Compare and contrast

"Forcing CNN to fly commercial is the end of the First Amendment!"

Meanwhile: "Jack Smith Crossed the Line: 87 White House Phones and 17 Major News Outlets Swept Up in Dragnet."

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning, and Chairman Chuck Grassley wasted little time revealing new details about the extraordinary reach of the investigation that eventually became Smith's election case against President Donald Trump.

The biggest revelation may be just how far investigators reached beyond Trump himself.

Grassley said investigators subpoenaed 87 phones belonging to Trump White House officials and obtained records containing communications with journalists at major news organizations, including CBS News, CNN, Fox News, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Federalist. CBS News reported the disclosure live from Tuesday's hearing.

The "No Kings!" crowd should be apocalyptic over the government spying on media outlets.  But they're not just like the last time a Democrat wiretapped the press. 

We're running out of fiscal space

The era of easy borrowing is close to an end.  Washington Post editorial board: "When America’s pot of debt will overflow."

This can't be cured by just "taxing the rich":

Budget reforms must be based primarily on spending constraints, not tax hikes. While some moderate tax increases could help reduce the deficit, it is not feasible to structure a tax system in which revenue grows faster than the economy every year, which is what would be necessary given current spending projections.

Even boosting revenue as a share of GDP to the highest levels in American history would close less than half of this year’s deficit, and such a large tax hike would destroy economic growth. No major tax proposal on its own, except perhaps a national value-added tax, comes anywhere near closing the deficit when the effect on economic growth is properly accounted for.

Where are we going to cut spending?

Constraining spending will need to be primarily focused on entitlement programs.

Yeah, good luck with that. 

Jew-hatred is central to the DSA

Legal Insurrection: "AOC Cornell Event Hosted by DSA Begins With ‘From the River to the Sea’ Chant - AOC’s campaign described the event as “part of an effort by the Congresswoman to boost turnout in Democratic strongholds ahead of the November election.”

Will anybody ask AOC if she disowns this call to destroy Israel?  Don't hold your breath.

Too much debt

Here come the bond vigilantes.  Washington Post: "Bond markets are a canary. Trump isn’t listening. - Fiscal mismanagement could expose the United States to bond vigilantes."

Trump isn't listening?  This debt bomb has been growing over decades and Covid-era spending just super-charged it.  

Enemy of the state

NY Post: "Why Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn Iran’s Revolutionary Guard thugs"

El-Sayed certainly believes that Western nations are as evil as jihadists, or worse.

That moral equivalence was on display in his now-deleted 2021 tweet commemorating 9/11.

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed tweeted — before adding, “Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country.”

It’s clear from that comment that El-Sayed believes America is far worse than the Islamist extremists of the Middle East.

In a healthier era, any one of these relationships would have sunk a candidacy.

At this point, Michigan voters are well aware of El-Sayed’s radicalism — and yet he’s poised to become our first Islamist senator.

Of all the Democrats I want to see defeated in November, El-Sayed is #1.  But he's currently ahead in the polls in Michigan and part of me just can't believe it.  He's had a long list of anti-American statements, he's lied about being a doctor, and he simply refuses to distance himself from Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker, waving him away as a "Twitch streamer."

The media used to eat guys like this alive but they'll forgive anything and anyone on the other side of Trump.  That's where we are now.

Extra: PJ Media: "Nothing Says ‘Broaden the Coalition’ Like Threatening to Whup Bill Maher."

Don't commit murder while wearing your Apple watch

Townhall: "Is This the Cringiest Courtroom Moment in a Murder Trial?"

He allegedly murdered his wife and called 911 when he was woken by the "intruder" but his watch showed him walking all over the place before the call.

This reminds me of a story of a woman who found out her husband was cheating because her Fitbit weight scale kept reporting wide swings in weight.  Turns out the mistress was using the scale and the weight was automatically tracked in the Fitbit app.

C'mon, we all saw this coming

It’s all too predictable. https://t.co/WUqpf54AAY

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 25, 2026

It's a shame

Hot Air: "How Scared Are Students to Speak on College Campuses?"

No lies detected

Hot Air: "Milei: UN 'Useless Organization Whose...Purpose Is to Sustain a Caste of Fatally Arrogant Parasites'."

Grift might be over

Charles C.W. Cooke: "That Should Be Curtains for Nikole Hannah-Jones."

There’s nothing shameful about being wrong from time to time. We all are. But when you are catastrophically wrong on the one thing for which you are known, then it’s time to do something else with your life. There are many other people in this country who are thinking seriously about education and who have not been embarrassingly, publicly wrong on the topic. Nikole Hannah-Jones completely ignores them — seriously, search for the word “Mississippi” in her essay! — because their work is fatal to her worldview. Americans ought to respond to this by ignoring Nikole Hannah-Jones in turn.

What an own-goal.

The red carpet for red China

NY Post: "Don’t be fooled — Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi is a strategic coup."

Hmmm...

Is this something?  Red State: "Report: Senior IRGC Commander Taken Out in Armed Attack - by Iranians." 

Western Massachusetts update

This is the top story in the Boston Globe today: "A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead."

Five years after Covid, a lesbian bar in Greenfield decided to make masking optional.  Here are some of the very measured and reasonable comments made by some patrons:

“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.

“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.

Fun times!

Extra - Ace copycatted me and posted the same story 20 minutes after me.  LOOK AT THE TIMESTAMPS.  His post is much longer and makes a great point I should have included.  The owner of this bar tried to apologize and just made it worse:

Now, you're not going to believe this, but it turns out that apologizing to an SJW does not appease them, but encourages them to become even more shrill and hateful in demanding further concessions.

She started to cry and the response was "save your tears, racist!" 

Trump Derangement Syndrome

Federalist: "Poll: Death Wish Dems Want Trump Dead Or Taken Out By Military Coup."

The papers here the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts are crammed with letters from insane people who are in a constant state of rage over every tiny thing Trump does.  They're incapacitated by the ballroom.  They seethe over "Lake America."

It's a mental illness, as this poll indicates.

Extra - PJ Media: "This Poll of Liberals Is Absolutely Terrifying." 

Gotta respect the commitment to the grift

Ace: "Nikole Hannah-Jones, Who Is Unaccountably Wealthy Due to Being a DEI Race Grifter and History Hoaxer, Sent Her Kids to Poor-Performing Schools As a Political Race Stunt."

As somebody noted, this is unintentionally the greatest advertisement for school choice.

Another reason to stay home

Red State: "Sigh: Ed Sheeran Caves to the Pressure From Left in New Statement About War in Gaza."