August 15, 2026

OH TO BE IN ENGLAND: Netanyahu mocks UK as ‘Islamic Republic of Britain.’

“[Churchill and his son] came here and covered the Six Day War in a way that was very positive for us. Try to find that now in Britain, which you could call the Islamic Republic of Britain,” he joked to the host. “Try finding that.”

“All the Europeans, all of Europe has already become like that, hasn’t it?” the host asked in response.

Netanyahu replied: “Yes, but you know, someone said the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain. We’re making sure there won’t be another one — you know, in Iran.”

British politicians and their operatives with bylines were in full high dudgeon mode when JD Vance said that in 2024: Trump’s Vance pick riles UK politicians after ‘Islamophobic’ remarks

Posted at 8:44 am by Ed Driscoll

CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOL SOUNDS AWFUL: Shot: Dissenting Parents’ Defamation Claim Over School’s Allegations of Racism Can Go Forward. “The Turpins allege that Charlotte Latin and Baldecchi made false statements [to third parties] about the contents of the [Turpins’] PowerPoint presentation [that the Turpins delivered at the meeting]—specifically, that the PowerPoint contained the racist assertion that minority students and faculty at the school ‘have not earned their positions and honors’ and that those minority students and faculty were ‘not up to the merit of the school’ like the white students and faculty.”

Chaser: Fraud Claim Over “No Blowback” Assurance by Private School to Complaining Parents, Followed by Children’s Expulsions, Can Go Forward. “Here, the complaint alleges that Charlotte Latin promised the Turpins there would be no “blowback” or “retaliation” against them or their children if they met with school leadership to discuss their concerns; that this promise was false and, from the beginning, Charlotte Latin intended to deceive the Turpins and lure them to the meeting in order to create a pretext for expelling the children; that the Turpins believed Charlotte Latin’s promise and spoke openly about their concerns because they believed the school would not use those discussions as the pretextual grounds to expel the children; that the school, in that same meeting, expelled the children, as they intended from the outset, despite promising the Turpins they would not do so; and that the school’s deceit caused significant damage to the Turpins.”

Posted at 8:42 am by Glenn Reynolds

IT RARELY ENDS WELL FOR A MASCOT OF THE ANOINTED: “The real [Arday] story is of an elite academic world that was so excited by a compelling narrative that they rushed a clearly mentally unbalanced man with no real qualifications to the heights of academia because he ticked so many useful boxes.”

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll

CHATGPT PASSES SCRIPTURE TEST: With all the discussion and debate about AI products coloring responses with ideologically biased analyses, I thought it might be interesting to test the ChatGTP’s scriptural knowledge. Sure enough, as I report on HillFaith this morning, the response to my five questions was amazing.

Posted at 7:20 am by Mark Tapscott

THIS IS TRUE, OF COURSE:

Related:

Except that Mike Adams was lynched for telling the truth, not disgraced by lying.

More:

“Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense.”

Posted at 7:18 am by Glenn Reynolds

SPRINGTIME FOR PLATNER: Graham Platner Rolls Out Like the Panzers in the Ardennes, and Dems Are Not Happy.

Graham Platner is the rash that won’t go away. He was finally forced out of the Maine Senate race after he was exposed for having a graphic social media history, a Nazi tattoo, domestic abuse claims, and a credible allegation of rape. There’s damaged goods, and then there was whatever Platner was — many echelons above that. He was a disaster.

And is he going away? Oh, no, he’s headlining some local Labor Day rally in Maine, and one local Democrat had a brutal take on the event (via Bangor Daily News) [emphasis mine]:

Democrats expressed confusion and frustration after activists in Hancock County announced a Labor Day rally featuring former U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner with many in the party looking to leave him behind after a rape allegation ended his campaign.

Sources said the announcement caught the campaign of the new nominee, former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, by surprise. The mix-up lands at a pivotal moment for him as he races to build a national operation against five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.

Republicans have spent weeks trying to tie Jackson to Platner even as Jackson has opened a slim lead over Collins in early polling. Any fresh attention on the former nominee threatens to undercut that effort just as national Democrats rally behind him.

“I don’t know what they were thinking,” former Maine Democratic Party Vice Chair Peggy Schaffer said. “He’s not an elected official, not a union member, and he’s an accused rapist.”

The Oystergruppenfuhrer has entered into the Flensburg phase of his political career.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

GUESS THE ISSUE THAT GIVES GOP 46 POINT LEAD: When Republicans demand an end to tax-funded Obamacare premium subsidies going direct to insurers’ bottom lines, voters give GOP candidates a 46-point advantage over Democrats. Are Senate Republicans listening?

Posted at 7:13 am by Mark Tapscott

I AGREE: Let the IDF Win. “Without exception, the soldiers I spoke with also criticized what they see as overly restrictive rules of engagement that unnecessarily endanger their lives. In their view, these policies stem either from concerns about international political pressure-particularly from the United States-or from placing excessive emphasis on the welfare of enemy civilians at the expense of Israel’s own troops, who are not a far-removed army, but everyone’s husband, fathers and sons.”

Their guidance should be Curtis LeMay, Arthur Harris, and William Tecumseh Sherman.

Posted at 7:11 am by Glenn Reynolds

SPACE LAW:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

August 14, 2026

LEFTISTS ARE ALWAYS COOKING THE BOOKS:

Posted at 10:06 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll