August 3, 2026

HOW IT STARTED: Rosie O’Donnell Confirms Move to Ireland, Will Return to U.S. ‘When It’s Safe for All Citizens to Have Equal Rights.’

—People Magazine, March 11, 2025.

How it’s going: Rosie O’Donnell confirms Season 30 return to The View.  

Rosie O’Donnell will be back on “The View” for Season 30.

The former co-host confirmed her return on Monday’s episode of the “Tangle With Kyle Ridley” podcast, saying she will take part in the show’s 30th-anniversary special.

The 64-year-old plans to take part “in whatever way they want” her “just as a guest.”

She added, “They’re bringing back all the hosts, I think. And, you know, I’m pretty proud of that show, what it’s become and how it really speaks to the people and to politics.”

O’Donnell, notably, co-hosted the ABC talk show for Seasons 10 and 18.

In addition to an infamous on-air spat with colleague Elisabeth Hasselbeck that led to her initial 2007 exit, the comedian had a “tense” dynamic with Whoopi Goldberg before her 2015 departure.

“I admired Whoopi, wanted to be on her team, had respect for her and I expected we would be like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan passing the ball back and forth, shooting and leading the team to victory,” she recalled on Monday. “And that’s not exactly what happened.”

I’m looking forward this ABC News program returning to engaging in such intellectually stimulating conversations as fire not being able to melt steel and that the Holocaust “wasn’t originally about race.”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

CLAY TRAVIS DOUBLES DOWN:

More just a few items down.

Posted at 12:26 pm by Stephen Green

I LOVE THIS:

There’s no way they will accept, of course, which tells you all you need to know.

Posted at 12:13 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FAREWELL: US Navy retires first Ohio-class missile submarine USS Georgia and deepens massive cruise missile gap.

On July 27, 2026, the U.S. Navy guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN-729) returned to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, to begin its official inactivation process after 42 years of active service. The arrival marks the beginning of the phased retirement of all four Ohio-class SSGN conversions, which will remove the largest single concentration of conventionally armed undersea missile payload from the active fleet. This operational drawdown precedes the full fielding of Virginia-class Block V submarines equipped with the Virginia Payload Module, creating an interim undersea strike capacity reduction for the U.S. Navy.

The four converted Ohio-class SSGNs provided the U.S. Navy with a collective theoretical capacity of 616 BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and dedicated facilities for up to 264 special operations personnel. Following USS Georgia’s retirement, starting on July 31, 2026, the subsequent inactivations of USS Ohio, USS Florida, and USS Michigan through FY2029 will require 22 Virginia Payload Module-equipped attack submarines to fully restore the lost vertical launch cell count.

We need more subs, destroyers, cruisers… well, more everything but admirals.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

JUSTICE FOR FAUCI: Sooner or later, there will be an accounting and accountability, as World Tribune’s Christine Dolan explains. The many vaccine-injured to whom Fauci refuses to apologize will not be denied. And if you need more info on the vaccine-injured, Dolan provides it here.

 

Posted at 11:14 am by Mark Tapscott

#RESIST: NYC to unveil new Columbus statue as group sidesteps Mamdani’s middle finger.

A new nonprofit is planning to unveil a Christopher Columbus statue in Brooklyn this October — dodging Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other haters who’d rather cancel the Italian-born explorer.

The Preserving Italian Heritage Coalition, brought together by Chinese-American state Assemblyman Lester Chang (R-Brooklyn), is planning to house the statue at the John Hughes Club in Dyker Heights, private property that keeps it out of the clutches of city officials.

“I’m Chinese, but this is my community, too,” said Chang, who was born on Eldridge Street in Manhattan and today represents Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights. The coalition is now looking to raise $100,000 to cover construction and maintenance costs.

Chang traces the idea to last November’s election and to President Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation weeks earlier, which vowed to reclaim the explorer from “left-wing arsonists.” He wrote the committee’s first check himself, before there was a bank account to put it in.

Now that’s what I call assimilation.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

WELL, BYE: Carville rips Piker: ‘If he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I’m out of here.’

“To talk about the larger Democratic Party, post the election in Michigan going forward, I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker,” Carville said on Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing,” referring to the Michigan Senate race between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.).

“I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy. Now, I think that a majority –– overwhelming majority of Democrats agree with me, but this idea that we’re going to seize the means of production and this –– just go look at the DSA platform,” he continued, referring to the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA).

Carville came to prominence more than three decades ago, representing a wing of the party that already got shoved aside by Obama’s red diaper cohort almost two decades ago.

And now the Obama wing isn’t far left enough for the up-and-coming DSA types.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

ACADEMIA IS, IN FACT, TOTALLY BROKEN.

Posted at 9:17 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Iran War Continues to Be Whatever Anyone Wants It to Be. “Nobody who is sane wants wars to go on forever, but it’s patently absurd to think that we’re into another Vietnam because there hasn’t been a neat and clean resolution after five months. What’s really disturbing is that I heard some people who I know to be supporters of President Trump leaning this way.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in New York City’s outer boroughs.

When Queens Borough President Donovan Richards accused the Democratic Socialists of America of perpetuating “white supremacy” earlier this month, it marked a rare instance of a well-known local Democrat taking direct, withering aim at the group that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani into City Hall.

Since Mamdani’s ascension there, local elected Democrats have been hard pressed to publicly blast him and his hard-left base. The mayor’s approval ratings remain strong and the DSA has emerged as a serious political force in the city. So Richards’ X post — which was referencing the DSA’s majority white membership nationally — hinted at a potential turning point.

His attack also points to a more broadly felt symptom: Growing discontent with Mamdani from Democratic politicians in the city’s outer boroughs.

Days after Richards’ online lament, more anti-Mamdani sentiment erupted in the Bronx, where City Councilmember Oswald Feliz accused the mayor of giving his community “crumbs” by not pairing a bus lane project in his district with enough infrastructure upgrades in surrounding areas. Like Richards, Feliz made a reference to race, albeit a more subtle one.

“Is this community not trendy enough to justify the kind of improvements that other communities receive, even without asking?” Feliz said in a statement last week. “If this was a wealthier neighborhood, I have no doubt that a more ambitious proposal would have been on the table. Minority communities are important, and deserve better.”

Too white, doesn’t spend enough other people’s money — you gotta love it.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

HUH. GO FIGURE.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds