"One time"

Sure, Bernie, sure.  The only person to ever get rich from socialism has thoughts: "Bernie Sanders' AI Wealth Fund Bill Shows That He Doesn't Understand AI or Wealth - Sanders' plan would impose a one-time tax of 50 percent of AI companies' stock and give the government voting shares and the power to block corporate decisions." 

It's "black Little Mermaid" all over again

Twitchy: "Governor Newsom Press Office Genuinely Sorry for the MAGA People Miserable About Pride Month."

Who are these "MAGA" people, Gavin?  This guy is the textbook definition of projection. 

Hmmmm

Red State: "Speculation Runs Wild After Maine Gov. Janet Mills Throws a Wrench in Senate Primary Race."

She's just sayin' "hey, my name is still on the ballot - wink wink."

Worst reality show ever

Hot Air: "To Live and Die on Camera in Karen Bass's LA."

He was sending dick pics

Townhall: "The Nazi Tattoo, the Reddit Posts, and Now This: Graham Platner's Senate Campaign in Crisis."

Sheesh, every other day it's something new with this guy.

Update - It gets worse.  The Democrats are going to pull a Torricelli.  Watch it happen.

Cognitive dissonance in Boston

Renee Graham is a reliable race grifter for the Boston Globe with nearly every article of hers recounting a parade of horribles and examples of awful repression.  Here's a typical headline: "Jim Crow 2.0 is already working as the Supreme Court’s conservatives intended."

She's very, very upset that the cane-shaking clown Al Green was defeated in the Democrat primary for a Houston Congressional seat.  Just wait until you see Jim Crow in action!

But in Tuesday’s primary runoff, the Black Democratic congressman became a casualty of racist gerrymandering ordered by Trump and codified by the conservative-led Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act last month. Green lost his seat to Representative Christian Menefee, 38, also a Black incumbent, because new congressional maps forced them to compete in the same Houston district.

Sure, Menefee is also Black but he's not Black Black, I guess.

Violence on the Left

Federalist: "Swatting Incident At Justice Barrett’s Home Is Another ‘Hit’ From Schumer’s ‘Whirlwind’."

Red State: "'FAFO': Todd Blanche Shares Satisfying Update on NJ Agitator Seen Threatening to Kill ICE Agents." 

But muh good intentions

Washington Post editorial: "What ‘equity’ in college testing has wrought" - "Idealists hoped that eliminating tests would somehow usher in an egalitarian nirvana in higher education. That experiment has failed badly, and so will other crusades for equity based on false pretenses." 

Crazy data point: "in the last five years, the number of students whose mathematics skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold." 

That's DR. Jill Biden

Washington Free Beacon: "Don't Take Medical Advice from Jill Biden." 

Perhaps you should have him on your "show"

Hollywood in Toto: "Is Kimmel’s Pratt Assault Start of New Late-Night War? - Far-Left host uses personal attacks to slam candidate offering L.A. hope."

It’s all misdirection and personal attacks. 

There’s a simple way to clear things up. Invite Pratt on your program. Except Kimmel would never do that. He doesn’t air opposing views, let alone engage in fair debate.

Why? He’d be creamed if he did. And, mid-creaming, his audience would say, “hey, Kimmel’s guest has a point.” And Kimmel doesn’t play that way.

This is the most galling thing about Kimmel and Colbert and all these other "entertainers": they can't take a punch. 

Girl boss + Rachel Zegler + superhero fatigue

Outkick: "'Supergirl' pre-release tracking looks disastrously bad for Hollywood after lead actress' bizarre comments - Star Milly Alcock's divisive remarks and underwhelming trailers have tracking estimates far below studio hopes." 

Everybody act surprised

NY Post: "Mamdani slammed after revealing why he’s boycotting NYC’s Israel Day Parade: ‘I’ve made my views clear’."

I'm so old that I remember when Ed Koch used to rule NYC.  What a sad state of affairs. 

Speaking of insulting our intelligence

Twitchy: "Zaid Jilani Wants to Know Why Graham Platner’s ‘Accidental Tattoo’ Is Disqualifying."

Most of the comments here suggest it's impossible to get an "accidental" tattoo since the process involves sitting in a chair for hours while you're poked with a needle.  But I heard of a guy who got a tattoo he described both as a "real beauty" and a "Mexican cutie" but that "how it got here, I haven't a clue."

Don't do this

NY Post: "Jill Biden shockingly admits she thought Joe was ‘having a stroke’ during disastrous 2024 debate with Trump."

Jill Biden has claimed in a new interview that she thought her husband Joe was “having a stroke” during his infamous 2024 debate with Donald Trump, after she staunchly defended her husband from the immediate political fallout.

“I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” she told CBS News in a sitdown set to air in full Sunday ahead of the June 2 release of her memoir, “View from the East Wing.”

Oh Dr. Jill.  Do you know how we know this is a lie?  Because Joe Biden has dropped off the face of the earth. Mr. "Sharp as a Tack" has disappeared from the public eye.

Ace: ""Doctor" Jill Biden Continues the Family Business of Lying, Claiming She Had "Never, Ever" Seen Joe Biden As Confused As He Was During the 2024 Debate, "Before or Since"."

