July 13, 2026

IT’S COMPLICATED: When Florida Cops Act Like They’re Operating in California. “Things changed when the officers found Smith’s AR pistol. They measured the weapon and the barrel with a tape measure. They opened it up, which Smith believes was to make sure it had not been converted to full-auto. It hadn’t.”

Posted at 5:21 pm by Stephen Green

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old tomb near Egypt’s Luxor. “The tomb, identified as belonging to a man named Paser, was found by a Dutch archaeological mission from Leiden University in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna necropolis on Luxor’s West Bank, according to Egypt’s tourism and antiquities ministry. The team of archeologists will work to identify people buried there and learn more about them.”

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green

YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE:

When they tell you how they win, believe them.

Posted at 4:34 pm by Stephen Green

ICYMI: Paramount Plays Hardball Against Newsom’s Regulatory Goons “It’s official. ‘A coalition of state attorneys general have sued Paramount to stop its $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery,’ the Hollywood Reporter just said, calling it ‘a sweeping legal challenge to a merger that threatens to reshape Hollywood amid the absence of the Trump administration’s intervention in big deals.'”

Posted at 4:19 pm by Stephen Green

MAMDANI’S NYC: Homeless encampment with drug trafficking, prostitution reaches 12 blocks.

“Definitely getting worse,” she added. “People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”

Nearby workers have said that open drug dealing and prostitution have become commonplace, with one tent reportedly serving as a gathering place for sex work, drug transactions, or both.

“This is crazy,” said one supervisor at the Jacob Javits Center nearby. “The cops and the sanitation guys and the outreach guys, they clean up one spot and after that day, the next day they’re over here. Then they’re over there. They’re kind of just spreading around.”

The supervisor explained that the worst parts are on 36th and 37th, where it is filled with heroin addicts.

Meanwhile, one vagrant there called socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani “awesome” for allowing the encampment to continue and halting police raids. This comes as city records show that 311 calls complaining about the vagrants increased to 48 this year from 40 in 2025.

Gooder and harder.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE. US ambassador to NATO says Iran ‘controlled by a bunch of crazy people.’

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said Sunday that Iran is “controlled by a bunch of crazy people” after escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.

“President Trump’s a peacemaker, Jake, and he wants a deal with Iran. He wants to make sure that they never have a nuclear weapon, that they join the world as a contributor and a normalized country,” Whitaker told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”

“But right now it’s, you know, as President Trump has said, and Marco Rubio has also stated, you know, this country is controlled by a bunch of crazy people,” he added.

That’s “murderously crazy people” to you, bub.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

BRITISH POLICE UNDER PRESSURE FOR SUGGESTING ANN WIDDECOMBE ‘MURDER’ WAS NOT POLITICAL:

News of the arrest was announced at a press conference in Exeter at 11am on Sunday, with Mr Longman again playing down any suggestion Miss Widdecombe had been targeted because of her politics.

In a statement, he explained: “At this time, there is still no information to suggest that this is a terrorism-related incident. And at this point, we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder.

“Detectives remain open-minded about any potential motive, but at this stage, there is nothing to suggest that it was politically motivated.”

But Reform UK politicians expressed scepticism and suggested that Miss Widdecombe’s uncompromising views and politics might have made her a target.

They even began reviewing the emails she received in the weeks before she was killed to see whether there had been any threats against her life.

Meanwhile, detectives had begun questioning the suspect and were searching his home and examining his electronic devices.

On Sunday evening, detectives uncovered “new information and evidence” which significantly altered the course of the investigation, suggesting the alleged murder might have had a terrorist motive.

Given that it’s England, this will all end very badly for the miscreant:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

KERCH UPDATE: Ukraine’s New Naval Strategy Is Brilliantly Simple. “There’s line of military thinking that says it’s better to wound a soldier than to kill him outright. A dead man can be buried later, but a wounded man requires at least two more to get him off the field. Similarly, every damaged tanker and ferry isn’t just a lost means of getting people, fuel, and equipment where they’re needed. They’re added logistical burdens to a country already under logistical strain after more than four years of heavy fighting and nearly 1.5 million dead and wounded.”

