April 7, 2026

CHARLES MURRAY, CALL YOUR OFFICE!

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However, at the same time, they’ve been in a heterosexual marriage for 20+ years and have 4 children together. By those measures, they are more “trad” in terms of their own lifestyle than most Americans are, even a lot of conservatives aren’t married with 4 kids.

So what that tells me is the Newsoms KNOW that the traditional family model is the best; that’s why they chose it when they both could’ve chosen anything else. But as elites they still promote insidious ideologies that end up harming the ordinary people who listen to them. It’s a perfect illustration of “luxury beliefs.”

As Charles Murray wrote over 15 years ago, “When it comes to marriage and the work ethic, the new upper class must start preaching what it practices.”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THAT SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT:

And from the replies: “Always great to see the so-called antifascists talk so openly about how they will seize more power when given the opportunity.”

Today’s Democrats certainly aren’t shy about how brutally they’ll wield power, the next time they take it.

Posted at 5:12 pm by Stephen Green

SCHRÖDINGER’S LIB:

Posted at 4:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE GREAT SATAN:

 

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

VDH: The Left Is Baffled—but Still Repulsed—by the White Working Class.

Democrats realize that their fixations on biological males competing in women’s sports, open borders and millions of illegal entries, radical green agendas, DEI-driven racial essentialism, and massive government entitlements rife with fraud have alienated the middle classes in general and white middle- and working-class voters in particular.

But since Democrat ideologues cannot shed their ideological straitjackets, they have instead tried to finesse the very problem that cost them the 2024 election.

They recall, in particular, the successful blueprint that won them the 2020 election. During that campaign, Joe Biden largely remained out of public view, hiding in his basement, while his handlers reconstructed him as a kind of waxen effigy of “good ol’ Joe from Scranton,” a throwback to the 1970s.

Once the cognitively diminished Biden was elected, his hard-left, Obama-era operatives behind that ossified, working-man veneer enacted the most radical four-year agenda in modern American history.

On the one hand, Democrats claim they will field candidates who can at least playact as good ol’ boy farmers and salt-of-the-earth welders.

The 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate, Humpty Dumpty lookalike Tim Walz, talked incessantly about driving a pickup truck. He assured us he could change its oil and tried to portray himself as a genuine hunter. Yet these claims often came across as inauthentic, strained, and condescending; the more Walz tried to present himself as a man of the people, the more he appeared buffoonish.

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg, became a caricature of the sanctimonious, credentialed technocrat—self-righteously and arrogantly projecting expertise without much humility or even a shred of the common touch. As transportation secretary, Buttigieg used to pontificate about racist freeway clover leaves, rather than addressing the more immediate problems posed by the gridlocked and decrepit condition of the nation’s highways.

Now, as the 2028 election looms, Buttigieg has followed Democratic central casting and undergone a complete reboot, reemerging with a beard, a trucker cap, and a flannel shirt.

No matter, he still sounds as pedantic as ever in his riff on green energy and “diversity.”

Does Buttigieg’s love of green energy and hatred of racist roads mean he won’t be eating many carburetors for breakfast in his campaign ads?

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

JUDGE HIM BY THE WAR-CRIME APPLAUDING COMPANY HE KEEPS:

Posted at 4:04 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: A deep dive into Colorado’s billion-dollar budget deficit.

In a recent episode of Independence Institute’s* public affairs TV show, Devil’s Advocate, host Jon Caldara and the state’s chief economist, Greg Sobetski, dive deep into Colorado’s more than one billion-dollar budget shortfall, finding, among other things, pandemic-era funding, rising Medicaid costs, and federal tax changes as major culprits.

Sobetski explains that during COVID, Colorado enjoyed a glut of federal aid and higher-than-expected revenues. Rather than using that money for short-term needs, the legislature instead spent down those reserves propping up ongoing spending obligations, leaving lawmakers scrambling to sustain a bigger state budget without the one-time money that had been keeping things afloat.

The two also look at runaway Medicaid spending, with Caldara arguing Colorado expanded the program too far, including able-bodied adults and illegal immigrants, and now risks harming more vulnerable recipients when the inevitable cuts come.

The podcast is titled, “Is Colorado Broke?”

We’re still on the “gradually” part, but the “suddenly” part always comes, well, suddenly.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:

Ask yourself why Western elites freak out about any kind of colonialism — except Islamic.

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

RELIGIOUS FERVER: The Legacy of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” 20 Years Later. “Gore’s orations perfectly followed the script of the “New Apocalypticism”: The identification of an existential crisis, the diagnosis of human sin as its cause, the urgency of transformation, and the comfort of redemption for those who heed the warning. The climate science community readily embraced this script and adopted the language of believers and deniers to differentiate those with faith and those yet to be converted, and who risked excommunication.”

Whatever that is, it ain’t science.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

ARTEMIS RETURNING STUNNING NEW IMAGES FROM THE FAR SIDE:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

GRAY ZONE? NO, THAT’S RIGHT IN THE RED:

Posted at 2:31 pm by Stephen Green

BREAKER MORANT: THE NEXT GENERATION. Australia’s most decorated living veteran to be charged with committing 5 war crime murders in Afghanistan.

Australia’s most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, faces war crime charges on allegations that he killed five unarmed Afghans while serving in Afghanistan from 2009 and 2012, police and media reported on Tuesday.

Police have not confirmed the name of the 47-year-old former soldier who was arrested on Tuesday. But he has been widely reported in the media to be Roberts-Smith, a former Special Air Service Regiment corporal who was awarded both the Victoria Cross and Medal of Gallantry for his service in Afghanistan.

He is expected to appear in a Sydney court late Tuesday or Wednesday, police said.

Plus, great moments in DEI:

 

Maybe she’s just back from Stalingrad:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll