April 11, 2026

WORLD ENDS; WOMEN, MINORITIES, SAME-SEX COUPLES HARDEST HIT:

 

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

FENWAY PARK VIDEO SHOWS THE AMERICA WE LOST: “After receiving almost 10 million views, the video was so flooded with pointed comments that Fenway had to lock it. The message was clear: The America in the video exposed the unmistakable decline of our current nation. Millions of viewers saw it and immediately understood why.”

Predictably, the first instinct of critics on the left was to cry racism over these heartfelt reactions to a lost America. It is true that the crowds in the footage were overwhelmingly white. Therefore, the argument goes, any longing that scene stirs in people must be rooted in racism and xenophobia, rather than a recognition of the defects of our current cultural reality.

This is a lazy, intellectually dishonest dodge. Race is not the point; assimilation is. The people in that 1950s footage were, in many cases, themselves first- or second-generation Americans—Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, among others. They were people whose parents or grandparents had arrived here through Ellis Island. They did not come to recreate the old country on American soil, transforming it. They came to become American—to transform themselves. They learned the language, embraced the civic norms, cheered on the same teams as their neighbors, and played by the same unwritten rules that made public spaces safe and orderly. Baseball was not merely entertainment. It was a sacrament of a shared American identity.

That unifying force is precisely what is missing today. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu—who was booed loudly along with Governor Maura Healey on the field at Opening Day—recently declared that “you cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had … without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.” The Fenway video is a devastating rebuttal to her. There are no Somalis visible in those 1950s stands—nor could there have been, given the timeline.

Boston was already a thriving, safe city then—long before the mass migration waves of recent decades. Wu’s historically inaccurate boast is not just pandering, but a symptom of our so-called elites’ refusal to acknowledge that America’s greatness was built by those who bought into its culture, not by those who were imported to transform it.

Make America this again:

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

AN INCONVENIENT SHARKNADO: Why Adam McKay’s Thrash Drowns in Climate Fearmongering.

There are two distinct signs that Climate Change fearmonger Adam McKay produced the shark thriller “Thrash.”

The creative team gave him a shout-out with a McKay-themed tanker that spills its cargo early in the film. And the story never stops reminding us that we helped make the movie’s signature storm a reality.

Where’s that Al Gore cameo when you need it?

“Thrash” is still an unabashed B-movie, and it works best by leaning into those genre tics. The story simply doesn’t know whether to let loose or keep reminding us why we need to reduce our carbon footprint, and stat.

(Except China can do what it pleases…)

In the last decade, I’d ask when will Hollywood lower its own carbon footprint by cutting its output? Fortunately for all concerned, 2020 and Gavin Newsom has forced them to do just that. If it saves just one person from the eco-apocalypse…

Posted at 1:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

COMCAST-APPROVED: ‘That Ain’t My Party:’ Al Sharpton Says It Would Be ‘Crazy’ for Black People To Celebrate America’s 250th as 2028 Dem Hopefuls Pay Homage to Him.

“They’re going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country July 4, but that’s not our celebration. We was—we were slaves then, and they celebrate signing the Declaration of Independence 1776,” said Sharpton.

“It seems crazy for me to have on the birthday hat at your birthday party. That ain’t my party,” said Sharpton, who later claimed that “white kids” have not been taught the history of slavery in schools.

“So when white kids hear us talking about reparations or affirmative action,” he went on, “they think it’s an attack ’cause they don’t know what their granddaddy did to us.”

Racial issues were front and center at the convention, in which Sharpton held “fireside chats” with nine Democrats considering presidential bids in 2028. In addition to Harris, Moore, and Pritzker, Sharpton interviewed Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, California congressman Ro Khanna, Arizona senator Ruben Gallego, and others. Sharpton in those interviews focused largely on issues like DEI and investment in black businesses, avoiding hot-button topics like the United States’ 250th birthday celebration and reparations for slavery.

Harris gave the strongest indication of any in the group that she will run in 2028.

“I might,” she told Sharpton on Friday when asked whether she will launch a third presidential bid. “I’m thinking about it.”

The Democrats who appeared at the convention did so in spite of Sharpton’s lengthy record of inflammatory anti-white and anti-Semitic remarks. The activist gained notoriety in the 1980s for representing Tawana Brawley, a black woman who falsely accused white NYPD officers of raping her. In 1991, shortly after forming the National Action Network, Sharpton helped stoke the Crown Heights riots, in which rioters in Brooklyn targeted Jewish businesses and murdered an Orthodox Jew. After the riots ended, Sharpton derogatorily referred to the neighborhood’s Hasidic Jewish population as “the diamond merchants in Crown Heights.”

Last week, Democratic Party house organ Axios claimed, “Dems weighing 2028 campaigns run from 2020 positions.” The Democratic presidential candidate who has a Sister Souljah-style break from Al Sharpton’s decades of toxic politics would go far in signaling that the he or she has moved past the 2020 woke-era.

In the meantime, though:

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

“CHINA IS SMILING WATCHING AMERICA’S PUNDIT IMBECILES:”

UPDATE:

“Supreme leader dead, Iranian air force destroyed, nuclear sites attacked again. The Navy of Iranian Revolutionary government at the bottom of the ocean. These are not small things. It’s not the case that the Iranian Revolutionary government has come out of this well.”

Posted at 12:55 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOW WILL THE EU HANDLE A TWO-FRONT WAR? VERY BADLY:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE FIX IS IN, PART II:

Previously:

Posted at 10:36 am by Stephen Green