JAMIE K. WILSON: The Real Danger Isn’t Dumb People — It’s Smart People Without Wisdom.

ON PRE-ORDER FOR RELEASE ON THE 23rd: FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

#CommissionEarned

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

WHEN DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT MORALITY, LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS. AND SONS. AND WALLETS. AND DOG.

2025. Chuck Todd discusses honesty and the superior morality of the Democrat party with Eric Swalwell.

It mattered not to Chuck Todd or to about 100 other hosts that Eric Swalwell spent three years lying on national TV during the Russia collusion hoax. pic.twitter.com/wGPpMXQgvl

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 15, 2026

Related, from America’s paper of record:

After Devastating Sexual Assault Allegations, Swalwell Now Leading Democratic Presidential Candidate https://t.co/4uaE9NKqQ1 pic.twitter.com/A6FeuY2IS5

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 15, 2026

CONGRESS MUST COME CLEAN: Swalwell scandal spotlights the depth of hidden corruption that has plagued Congress for decades. It’s time to shine the cleansing light of transparency, beginning with making public all of the heretofore secret settlements and associated hush fund protecting others like Swalwell, past and present. Check out my new column on PJ Media.

WORTH READING:  A very interesting and revealing interview of NASA administrator Jared Issacman

AS THEY SHOULD:   Another Massachusetts City Faces Lawsuit Over Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution.

IT’S TIME TO STOP TOLERATING SHIT ON OUR STREETS:   From Streets to Bedrooms: How Shigella Spreads in America.

The rule sof public hygiene worked. They existed for a reason. Abolishing them has no good reason beyond wanting to destroy what works.

I BLAME ALLOWING TWITS TO WRITE THEIR OWN VOWS:  ‘No-fault’ divorce has made life more painful for parents and children.

THE THINGS YOU CAN’T SAY:  Southport murder report and another dance around the unpalatable truth about asylum seekers.

YEAH. I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Is anyone surprised by this?

BUT THEY ONLY DO IT WHEN THE DEMOCRATS ALLOW:  The Media Patting Its Own Back Begins Anew.

GIVE THANKS FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT:  Do “combat-trained Islamists in Britain … now outnumber the British Army”?

GOOD:  Israeli strike on Hezbollah more devastating than 2024 pager attack, IDF says.  The strike hit an unusually broad layer of Hezbollah’s middle ranks across Lebanon, a former Mossad official says.

IT’S RIDICULOUS. ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU’RE TRUSTING PEOPLE WHO HATE THE COUNTRY:  How the Left Convinced Americans That AI Data Centers Are the Root of All Evil.

LOTS OF FOOD FOR THOUGHT, BUT PARTICULARLY ABOUT TRUSTING ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC:  T&I, which is nothing like T&A.

NO, THE LEFT IS NOT MORE CREATIVE THAN THE RIGHT:  Creativity, Markets and Blindness.

YES, I DO AIM TO MAKE YOUR TBR LIST EXPLODE: Or at least to give you choices of authors to explore.  Writers who don’t hate you, Extraordinary Promo Post 4

PRETTY SURE WHAT HE SEES IN THE MIRROR IS NOT WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD SEES:

That guy is not aging well https://t.co/4GOtZexvfK

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 15, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE WALT DISNEY CO. BEGINS LAYING OFF 1,000 EMPLOYEES:

The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday began layoffs expected to lead to 1,000 job cuts across the company.

Josh D’Amaro, who in February succeeded Bob Iger as chief executive, announced broader layoffs following a move in January to consolidate Disney’s marketing division. The cuts are expected to fall across the Burbank, California-based company’s traditional television businesses, including ESPN, as well as its movie studio. Employees in product and technology, and in certain corporate functions will also be affected.

Let’s check in with the news and opinion division of Disney:

On ABC, Rahm Emanuel literally says a Biden White House should tell people laid off from retail stores lik