Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 25 April

The Right Way starts us off with Top of the News

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark - 90 Miles From Tyranny
A warning from Britain’s Iranian diaspora - Blazingcatfur

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.22.26 (Morning Edition)

Dana Loesch: No One Asked For This
Don Surber: Obama is tired of Trump winning

EBL - Why is America a Superpower?

Geographical determinism plays a part (it helps), but it is not the only thing though...
AoSHQ: Morning Report 04.23.26

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 April 2026: Double Stacker Edition

The Pentagon wants $54 billion for drones. (Ars Technica)
Shockingly, even Ars Technica doesn't claim this is an outrageous idea, merely an expensive one. I can't speak for the commenters. I haven't read the comments, and won't.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Circuit Court Judge Nixes Virginia Gerrymander

At Althouse, "'If the Democratic Party is to flourish in the future,' Mr. Platner told me, 'it needs to be an antiwar party.'" The guy with the Nazi tattoo. The Persian Jewess @persianjewess, "Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani"

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Trump’s toughest battle and Trump changed the rules. One giant fraud.
Stores You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: No infidels allowed. The lynching of Melanie Gill.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.23.26 (Evening Edition)

Shark Tank: George Moraitis Addresses U.S. Blockade Of Iran, Praises Trump
Shot In The Dark: Depreciated, also, The Eternal Half Hour

The Glibertarians - Thursday Morning Links

Gas Near $4, but US Still Beats Global Prices
Housing crisis hits all ages as homeownership declines nationwide

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 04/24/2026 – More from The Nation!

Sadly I have a feeling that I’m not the only Catholic out there who thinks that Trump is more Catholic than the Pope. And no, that’s not because I think Trump is a saint – it’s more of an indictment of the church’s current leadership..

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.24.26

Don Surber: American exceptionalism lives on
First Street Journal: A Philadelphia Inquirer sob story about a poor, poor, misunderstood murderer

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/22/2026

Brussels Scrambles as Fuel Shortages Hit Europe
The European Commission is set to unveil an emergency energy package on Wednesday, in an arguably late attempt to confront a rapidly evolving energy crisis.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For April 24, 2026

The Iran war remains mostly in suspended animation. The blockade is still in place, and the IRCG tried to attack a couple of ships in the Strait of Hormuz, without notable effect.

Vlad Tepes - Canada is a place that needs watching: Links 1 for April 24, 2026

1. RFK Jr offers a few words on Canadian death care
2. Rural land owners react to the high speed rail scam
3. Is the actual system in effect in Canada becoming clear yet?

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Euthanasia Danger: Danger Zone; Making Suicide Prevention Illegal; Canada Must Kill The Mentally Ill

Suicide hotlines and other such resources have traditionally been about preventing suicide. Now, Scotland is looking to prohibit preventing assisted suicide.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Mamdani’s Folly: Capitalists Have Already Solved the Grocery Problem
Dozens Of Governments Will Take Fossil Fueled Trips To Try And End Fossil Fuels

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 23/26

A horror story of nightmarish abuse . . . and he’s back on duty!
A Syrian Muslim ‘Caregiver’ for the Swedish Elderly

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: down on the problem farm

• EU holds first summit without Orbán as Zelensky joins leaders in Cyprus Antonio O'Mullony
• If Iran Won’t Deal, Here’s What Comes Next Lance Gordon

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/23/2026

Good analysis of Virginia election anomalies here, which discusses disappearing votes, and there is a list of counties where thousands of votes just disappeared here.

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3604 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Friday's Political and Current Event Memes from Wirecutter.

Floridians Are Heavily Armed

The bad guys continue to not get that memo. St. Petersburg homeowner fatally shoots intruder in Kenwood, police say

How would you respond to an uninvited guest breaking into your home, shortly after midnight?

A homeowner who was awakened by the man’s attempts to get into the home told him to leave. When the suspect continued to try to break in, the homeowner opened fire, hitting the man at least once, police. He died at a local hospital.

