August 5, 2026

THESE ARE MY PRINCIPLES, IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM I HAVE OTHERS:

Posted at 7:55 pm by Glenn Reynolds

POLITICAL APPOINTEES SHOULD KILL BAD GRANTS: Democrats in Congress are up in arms over President Donald Trump’s proposal to give executive branch senior political appointees authority to pre-screen proposed federal grants and to terminate previously approved and continuing funding streams.

In fact under the Constitution, as I write today in The Washington Stand, the President can delegate authority to carry out the his policies that voters endorsed when they elected him to trusted senior political appointees. Democrats are angry because Trump is implementing a counter to the power of the unelected career bureaucrats who routinely dispatch hundreds of billions of tax dollars to far-Left groups.

Posted at 7:33 pm by Mark Tapscott

YEAH, THE AGENDA IS PRETTY PLAIN:

Posted at 6:44 pm by Glenn Reynolds

A SMALL MEASURE OF JUSTICE:

Posted at 5:46 pm by Glenn Reynolds

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Related:

Posted at 5:41 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT A RIDE, THOUGH: Jason Arday, Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism, lying about career, resigns — as elite school launches investigation.

UPDATE:

Posted at 5:39 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Media Bullies Tate McRae for Possible MAGA Connection. “Here’s what started the absurd attacks. This is a quote from a new Variety profile, one where the interviewer pressed the apolitical star on, you guessed it, her political views.”

Posted at 4:52 pm by Stephen Green

I TOLD YOU SO:

Of course, predicting that the latest For the People™ scheme is just another grift isn’t exactly a tough call.

Posted at 4:36 pm by Stephen Green

BRITISH MAN ARRESTED AFTER DRESSING AS GRIM REAPER, BRANDISHING BLADE, STARING DOWN FROM HOSPITAL ROOF:

This man is a legend.

Come on, he was just checking in on his future clients!

Well, 26-year-old Welshman Leon Gillespie was brandishing a blade, so there’s that. And I suppose he did seem to be dressed as the Angel of Death (though he says it was simply a “crow costume”).

I also suppose he perched himself atop Ysbyty Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire, long blade in hand, making noises down toward visitors and staff as if to say “you’re next.”

Welshman apparently jealous of Florida man:

 

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

GREAT MOMENTS IN VOTER OUTREACH: Hasan Piker torches Democratic voters: ‘You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s***.’

Left-wing commentator Hasan Piker blasted critics of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed, accusing them of Islamophobia and urging the party to unite behind the victorious Michigan candidate.

“Like everyone being like ‘Abdul has a f*** ton of work to do mending bridges.’ Here’s the f***ing take nuke for you, okay? You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s***, okay? You literally called the dude a f***ing terrorist for months on end, and, like, called him a sexist, misogynist, terrorist, bad candidate, fake doctor, when he has, like, two f***ing degrees,” Piker said during his live stream on Twitch Tuesday.

To be fair, leftist voters do seem to love being told how awful they are. In 2013, Ta-Nehisi Coates took to the New York Times to denounce their core readership: ‘The Good, Racist People’ of Manhattan.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SENDING YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS PARENTAL MALPRACTICE: Government School Zero Tolerance Stupidity Marches On…This Time in Georgia. “Reports have recently surfaced that a Georgia six-year-old was suspended last spring after reportedly biting his sandwich into an ‘L shape’ and pointing it at another student. The student ‘was previously suspended for pointing a bottle of water at another student and making gun noises and also punished for drawing a pilgrim shooting a turkey … .'”

The school should be razed and its administrators sent to teach woodshop in a prison.

Posted at 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MARK PENN: Socialist Mamdani sold a tax on billionaires. Regular homeowners could pay the price.

Because the Department of Finance’s initial roll sent notices to 960,000 property entries, primary residents are now forced to navigate bureaucratic hurdles to prove their exemption. The statute had a little-noticed provision that co-ops and condos qualify for the tax if the NYC Department of Finance computers identify their assessed value over $1 million. Presto chango — hundreds of thousands of New York homeowners were caught up in the initial mailing. And the surcharge on non-primary residences can reach up to 5% or more of market value annually.

So now add $50,000 a year in costs to a million-dollar non-primary condo. What are those owners going to do? Hit the sell, sell, sell button. Imposing steep surcharges on secondary condo owners could chill the broader housing market, reduce demand from out-of-town buyers and ultimately drag down property values across the board. In the end, local homeowners will pay the price through diminished equity. It’s simple economics.

The ’90s Clintonistas like Penn and James Carville are more or less in a panic about the commie takeover of the party they helped drag toward the DLC center.

But that was a long time ago, and Obama’s Red Diaper Brigades are taking over.

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

ESSENCE OF EVIL: In China, the authorities grab Uyghurs and take their usable organs. They die, but somebody else favored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gets a new lease on life. Here in the West, we do the same thing, but shroud it in an antiseptic appearance.

Wesley Smith, writing in Science & Culture, explains:

“Hastened death and organ-harvesting have already been conjoined in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. (In the latter two countries, some cases have involved mentally ill patients.)

“The practice has been supported in prominent medical journals. It is not alarmism to note that the idea is gaining ever wider acceptance among the medical and bioethics intelligentsia.

“But killing and then harvesting doesn’t go far enough for some mainstream bioethicists. Where euthanasia is legal, they don’t see why organ procurement can’t also be the means of death for patients who want to donate. In other words, don’t just kill and then harvest; harvest to kill.”

 

 

Posted at 3:00 pm by Mark Tapscott