STILL REMEMBERING: 9-11's 25th anniversary.

It's a beautiful September day outside, and yet a somewhat depressing day given the current state of American politics.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Unleash the Israelis on Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

TRUMPIAN PROGRESS: The lightest federal workforce in American history.

A good start. Now keep up the pressure.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

BUSTING ANOTHER MEDIA MYTH: Contrary to legacy media claims, political violence has always been a specialty of the Left, not the Right.

THE WHITE HOUSE responds to Dymocrats (spelling intentional).

1. Dymocrats refuse to condemn Socialism.
2. Every single Dymocrat voted against the largest tax cut in American history.
3. Extreme Liberal Dymocrats voted against holding Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, accountable.
4. Extreme Liberal Dymocrats voted against the Stop Insider Trading Act.
5. Dymocrats voted against healthcare price transparency.
6. Dymocrats have unanimously blocked commonsense election integrity measures like Voter ID.
7. Dymocrats voted against protecting girls in women’s sports.
8. Dymocrats voted against protecting children from taxpayer-funded transgender treatments.
9. Dymocrats voted against the Laken Riley Act.
10. Dymocrats forced two unprecedented government shutdowns.

Enough said....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Since the Democratic party and its progressive sycophants have shown a propensity to rename/create new names for normal well known/well understood things, I've decided to try renaming myself. From now on, on Shadow's World Democrats will be known as 'Dymocrats'; pronounced 'dim', which they are, and with the 'y' to acknowledge their allegiance to gender issues.

HOTAIR'S SUNDAY SMILES is a bit late this week. To get to the cartoons you'll have to scroll through an opinion piece on [Dr?] Abdul El-Sayed (but it might be worth skimming).

My favorite:

Now go see them all.

ONLY FOR TAXPAYERS: Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a trap.

GOV. GREG ABBOTT PUSHES TEXAS COLLEGES to offer three-year bachelor’s degrees.

Get rid of DEI and the 'feelz' courses and drop it to two years -- with perhaps an extra year allowed for (unfortunately) remedial high school.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Thanks to Democrats we are becoming (have become?) a lawless nation.

ABDUL EL-SAYED deleted this post.

You should read it.

HOW DO PEOPLE LIKE MAMDANI GET ELECTED?

Low voter turnout in primaries, generally in the 10% to 18% range.

Overeducated kids (many still supported by their parents), and municipal union members, who want free stuff from the government and think socialism is chic, come out in droves to the polls to vote for the most radical candidates.

Read it all.

WELCOME TO YOUR CHILDRENS' NEW WORLD: Progressive regression and the new medievalism.

THE BABYLON BEE IS REPORTING NEWS AGAIN: "State Of Massachusetts Declared Incompetent By Reason Of Insanity."

IS IT HYPE? Sam Altman's most serious warning about AI yet.

Hype, no. A warning to be careful of what you wish for, yes.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: Will the last business out of California please turn off the Greta-approved eco-lights?

JACK DUNPHY: There is none so blind as those who will not see.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Washington Post embarrasses itself trying to embarrass me.

1+1 = WHATEVER THEY NEED IT TO BE: Democrats can't do simple math.

501(c)(3)s NGOs NEED TO BE REINED IN SHARPLY, or just abolished. I prefer abolished; I doubt that anything that's been sucking the government teat for as long as they have can be effectively reined in.

FEMINISM: The mutation of womanhood.

JACK DUNPHY: The Keyboard Kops weigh in.

SMILES FROM AYN RAND: [Appointed] European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen tells EU citizens 'all your monies are belong to us'.

Hold on to your wallets, Europe, the EU is coming for you.

THE “MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS.” Wolf Blitzer’s Trump mail-in voting lie blows up in his face.

"Used To Be" should be inserted into CNN's tagline.

LIBERALS: You can't change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Oh? "Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”

HEH: The Socialist mayor of America's largest city is currently less popular than a foreign leader whom much of Mamdani's own political coalition routinely accuses of everything from genocide to war crimes.

CONGRATULATIONS, AND WELCOME TO A THINNING CROWD: Nobody applauds when you fix the garbage disposal.

NANCY PELOSI just threw Hakeem Jeffries under the bus.

Wrong headline; it should have been Hakeem joins Nancy under the bus.

THE SIEGE IS ON. All that's left is the waiting.

But the Left will never wait; their mantra is always "I want it now".

THEY DIDN'T LISTEN THEN: Six hundred forty-nine years ago, a prominent Muslim scholar warned us about Mayor Mamdani's ideas.

And the're still not listening....

WOKESTERS AND DEMOCRATS won't even talk to you.

They don't need to talk since they already know everything....

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures. There are many good ones this week without the extra advertising. Here's my favorite:

Fortunately PowerLine seems to have given up on its AI 'nudging' in the Week in Pictures so I'm leaving it on my blogroll for now. But unless it gives up 'nudging' entirely, it's goodbye....

TRUMP: Chicago 'will die' without federal intervention.

So let it die. The people of Illinois bought into Pritzker and Johnson; make them fix it.

DRONES WON’T WIN WARS, but they have changed warfare.

Unfortunately, only boots on the ground win wars.

TOO MANY ACADEMICS: Why Higher Education is likely doomed.

WHILE AMERICAN EDUCATION COLLAPSES, Randi Weingarten turns her teachers’ union [AFT - American Federation of Teachers] into a permanent political campaign.

Please explain to me what AFT has to do with teaching....

BEHIND THE SCENES: The Trump administration just found a pressure point that could disrupt Antifa's entire network.

INCOMPETENCE AND BIGOTRY at NASA and Lockheed Martin.

Mostly incompetence, I think. Luckily I retired and left before it really got underway. But then my choices post-Lockheen Martin were worse.

MAYBE: AI dinosaur extinction coming?

In my view the answer is 'probably'. And I'd welcome it.

DANA PERINO NAILS THE REAL REASON Abdul El-Sayed bombed on Jesse Watters' show.

In Texas it would be said that he's all hat, no cattle. (The same can be said for James Talarico.)

JELLY ROLL DARES TRUMP FANS to stop listening after playing court jester for Jimmy Kimmel.

He has Trump fans?

WELL, GENOCIDE IS PRETTY EFFECTIVE. Abdul El-Sayed will save Jews from global warming!

HEALTHCARE FOR ALL -- if you can find it.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Minnesota State Mankato set to lay off employees and raise tuition.

Lay off faculty and students. Makes all kind of sense....

MONORAIL! Is Austin [TX] seeking another rail boondoggle? Seriously?

Texas is a great state, but Austin? Her sister cities in the U.S. should be Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SUPRISE: The most powerful special interests in America are not corporations. They’re public-sector unions.

And clearly the costliest to the taxpayer....

OBVIOUSLY NOT: Are there any working-class people in the Democratic Socialists?

Judging from what I'm seeing in the Democrat's political arena, most are nepo babies cosplaying as 'working class' while being supported by family wealth/connections.

SPEAKING THE TRUTH: Trump’s enemies just fight what Trump does for the sake of fighting Trump.

HE'S BANGING MY DRUM: Kelsey Grammer says privatizing Social Security could make Americans millionaires.

My previous posts can be found here.

NONSEQUITUR: Life in the USA today.

COLOR DIVERSITY, YES; Intellectual Diversity, no.

SOCIALISTS OR DEADBEATS? One and the same.

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: The Supreme Court ruling that lets the Trump Administration proceed with mail ballot security measures has Democrats freaking out.

NOT SURPRISED: Conservatives just won the border debate.

ADS AND TRACKING have infiltrated televisions, which is why I'm subject to the same damn commercials over and over again until I turn off the TV in disgust.

Now they're infiltrating your computer monitors....

WHY ENJOYING A FOOTBALL GAME is no longer an option.

I may watch the game or two allowed my streaming service, but that's it. I'm not paying more to watch games serviced by other providers.

GOOD. Major airport scraps Islamic footwashing station plan.

Public facilities are for the public; not some favored subset of the public.

THE WNBA just created a bigger problem with Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White.

They failed (again) to answer the obvious question: "What is a woman?"

WASHINGTON’S SPENDING ADDICTION is pushing America toward a fiscal reckoning.

No surprise there; it's been going on almost my entire lifetime. Here it is, in a single chart, from 1945 until 1Q 2026.

It leveled off a bit during the Clinton presidency, mostly due to the influence of the Republican House under Newt Gingrich's Speakership, then started accelerating again under the Bush administration, faster under Obama, and then maintained the pace under Trump I, Biden, and now under the first half of Trump II.

Of more interest to me is the ratio of debt to Gross National Product (GNP) pictured above. The initial spike is the post-WWII debt. The minimum was about 25% in 1975, then climbing steadily, but more or less in sync with the Gross National Product until 2013 when it crossed the line and became the larger of the two.

So now what? Here are two scenarios.

We're screwed. No, not really; it's our children and grandchildren and ... that are screwed.

[SEN.] PENCIL NECK [D(umb)-CA] LOSES AGAIN: Attack on Trump’s DC IndyCar race backfires.

Freedom 250 was funded by the Penske Corporation (owner of the Team Penske racing organization) and brought thousands of fans (with money to spend) to the Washington DC metro area.

Go back to California, loser.

THE WNBA IS A PSYOP designed to convince normals that black women and lesbians hate America.

It seems to be working....

NORTH CAROLINA TRANS ACTIVIST has a modest proposal for the children of 'bigots'.

I'd like to ask 'her' if 'she' has been 'dis-membered' yet....

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS [AFT] launches a boycott against Target claiming the retailer 'remained silent' on ICE.

What does this have to do with education?

Teachers unions -- all government unions -- should be abolished immediately.

THE ETERNAL LEFTIST QUEST for free stuff.

THE SUPREME COURT gives Trump a big win on mail-in voting.

Clear your calendar. Vote in person. On election day.

DAMIFINO: What the hell is wrong with women?

A NOVEL EXPLANATION FOR WOKE CULTURE: Is the rapid growth of therapy today making people worse?

I think so.

NUKE ACADEMIA FROM ORBIT. It's the only way to be sure.

MEN HAVEN'T ABANDONED THE WORKPLACE; they've abandoned the 'woke'place.

I did. Or more accurately, it abandoned me.

TRUMP'S MESSAGING ON THE MULLAHS could be as powerful as a GBU-57. Maybe more so.

Leaflets by the ton over Tehran, perhaps? Get the American/Israeli propagandists on it.

American bureaucrats can sure as hell gum up the works -- maybe there are (non-Islamist) Iranian bureaucrats who can do the same.

'THE SCIENCE^TM' strikes again at the British Medical Journal.

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY Trump couldn't have said it better.

PRE-PLANNING FOR FUTURE TERMINATOR ROBOTS: How to kill a robot dog.

WE'RE FRUGAL: Financial influencer reveals what America's everyday millionaires have in common.

THE OLD HOTNESS: Welcome Wagon kits for Americans fleeing Leftist states.The new hotness: guides to teach immigrants not to rape....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Hating Israel fatigue.

It's VDH, so obviously, read it all.

WHAT THE LEFT is getting wrong about motherhood.

MARCO RUBIO'S perfect weekend.

And streaming has ruined it for me, simply because where I live there is no over-the-air television. To see what I would see on over-the-air television on the 4 major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX) would require me to pay for at least two, probably three, maybe four, streaming services.

[VIP] THERE'S SCIENCE, and then there's 'Science^TM'.

HMM:ACT BLUE’S CO-FOUNDER takes the Fifth.

The Left pushes the law to the very edge of the cliff and teeters on the very edge -- until someone pushes them over.

It time is ripe for the Right to push....

