August 27, 2026

‘MURICA:

Posted at 3:35 pm by Stephen Green

LET’S DO THIS:

“Legally uncertain,” really? Congress granting letters of marque are authorized by the Constitution, and sea prizes go back centuries further.

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is ‘How to Rob a Bank’ Really ‘Hasan Piker: The Movie?’

Luigi Mangione stands accused of killing a healthcare CEO by shooting him from behind. The murder stained the nation’s soul, in part, because so many Americans rallied behind the alleged assassin.

They even made a musical about him.

Now, Hollywood is doing more than evoking that horrific crime. It’s tapping into a DSA-style assault on capitalism via “How to Rob a Bank.”

Hollywood seems determined not to learn.

Posted at 1:47 pm by Stephen Green

CRUEL BUT FAIR:

Posted at 1:32 pm by Stephen Green

VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa, HAMAS, and the IRGC Have Some Unsavory Friends in Common. “Rose City Antifa and its fellow travelers and hangers-on, for years, have attempted to create a hacking collective in Portland to infiltrate local tech companies and hijack those companies that do national security-level work. It’s unclear if they succeeded, but the news from the State Department about working with the Italy-based hackers’ collective shows that the group cobbled together the technological superstructure to allow these anti-Western anarchists to operate and organize while remaining undetected.”

Posted at 1:16 pm by Stephen Green

NEWS YOU PROBABLY CAN’T USE: Polynesian Wayfinding: How these sailors navigated the open Pacific with no compass or GPS. “Piailug was born in 1932 and became a master navigator, or palu, by the time he was 18. He practiced the art of wayfinding for nearly 60 years until shortly before his death in 2010. Having become concerned that the old knowledge would be lost, Pialiug worked with the Polynesian Voyaging Society to recreate lost techniques, passing on his wisdom to sailors like Thompson.”

Vikings navigated to America in similar fashion, though I haven’t heard that anyone is practicing their methods now.

Posted at 12:48 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MONORAIL! Austin Seeking Another Rail Boondoggle?

You might remember Austin’s light rail boondoggle, which is now scaled back, behind schedule, and very possibly illegal. (For the current status on that project, see here.)

Now more Austin elites, in the form of the Travis County Commissioner’s Court (an organization so far in the shadow of the Austin City Council that I didn’t previously have a tag for them) has funded the study of a high speed rail line between Austin and San Antonio, the price tag for which would be a staggering $13.5 Billion.

Get your act together, Austin — this is piker-level grifting. California is spending 10 times that much on a rail line that doesn’t even connect the two big cities it’s supposed to connect.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Stephen Green

LOOKS LIKE A GOOD READ:

Posted at 12:29 pm by Stephen Green

EVERGREEN QUESTION: Why Are Liberal White Women So Angry?

Recently, Peachy Keenan, the pseudonym of a well-known cultural commentator, writer, and critic of modern feminism, asked a question on her X account that succinctly summarizes the state of American feminism and the white liberal woman:

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60% female), they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.

Yes, they won, but that hasn’t changed the victim (women) and oppressor (white men) mindset that still permeates this irrational subculture. They will remain angry because they will never succeed in their quixotic quest for “meaning in their lives” based on their belief that happiness lies in “making a difference” by defeating societal demons such as “the patriarchy” or “White Supremacy.” In their addled thought process, there is no such thing as winning, only identifying new causes to keep this charade alive in perpetuity.

Read the whole thing.

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Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

MAKE GIVING AMERICAN KIDS STARTER JOBS GREAT AGAIN:

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green