance of the dinner. A Secret Service agent was shot by the gunman in his bulletproof vest, marking the only injury reported from the scene at the Washington Hilton hotel.

The incident has raised serious concerns about how a man armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives was able to come so close to entering such a high-profile dinner.

As well it should.

Here’s a sneak peak at the redo: ‘I Was Gonna Really Rip It!’ Trump Promises New WHCA Address Will Be ‘Speech of Love’ Now.

What a guy.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

COWARD:

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green

A GOOD RULE OF THUMB:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

I’D SAY DON’T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS, BUT THEY HAVE PLENTY:

Posted at 7:48 am by Stephen Green

REPUBLICANS POUNCE: ‘Left-wing cult of hatred’: GOP goes on offense after Trump assassination attempt. “Republicans went on offense Monday in the wake of yet another assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, asserting that Democrats were fostering a ‘left-wing cult of hatred’ that drives adherents to violent outbursts.”

How do you go on offensive after “yet another” assassination attempt?

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

INDEED:

Posted at 7:17 am by Stephen Green