HE’S A SOCIALIST JOURNALIST, he was just practicing redistribution.

Woke redefinition: Plagiarism is just a redistribution of words....

BERNIE AND AOC WANT MEDICARE FOR ALL, so CostCo is going to provide it.

I'd much rather pay CostCo than Bernie and AOC -- much, much cheaper. And better service.

MORE SCARE TACTICS, MORE CONTROL: Popular daily drinking habit could nearly triple risk of deadly cancer.

More evidence -- assuming that's needed -- that 'public health' is a scam.

I'M NOT THE LEAST BIT SURPRISED: Government targets Seattle group for cleaning up drug gear the government handed out.

Reason? Government robots don't like to be shown up or embarrassed.

[VIP] NO, THEY'RE ABOUT MAINTAINING PROBLEMS: Democrats aren't about solving problems.

But why? Isn’t the answer obvious? Democrats aren't interested in solving problems. They're interested in exploiting them. They find a grievance, invent a villain to pin it on, and ride the outrage all the way to Election Day. Their solutions, when they bother to offer any, either accomplish nothing or make the underlying problem worse, just like Obamacare did to health insurance costs.

That's the endless cycle. Manufacture the crisis, blame the other side, promise a fix that never comes, and repeat. All this actually accomplishes is keeping the base engaged and the donations flowing, all with the goal of keeping Democrats in power without ever having to deliver anything real.

You don't maintain control by solving problems....

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why is the University of Michigan hiding grades?

The longer it takes for students to fail, the more money in the university coffers.

SOCIALISTS NOW SAY that shoplifting is A-OK.

All it takes is a liberal redefinition or two and shoplifting is legal theft.

BEING ON THE LEFT is a disease of the soul.

The link is kaput (been removed, probably for offending the Leftists). So read the comments instead; they're on target.

FROM INSTAPUNDIT: Things that are now right-wing.

Also whiteness.

SLOWLY, THEN SUDDENLY: Another business heads to Texas in California exodus.

It looks like California has entered the 'suddenly' phase.

THE DEATH OF ACADEMIC FRAUD JASON ARDAY won't shut us up.

Some of us anyway....

BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE. 'Well, that was an F-18'.

EXCELLENT POINT: The problem with DSA Democrats isn't socialism (or communism); it's third-worldism.

THE STATE OF EDUCATION TODAY: The Teacher of the Year in Nashville TN just walked away from her career; says the district ordered her to fabricate grades.

IRANIAN [REVOLUTIONARY GUARD] TOP DOG says the war shows that ‘Islam can be made to rule the world’.

It's time to take Gen. Curtis LeMay seriously: "If you kill enough of them they stop fighting." The Islamists are (humanoid) rabid animals; destroying them is a boon for humankind.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & BELONGING DID: Who Killed Jason Arday?

IT’S SPELLED 'TURKEY,' NOT 'TÜRKIYE.' Here’s why that’s important.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: "Imagine what would happen if Trump offered illegals free citizenship if they voted Republican. It’s the fastest way I can think of to get the
Democrats working to get them out of the country."

Taken from this Eric Florack post.

JOE BIDEN: The perfect symbol of today's Democrat party.

EX-CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR JASON ARDAY found dead after plagiarism scandal led to abrupt resignation.

Apparently a suicide, but no official word that I've seen....

HEH: The Left can have Islam or LGBTQA+. Not both.

FROM THE 'WORD OF GOD' TO THE 'WOKE OF GOD': Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico described bible stories for kids as ‘insidious’ ‘indoctrination’.

[VIP] THE FANTASY WORLD OF THE DSA would cost $200,000,000,000,000 dollars over the next 10 years.

One more zero and the total would be in the quadrillions....

TRUMP ALREADY WON THE IRAN WAR. Ending it is Tehran's problem.

AMUSING (MOSTLY) BACKSTORIES FROM THE WEEK THAT WAS: Monday's final word.

FRIGHTENING: AI and the quiet surrender of human agency.

There positive elements, but control is the inevitable outcome.

WHY NOTHING IN MY HOUSE IS 'SMART': Colorado woman finds out the hard way why you never want a 'smart' thermostat in your house.

THE DELUSIONAL PREMISES of woke greens.

Read it all. It's that important.

TWO WOMEN, TWO INSTITUTIONS, one very telling week. "Two women made their choices perfectly clear this week. It's the institutions that seem confused."

Confused? No. Our 'institutions' are polluted by a coterie of garbage elites.

ABDUL EL-SAYED killed a lot of dogs when he ran Detroit's animal control agency.

Now he's running for Senate?

IF HE DOES BUY, Greenland is cheaper, and more useful.

SOPHIE’S CHOICE — honesty and candor over cowardice.

The WMBA will choose cowardice every time.

[VIP] FAT AMY (THE F-35) gets no respect.

THE BABYLON BEE is reporting news again.

DISGUSTING: Vandal desecrated a sacred WWII Veterans Memorial.

She's an AWFL, and has already been arrested and jailed.

THE DOOMERS can’t deny Trump’s big wins.

GUESS: Who’s been destroying norms?

I PREFER IMPLOSION. Will Iran implode or explode?

EVEN DEMOCRATS ARE ABANDONING THE WOKE TITANIC. Veteran Democrat attorney Julian Epstein has declared his support for Republican Mike Rogers over progressive darling Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Senate race.

CRAZY REALLY IS A POLITICAL LOSER. But evil? Evil’s got legs.

“MORE EXPENSIVE AND LESS USEFUL.” My new motto when describing Democrats.

VIPS, an all-star team of losers.

HUMOR IS NOT ALLOWED in Democrat spaces.

FROM PJ MEDIA'S 'Morning Briefing', the latest stupidity: 'transwomen lesbians' to describe men.

HE'S AFRAID HE CAN'T KEEP UP. Sen. Bernie Sanders [I-VT] calls for a total pause in all AI development.

YES, LET'S: Let's do to the DNC what the trans issue did to the WNBA.

BTW, what is a woman, anyway?

IN POLITICS, The farther left, the more corrupt.

So to minimize corruption, vote Republican.

Heh.

OBAMA THE LESSER, OBAMA THE GREATER, and the making of myths.

RANDOM THOUGHT: To an idiot, the merely stupid is a genius.

THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA have released a manifesto. It reeks of deeply dysfunctional infantilism.

WILEY MILLER [Non Sequitur] solves the Democrats' DSA dilemma.

The carnivore quarters are still open....

SALESWOMAN OF THE YEAR: Kamala Harris accidentally endorses the SAVE Act.

HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLET: The Democratic Socialists stand for freeloaders.

CLIMATE CRISIS? What climate crisis?

WILL IT WORK? The small explosion theory in practice.

I hope so. It will take time, though.

TOLD'JA SO: Bishop slams Smithsonian for anti-American history indoctrination.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Democratic Socialists, hubris is thy name.

THE NEANDERTHAL STRAIN IS SHOWING UP IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. Proof of interbreeding.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The long view of Iran.

America will win, but I wish it would be sooner rather than later.

I HAD HOPED TO AVOID JASON ARDAY IN FUTURE POSTS, but the fall of a DEI darling reveals why universities won’t reform themselves.

They're too invested in their own egos.

REST IN PEACE to an American workhorse: Beth dies after 49 years.

DEREK HUNTER: Men make the best women.

Now watch the WNBA video.

AN ALARMING STATISTIC about Generation Z (13-29 age group): screen time.

Researchers identified the pandemic as a turning point. Their report notes that young people spent more time at home and away from friends and activities, while remote learning placed students in front of computers for hours. Importantly, the study's screen-time figures excluded the additional hours spent doing classes and homework online.

My own takeaway is that the COVID pandemic just 'hurried up' a longer term trend.

THIS SHOULD GET INTERESTING: The GOP has a nasty little surprise planned for Democrats (and the DSA) this September.

PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT'S TOO HIGH A PRICE: Windows 11, Microsoft Office and more are on sale, starting at $12.

WOULD I LIE TO YOU? Of course, he's a Democrat.

That's not to say it isn't true of many politicians -- of all stripes.

WHY STAY WHEN THE TITANIC IS SINKING? Two inner-circle DC Democrats hint they might be ditching the Party over socialist Senate pick.

THIS OUGHT TO BE the final post on academic fabulist Jason Arday.

But I rather expect it won't -- there are too many problems in academia for this to burn out quickly.

SECONDED: Win the war already.

IT'S TIME FOR SENSIBLE DEMOCRATS to stand up to the Democratic Socialists.

If there are any (John Fetterman excepted) left.

DATA REPUBLICAN (small R): "Do you know what the biggest killer on the modern Western battlefield is?"

A VOICE OF SANITY. Who keeps society running?

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI is the most selfish man in politics.

Hubris personified....

AND GROCERIES ARE EXPENSIVE: Americans now pay more in taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

POWER GRID TRANSFORMER SHORTAGE exposes deep supply chain collapse.

My father once worked for RTE (Rural Transformers & Electrification) Corporation. It no longer exists....

ELIZABETH WARREN GETS REALITY CHECK over her inability to understand how rent works. "The 'educated Left' is one of the stupidest groups of people on the planet."

SHE GOT HERS BEFORE THE TRANS-WOMEN GOT IN: Smug Megan Rapinoe goes on unhinged rant over men(?) in women/s sports.

And don't forget, her women's national team got beaten 5-2 by a high-school boys soccer team.

AN EXCELLENT QUESTION: Who’s controlling artificial intelligence?

WHY HOLD THEM BACK? Mamdani booed off stage as cops hold back furious crowd.

IT'S NOW A BADGE OF HONOR TO THE LEFT: Is 'Communist' no longer a slur?

HE'S FULL OF SHIT: Not only that, Trump's takedown of [Minnesots Democratic Senate candidate Abdul] El-Sayed makes a great point about communism.

LEFTIES DON’T CARE WHO THEY RULE OVER, just so long as they rule.

The post is about Spain, but is just as applicable here. The comments are worth perusing.

IRAN PRESIDENT: Contact with Khamenei is difficult.

Because he's dead? Or not in Iran? Or both?

[VIP] More speculation here.

LIBRARIES ATTACH TRIGGER WARNINGS to historical resource catalogs.

A guarantee that you'll be entering a reality zone when you enter....

ELITE ACADEMIA finally flames out in clueless heights of hilarious hubris.

More succinctly, 'elite academia' is neither....

A BIG TENT, EH?

DEMOCRATS ARE ANGRY because Trump is implementing a counter to the power of the unelected Deep State career bureaucrats.

PERSONALLY I'D USE 'NO QUARTER' AGAINST DEMOCRATIS SOCIALISTS: Party of peace Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed uses loaded military term 'no quarter' in unhinged speech.

CALIFORNIA NEEDS gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton’s allegedly ‘zany ideas’.

Unless it wants to retain its place as a failed third-world state....

AND A HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME TOO. Glenn Reynolds started his Instapundit blog 25 years ago on August 8, 2001. Five years plus 1 day later (August 9, 2006), Shadow's World was born as a way to keep in touch with family when I accepted a short-term assignment in Iraq.

Time flies when you're having fun....

CANCEL THANKSGIVING? "Should have done this in 1621” according to Wisconsin Socialist candidate for Governor Francesca Hong.

MAMDANI’S DOUBLE-HEADER war on New York city.

IMPRIMIS: The hard truth about the sanctuary movement.

NOT AN ACCUSATION, A FACT: Smithsonian accused of replacing education with activism.

When we lived in the D.C. metro area we visited both the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History (opened in 2003) and the National Museum of the American Indian (opened in 2004).

The African American History museum was obviously 'woke' even then. The American Indian museum was so outrageously bad we didn't even bother to go past the first couple of exhibits.

And this was 20-plus years ago. I can only imagine how much worse it has gotten.

INSTAPUNDIT: Shrink his tent to a straitjacket because the people inside it are kooks.

THIS IS SOMEHOW A SURPRISE? Communist, socialist network helped fuel Madison protests after Corey Ruiz shooting.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Iran war at the crossroads.

It's time for the U.S. to fish or cut bait. Quit dithering.

BUT SPAIN (AND EUROPE) WILL NEVER LEARN: The recent mauling of Ceuta by tens of thousands of Moroccans is an incredible “teachable moment”.

FROM SLOW TO SUDDEN: Inside Meta’s bet on the dignity of work.

No debt relief needed....

YES, GO BACK WHERE YOU BELONG: Patriots want Mamdani to go BACK to his country!

YEAH, their agenda is pretty plain. From the comments:

Grownups think that our policy ideas are absurd and refuse to vote for us, so I say we should get to count the votes of your children. Not our own, of course, because we are in fact childless weirdos and don't have any. But we definitely covet control over yours.

True.

LEFTISTS FREAK OUT that Trump's Truth Social offers a new service. Here's what they don't mention.

BILL MAHER’S NEVER BEEN A REPUBLICAN, but the Democratic Party has become too loco for him. Here's why.

TRUTH: Mike Rowe respects workers more than the Socialists claiming to save them.

SOCIALISM'S PERFECT FAILURE RECORD is worth recalling in the voting booth.

YOU CAN VOTE WITHOUT ONE, but you'll need an ID to buy groceries. (And an EBT card).

SCHLICHTER: Democrats want to close the prisons except for normal people.

THE BARBARIANS are in charge of the Democrat party now.

Get out if you can.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Stupid is like rabies -- incurable.

AS A FORMER TEXAN, I DON'T THINK SO: Texas Democrats select a real man to run for Senate.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Man who took nation's constitutional rights claims protection by constitutional right.

Linked from Instapundit.

NOT JUST RURAL HEALTHCARE. Democrats will blame the GOP for rural healthcare. And 'Big Pharma' is the one killing it.

REVOLUTION COULD HAPPEN 'ANY DAY NOW': A report from inside Iranian resistance.

We can hope....

THIS IS SOMEHOW A SURPRISE? Seattle is in free fall.

THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN was a fraud.

In the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the man behind the curtain was human....

WELL, WE'LL FIND OUT TONIGHT: The party of, by, and for emotionally unstable women.

I'M NO LONGER GOING TO WASTE MY TIME ON POWERLINE. Their posts are unreadable with all the popup ads and the addition of the AI 'nanny' has made clicking on PowerLine's links offensive.

The AI's 'recommendations' are both garbage and the straw that broke this camel's back.

UPDATE: Well, the AI 'recommendations' seem to have disappeared. I'll continue to monitor PowerLine but any post that has those 'recommentations' in it will be automatically shitcanned.

FOR THE LEFT dogma is science.

Read the comments.

LADY LIBERTY put her torch down

to tell the Democratic Socialists where to go.

WHY CAN'T YOU BE NORMAL? The Democrats are nominating total freaks for office.

Freaks are all they have left....

TILTING AT WINDMILLS: Life in the bubble.

[The bubble represents] the apotheosis of what the managerial/academic/journo class desires: An excuse for sweeping power, based on (alleged) expertise, in which they could ride roughshod over those stupid proles and flyover people while preening about the allegedly superior moral and intellectual qualities that justify their rule.

Cliff's Notes Version: Experts aren't.

UNLICENSED PUNDITRY: Money for nothing and your chicks for free. Two key paragraphs:

[T]he American Revolution was not fundamentally a contest between competing economic systems.It was a rejection of hereditary privilege and centralized authority in favor of government by consent, individual liberty, equality before the law, and the principle that rights belong to people by nature rather than by permission of the state.

Once you vote for any form of collectivism, any future votes are simply performative because your first vote was to give control of your life over to people who never had any intention of giving it back. There has never been a case of any nation, state, or subdivision of either that turned to collectivism that said, “You know what, this sucks, let’s vote to end it and go back to capitalism.”

Now go read the whole post.

THANK YOU, GEN. MARK BROWN Tuskegee University rolls out dress code for students.

Now if only the Ivy League would pay attention....

SPEAKING OF MAMDANI, another New York Democrat finds a new way to make groceries more expensive.

HERO SOLDIER KILLED IN IRAN LAID TO REST as NYC Mayor Mamdani reportedly 'fumed' at not being asked to speak.

Mamdani is the poster child for hubris.

CORNELL BRAT who refused to work with Jews gets brutal life lesson from Mom and Dad.

YGBFKM: QUEERING ECONOMICS: Professors call for LGBTQ+ economists because even markets need an identity.

BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE ON CHILD ABUSE? I Can't believe liberals are calling homeschooling child abuse.

BELABORING THE OBVIOUS: Here are the hard facts that doom every proposed Social Security fix.

Privatizing is the only serious option. Here are some of my many past posts on the subject.

SEN. JON OSSOFF [D-GA]: Which way is the wind blowing with my base?

He's up for reelection. Help me vote him out.

KILL YOUR TELEVISION? The 'wokesters' have already forced me to.

"FROM THE MOUTH OF SHIFF: I would rather destroy our nation under communist tyranny than lose my political privilege."

That reader comment is from the Red State post 'Concerning Poll' About Socialists in Democrat Party.

APPARENTLY PATIO SOFAS are irresistible to wild foxes.

So Tuxedo is a fox.

As is Juniper.

Who'd a thunk it?

WHEN THE WORLD'S FOURTH-LARGEST ECONOMY IMPLODES, you'll be able to say "I told you so."

ANTHONY FAUCI: Dr. Wrong.

HAPPY NATIONAL ORGASM DAY: Study claims 47% of workers are having sex on he job.

Obviously it's referring to government jobs....

HEH: Jewish Michigan Attorney General says she is unsafe at her own Democratic convention.

It really isn't funny, but it does tell you all you need to know about the direction of the party under 'Democratic Socialism'.

RAND PAUL'S DAMNING FAUCI REVELATION that everybody missed. "Not one Democrat accessed the extensive online archive of documents Republicans had compiled in preparation for the hearing."

Not one of them. Not a single one. They weren't there for an investigation; they were there to vilify Republicans.

AI TOKENS could become the kilowatt-hour of the AI age.

And if you refuse to play, I suppose your AI will be taken away -- I call that win-win.

BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME PEOPLE? Why do they all have the same glasses?

There's a sameness about 'diversity'.

(NOT SO) RANDOM THOUGHT. OnJuly 4, 1776 -- The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

After 250 years we're reaching that point internally. Will the Socialists win? Or America?

Living in the USSR USSA is not high on my bucket list....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The socialist monster awakens.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Democrats are the Republicans' secret weapon.

But they have to use it aggressively.

THE BABYLON BEE predicts the news.

STEPHEN MOORE: My visit to the data center.

The data center I visited stores two football fields of state-of-the-art equipment that keeps the internet functioning and records and responds to billions of online tapping around the globe every minute. The speed and efficiency of these operations is mind-numbing. Contrast it with 1950s telephone switchboard operators connecting every phone call manually. Data centers are doing billions of transactions and computations across the country to service tens of millions of users every minute.

On the other hand, where would we be without the blizzard of adware and nannyware making television and the internet more and more unusable?

INSTAPUNDIT: Why Fauci matters.

LIBS OF TIKTOK: It's insane that any of these people were ever taken seriously again after this.

It's insane they were ever taken seriously, period.

DR.(?) ANTHONY FAUCI: The man who destroyed America’s trust in science.

Whatever medical school granted that man his medical degree should immediately recind it.

'WELCOME TO SOCIALISM': A stark warning about Mamdani.

MUST HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT 'DEI' -- The Left brands Justice Thomas a 'DEI hire'. It's a video with Fox News' contributor Jonathan Turley.

SUNDAY SMILES: I'm there.

You'll have to scroll down to see the rest, but they are worth it.

SORRY, BUT NO: New York wants to govern Iowa and Missouri.

A BEAUTIFUL START for any morning....

HARSHLY. How should MAGA handle its grifters, lowlifes, bigots, and nutjobs?

CLEANING UP THE JUDICIARY: Rogue judge finally gets an act named after him.

AI IS MAKING THE OFFICE MORE PRODUCTIVE. Can it do the same for the home?

No, because I shoot to kill when it crosses my threshold.

JUST AS I HAVE PREDICTED -- Vigilantism is Man’s natural state.

Linked from Instapundit.

WILL TRAVELING BACK ROADS MAKE A COMEBACK? I-70 experiencing a run of lithium-ion battery fires in semi trailers.

IRAN LAUNCHES SURPRISE ATTACK ON US FORCES -- discovers that wasn't a good idea.

Saudi Arabia struck back....

RANDOM THOUGHT from Sunday July 26th: Adware and nannyware are making television and the internet more and more unusable.

THE LEFT-WING UNICORN HUNT for the white male working-class voter.

They haven't found one yet, and it's unlikely they ever will....

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: Same ol', same ol'.

More proof -- if any is needed -- that government unions should be banned.

FBI CAPTURES its fourth 'Most Wanted' in five weeks. But Democrats needn't worry; they're producing more at record rates.

UNLIKELY TO WORK: Are California Democrats surging cash to turn Alaska blue?

They should surge themselves to Alaska; that's a surefire way to turn it blue....

HEH: NEW 'APOCALYPSE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM' keeps tabs on billionaires, will warn you if they all start fleeing to bunkers.

ESPECIALLY FOR A LEFTIST GOVERNMENT: A government admitting a mistake is the hardest thing in the world.

MAN SHUTS DOWN THIEF stealing his TV with some help from the Second Amendment.

That's what it's for....

I'VE NOTICED IT TOO -- search for something and the AI-enabled search engine shows you what it wants you to search for, not what you want to search for.

Linked from Instapundit.

UNFORGIVABLE means just that.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT: Black-owned Atlanta restaurant faces boycott calls for serving a (gasp!) Republican.

RACIST EX-PRESIDENT keeps pushing racism.

SILENCE: The mainstream media "doth protest too little, methinks."

IT'S A START: Portland and Los Angeles anti-ICE protesters are in the FO stage.

A small start, but a start nontheless....

SO LONG, AMERICA: It was the trip of a lifetime.

Linked from Red State. You'll have to scroll down to the bottom to find the link to World Cup Freddy. But it's well worth the trip....

ERIC FLORACK: The Left has always been this way.

Now they're just being more obvious about it.

WORLD CUP FREDDY makes it to Nashville and has the perfect patriotic moment before returning to Germany after the soccer tournament ends.

GUNS & MOSES lead to dangerous laughter.

HASAN PIKER MAKES AOC HIS 2028 PICK FOR PRESIDENT, says it's 'not even a question’.

In a way, he's right. It's 'not even a question' that Democratic Socialists are dumber than dirt.

SUMMER LEE AND ILHAN OMAR pooled brain cells for ‘bomb’ attack on fellow Democrat — it didn’t go well. "These two are the reason there are 'Do Not Eat' labels on silica packets."

THE EXACT MOMENT THE GATES OF HELL opened for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: Try leading by example.

IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR: Airplane seats really are getting smaller.

Ripe for a 'bcozzy' commercial on television....

PLATNER, MAMDANI, TALARICO, AND NOW AOC: Scratch a commie, find a mommy.

A very harsh, unforgiving mommy.

FROM DEI TO IED: The Left-wing unicorn hunt for the white male working-class voter.

WE CAN READ HARD THINGS: "Those who do will have an advantage over AI’s cognitive cripples."

WELL ... YES. Is the Democrats' fundraising powerhouse ActBlue a massive money laundering machine?

Given it's by and for Democrats, no surprise.

TRUST THE ELITES? Caught on their own emails.

For years, we were told to trust the process. Trust the intelligence community. Trust the experts who assured us that America's elections were the most secure in history and that anyone who questioned that was a conspiracy theorist, a threat to democracy, or worse.

Last week, we found out exactly how much that trust was worth.

No, thank you ....

NO MEAT FOR THE MASSES: Eat your porridge, peons.

Sad to see....

POWERLINE: Our violent Left. "Vote our way or we will vandalize your house, threaten your family, and assault your staff."

The modern Democrat(ic?) party....

THEY WERE AFRAID OF WHAT HE'S SAY: We know why CNN refused to air Trump's election interference speech.

FORMER MARINE AND CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE arrested after saying Trump must be 'killed'.

FOR THE LEFT, 'deranged' = 'normal'.

JUST STOP:

From a Shadow's World post way back on August 5th 2017.

REPUBLICANS SHOULD HELP THEM: Democrats are walking into a minefield.

GAVIN NEWSOM, ENVIRONMENTALIST: Release the bears!

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS A BRILLIANT WAY to make Canada pay for wildfire fallout.

I'd prefer he sent them knowledgeable firefighters and told Canada to pay their salaries.

REVOKE THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND KICK THE OUT. The unconstitutionality of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The cold, cruel world awaits....

TWO BIG WINS: Trump wins DEI court case amd brings semiconductor investment back to America.

Make America Home Again (MAHA).

A DEEP WATER PORT IN ARIZONA? San Andreas fault stress at 1,000-year high.

Win-win.

IT'S ONLY VIOLENCE WHEN IT AFFECTS ME PERSONALLY: Mamdani's housing event just found a new form of 'violence.'

BECAUSE WASTE IS WHERE THE GRIFT IS. Why do California cities keep raising taxes instead of cutting waste?

It funds politicians, government bureaucrats, favored NGOs, and paid voters.

MAMDANI TO ARREST NETANYAHU? The best option for Trump is to kick the UN out of New York. And Mamdani with it.

Tehran would be a good choice.

SAME STUPIDITY, DIFFERENT DAY. Workers Deserve More!

If you've got a strong stomach, here's the PDF.

PAST ITS 'SELL BY' DATE: Northeastern Illinois gender studies major enrolls just 4 students.

It's a spoiled product. Always has been, but now people are recognizing it for what it is....

TOP ONCOLOGIST says the wellness industry is 'toxic' and getting it all wrong.

He's right.

OLIVE GARDEN is now more secure than elections.

Olive Garden is controlled by a free market, not a Democrat cabal....

And your access to fettuccine is secure.

INSTAPUNDIT ON THE CONSTITUTION'S GUARANTEE CLAUSE: Will Trump invoke it?

I certainly hope so.

THE DEGENERATE SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: This is what your children and grandchildren will inherit.

Vote like their lives depend on it -- because they will.

SMART MAN: World Cup Freddy returns to X.

PowerLine explains why.

NEXT UP IN IRAN: Pickaxe mountain?

[VIP] WELCOME BACK, MARCHING MORONS: Einstein never would have used artificial intelligence.

Also recommended, a classic cult film, Idiocracy.

THE DEGENERATE SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: This is what your children and grandchildren will inherit.

Vote like their lives depend on it -- because they will.

THE WORLD MADE ANEW: America's allies are stronger, its rivals weaker, and the global balance has shifted.

THERE’S MORE PROOF OF ELECTION FRAUD than Global Warming, Israeli Genocide, and Socialism Working.

WELCOME BACK, KAROLINE LEAVITT: Her first press briefing back after maternity leave.

Update from PowerLine: maternity leave. The full (Twitter) picture is great, but unfortunately you have to be a Twit to see it.

SCHLICHTER: Leftist women are an abomination.

MACHIAVELLI'S THE PRINCE -- “The only people who haven’t read it are the ones who keep losing.”

WORKING CLASS GETTING HOSED by the victim class politics of hosepipe (water hose in American english) bans.

THIS USED TO BE ACTIVE SABOTAGE, now it's bureaucratic standard practice.

To mangle the famous quote that graced President Harry Truman's desk (the buck stops here) "The buck slows here".

Linked from Instapundit (Sarah Hoyt).

PORTLAND'S ADOPT-A-BUM PROGRAM isn't working out as well as the mayor hoped.

NOT IF IT'S TAUGHT BY COLLEGE FACULTY: Scholars argue for mandatory college civics.

HEH: Taco Bell manager confident Cyclospora came from farmers market down the street.

Click on the link.

I DO: Who gets to choose America?

I'm an American citizen and I want my vote back.

[VIP] DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS eye Michigan Senate seat ahead of August primary.

I don't normally post [VIP] material, simply because it isn't visible to everyone, but the Democratic Socialist candidate Abdul El-Sayed is calling for Bernie Sanders' cradle-to-grave 'Medicare for All'.

'Cradle-to-grave' is Democrat-speak for 'abortion to assisted suicide'.

SEEN AT THE LOCAL CONSERVATIVE GROUNDS CAFE: "It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." The sticker is now on the back of my truck.

RANDOM THOUGHT on political management styles:

Republican: wealth management
Democrat: poverty management

Need I say more?

IN AMERICAN ENGLISH: Socialism . Fails . Every . Time .

WITH SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM'S DEATH a power vacuum has opened up in the GOP Senate.

A GLIMPSE INTO COLORADO’S FUTURE and you’ll find yourself casually browsing real estate listings in Texas.

Just don't bring DEM-ocracy with you.

AMUSING (AND A BIT HISTORICAL) IF NOTHING ELSE: How the fortune cookie crumbles.