Kenwood is a neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is about 2 miles east-northeast of downtown.

There were three adults and a child home at the time.

So the shooter was, I take it, protecting his family.

The shooter has not been charged, because self-defense is legal in Florida. It is also a human right.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

Department of Education Drops the Hammer on Useless Degrees

From the University Herald: The Department of Education Just Proposed a Rule That Could Cut Federal Aid to Thousands of College Programs. Here's How It Works.

The April 17 NPRM Establishes a Single Earnings Test for Every Postsecondary Program in America — From Culinary Certificates to Law Degrees — With Federal Student Loans at Stake for Programs Whose Graduates Don't Earn Enough

This is, if memory serves, basically the same test given for for-profit schools. It was instituted because some administration (Obama?) decided that some programs were just scams. The usual suspects got a carve out. If you were a "regular university" you got a free pass. This facilitated stuff like the various studies majors, and the other insane degrees.

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer, who sums up my take on degrees that don't pay for themselves.

Is there value in programs that do not contribute to a decent paycheck? Certainly. But the government need not subsidize a program that satisfies your desire to learn about Victim Studies.

There used to be a lot of talk about how Germany (and maybe a few other European countries) pay for college educations. I'm not sure what the current situation is, but 30 years ago, Germany didn't pay for everyone to go to college.

If you scored high enough on test taken, basically at the end of high school, AND you were going to major in something the Germans felt was worthwhile, (i.e. engineering, pre-med, etc.) then they would pay for your education. If you didn't score high enough, or you wanted to major in something they didn't care about, you didn't get free tuition.

Of course that was before Germany decided to destroy their industrial base by making electricity expensive and unreliable at the same time.

Long Train Runnin'

Another selection from WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. This is from their March 21st show.

This song is "Long Train Runnin'" by the Doobie Brothers from their 1973 album The Captain and Me.

Is the Ivy League Calling for Killing Old People?

One professor certainly seems to be. The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved : The Other McCain

Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”

Is that overstated? Not so much.

The title of Monyn's book is Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. McCain asks, how would that title sound if you substituted a different demographic?

The headline “Jews Are Hoarding America’s Potential” would probably not be published by the New York Times, nor would the author of such a piece have a book deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, let alone a tenured faculty position at Yale Law School.

Haters gonna hate. Read the whole thing.

Friday Links - 24 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Bummer: Chicago Has Already Cancelled This Year’s Cinco De Mayo Celebration

I have to wonder: how many Mexicans actually celebrate this? It actually seems more of a holiday adopted by Americans as a reason to drink, as pushed by beer manufacturers

The Other McCain - IT’S ‘STOP THE LOBSTER’ DAY!

After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes.

Chicago Contrarian - Bizarro Chicago: Criminals Get a Pass, Police Get the Blame

In any rational society, the focus of government — and the concern of the public — would be on the people actually committing violence. The goal would be simple: stop the criminals.

But in Chicago, the obsession is different.

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside - Take It OutsideYou Just Can't Get There From Here

I headed out to the hunting property on Tuesday afternoon to pull down my treestands. Logging started on Monday, and there was heavy equipment parked everywhere. They’d cut right up to my first stand, opening the canopy in a place that’s always been thick, dark, and dank. The naked stumps and the harsh light cut wrong. It felt like walking into my house and finding someone moved all the furniture.

My Nerdy Home - Disney Reveals Snow White Resulted In $170 Million Dollar Loss [VIDEO]

They had to do so many re-shoots, that movie was completely dead on arrival. It was DOA from the first moment that Rachel Zegler opened her mouth.

The Gun Writer - Why the Trace has problems with guns, gun owners and the truth

Chip Brownlee’s recent story about Emergency Risk Protection Orders, known as ERPOs, which was published online by the Trace is actually well written. It’s completely wrong and chock-full of anti-gun propaganda, but it is well written.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - What a Danish Newspaper Got Right About American Gun Culture

Guntubers — firearms influencers on YouTube and other social media platforms — are reshaping who gets into guns and how. That’s the story Danish journalist Anders Tornsø Jørgensen was chasing when he contacted me recently. It’s one I’d been thinking about already in my Substack post and video, “Did the New York Times Accidentally Discover Gun Culture 3.0?”

Peter Sweded - IT BEGINS: Court orders COMPENSATION for vaccine death

A Greek court has ordered the state to pay €300.000 compensation to the family.

Meep at STUMP - Congressional Mortality Update 2026: RIP, Rep. David Scott, 80

Rep. Scott was 80, and people had already been commenting on his health in 2024. His district is a lock. I doubt anybody will be screaming conspiracy.

The Silicon Graybeard - The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is complete

The NGRST is heading for the L2 Lagrange Point, currently the home of the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Union's Euclid infrared space telescope and a place for passing visitors, such as the Escapade mission on the way to Mars (bottom of that post).

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 April 2026: Fresh Baked Edition

Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

The money on the bus goes round and round...

Ace of Spades HQ - China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad. China Wants the US to Bail It Out.

This is such a disgusting demand to even make that I'm 90% sure that the "US" Congress will agree to to it.

Geller Report - THE MAMDANI ACT: Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Deport Immigrants With Extremist Ideologies

Mamdani may have served some good after all. Who’d a thunk it?

Concealed Carry at St. Louis Gas Station

The underlying story happened in early April, but escaped my news filters. Armed Citizen Shoots Teen Who Allegedly Pointed Gun and Opened Fire at St. Louis Gas Station - USA Carry

A 15-year-old was shot and wounded after he allegedly pointed a gun at a man and opened fire at a south St. Louis gas station, according to police. The man returned fire, striking the teen, and remained at the scene to cooperate with investigators.

Based on the reporting done, and the summary of Missouri law that is given, this appears to be legal self-defense.

Based on the facts reported by police, the man appears to have acted in lawful self-defense. Missouri law recognizes the right of a person to use force, including deadly force, when facing an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. A person who has a gun pointed at them and is being shot at is facing exactly that kind of threat.

Gas stations are becoming, or are, a problem area. You're distracted by doing something. Your car is unlocked. You have your keys handy. It seems to be a place that carjackers and other bad guys are targeting. Maybe that has always been the case, and I am just noticing.

Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

NBC News Wants You to Feel Sorry for Federal Workers

Or those out of work because of DOGE. A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work

Or maybe they just want you to hate Elon Musk even more; that is the photo they used on X. (Musk worked with Orange Man Bad!)

Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.

Gee. That sounds normal to someone who worked in the private sector.

Here is a typical "you should feel bad for this guy" story. A guy with a decade in government, and apparently no transferable skills.

One year, one massive spreadsheet of job leads and only a handful of interviews later, Burg has returned to the job he had in college, doing carpentry work in his Takoma Park, Maryland, neighborhood, just outside of Washington.

What was it they told coal miners???? "Learn to Code." I forget... Or was that declared to be a hate statement when it was applied to out-of-work journalists?

Here is another "boo hoo" statement."

WellFed, an organization that supports former federal workers, estimates just 25% of its members have found new jobs. OneAID, an organization of former USAID workers and their implementing partners, estimates at least 50% of its membership is still unemployed.

They went to work for the federal government, and thought that it meant life-long feeding at the taxpayer-funded trough.

Many of the former federal employees who spoke to NBC News said working in public service felt like a calling. Months of unsuccessful job applications have chipped away at their mental health.

Oh No. They can't follow their bliss. Or something.

Grow up.

And it isn't unique to DC. Here is a story from the Hollywood Report: I Used to Be a Hollywood Writer. Now I’m Lugging Lumber From Home Depot. It’s an Upgrade.

In the latest in THR's series about life after Hollywood, a former TV and film scribe undergoes a gut renovation as he settles into a second career as a construction worker.

That was probably the result of straight white men being told to get lost.

Chicago Public School Teacher Charged with Assaulting Student

I miss civilization. Teacher charged with beating, choking 12-year-old is sixth CPS employee accused of assaulting students this school year - CWB Chicago

A Chicago Public Schools teacher is accused of beating and choking a 12-year-old student inside a South Side classroom, making her at least the sixth CPS employee charged this school year with physically or sexually assaulting students.

Alayne Pierce-Collins, 37, faces felony counts of aggravated battery of a child causing great bodily harm and aggravated battery of a child by strangulation causing great bodily harm.

Click thru for details on the other 5 cases.

Poor people in Chicago are trapped into sending their children to public schools, and the public schools in Chicago are terrible, in every way you can imagine.

The SPLC Was Always a Scam

The Other McCain has something interesting to say about SPLC. SPLC’s Clayton Bigsby Moment

Liberals had a weird nostalgia for the “heroic struggle” narrative in which they taught a lesson to those benighted bigots down in Dixie, and they’d pay big money if you could keep that narrative alive, which is what Dees and the SPLC were really all about. Sometimes you’ll hear conservative critics of the SPLC contend that the SPLC originally did worthwhile things, but then strayed from their noble mission. No — it was a scam from the outset, an elaborate fraud to collect money from gullible liberals.

Read the whole thing.

Texans Are Still Armed

Home Invaders are still getting shot. HPD: Homeowner shoots alleged intruder in Independence Heights

Houston police said a man crashed his car near Truman Street and Old Yale Street just before 2 a.m. Sunday.

He allegedly jumped over a fence and broke into a home by smashing a window in the door.

The homeowner took exception to that, and shot the guy.

Cops showed up and and the guy taken to a local hospital where he was listed as stable.

They don't say anything, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that drugs were probably involved. Or why do you break into a random house after crashing your car?

Self-defense is a human right. Good guys 1, bad guys 0.

The CIA versus a Sitting President

The Last Refuge, or The Conservative Treehouse, describe themselves as a "Ragtag bunch of Conservative Misfits." The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President - The Last Refuge

This is the warning.

The CIA tried to remove a President.

Unfortunately, now we watch the silence.

I see a lot of punditries missing the forest as they peer intently at the trees.

The CIA tried to remove a sitting President.

We now know the real reason CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella’s name was never ¹permitted to be mentioned. It’s not the name Eric Ciaramella that presented the issue, it’s the organization where he was working, the CIA – That’s what needed to be protected.

Click through for the details. There are a fair number of links.

AI Hallucinations from Wall Street Law Firm

Stop using AI for important stuff. Sullivan & Cromwell law firm apologizes for AI 'hallucinations' in court filing

This would be funny if it wasn't happening all the time. The client in the case should sue for every dollar they've spent with S&C in the past 3 years. And then some.

April 21 (Reuters) - Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence.

The unstated undercurrent... "Please don't disbar us for being stupid!"

This is from X. (The NYT article is behind a paywall - as they all are)

• Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist
• Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written
• Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code

Are you using AI to do your work? God help you, because the AI will not.

I don't actually know if the partners charge that $2000 per hour, but I wouldn't be surprised. This is how S&C describe themselves:

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law.

They might need to rethink that "modern practice of law" part.

Large Language Models are NOT Truth models. They do not know what is true. They know what sounds good.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 22 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

10. Victory Girls Blog: Clarence Thomas, National Treasure, Praises Declaration
11. Virtual Mirage: Can I Talk Like a Pirate?

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.21.26 (Morning Edition)

Don Surber: Even electricity is leaving blue states
Elizabeth Nickson: Trump Is A Moderate – What’s Coming Is Far More Conservative,

EBL - Saturday Night Girls with Guns

Battles of Lexington and Concord
EBL: More Girls with Guns : Revolutionary War

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: The party of perverts. A moderate cleric. Dumb and Dumber.
China Carney’s Canada: She fought back.

