June 26, 2026

NAILED IT:

Posted at 4:07 pm by Stephen Green

I ORDERED ANOTHER GROSS OF UNEXPECTEDLIES:

Posted at 3:36 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

More:

There was just one problem…

It violates FAA rules.

So what did they do?

City attorney Miko Brown allegedly urged the airport to fabricate an investigation into the airline’s safety record to cover up for illegally discriminating against the airline for political reasons.

When word got out, Brown and Mayor Mike Johnston flat out denied it.

However CBS just obtained an internal airport memo appearing to reveal the entire thing was true.

Throw the book at them.

Posted at 3:05 pm by Stephen Green

HOW TO FIND THE MISSING MIDDLE IN HOUSING: Those aging suburbs around your town are likely not changing from an aging generation whose children have grown up because nobody is selling, even if there were young couples trying to buy. There are reasons for that, especially public tax policies that discourage empty nesters to put up For Sale signs according to the Institute for Family Studies (IFS):

“When seniors are locked into homes their children have long since left, those homes never reach the next generation of parents, and the neighborhoods where today’s adults grew up are closed to their own kids,” according to a deep-dive data analysis from IFS.

Why should anybody care?

“Unlocking those homes would do more than house young families. Aging owners freed to downsize could also move closer to their children and grandchildren, easing the hands-on caregiving that flows in both directions across generations—grandparents minding grandchildren, adult children looking after aging parents—and lessening the public cost of institutional care,” IFS reports.

Posted at 2:54 pm by Mark Tapscott

YES:

I noticed something similar a few weeks back:

It’s a neat trick, getting the proles to finance their own oppressors.

Posted at 2:34 pm by Stephen Green

DHIMMITUDE: Tucker Carlson Says He Used to Criticize Islam, but Now He Sees the Light. “Compounding Tucker Carlson’s dishonesty here is the fact that he is also making claims about Islam and dismissing those claims as ‘hysterical,’ and will never allow anyone who believes that there is a problem with Islam, or that the problem is Islam, onto his show to discuss it with him. He is, of course, free to feature anyone he wants, but his is not exactly a platform for open and honest discussion of the relevant issues that will allow for opinions that differ from those that Tucker Carlson holds. That also is his right, but when he makes sweeping claims that are false, as he does here, he does his audience an even greater disservice than usual. What about the Qur’an’s violent teachings? What about Islam’s doctrines of conquest and subjugation? Do they simply not exist now because Tucker Carlson says they’re hysterical?”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

RICH WHITE GUYS AREN’T THAT BAD, ACKSHULLY:

And from the replies: “Same with Serena and Venus Williams.”

Posted at 1:32 pm by Stephen Green

ROGER SIMON: Carville Speaks Up. Where Are Others?

James Carville lived up to his ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ nickname this week by taking on the newly elected Neo-Maoists (no, that’s not an exaggeration, at least not much of one) in his own party, who won legislative victories Tuesday.

Newser recounts the uproar in “I Want No Part of This Democratic Party”:

“Longtime figure on the right Tucker Carlson no longer wants to be part of the Republican party because of how it’s changing. Now longtime figure on the left James Carville no longer wants to be part of the Democratic party for the same reason. On the podcast Politicon, Carville said it’s time to openly consider splitting the party after three progressive candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, won House primaries in solidly blue districts on Tuesday, reports Mediaite.

“Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you,” Carville said of union organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier, referencing her past comments that white people should not be in interracial relationships. “I’m sorry. I’m just not. And I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the ‘s’ word: schism. I really do. Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no. We’re a coalition. We’re a big tent. And there’s just some s— I can’t be in the same tent with.” Avila Chevalier unseated Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, while state Rep. Claire Valdez defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, and former New York City comptroller Brad Lander easily beat Rep. Dan Goldman.”

The question of Zionism and Jews, of course, came up as it does ad nauseam, and Carville, though no fan of Netanyahu to put it mildly, was disgusted (his word) that these new so-called Democratic Socialists were more adamant about the complete destruction of Israel than they were about any domestic issue. “Free Palestine” was the main chant at Chavalier’s victory party.

Some exceptions do apply of course, particularly when Carville spots a candidate with the Reich Stuff:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

PURGE THE OBAMA FLAG OFFICERS:

Posted at 1:01 pm by Stephen Green

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: A single letter in 1968 ruined MSG’s reputation. Science is finally clearing its name. “So how did a completely natural flavor enhancer become one of the most misunderstood ingredients in modern history? It’s a recipe that calls for a bit of bad science, a dash of cultural bias, and a single letter written to a medical journal. In 1968, a doctor wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine about several symptoms he was experiencing. He reported numbness and even heart palpitations after eating at local Chinese restaurants. This physician’s observation led him to a hypothesis: could MSG be the cause? This single query did not immediately prompt the medical community to conduct a peer-reviewed study. Instead, the media ran wild with the story. Local papers and news broadcasts associated MSG with the dubious term ‘Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.’ And just like that, a safe food additive used around the globe became a culinary villain. And the stigma has stuck around ever since. . . . When FDA scientists finally put MSG to the test in the ’90s, the “syndrome” myth quickly crumbled. Research shows that consuming MSG in normal amounts causes no adverse symptoms.”

It’s amazing how many medical “facts” have similarly shaky roots.

Posted at 1:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

UNEXPECTEDLY: Seattle’s Sky-High Minimum Wage for Delivery Drivers Has Been a Disaster.

Gig workers make no more money, but prices went up.

Apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats added a $5 fee for consumers “to help cover the costs of these…regulations.”

Now Seattle residents complain about prices. “I ordered a $12 sandwich…$12 grew to $32!” complains one in my new video. “I just deleted the app.”

“[Work] has become slow because of the new law,” an app driver complains. DoorDash says it got 1.7 million fewer Seattle orders in 2024.

This is what happens when politicians dictate wages.

“Obviously, when you’re increasing cost to businesses, you’re going to increase costs to customers,” says economics professor Judge Glock. “These are unimaginably complicated markets where the company’s main job is interfacing between restaurants and delivery workers and customers. Then you have an economically illiterate city council or mayor who thinks, basically by looking at an industry through reading the news, they can appropriately regulate the exact wage.”

Former Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson admits that the politicians made a mistake: “We created a problem and it’s our responsibility to fix it.”

They repealed the harmful law?

No.

Government promises the solution that makes the problem worse that requires more government.

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green

OUT ON A LIMB: Self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist JD Vance has wild take on the ‘Deep State’s hand’ in Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

The vice president spoke at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California earlier this week as part of his media blitz for his latest memoir.

‘As I joked … backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story,’ Vance said when asked about the scandal.

‘The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.’

* * * * * * * * *

‘If you look at the story of how the ‘deep state’ took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump and the first Trump administration,’ Vance told the crowd.

‘There is a parallel.’

Vance, 41, also went on to compare himself to Nixon, who likewise became vice president in his early forties after serving as a senator from California.

‘Young senator, vice president, writes some best-selling books, is hated by the media,’ Vance mused.

‘It kind of sounds like JD Vance. … I’ve always liked Richard Nixon.’

Well okay, but that’s not going to win Vance approval from the leftists at the New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times (at least not until leaving office).

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll