Once you decide how much somebody "needs"

All bets are off.  Twitchy: "Bernie Sanders Asks How ‘Poor’ Mark Zuckerberg Will Survive If CA Passes Wealth Tax."

Does Bernie really need three homes?  Can't he sell two to feed the poor?

Endgame in Iran

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Iran War at the Crossroads."

We know the tired Iranian strategy by now. We might call it “theocratic rope-a-dope.” For the theocrats and their terrorist proxies, survival means outlasting Trump, waiting for the next cash-laden Democratic administration, and using “moderates” to play good cop while haggling away months.

The mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps feign indifference even as their half-century, half-trillion-dollar investments in what is now essentially a vaporized military-industrial-nuclear complex continue to be destroyed.

The war has finally revealed the full extent of Iran’s vast conventional arsenal, nuclear program, and missile and drone industry.

The thing about the rope-a-dope strategy is that you're still being pummeled.  The Iranians don't seem to realize it but day by day their influence in the region wanes.  Countries and oil companies are adjusting with new pipelines and tanker routes.  Soon enough, it won't matter that the Strait of Hormuz is controlled (or not) by the Iranians.  The world will have moved on.

Hope you're happy now

PJ Media: "Anthony Fauci: The Man Who Destroyed America’s Trust in Science."

Fauci did this: "Confidence in U.S. Institutions Remains Near All-Time Low." 

Federalist: "Unless Fauci Is Held Accountable, America Will Never Recover From His Lies - Because of Fauci, the U.S. government’s disastrous pandemic response was based on a tangled web of lies and subterfuge." 

Get out

Hot Air: "NYTimes Shocked, Shocked to Find Immigration Enforcement in Airports!"

Ace: "Media Can't Stop Boo-Hoo Whinin' and Cryin' That Trump Is Deporting The Democrats' Best Voters." 

It's times like this I wonder if newspapers actually believe their own bullshit or if they're just pandering to their liberal readers.

This is quite the development

NY Post: "Immigrant-led business group votes to sue NYC over Mamdani’s taxpayer-funded grocery stores, alleging unfair competition."

An immigrant-led business group is gearing up to sue New York City over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial plan to open five taxpayer-funded supermarkets — claiming the $70 million project will create unfair competition for nearby stores, The Post has learned.

As the far-left mayor announced new details of his plan this week — including a 30% discount on basic items like produce, meat, milk, cheese and bread – the Multicultural Business Coalition’s board voted to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the pricey initiative, the group’s chairman Frank Garcia told The Post. 

This whole government-run grocery store is so incredibly stupid on so many levels.

New Yorkers vacationing in Florida next year https://t.co/xoj2usF76C pic.twitter.com/ooKy2e3f09

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) July 27, 2026

Never enough

Jonathan Turley: "The Fair Share Myth and Other Socialist Fables"

The fair share myth is a virtual mantra among socialist and Democratic leaders, from Mamdani to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). In my book, “Rage and the Republic,” I address the false claim that the wealthy are not “paying their fair share.” In fact, the top 10 percent already pay more taxes than the bottom 90 percent combined.

In 2023, the top 1 percent paid an estimated 38.4 percent of all federal individual income taxes. One can certainly raise the need for additional taxes to support public works, but it is simple demagoguery to claim that the wealthy do not pay their fair share when the top 10 percent pay an estimated 75 percent of federal income taxes. The U.S. income tax system is already the most progressive in the developed world, even before additional New York state and city taxes are added in.

Turley also exposes the myth of the Nordic countries, always held up as "socialism" while their own leaders declare "we're not socialists." 

Massive ego trip

Federalist: "6 Years Later, Fauci’s Diary Confirms The Federalist Was Right About Everything." 

Looks like they ran out of other people's money

Townhall: "Democrats Mortgage Headquarters for $15 Million to Bail Out of Their Financial Fiasco."

That's the real crime

The Enterprise: "The Outsider the WNBA Cannot Forgive: The Caitlin Clark Problem."

The WNBA was handed the thing it had awaited for three decades, a player who could make the country care, and the country did. The arenas filled, the networks bid against one another, and the money came in torrents. At the precise moment the league should have been raising walls around the source of all of it, it kept reaching, instead, for the knife. Revealed preference is a stern teacher. Watch what the league does, not what it says, and you will know what it has decided Caitlin Clark is worth. So you may be asking what the real issue is and the answer to me is clear - the league is struggling with the fact that it took a straight white woman to make it relevant.

Sophie "The Pointer" Cunningham is coming up strong, too. 

At least she answered the questions

Red State: "DSA Co-Chair Confirms Its Extreme Agenda in Stunning Admission on Live TV."

The Sunday morning shows have become unwatchable because guests are asked simple questions and they inevitably respond with stump speeches and non-answers.  At least this woman laid it on the line.

Oh, sure, it's the cancer

Washington Post: "The shrinking world of former president Joe Biden - Cancer treatment has sharply limited Biden’s post-White House life even as his upcoming memoir threatens to reopen debates over his health and presidency."

You know I have no interest in talking about Joe Biden anymore (although I'll be interested to see how he rationalizes his Presidency in his memoir) but this gaslighting by the mainstream media is beyond the pale.  Biden isn't hiding because of his cancer.  He's hiding because he has been brain-addled for a very long time which is why he avoided the press for his entire Administration.

Flashback: "Staffer dressed as Easter Bunny stops Biden from answering reporter’s question."

Quarterback on Netflix

I'm currently about halfway through "Quarterback" on Netflix and I just need to say this: Joe Flacco is just about the coolest guy in the NFL.  This guy has played on half the teams in the entire NFL but he steps up every time.  A true professional.

The paper of record

Babylon Bee: "Trump Asks Democrats At Correspondents' Dinner To Hold All Assassination Attempts Until He Finishes Speech." 

Code word: Madagascar

Legal Insurrection: "College Professor’s Clever AI Trap Uncovers Rampant Cheating" - “The average grade was 96, with 40 students obtaining a perfect score. That compared to a midterm average ranging between 65 and 80 in previous years.”

Genius: he posted in white text a nonsense instruction to include the word "Madagascar" in an essay about the Industrial Revolution.  Thirty-two students just cut and pasted it into AI and spit out an essay they didn't even bother to proofread.

Not so long ago

Twitchy: "Elon Musk Told a Journo That Open Borders Dems Weren't Always Crazy (and Video Backs That Up)."

Specifically on immigration. 

Extra - Atlantic magazine 2024: "How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration"

Cui Bono?

NY Post: "Democrats pick South Carolina for first primary of 2028 in possible boost to Kamala Harris, dethroning Iowa and New Hampshire."

Good for Kamala!  I can think of another person who benefits if Kamala is the nominee.

These two clowns

Reason: "Zohran Mamdani Tells Jon Stewart Socialism Is Just Having a Library - Please stop letting these people lie about what their preferred economic system entails." 

Can we all appreciate the courage of Mamdani to appear on Jon Stewart's hard-hitting interview show?  So brave.  So stunning.

Makes sense to me, what's your problem?

Legal Insurrection: "Columnist Invokes Emmitt Till Murder to Attack Caitlin Clark - You know, just when I thought leftists couldn’t sink any lower, they do."

I don't even blame the columnist.  I blame the so-called editors at USA Today who allowed this tripe to be published in a national newspaper.

Elon to media: you suck

Red State: "Boom: Elon Delivers Mic Drop Moment Against the Media During Fiery Interview."

$17 for a Subway sub

That's it: the headline is the story.

I was in a hurry tonight so I got a footlong BMT and with tip it was $17 and change.  Maybe that's why the store was completely empty at 6:30pm.  I know the days of the "$5 footlong" are long past but, c'mon man.