Political Hat - News of the Week (April 19th, 2026)

Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby Is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part
Anyone paying attention knows that the medical establishment does not believe in any restriction on abortion, and moreover, that it should be provided free anytime

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/21/2026

Global electricity demand rose by 3% in 2025, with growth nearly triple compared to the 1.3% increase in total energy consumption, as data centers and electric vehicles continued to push power use higher

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - US Navy Fires On, Captures Iranian Blockade Runner

Ars Technica shocked Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious. Hat Hair's Salena Zito is pleased to reports Kash Patel and Sen. David McCormick Team Up to Fight Fentanyl in Pennsylvania.

Vlad Tepes - Forget WHY they are doing this to you. Come to understand WHAT they are doing, the why is a distraction: Links 1 for April 21, 2026

2. The switch of Great Britain into a totalitarian police state must not be dismissed. Much like once Texas is Islamic, the rest of the US will fall like dominoes, once the US is Commu-slamic then so goes the commonwealth.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 8: The Moscow Times reported, “Putin Demands Answers as Russia’s Economy Undershoots Expectations.”
Invading Ukraine became the biggest mistake in Europe since Hitler invaded Poland.

The Glibertarians - Tuesday Morning Links

Dems Push Bondi Contempt Over Epstein Files No-Show
ActBlue Employees Plead the Fifth over 100 Times During House Depositions

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

The Midwest Chick Saturday Meme Drop………….
Pirates Cove WP: Collapse Of Spirit Airlines Pretty Much Biden’s Fault

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Is America on the Verge of a Nuclear Renaissance?
This Piece From the NYT Drips With Contempt for Him, So You Gotta Love Him

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 21/26

Women feel profoundly unhappy, distrust men, loathe their country, and view motherhood as optional at best.
Young, Angry Leftist Women are Destroying Britain and America

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The Shifting and Regressive Nature of Progressivism

• Schadenfreude Of The Week: Majority Of New York's Pending Wind And Solar Projects Getting Canceled Francis Menton
• Looks Like Commerce Raiding is Back on the Menu CDR Salamander

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 04-19-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3600 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Tuesday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Monday Memes from Granite Grok

Your Home Is Not a Free Fire Zone

Not even if you are confronting bad guys. Augusta teen car burglar booked, homeowner still charged with shooting him - The Augusta Press

Investigators say homeowner Antonio Davis, 49, reported seeing three masked individuals targeting his black 2019 Mercedes-Benz. Davis told deputies he retrieved a firearm and opened fire as the suspects fled, striking Mosley in the leg.

The key part of that statement is, "as the suspects fled."

In most places in the US, you can only use deadly force to defend against imminent threat of death or grave bodily injury. You cannot use deadly force if people are running away.

The homeowner was charged with aggravated assault.

Electric Buses Sit in Landfill

This was completely foreseeable. Local 10 examines why expensive electric buses sit in disrepair in Miami-Dade, Broward

Ninety-six million dollars’ worth of electric buses sit idle across South Florida, some parked in a landfill, others lined up at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.

n Miami-Dade County, commissioners are demanding answers.

In Broward County, officials are working with the federal government on a plan to get rid of them.

That is a lot of money.

Miami-Dade Transit confirms 69 Proterra buses were purchased at a cost of $61.8 million, including federal, state, and local surtax funding.

The electric fleet was "unveiled" in 2023. If you spent that much on diesel buses, you could have gotten about 3 times as many, and they would have lasted 10 years. Or more.

The buses had repeated problems, broke down all the time, and the Proterra went out of business.

Now the problem is how to scrap them, because they represent a toxic waste problem. This bit is from Broward County, Florida, just north of Miami-Dade, County.

Thirty-one electric buses are currently sitting in a remote section of a landfill off U.S. 27, each one costing roughly $1.1 million.

And Proterra buses are not the only ones giving Broward County, problems. They bought from 2 other manufacturers, and those buses don't work either.