Of course this friendly Advertisement Opportunity was conducted with a friendly hand-picked Democrat operative.

Yeah, there's a lot of that going around.  

Communists are all the same

Townhall: "Zohran Mamdani Just Announced Plans to Begin Seizing and Redistributing Private Property."

What they can't accomplish through policy or democracy, they just perform through decree.  For your own good.

Assassination culture

Watch out, conservatives.  You're fair game to these people: "Tragedy: Army Vet 'Trump House' Owner Passes After Savage Beating, Charges Expected to Be Upgraded." 

An audience far, far away

That Park Place: "Star Wars Spent a Decade Pushing Away Boys — So Why Would Today’s Teenagers Care About The Mandalorian and Grogu?"

Sounds like it's off to a rocky start: "‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ is Disney’s lowest-ever Star Wars film opening." 

The Empire State Building was built in 14 months

Washington Post: "Americans are numb to infrastructure dysfunction - If the delays on the Key Bridge rebuild don't motivate calls for better results for taxpayers, nothing will." 

Project Hail Mary

What a great movie.

I don't go to the movies very often.  I think the last time was for "Marty Supreme" which was meh.  But "Project Hail Mary" was a fun ride, half sci-fi and half buddy movie.  Yeah, the "save the world" story line has been done before but this movie had a handful of twists to keep the story fresh.  One scene in particular was so refreshingly honest about human nature I might have gasped in delight.  (The "I've made peace with it" scene).  Glad I saw this on the "big screen."  Highly recommend.

This seems like a bad deal

Hot Air: "Iran Deal? Reports Say 'Yes'."

Al Jazeera: Sources say the Iran draft proposal includes ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, unfreezing billions in Iranian funds, lifting the U.S. naval blockade, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and pulling U.S. forces away from Iran’s vicinity.

The sides would then have 30 days, extendable by agreement, to finalize a nuclear deal. Iran says future management of the Strait would be handled jointly with Oman.

Um, the one thing we've been firm on is nuclear disarmament and we're going to talk about that later?  With another delay tactic to extend beyond 30 days?  With that loophole, there's zero chance a nuclear deal will be inked in a month, while Iran gets a lot of what they want.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

Byron York: "The DNC autopsy: Did Democrats really want to know?"

There is a reason DNC chair Martin resisted releasing the autopsy for so long. Many assumed Martin was hiding an explosive document that would reveal his party’s political malpractice. But that’s not the reason. The reason is there is a lot about 2024 that the Democratic Party’s leadership didn’t want to know. Releasing the incomplete and ill-considered autopsy would show the world that the party never made a serious effort to understand its failure. 

There are really obvious reasons why the Democrats lost but they didn't want to admit it.  Joe Biden was senile but nobody - especially Dementia Joe - wanted to admit it.  Harris was a terrible candidate.  I will never understand her strategy of campaigning with Liz Cheney.  Who was that supposed to appeal to?  Her message was nothing more than "Trump bad" and nobody knew what she stood for.

I'm starting to believe

Ya know, I think this Spencer Pratt guy could pull it off: "Spencer Pratt Has an Unreal Fundraising Lead Over Woke LA Mayor Karen Bass." 

The delaying game

Fox News: "Renewed US combat operations against Iran are ‘matter of when,' former Navy commander says."

From what I've read, Pakistan and Qatar are trying to get Iran to do the right thing and instead they're sending over "proposals" where the United States leaves and pays reparations.  Oh, and they keep the uranium.  Honestly, I thought it was going to re-start after the stock market closed on Friday.

Robert Reich: 'nuf said

Powerline: "Dems lying about taxes: What else is new?"

As John Hinderaker notes, Robert Reich is not a fool and surely understands that the way he presents his argument is deeply dishonest.  But he's got to stir up the outrage and get the clicks.

RIP Kyle Busch

I can't improve on this excellent article from Jerry Wilson at Red State: "Why Kyle Busch's Death Hurts So Much."

For those of you unfamiliar with the NASCAR scene, Kyle Busch was a talented driver and a two-time Cup champion.  But it's fair to say he was not a fan favorite.  He was abrasive and off-standish and was an ungracious and sullen loser.  When he won, boos would rain down on him from the grandstand.

But I kinda liked him for his uncompromising style.  At one NASCAR race I saw in New Hampshire, I might have been the only person in the crowd wearing a #5 Kyle Busch hat.

Kyle Busch leaves behind an 11-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.  Very sad.

Something happened

Ace: "Surprise! The DNC's "Autopsy" Is a Sham, a Deliberately Incomplete Document Left Unfinished Because Democrats Don't Dare Tell the Truth About Their Collapse."

Politico: "'The report's so stupid': The DNC 2024 autopsy is roiling Democrats."

From what I can tell, the report is a version of the joke of when you're asked at an interview about your greatest weakness and you respond: "I work too hard!"  In this case the Democrats have come up with "gosh darn it, we just weren't negative enough against Trump."

"Sure we called him Hitler but we should have called him Super Hitler!"

Also, I hear the passive voice does some heavy lifting in phrases like "then the debate happened."

That's okay. You guys didn't mention it either until you were forced to after that debate. https://t.co/qXdi5z79cg

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 21, 2026

Colbert is a coward

Sasha Stone: "Good Riddance, Stephen Colbert - It couldn't have happened to a bigger jerk."

Good riddance, Stephen Colbert, you snide, smug, sanctimonious, intolerable partisan hack. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

My main beef with Colbert/Kimmel/Oliver etc. is that they love to play the tough guy within their echo chamber but they'll never confront their enemies face-to-face.  If they truly believed they had a monopoly on political rhetoric, they would invite Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or Scott Jennings onto their show to mix it up.  Instead they all - like cowards - invite Bernie Sanders and AOC so they call all agree with one another and bask in the glow of their own moral superiority.

Oh it's (D)ifferent now

Manhattan Contrarian: "Sue and Settle: Two can play this game." - "So no, New York Times, there is nothing “unusual,” let alone “highly unusual,” about the government using settlement of a litigation to set up a slush fund to pass out to political friends and allies.  The only thing unusual is the use of this strategy by a Republican President.  It took him a while, but it looks like he finally figured out that two can play this game." 

This will go as well as "buy nothing" day

Nobody is going to do this: "NAACP Urges Athletes to Withhold Support From Schools in States That Have Moved to Erase Black Votes." 

Here we go again

Red State: "SCOTUS Just Hit Reset on Two Voting Rights Cases - and KBJ Is Not Happy."

The sole dissenter...again. 

Extra - Legal Insurrection - “KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”

Medicaid for...art lessons?

Wall Street Journal: "The Great California Medicaid Grift - Why the federal share of the state’s spending on the program is $138 billion, more than the general fund of every other state." 

And the media lets them off the hook

Townhall: "Democrats Refuse To Even Talk To the American People Anymore."

I used to watch the Sunday morning shows but the quality of the interviews has gotten so poor.  The guests are asked a question and - no matter the topic - they launch into their talking points as a kind of filibuster to run out the clock.  You will never get Elizabeth Warren to tell you what a "fair share" is.  Hakeem Jeffries will never explain how he thinks the Supreme Court is full of racists.  Democrats can say the craziest stuff and the interviewer just nods along.

Flashback - "Bill Maher Blasts Democrats for Being Too ‘Afraid’ to Go on His Show."

There's no crying in NASCAR

Outkick: "Female NASCAR driver cries during shocking in-car meltdown, parks truck during race and rage-quits the series." - "In no world should her boss be trying to talk her off a ledge over the radio during a race. That's high school stuff. This is the real world." 

I've been a NASCAR fan for a long time so let me say this about another female driver that NASCAR was desperately trying to promote: Danica Patrick.  She was considered something of a joke and her racing record was extremely spotty with more DNFs than top-10 finishes.  But she was never afraid to jump out of her car after a race and confront somebody who had done her wrong.  She's a spitfire.

Crying in your truck?  What a travesty. 

Mamdani discovers he's the parasite

NY Post: "Billionaire Ken Griffin ghosts Mamdani after NYC ‘Tax the Rich’ video flap"

After Mamdani doxxed Griffin, the billionaire said he was "reviewing" a huge development in New York City and that he was definitely going to expand his financial operation in Miami.  Quite suddenly, the Boy Mayor discovered that he's the parasite to Griffin's host.

SCOTUS to VA Dems: GTFO

Hot Air: "BREAKING: Unanimous SCOTUS Rejects VA Dems Attempt to Reinstate Referendum."

This was all just posing.  Nobody actually believed the Supreme Court was going to rule on a state matter.  The Dems didn't even get KBJ, that's how stupid this appeal was.

Defamation 101

Jen Psaki makes up some fake stuff and here comes the blowback: "Eric Trump Torches Psaki’s ‘Monolog of Lies,’ Vows Massive MSNOW Lawsuit."

This is the only way the mainstream media learns: with cold, hard cash.

None dare call it fascism

Hot Air: "Tossing the Constitution: The Democrats' Latest 'Save Democracy' Plan." 

He bought this on himself

PJ Media: "Biden's Third 'Memoir' Will Embarrass and Humiliate Him."

Biden tried to claim executive privilege to prevent the release of audio tapes with his ghostwriter.  But - guess what! - Trump is in control of the government now. 

Booker is incapable of shame

LA Times: "Cory Booker should be ashamed of himself"

But do we really believe that white Democrats — in the post-Jim Crow South, or anywhere else — are unwilling or incapable of representing the political interests of Black voters? Do Black legislators ignore the interests of their white constituents?

Which brings me back to where I started.

Cory Booker is Black. Black residents make up roughly 13% of his state’s population. Are the other 87% disenfranchised or otherwise unrepresented by his election? Of course not. But I would love to have heard Booker explain why.

Good question!  In a totally unrelated question, can a gay man represent the interests of straight constituents?  The people need to know.

I've heard better political slogans

Karen Bass has settled on a position for her campaign: "Meth heads need teeth!" 

Xavier Becerra is pathetic

Ace: "Obama's Oxygen Thief DHS [sic] Secretary, Xavier Becerra, Is Currently the Leading Democrat for California Governor and Cannot Answer Questions About His Record Without Begging for Mercy."

When the reporter points out that children as young as 14 wound up, get this, working as near-slave labor in slaughterhouses and with heavy machinery, he just sulks. It's not fair to demand accountability from a Democrat.

As Thomas Sowell says: "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."  And, brother, nobody gets more reach-arounds from the mainstream media than Democrats.

Now this is where it turns pathetic: He begins whining that he agreed to a profile not an interview and in a profile you're supposed to shine his ass with Turtle Wax and a sheepskin chamois and only ask a few "tough questions" while this monster just keeps asking him tough questions!

Let me repeat the headline fact: He's the current front-running Democrat for governor, and he says it's not fair to ask him about his actual record.

In my opinion, the funniest part of this interview is when Becerra tries to dismiss these criticisms of losing immigrant children as Trump-driven propaganda and the interviewer responds "that's from the New York Times."  Oh, man.

The Left hates free speech

Legal Insurrection: "UCLA Under Senate Investigation After Threatening Federalist Society Students - A dean’s threat to punish Federalist Society students if they released the names of disruptive protesters “violated the First Amendment.” 

Democrats believe in assassinations

Unless they fail and - unacceptably! - generate sympathy for the attacked: "Washington Post: 42% of Democrats Think the Butler PA Assassination Attempt that Killed One Man Was "Staged"." 

The one-time tax on billionaires...

...will be neither "one-time" nor only on billionaires.  Real Clear Policy: "California’s ‘Billionaire Tax’ Could Reach Far Beyond Billionaires." 

Never go full banana republic

PJ Media: "The Democrats’ Unhinged Response to the Virginia Ruling Tells You Everything."

That’s right, Democrats literally violated the state constitution to pass the gerrymander, yet they're blaming the Supreme Court of Virginia for calling them out on it. Two options emerged from the call. The first was a straightforward act of defiance — redraw the congressional lines anyway, despite the court having already struck them down.

The second was something out of a banana republic playbook: engineer the replacement of the entire Virginia Supreme Court, potentially through retirements or impeachment, then push through a newly constituted bench that would rubber-stamp the invalidated map. The New York Times described this as "an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court, with a goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map."

That’s one way to put it.

The story I saw said the Democrats wanted to lower the retirement age to 54 (!) to clear out the entire Virginia Supreme Court, then install seven new justices.  This is sheer lunacy.

Do the right thing, L.A.

Pirate Wires: "The Case for Spencer Pratt - if angelenos have any survival instinct left, they'll elect the only candidate capable of restoring our belief in reality."

This was a tough article to read, especially if you like dogs.

Look who's prosecuting fraud!

Fox News: "Minnesota nonprofit accused of siphoning $6.5M to fund Vegas trips, luxury cars, private liquor store - We Push for Peace leaders face civil lawsuit from Minnesota attorney general"

Minnesota is a target-rich environment and Keith Ellison was shamed into doing his job.

Performative coping

Virginia Democrats are appealing their own Supreme Court's ruling to the Federal Supreme Court: "What VA Dems Are Doing Following Their Brutal Redistricting Defeat Will Leave You Howling."

They can't be this stupid.  This has to be just for show to prove to the sheep they're "fighting."

I love the answer to this question

PJ Media: "Who’s the Biggest Loser After the Virginia Supreme Court Ruling?"

The answer is Hakeem Jeffries, who set $40 million on fire.

Unconstitutional

Huge news out of Virginia: "Breaking: Virginia Supreme Court Overturns Gerrymander Scheme in Big Blow to Democrats." 

From my quick read, it sounds like the Virginia Court ruled the process to cram the referendum through the Legislature was so flawed that it was ruled unlawful. 

Extra - The ruling was 4-3 and it looks like the Virginia Supreme Court also has three justices who just ignore the law.  As former Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli notes, the dissenting judges decided to make up a rationale that was never argued by the State of Virginia. 

Thanks, Virginia!

Hard to overstate how much Virginia’s insanity, led by Democrat Louise Lucas, pushed multiple red states to redistrict. The Callais decision from SCOTUS was obviously important, but by itself it wouldn’t have led to TN or AL redistricting. The insanely corrupt Democrat overreach…

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 8, 2026

I have secondhand embarrassment from this article

Boston Globe: "For Colbert, humanity was never a punch line - What’s most noteworthy about the late-night host is not his anger but the extent to which his comedy is grounded in empathy and rooted in values."

OMG.  The whole article is a hagiographic tribute to Colbert for his humanity starting with this banger:

If there were a Mount Rushmore of late-night TV hosts, as measured in terms of cultural impact, four visages would be carved in stone: Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert, whose final night on the air is May 21.

For once, I laughed at something related to Colbert.

Boston Globe columnist Don Aucoin wants us to praise Colbert for his biography instead of for the job he was supposed to have: comedy.  As for the show reportedly losing $40 million a year, well Aucoin just ain't havin' it:

The network has insisted the cancellation was “purely a financial decision,” driven solely by how much money the show was losing, not Colbert’s scorching takedowns of Trump. If you believe that, I’d like to offer you a good deal on the Mystic River Bridge.

Um, I do believe that and can I see that deal on the bridge?

As I said below, Colbert failed at his job and killed the "Late Show" forever.  Don't try to put lipstick on this pig by telling us his heart was in the right place.

I love David Letterman...as a comic

As a culture commentator, not so much.  Don Surber: "Letterman defends Colbert—poorly - In an NYT interview, Santa David made a case that failed like a Colbert monologue."

Colbert was done in by his hubris, which led him into believing he could survive on network television with only half the potential audience.

Oh, Colbert can. He made $15 million a year doing a half-assed job, but CBS made less than zero on the show—reportedly taking a $40 million loss each year.

Don’t cry for Stephen Colbert. Victimhood is a badge of honor on the left and the money will roll in from stand-up tours, TV specials and maybe a movie.

When you strip away all the niceties, Colbert is a failure.  He strayed from comedy for a nightly ego stroke and people changed the channel.  David Letterman - who I saw live in NY during his heyday - should know the difference.

Tennessee goes all red

Shot: "Hakeem's End Zone Dance May Have Been a Safety."

Chaser: "Hakeem's Folly: TN Legislature (Noisily) Passes Redistricted Map. Mississippi's Next. UPDATE: Lee Signs." 

Gonna be some reapin'

Hot Air: "It's Going to Be a Long, Very Hot Summer in Blue Cities."

I, for one, am shocked that New Yorkers somehow feel they have permission to let their antisemitism flag fly.

100% scripted

Twitchy: "Remember When President Biden and Jimmy Kimmel Had a Good Laugh About Jailing Political Opponents?"

Watch this 20-second clip at the link of Joe Biden and Kimmel.  The "comedy" host sets up a Monopoly-themed question and Dementia Joe makes a funny quip within a half-second of being asked.  This was completely set up in advance.

Joe Biden assured me she was smarter than anyone else on the Court

Hot Air: "Uncivil War at SCOTUS: KBJ v ... Everyone?"

The gist of this article is that the Supreme Court suspended the usual 32-day pause before posting the ruling on the Louisiana redistricting case.  The reasoning is that, having ruled racially-drawn districts violate the 15th Amendment, that ruling should take effect before the next election.

Seems reasonable.  And it seems that this procedural ruling had an 8-1 majority since only one Supreme Court Justice dissented.  Take a wild guess.

Justice Alito, in particular, seems to have had enough of Jackson's insults and grandstanding.  KBJ has alienated justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum in record time and it seems like she's incapable of reading the room.

Suicidal empathy in Sweden

Hot Air: "Sweden Lays an Immigration Hammer Down."

The Swedish people were asked to "show tolerance" and "open their hearts" to immigrants and those immigrants showed up with hand grenades. 

Another day, another assassination attempt

Fox News: "Secret Service officers shoot armed individual near White House."

By my count, this is attempt #5 on Trump.  

Fauxcahontas kills another company

Flashback: "iRobot Faces Bankruptcy After Elizabeth Warren Helped Kill $1.65 Billion Amazon Merger."

Today: "Elizabeth Warren Killed Spirit Airlines and Now She’s Complaining About It." 

When journalism happens

NY Post: "Bill Maher drags Gavin Newsom for high-speed rail and sky-high gas in blistering interview."

I cracked up at this line:

The moment appeared to catch Newsom off guard, his expression shifting as the criticism landed.

Yeah, imagine that: an interviewer pressing a politician and expecting a straight answer.  This is why somebody like Hakeem Jeffries would never appear on Maher or Rogan.  Jeffries, in particular, excels at never answering a question and he sticks to shows like "Meet the Press" where he knows he can get away with his obfuscation.  The last time Jeffries was pressured was when GOP Congressman Mike Lawler confronted him in front of cameras and all Jeffries could do was engage in schoolyard insults.

How do low-IQ clowns like Newsom and Jeffries rise so high on the national stage?  It's because the media actively covers up their deficits until - like Biden on the debate stage - it's all exposed.

Like this:

Staffers for Seattle Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson abruptly end an interview with KOMO News Senior Reporter Chris Daniels when she can't answer basic questions

Wilson has been criticized for dodging the press & being unable to answer basic questions since she came into office pic.twitter.com/eJnFtg6CLy

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) May 1, 2026

Another aftereffect of runaway Covid spending

American Thinker: "SNAP Is Beyond Broken - From millionaires to overseas foreigners, from NFL players to luxury car owners, our money is going to everyone but us."

Please come back and pay our bills

The Laffer Curve is hilarious!

The return to normalcy

Federalist: "Dems Revive Court-Packing Threats After Being Told They Can’t Do Racist Gerrymandering - After being told states can’t partake in racist gerrymandering, Democrats are renewing their threats to pack the Supreme Court once they regain power." 

Why wait?  Can we pack the courts right now?

Here come the sob stories

NY Times: "Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage - Americans can’t afford the higher health insurance premiums that resulted from Congress’s refusal to extend federal tax credits."

Just a reminder: Congress passed Obamacare subsidies and then extended them during Covid to paper over the structural failure of the program.  According to the NY Times and the Democrats (I repeat myself) we were supposed to prop up this farce in perpetuity, like Somali Learing Centers.

Uh-huh

U.S. Sun: "DROPPED AGAIN? ABC chiefs are ‘ready to pull’ Jimmy Kimmel Live! & have already spiked promo ads over his Melania ‘widow’ comments."

The man with the Nazi tattoo

The Corner: "Maine Shows Antisemitism Is a Shortcut to Success in the Modern Democratic Party."

Platner was largely unknown at this point last year and yet managed to drive a sitting governor out of the primary before a single vote was cast. But he had one thing going for him, which is that he gained attention for his antisemitism. That is a ticket to success in the modern Democratic Party.

Sadly true.  Still, you have to be careful about those secret Israeli agents. 

Extra - Of course: "Maine Kampf: Bernie Sanders Gives Dem Senate Hopeful Graham Platner His Socialist Seal of Approval." 

While we were watching Iran

1945: "Russia’s Economy Is on the Brink of Collapse." 

West Coast Mamdani

Twitchy: "She Seems Nice: Seattle’s Socialist Nepo Mayor Cackles 'BYE' as Wealth Flees Her Dumpster Fire City." 

Is *everything* in California a money-laundering scheme?

Hot Air: "California Is an Unfunny Joke."

If you stacked dollar bills in the $231 billion needed to finish California's high speed rail, it would be over 15,000 miles high. 

This is not the government's role

Disagree: "The FCC’s Bad News for Disney/ABC: The Time for Playing Nice Is Over."

Agree: "Here's an Idea — Just Let Jimmy Kimmel Continue to Cancel Himself." 

Kimmel has lower ratings than Stephen Colbert who is losing $40 million/year on his way to cancellation.  The federal government shouldn't be involved in pushing Kimmel out.  That's the job of the market and Disney's calculation.

Already ran out of other people's money

That was quick!  Twitchy: "Socialism's Math Lesson: NYC Mayor Mamdani Promises Free Everything, Then Begs New York State for Bailout."

Who could have predicted this outcome?  Oh, yeah, everybody outside the Upper East Side.

Eliminate it

Reason: "The Federal Minimum Wage Is Irrelevant. Good. - The national wage floor is so low that it might as well not exist." 

They cannot be reasoned with

Sasha Stone: "There is No Saving the Left - There is only saving the country from them." 

After ten years of dehumanizing language, they can’t see the reality of who Trump is anymore, much less see his supporters as their fellow Americans. They can only see the delusion - the mirage - the supervillain they invented. If he isn’t even a human anymore, then killing him is as easy as taking out the garbage.

They speak in mantras. They mirror each other. Their hysteria spreads from person to person and ultimately unites them. They are as aligned and of one mind as a cult. They must believe they are still the “resistance” going to war on an insurmountable evil force that can’t be defeated in any ordinary way. It requires something extraordinary, someone, to “just do it.”

Some of my favorite videos on YouTube are the conservatives who wander into "No Kings" rallies and starts asking very basic questions.  These so-called adults just completely melt down at the slightest pushback.

Good question

Hot Air: "Trump to ABC: When Are You Going to Fire Assassination Clown Kimmel, Anyway?"

Kimmel is gonna paint himself as a free speech warrior but at heart he's a coward who would never allow anybody to confront him to his face.  Go ahead, Jimmy: have somebody like Ted Cruz on your show.  Let's see how that goes.

Kimmel must go and NOW

Fox News: "Kimmel calls Melania Trump an ‘expectant widow’ before White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting - The segment aired shortly before a gunman opened fire at a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton."

I've said this before but I'm one of those Disney people.  I've been to the parks with my kids a half-dozen times and, after they left the nest, my wife and I have been on a bunch of Disney cruises.  I was so desperate to get out of the house during Covid that I got the vaccine just so I could cruise on the Disney Magic.  Needless to say, I've paid the Disney premium for the Disney brand of entertainment.

But I can't do it anymore if ABC is going to continue to give Jimmy Kimmel a platform for his bottomless and humorless brand of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Look, Disney, we already know his low-rated show is losing millions a year.  Just cut the cord already.

And, yeah, I get that I'm a molecule in the ocean of Disney's revenue.  But maybe there are millions of guys like me who make the decision to switch to Universal for my theme park needs and Norwegian Cruise Line (leaving out of Boston) for my cruise desires.  Maybe we cancel our Disney Plus accounts and get our Disney merchandise from knock-off sites on Ebay.

But I won't support ABC and Disney while Kimmel still has a show because you're obliquely telling us what you think of half the country.

Pretty much what you would expect

NY Post: "Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto."

Just another loser covering himself with moral vanity.

China buys 80% of Iran's oil

TIPP Insights: "The Squeeze - The Strait of Hormuz is squeezing Iran. It's also squeezing China."

So I just got back from vacation

To this news: "BREAKING: Shots Fired at Correspondents Dinner, Shooter Neutralized, Trump Evacuated."

This is breaking news but what I'm hearing so far is that somebody tried to get through the metal detector and was shot dead by Secret Service after producing a gun.  Fox Business is allegedly reporting there is a separate person in custody.

So this is by my count the fourth assassination attempt on Trump by nutcases fomented into violence by the political Left.

Update - Now they're saying the gunman is not dead.  Hannity is saying that a Secret Service agent took a bullet to the chest but his vest stopped it.  Trump is supposed to speak in 30 minutes.

Update 2 - In custody: Cole Tomas Allen from California.

Update 3 - Red State: "WHCD Shooter Identified, a 31-Year-Old Teacher From California."  Usually when you reach your thirties, you develop some perspective and reason in your life but I guess not if you're from California. 

Hiatus

Gotta take a break for a couple of weeks.  Catch you later.

When journalism happens

PJ Media: "Maryland’s Wes Moore Gets the ‘Spotlight’ Treatment — and He’s None Too Happy About It."

There is nothing here that a good newspaper wouldn't pursue for a potential Presidential candidate, but all Wes Moore can do is complain that the Baltimore Sun has been taken over by a right-winger.  Sure thing, buddy.  Tell your story to Jen Psaki. 

As I predicted

Hot Air: "Vance: No Deal – And That’s Bad News For Iran."

The sum total of this "negotiation" was that Iran give up its efforts towards nuclear capability.  But they would never do that because they've spent nearly a half-century convincing themselves that opposition to America and Israel is the sum total of its existence. 

Every movement by the Iranians is geared towards delay.  The U.S. response should be geared towards this reality...and a prompt response. 

Overnight implosion

Townhall: "The Eric Swalwell Sexual Assault Story Is Now a Total Fiasco."

Damn, this whole thing went from zero to a 100 in record time.  Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.  I suspect that divorce and resignation from Congress is in his future given the severity of these allegations.

By the way: do you remember what Senator Al Franken did to be forced out of office?  He did an adolescent joke where he mimed grabbing a woman's breasts.  As of now, Swalwell is being accused of r*pe.  He can't remain in office.

We have a name

I've been keeping my powder dry on the Eric Swalwell sexual assault allegations but now it appears like the dam has broken open: "CNN: Three More Women Describe Sexual Misconduct by Rep. Swalwell."

Ally Sammarco is the named woman and there's enough panic that Swalwell's co-campaign managers have both resigned.  As is his wont, there is a 100% chance Swalwell will blame Trump for forcing him to Snapchat his junk.

Flashback: "Eric Swalwell's Fake 'Oh, You SURPRISED Me With That Question' Videos."

Extra - NY Post: "Eric Swalwell’s campaign falls apart as ex-staffer levels horrifying sexual assault claim."

More - Powerline: "Swalwell goes down."  This dirtbag was front-and-center with his baseless allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.  Time for Swalwell to live by the rules he created.

Then resign from Congress.

Nose rings and useless graduate degrees

Reason: "Why Is It so Damn Hard To Find Sympathetic Student Loan 'Victims'? - Less than half of the Class of 2024 took out college loans averaging $30,000—a manageable amount that buys over $1 million in extra lifetime earnings."

Is any subgenre of journalism more debased and alienating than the student-loan sob story? If paying for college with heavily subsidized, federally backed loans was in fact the cause of the new, universal serfdom we hear so much about, you'd think that places like The New York Times would be able to scare up highly sympathetic young adults who tug at readers' heartstrings like orphans in a Dickens novel.

Instead, in stories like last week's "Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying," you get characters like 37-year-old Amanda Lynn Tully, who "graduated in 2017 with a master's degree in historic preservation from the University of Oregon, $65,000 in federal student loans and no job offers in the conservation field." Tully, reports the Times, "felt misled" and so "made a drastic decision: She moved to Prague, where she had completed an internship, and defaulted on her loans. She hasn't made a payment in over seven years."

This grown-ass woman defaulted on her student loan and fled the country because she "psychologically" couldn't pay $60/month. 

No free buses in NYC

PJ Media: "Comrade Mamdani Is Getting Smacked Around by Reality."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into office on a socialist unicorn after promising everything but free ice cream for life to the children of every voter. There are only two blocs in any electorate who vote for the kind of socialist utopian garbage that Mamdani spouted: young people who are too dumb to know any better, and older people who know better, but are so wealthy they don't care. The latter group is simply looking for a politician they might be able to control. Unfortunately, New York has a preponderance of both young, dumb voters, and rich, bored voters.

Imagine believing all these rainbow promises.  Politicians like Mamdani and AOC and Sanders keep insisting the "rich" are sitting on a Scrooge McDuck pile of gold coins and we can have every amenity under the sun if we just take it from them.

All the journalists' egos

Twitchy: "All the President’s Men Turns 50: The Movie That Gave Journalists an Unbearable God Complex."

I've read the book and seen the movie.  The most insufferable part of the Woodward & Berstein saga is how they were spoon-fed every part of the story by Mark Felt and yet they're held up as this paragon of journalism.  It wasn't like they made any big breakthroughs on their own.  They took this unbelievable piece of professional luck and turn it into a half-century grift where every couple of years they appear on some news show to say the latest scandal is "worse than Watergate."

I think I spotted the flaw in the system

Christopher Rufo: "Gavin Newsom’s $30 Billion Fraud Magnet - California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program is ripe for scams, experts say."

The system operates largely on trust. Providers self-report their timecards and check-in records. In roughly 60 percent of cases, providers and beneficiaries live together, delivering care in private homes—typically without the threat of random, unannounced visits.

Suicidal empathy rears its head again.

We'll see

PJ Media: "BREAKING: Trump Announces a Ceasefire."

Delay is a perpetual tactic of the Iranians so I'm not as sanguine as the market futures.

Always with the class warfare

Fauxcahontas is on the warpath again: "Eating Jeff Bezos - Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a wealth tax on "ultra-millionaires." Note that in 1913, the federal income tax was sold as a tax on the richest of the rich in America."

Warren and Bernie Sanders have exactly one schtick: that guy has more money than you - let's take it.

That's a whole lot of babysitting

Two Eric Swalwell stories today: "Report: Group of Women Preparing to Accuse Rep. Swalwell of Harassment" and "Thread OWNING Eric Swalwell for Nannygate Payments Takes CRAZY Turn to 'OMG, Is He a CREEPER' Town."

The latter grabbed my attention because the rules for paying for child care during a campaign are strictly defined and, by all appearances, Swalwell just paid his nanny a regular salary out of campaign funds.  A whopping $240,000 went for "childcare" reimbursements.

I'm not saying that Swalwell was paying off his nanny to keep her mouth shut about an affair.  I'm just saying that's a lot of cash for somebody who - allegedly - is going to be accused of a lot of DM sliding.

There's always a catch

Just the News: "Iran rejects 45-day ceasefire plan."

There was one minor quibble:

🚨Breaking: My sources confirm that Iran and the US are VERY close to signing a deal. The only issue holding it up is Iran's insistence on destroying America

— David Keyes (@DavidMKeyes) April 6, 2026

Misdirection and logistics

It sounds like those factors are what saved that downed airman in Iran: "Second F-15 Pilot Rescued as Iranian Civilians Aid American Operation to Rescue Him."

The U.S. lured Basij militants to a location 100 miles away from where the guy was hiding while we built our own airport as a forward base.  Amazing.

Excellent news (if true)

Hot Air: "Unconfirmed Reports That F-15 WSO Recovered After Special Forces Battle IRGC."

The unconfirmed stories coming out sound like something from a Hollywood movie: the IRGC swarmed the area looking for their prize and the USAF mowed them down.

Confirmed - "US celebrates successful rescue of F-15E crew member as Trump's Iran ultimatum ticks down." 

Money laundering scheme

Federalist: "Report: ActBlue Likely Lied To Congress About Illegal Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Feared Privately." 

Layers of fact-checkers

Fox News: "New York Times goes viral for erroneous print headline on Trump's NATO exit threat - Times spokesperson says the paper will issue a correction after wrongly calling it North American Treaty Organization."

Couldn't happen to a nicer newspaper.

Hollywood is dying

Long thread on Instapundit discussing this Wall Street Journal article: "See How Hollywood’s Job Market Is Collapsing - Studios are making fewer movies and shows than they did just a few years ago. The ones they do make are increasingly being shot outside the U.S."

It's easy to say Hollywood went woke and got broke but look at the evidence: the two biggest hits of the last couple years are "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Project Hail Mary" - movies that tell a compelling story with a strong male lead and zero lectures.  Meanwhile, Hollywood recently bestowed Best Picture to resistance porn "One Battle after Another," which arguably flopped.

But then there's California which destroys all it touches.  Shooting films or TV is way too expensive there so producers are looking to other states and countries.  I remember the craziest story I read is that it's cheaper for producers of the game show "The Floor" to fly all the contestants to Dublin than it is to shoot in the United States.

ICYMI - Buh-bye Bad Robot!  "Hollywood heavyweight behind sci-fi classics leaves LA as Tinseltown bleeds talent." 

I love this headline

MSN: "Hospice with 97% survival rate accused of defrauding Medicare for $7.45M."

Why is the government arresting people with such a high level of success?  It's a mystery!

When you hate Trump more than you love Americans

Townhall: "Will Gov. Spanberger Ignore Detainers for These Violent Criminal Illegals? ICE Is Warning Her Not To." 

Massive, systematic, brazen fraud

City Journal: "Gavin Newsom’s Empire of Fraud - California has lost at least $180 billion to fraud, according to officials and experts."

This story is B A N A N A S:

Total budgeted Medi-Cal spending—which includes federal, state, and local contributions—has more than doubled on the governor’s watch, rising from $93.5 billion the year before he took office to $196.7 billion in the current annual budget. During the same period, California’s resident population declined by 0.2 percent.

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The state lost $32.6 billion dollars of taxpayer money to fraudulent applications,” he said. “In California, at one point, you had more people applying for unemployment insurance benefits than you had people over the age of 18.”

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Talcove estimates that the Medicaid fraud rate in California is 20 percent, which he calls a “very conservative” figure. Federal officials, however, believe that the current Medi-Cal fraud rate is even higher—and, given the state’s oversight failures and massive Medi-Cal expansion under Newsom, they are almost certainly right. Multiple high-ranking sources at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is currently probing fraud in California, told City Journal on the condition of anonymity that their initial estimate for Medi-Cal’s fraud rate since 2019 is 25 percent.

That state needs a thousand Nick Shirleys.

Thank heaven

Fox News: "Artemis II launches astronauts around the moon in first deep space mission since Apollo."

I'm on record being nervous about this launch, so I'm glad it went off without a hitch.