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.