‘HARD FOR ANY DEMOCRAT TO WIN’: Top Democrat gives the game away on the Save America Act.

Cliffs Notes version: If we can't cheat, we can't win.

COMMUNISM IS A LOT EASIER TO SWALLOW WHEN YOU'RE IGNORANT:

Item 1: Part of this is that they’ve been subsidized by grift and fraud for so long.

Item 2: The education apocalypse.

The 'Valley Girls' -- and dudes -- from years ago have returned....

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'Valley Girls' have returned as Democratic Socialists.

SCHLICHTER: No Democrat has the brains or courage to not be crazy.

It should be 'brains and courage' above....

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: More than 200 FBI agents swarm Fulton County GA to investigate 2020 election fraud.

SHIFF'S NAME SHOULD BE SHITT: After Republicans lost Lindsey Graham Adam Schiff wasted no time counting votes.

UNFORTUNATELY THEY'RE SUCCEEDING. With extreme poverty at all-time lows, Democratic Socialists hope to reverse the trend.

ACCESSIBILITY; WE'VE MADE RAPE MORE ACCESSIBLE. Mamdani's explanation of why NYC is dealing with rising rate of rapes.

FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS bars H-1B visas at public universities.

We already have enough home-grown idiots.

THE DEFINITION OF GREED: Bernie’s coming to town.

Is government, not billionaires.

SHE'S NORMAL: Here is the real reason why they hate Caitlin Clark so much.

RUBIO TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC): Hands off the United States — Oh, and we're shutting you down.

CNBC’S WOKE ‘WORST STATES’ LIST makes Red America look great.

I live in one of the worst. Thank God.

BECAUSE HE'S A FAILURE: Why Democrats are furious with Bernie Sanders.

NOW A RING GIRL: the versatile Sophie Cunningham.

I saw a picture somewhere of her with Sidney Sweeney with her caption "One of us forgot our tits at home." That girl lady has class.

VICTORY GIRLS: Show us the money, Randi Weingarten.

LARRY ELDER: What's the real defining image of race in America?

[T]here is a race problem in America, and it's the blatant racism of prominent figures on the left. This is the real defining image of this era of American history.

Truth.

JOHN STOSSEL: Spoiled socialists.

JONATHAN TURLEY: James Talarico's defense of gun control leaves out a key word.

For the maleducated, here's the Cliffs Notes version: Texas Opie should just keep talking.

IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, NOTHING WILL: Young man uses money he saved for a house to give his granddad a World Cup adventure.

SO WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO? Michigan State University spends almost $900,000 on five DEI staffers.

Other than create havoc?

THEY'RE NO LONGER 'DEMOCRATIC SOCALISTS', OR EVEN JUST SOCIALISTS. Bernie Sanders and the Democrats' coalition of the appalling.

They're just idiots. Mostly overeducated, mostly undermedicated idiots.

END WOKENESS: The interracial violence narrative vs. reality.

Linked from Instapundit.

THE SOONER THE BETTER: Make Iran great again.

NOW CONQUERING INNER SPACE: This human habitat at the bottom of the ocean is now operational.

Linked from Instapundit.

THE BEST WAY TO HONOR SEN. GRAHAM [R-SC] is to pass the Save America Act now.

SOUTH CAROLINA SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: dead at 71.

Rest in Peace. We've got this.

I LIKE THE IDEA: Trump's plan for triumphal arch wins a key early approval.

But I'd go a bit smaller....

REPUBLICANS LEARN ABOUT BRANDING: "In the spirit of designating every minority enclave of the city, I'm officially renaming my district 'Little America'."

'LUXURY BELIEFS' are killing people.

YGBFKM: The FCC Chair casts doubt on ABC's claim that 'The View' is a 'bona fide news program'.

Of course 'The View' is a bona fide news program....

SEND HIM --AND ALL HIS FAMILY --BACK TO UGANDA: Mamdani's embittered Fourth of July rant to America.

KICKED OUT BY HIS OWN DEEP BLUE 'COLLEAGUES': Platner is a hilarious symptom of progressive failure.

Still, I was hoping he'd stay in the race to further embarrass his fellow Democrats.

CERTAINLY; IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS: Is AI leading to a dumbed-down and misled populace?

The author is right. Absolutely right.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has posted. Two favorites, this week:

And one I'm somewhat partial to ...

... although given what academia has done to education I'd choose 'PhD to Prision' instead.

That said, go see the rest.

JASMINE CROCKETT says the Texas Democratic Senate primary was racist.

Jasmine Crockett was the racist in the race. She lost.

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO ON A GAY CRUISE? Stop in Israel (see last chart).

BUT, BUT ... WAS IT CONSENSUAL? Prehistoric cave discoveries hint at shared culture between Neanderthals and modern humans.

INSTAPUNDIT IS BEATING MY DRUM: Don't lock young Americans into Social Security.

I agree, as I have for years. Here are some of my old Social Security posts. [if given the option, sort by relevance; the ones of interest come up faster.]

AND NOW THEY'VE RUN OUT OF CLOWNS. It looks like the Democrats have been sending their best all along.

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY: You’re just going to have to kill them or walk away from Iran.

I'd prefer we kill them. Rabid animals can't be allowed to live.

THIS IS WHAT 'MUH DEMOCRACY' LOOKS LIKE: Residents vow to take matters into their own hands at block party nightmare.

Thanks, Democrats....

HEH: How about “no apparatchiks” instead?

I'M REMINDED OF SGT. SCHULTZ FROM HOGAN'S HEROS: "I know nothing."

I’M NOT SURE, I’D HAVE TO CONSULT WITH CHATGPT: Is Artificial Intelligence making us dumber?

AN EXCELLENT QUESTION: Why is gun rights the only civil right with a federal bureaucracy purpose-built to regulate its exercise?

CREDENTIALED, DEPENDENT, AND UNEMPLOYABLE: The Washington Post’s cautionary tale backfires.