Posted at 2:15 pm by Stephen Green

KURT SCHLICHTER: No Democrat Has the Brains or Courage to Not Be Crazy.

There’s a big empty lane within Democrat politics, and unfortunately for the Democrats, no one seems to be smart or brave enough to merge into it. What’s that lane? It’s the “Not being completely crazy while also not being completely ancient” lane. It really is that simple. Someone could swoop into that electoral sweet spot, but so far, no one has seen fit to take the risk and fight the fight to capitalize—though they all do hate capitalism—on this tremendous opportunity. All they have to do is just act normal and not be a million years old to distinguish themselves and maybe win by appealing to normal people again.

That’s really all there is to it. Instead, they’re crowding the freak lane while leaving the normal lane empty. Several Democrats who were born after the Jurassic Age have danced around it, but none have committed. It’s apparently too much to ask that they not be complete Leftist freaks.

Let’s get the easy part out of the way, which is not being old. The Democrat Party is a gerontocracy. As we’ve seen, the boomer generation has clutched onto power, sucking the lifeblood of the young to keep themselves in office forever. U.S. Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), former president Joe Biden, U.S. Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43), and many others—what do they have in common besides a relentless commitment to Moloch? They think Methuselah is a whippersnapper. Only now are they beginning to loosen their grip, and that’s simply because they’re literally too old to maintain it.

What you see now inside the Democrat Party is not so much a fight over ideology—as we’ll see, socialism has been the ideology of the Democrat Party for decades, and now they’re moving into full-scale communism. They’re just shy about telling the truth to the voters. The moderates are social democrats, and the social democrats are outright communists. There are almost no real moderates left, no Democrats of the kind you might have recognized from the 1990s.

There’s quite a feedback loop among far left politicians and their base, both of which appear to be permanently trapped in both the worldview and the adornments of 2020: Democratic Socialists of America activist deletes photo because everyone in the group looks retarded.

 

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

AND THEY’RE NOT WRONG: The Last Time America Got It Right, According to MAGA’s Next Generation.

Whether many in the crowd were old enough to remember the songs — or, pointedly, alive when they topped the charts — was beside the point. To Washington’s new Republican elite, the 1990s, and its nostalgia, swagger and anti-establishment edge, have become the house style.

At one level, the 90s-ification of Washington is indicative of generational change after years of boomer ascendancy. Malik is candid that he’s curated a list of headliners for the club — Busta Rhymes, Akon, Timbaland, Nelly — who were topping the charts in his college years. Marco Rubio drops Cypress Hill in the White House briefing room. Kash Patel made an FBI recruitment video that recreated, nearly shot for shot, a 1994 Beastie Boys music video. JD Vance credits Boyz n the Hood with shaping his entire political worldview.

These are Gen Xers and millennials. Of course they are referencing the culture they grew up on.

But the nostalgia is more than generational reflex. It carries a political argument — that the 90s, in their telling, was the last time America got it right. The Cold War was over. The Soviet Union had collapsed. By decade’s end, the U.S. was running a budget surplus for the first time in a generation. China had not yet joined the World Trade Organization, the move many blame for hollowing out American manufacturing. It was, in many ways, the last moment of American supremacy — before 9/11, before the 2008 financial crisis, before Covid, before the long cascade of failures this generation inherited.

“The conservative party in the 90s was pining for the 50s,” Malik told POLITICO Magazine. “Now, we’re pining for the 90s.”

This next generation, more often than not, is reaching not for the decade’s feel-good touchstones like Friends, Titanic or Mariah, but for the decade’s darker and more anti-establishment canon: hip-hop, grunge, alt-rock and Tarantino.

“Being anti-establishment, it’s always in vogue,” said one senior White House official, granted anonymity to speak on an unapproved topic.

To illustrate the above article in graphic terms:

 

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll