The dumbest restraining order in legal history

Hot Air: "Appeals Court Overrules Judge Talwani: Planned Parenthood's Funding Can Be Cut."

We've covered this before but this was a judge who declared that budgetary legislation passed by Congress could not cut funding to Planned Parenthood.  As a legal matter, this had already been decided by the Supreme Court.  The injunction was a complete mess:

Judge Indira Talwani has delivered what may be one of the most questionable judicial decisions in recent memory—and that’s saying something given the current judicial climate. Her handling of the Planned Parenthood funding case is a textbook case of judicial overreach...

Let’s start with the obvious: Planned Parenthood has no constitutional right to taxpayer funding. None. Yet Talwani attempted an elaborate workaround, invoking the “unconstitutional conditions doctrine” to argue that funding restrictions violated Planned Parenthood’s freedom of association.

This argument falls apart under scrutiny. Talwani cited no precedent supporting her theory that similar funding conditions violate associational rights. That’s because there isn’t any.

This is an Obama judge in Massachusetts, just making up legal arguments from whole cloth.  The Appeals court slapped it down as "flimsy" which was probably kind.

Um, can you tell us?

Gateway Pundit: "BREAKING: Law Enforcement Has Identified Name of Suspect in Charlie Kirk Assassination – But Have Not Yet Released It."

I don't understand why - is this protocol? Seems like it would speed up the search.

Here comes the pushback

Red State: "Proof Charlie Kirk's Voice Just Got Louder: College Republicans Warn Their Universities, Enough Is Enough." 

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The theater kids are at it again

Hot Air: "Shutdown Chatter Growing Louder on the Left."

My own guess is that it's going to happen this time. Democrats shut down the government in Texas a few weeks ago and while that achieved nothing in Texas it won them lots of applause around the country from left-wing media outlets and progressives. Beyond that, I can't imagine Sen. Schumer caving again this time after the beating he took last time. He'll have to show some willingness to fight even if it makes no sense.

I agree with this: Schumer took an absolute shellacking at the last budget showdown and there's no way he's going to do it again without some token "fight."  It will last a couple of weeks, long enough for the Democrats to claim they took a stand, without stemming any real spending.

Fighting the oligarchy ain't cheap

New York Post: "AOC’s campaign spent thousands at ritzy hotels while headlining ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rallies with Bernie Sanders."

These warriors for the common people always have their excuses lined up why they can't fly coach.

TIL this attack occurred on August 22nd

Fox News: "Dem governor breaks silence on murder of Ukrainian refugee after social media backlash."

When I first heard about this horrific story, I thought it had occurred over the previous weekend.  No, it happened weeks ago and the Democrats with help from the mainstream media tried to suppress the video and the story.  Because this story has all the kryptonite elements and the one thing the Dems/media must avoid at all costs is Republicans pouncing and seizing.

Ten minutes into the future:

BLM 2020: We want bodycams on every cop!

BLM 2026: wait nevermind, turn em off https://t.co/MxMKwmStRY

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 8, 2025

LAPD drops Kamala

LA Times: "LAPD ends protection of former Vice President Kamala Harris amid criticism over diverting cops, sources say."

Los Angeles's idiot mayor Karen Bass was so hyped to "fight Trump!" that she never considered the optics of forcing the city police to protect a multi-millionaire on the taxpayer dime.

I really don't care, Margaret

Twitchy: "Investor Moans About USA Global Image Tanked by Trump, Americans Roll Eyes: Cry Harder, We Don't Care." 

Oh no, the Europeans are disappointed with us again.  Anyway.

Somebody is going to be Internet famous

Karma is coming for you, Karen.  Red State: "Chop-Topped Karen Goes Crazy At MLB Game in Viral Video, but There's a Happy Ending." 

Extra - From Instapundit. 

How is Chicago a thing?

Jonathan Turley: "A Bill Comes Due: Chicago’s Johnson and Teacher’s Union Lose Fight for Loan to Sustain Bloated Budget."

In the meantime, Chicago is now facing a $1.15 billion shortfall and Johnson is calling for increasing taxes on the wealthy and businesses despite the fact that Chicago is losing both businesses and residents. The incoming citizens are largely immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, in the sanctuary city. That has driven expenditures even higher for the city while it loses businesses and residents needed for its tax base.

As a Chicagoan, I have no illusions about the city politics. There has never been reasonable fiscal policies in the city in my lifetime. However, Johnson has moved from the dismissive to delusional in ignoring the economic realities growing in the city.

I don't understand how these cities are allowed to rack up so much debt and push their bond rating into junk status.  There is never a plan for fiscal sanity - just more borrowing. 

The exodus from this madness is real. 

Well, well, well, look at this development

We were just talking about CBS.  WSJ: "‘Face the Nation’ to Air Only Unedited Interviews After Administration Criticism - Kristi Noem claimed that her recent appearance on the CBS show was selectively edited."

Honestly, Bari Weiss should fire Margaret Brennan.  She turned "Face the Nation" into a clown show.

The luster is off the Tiffany network

The Corner: "CBS Is Rethinking Its Life Choices."

What’s interesting, and suggests a broader rethinking of the future of CBS, is that this comes six weeks after Paramount and CBS pulled the plug on The Late Show and sacked its host, Stephen Colbert. Taken together, the two moves imply that an ossified, closed-minded, smug, and unreflective liberalism just doesn’t have a future in attracting a mass audience in today’s shifting media landscape. Maybe nobody does, and maybe a benefit of bringing in Bari Weiss, like a benefit of ending The Late Show rather than recasting its host, is simply to cut costs by eliminating a whole lot of well-compensated people who have been working on money-losing ventures for the network for a long time. But either way, this may not be your grandpa’s CBS for very much longer.

Choice is yours, mainstream media:

Keep going

NY Times: "PBS to Cut 15% of Its Staff - Congress voted this year to strip $500 million in annual funding from public broadcasters, including PBS stations." 

Performative Senator is performative

Ace: "Historic: America's Least-Closeted Closeted Homosexual Senator Proves That Gays Can Still Marry Women for Political Reasons."

That's right: Spartacus is getting married to (checks notes) a woman.  Just in time for Presidential election season!  I hear Booker is going to give the Best Man speech and it's expected to last four hours. 

Profile in courage

Outkick: "Malcolm Gladwell Says He Was ‘Cowed’ Into Backing Trans Athletes In Women's Sports — But That’s No Excuse - The journalist and best-selling author now admits he didn’t believe pro-trans arguments at a 2022 panel — but chose silence." 

Choosing beggars

Red State: "Brainwashed Leftist Is Offered 1-Way Ticket to Communist Country of Her Choice—the Result Is Fabulous."

This video of Patrick Bet-David talking to a bunch of communists is getting a lot of play in the right-wing blogosphere for good reason.  He offers this one a trip to a communist country (plus $20,000 cash) and all she can do is sniff "that's not a communist country."  To another he offers a full-time job but he'll only take it if it helps mankind.  In other words: he doesn't want to work.

Lisa is cooked

Ace: "Confirmed: Lisa Cook Didn't Just Claim a Second Home as Her Primary Home. She's Renting Out Her "Primary Homes" as Income-Generating Investment Properties."

I don't understand Lisa Cook's lawsuit to hold on to her seat at the Fed.  There isn't a legal authority I can find who says the President can't fire somebody reporting to the Executive Branch.  On top of that is the obvious illegality of Cook's mortgage fraud which certainly a reason to fire "for cause."  The Federal Reserve Board can't possibly maintain a governor stupid enough to name three houses as her primary residence. 

Collective madness

The always-great Sasha Stone: "Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Movie - The Democrats are in a hell of their own making, Part Three"

Trump Derangement Syndrome has all but collapsed the empire, with Hollywood barely clinging to life, network television hemorrhaging viewers, and a rising counterculture movement they can’t keep up with. Their jokes aren’t funny. Their movies are unwatchable. Their moral superiority is unbearable.

Voters are fleeing like rats off a sinking ship.

Today in the Washington Post, Matt Bai has yet another installment in the played-out genre of "what shall we do about Trump?"  This is all they have: screaming at the sky.  It's a madness that is putting them on the 20% side of every 80-20 issue.

Another great Substack - Evan Barker: "Democrats are hemorrhaging voter registrations. What will stop the bleeding?"  Have you considered supporting crime? 

Are you not enjoying the lawfare?

Townhall: "Dems, Please Cry More About the New Rules."