In Miami-Dade, County, the buses are parked at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.

And because your tax dollars paid for part of all those buses, by way of federal grants, scraping them before the "approved lifespan" is over is a bureaucratic nightmare.

Click thru for all the details.

This is the MGUY Australia video UNBELIEVABLE electric bus GRAVEYARD (they're broken...). He gets the hat tip for this insanity.

I'm old enough to remember when we were told electric vehicles were simpler than internal combustion, and would last longer and be cheaper to maintain.

Seven Days

There are not many songs in what you would call Popular Music that are in 5/4 time. A few. Today's song is one of them. This was pointed out on social media recently.

This song is "Seven Days" by Sting, from his 1993 album Ten Summoner's Tales.

Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak Is a Political Prisoner

The Gun Writer brings us the following: How you can help free Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak

Things are moving very well in our efforts to free Patrick “Tate” Adamiak from prison, but we need your help.

We need letters—tons of letters—that explain why President Donald J. Trump should pardon Adamiak.

There is a long list of reasons that he should be pardoned. Here are a few:

1. He was investigated and prosecuted by Joe Biden’s ATF.
2. He did nothing wrong.
3. Nothing ATF found in his home was illegal.
4. He had no criminal record.
5. He was an active-duty U.S. Navy sailor.

Click thru for the rest.

At the bottom of that article, there is a link to a bunch of articles on Adamiak.

The places to send the letters:

Mr. David Warrington
White House Counsel
Office of White House Counsel
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500

OR

U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Pardon Attorney
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20530

Tuesday Links - 21 April

The Other McCain starts us off with The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved

Zimmerman has located the exact source of the problem, i.e., that the Left now dominates higher education so completely that those inside the campus bubble can’t even see what the problems are, much less think constructively about possible solutions.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - The New Republic: Why Won’t Democrats Act Like They Believe In Climate Doom?

People can only listen to doom and gloom for so long before they mostly check out, especially when the doom doesn’t ever seem to materialize. And, also, when they see the people pushing it the hardest are complete hypocrites.

Again from The Other McCain - Aspiring Rapper Update

“Gee, Stacy, is it really fair to post a picture of the deceased performer brandishing illegal firearms?” Perhaps, but good luck finding any pictures of Jalen Carpenter in which he is not brandishing firearms.

Clayton Cramer - Letters of Marque and Reprisal

think we should seriously consider whether there would be time to use such in the worrisomely likely war of Taiwanese Independence. Imagine the resale value to privateers of capturing a VLCC (very large crude carrier): about $100 million worth of oil.

The Feral Irishman - Joe and José

Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

Jose illegal also works in construction has no Social Security number and makes $15.00 per hour cash, under the table.

Ready?... now pay attention....

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Probably Not This Year

You would think that six games in the Launching Pad and Wrigley Field would have seen Dave Winfield, Jim Northrup, and Dave Kingman jacking homers in all directions, but unfortunately the Bravos and Cubs have some tough pitchers, and we finished the week 1-5.

The Other McCain again - Guess Who Made an Interesting Point? UPDATE: Sarah Palin Explains Herself

Frum has never abandoned his #NeverTrump stance, and his criticism of Vance is for “going with the flow” of grassroots Republicans — siding with the actual voters, rather than with the Aspen Institute elites.

Second City Cop - Indoctrination Proceeds

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, teach.

Those who can't teach, indoctrinate children:

Smitty - VA’s 21Apr Vote: This Dog Don’t Hunt

Somebody I know who is credentialed in the art of surveying people (pharma, for drug trials) was unimpressed by then quality of the question on the ballot tomorrow in Virginia.

Lone Star Parson - Your Old Pal

Well here we all are, dancing on the bonfire of the vanities, and what a fire it is. NetZero, Open Borders, Diversity is our Strength, Islam is a religion of peace, debt is wealth, Gender's a "construct," ffs, and on. We live, dear friends, in a world of lies and they're evaporating as lies always do.