July 2, 2026

10 ERRORS OF TUCKER’S DELUDER: J. Michael Waller lays out in detail 10 of the major errors, misrepresentations and falsehoods of Alexandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin’s favoriate “philosopher” and apparently a major influence on Tucker Carlson.

Posted at 3:04 pm by Mark Tapscott

LOL, DANA MILBANK:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Dana, as serious as ever:

Posted at 3:04 pm by Stephen Green

SPACE: NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure.

Before the accident, Blue Origin had been hoping to launch its first Mk. 1 mission, named Endurance, later this year for a cargo landing on the Moon. Additionally, the company is developing a test version of the Mk. 2 lander for launch as part of the Artemis III mission, which NASA hopes to fly during the second half of next year.

Blue Origin officials, including chief executive Dave Limp, have said the company is working toward rebuilding Launch Complex 36A, completing the anomaly investigation, and launching New Glenn on a return-to-flight mission before the end of this year. Privately, some NASA officials have expressed skepticism about this timeline. Most independent observers have suggested that a 12- to 18-month timeline is probably the most realistic for New Glenn’s return to flight.

Isaacman stressed this week that NASA’s preferred option is for the Endurance mission, which will carry two NASA science and technology payloads to the lunar surface, to launch on New Glenn.

“They’re making great progress,” Isaacman said of Blue Origin. “So plan A is very much still to launch the Mk. 1 on New Glenn. They are very committed to getting back in the business of launching New Glenn before the end of the year. And Plan A is looking a lot better today than it was weeks ago, just based on the progress that the Blue Origin team is making.”

I’d say, “Faster, please,” but this time it looks like Blue Origin might be moving as quickly as possible.

Posted at 2:49 pm by Stephen Green

CRIME: Cops Bust Would Be Casino Mass Shooter With An Actual Cache (This Time) of Weapons. “How many times have you seen a blaring headline that reads something like this? MAD KILLER WITH HUGE CACHE OF WEAPONS AND AMMO ARRESTED BY POLICE. You give in and click on the link, only to find that the HUGE CACHE consisted of a beat-up Charter Arms snubby, a Yeet Cannon with a missing front sight, and a sawed-off 870 along with five 50-round boxes of Monarch 9mm ammo and eight loose rounds birdshot.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Posted at 1:47 pm by Stephen Green

THANK YOU, SCOTLAND: The independence we declared 250 years ago on July 4 was very much a product of the influence of Scots, especially those who were hard-core Presbyterian ministers, and Scots professors who tutored people like Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and James Wilson.

Posted at 1:34 pm by Mark Tapscott

SAD: Why So Many Women Are Rethinking Motherhood in 2026—and It’s Not Just About Money. “Of course, there’s nothing wrong with deciding not to have kids, says Merle Bombardieri, MSW, LICSW, a parenthood decision-making coach who has specialized in this topic for 40 years. But some women are held prisoner by their anxiety and information overload, opting out of motherhood not because they don’t want kids but because they’re too afraid and overwhelmed.”

There are whole industries devoted to encouraging that anxiety and information overload.

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

2026: A WEIMAR ODYSSEY. Sir, Why Do You Want Babies To Suck Your Nipples? “‘ The conflict originated in 2019 when Buckley… posted on Facebook about inducing lactation in order to breastfeed his infant son. At the time, while Buckley’s wife was still pregnant, he publicly shared that he was taking hormones to grow breasts…’ This is where we are, people. Everyone remember where we parked.”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

BATTLESWARM: RAM Cartel? I Seriously Doubt It. “Manufacturers switching production from a less profitable product to a more profitable product isn’t some nefarious conspiracy, it’s how the market works. If they’re getting premium pricing for HBM memory that sells out instantly for the AI bubble, that’s what they’re going to produce. A whole lot of tech companies depended on the spot market for RAM because it gave them more flexibility and costs savings, but now it’s biting them in the ass. Their lack of foresight does not indicate a conspiracy or market failure.”

Posted at 12:45 pm by Stephen Green

ROGER KIMBALL: Why socialism will fail.

For those impervious to the siren call of socialism, its activities in the world seem like the truth according to Hegel, “a bacchanalian whirl in which no member is not drunk.” The sitting New York Democrats that Mamdani’s new squad just defeated are pretty far left. But they are the soul of moderation compared to the newcomers.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, who will be the Democratic candidate for New York’s 13th district, wants to abolish prisons, abolish ICE, abolish borders and defund the police. She thinks “all deportations are wrong” and has called the United States an “effing disgrace.” “I forgot to get napkins,” she wrote online, “so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”

Claire Valdez (NY-7) and Brad Lander (NY-10) are cut from the same cloth. Grant citizenship and voting rights to illegal aliens? Yep. Seize the property of “bad landlords”? You betcha. Eliminate private health insurance and make taxpayers pony up for all transgender procedures? But of course. Abolish ICE, forgive the $2 trillion of student-loan debt, pack the Supreme Court? Can you doubt it?

A standard option in all current models of socialism is a ferocious anti-Israel sentiment fed, although you are not supposed to notice this, through a noxious current of apparent anti-Semitism. “Israel doesn’t exist,” Chevalier tells her followers, while all three support Hamas and think that Israel’s actions to defend itself in Gaza count as “genocide.”

What will be the upshot or outcome of these political perturbations? The disclaimer found on many financial statements offers a useful reminder: past results are no guarantee of future performance. A persistent gremlin affecting our prognostications is the temptation to extrapolate simply from current trends to future realities. It is easy to discount the presence of countervailing forces.

True socialism has never been tried:  Mamdani Is Ignoring 40 Centuries of Economic Lessons.

Jonah’s tweet concludes, “There’s not a single major idea proposed by the DSA crowd that wasn’t an old idea before I was born. From price controls and rent-freezes, to wealth taxes, or shunning Jews. It’s all old, old hat. You can agree with it. Or admire it’s newfound energy or something. But the ideas are old, tried, and failed.”

Related:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

NAILED IT, INDEED:

And from the replies: “The Bible also says that if a man doesn’t work, he doesn’t eat. So, there is that.”

Posted at 11:58 am by Stephen Green

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Elon Musk is in the rabid left’s crosshairs — but he’s not the true target. “What’s happening to Musk is straight from the pages of Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ playbook, specifically Rule No. 13: ‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.'”

Plus:

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green

THE 1.9% SOLUTION:

Lefties get mad when you take the other people’s money away.

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE (IT BACK): Idaho Brings the Firing Squad Back to Center Stage. “The state has now made the firing squad its primary method of execution. Lethal injection remains available as a backup, but Idaho has moved the rifle ahead of the needle because the old system has become slow, fragile, and legally tangled.”

Posted at 11:12 am by Stephen Green