May 15, 2026

OLD AND BUSTED: “Minnesota Nice.”

The New Hotness? “Didn’t have multiple Democrat colleagues yelling at me to ‘go f’ing shoot myself’ on my bingo card…”

Earlier this week, legislative leaders from both parties reached a final budget deal to conclude the 2026 legislative session. However, that deal did not include the gun control proposals that Democrats had pushed for all year.

On Thursday, Democrats spoke for hours on the House floor as they attempted to bring a major gun control bill up for a vote. Ultimately, the DFL’s effort to suspend House rules and vote on the gun control bill failed in a 67-67 party-line vote.

Following that vote, DFLers pledged to hold a sit-in on the House floor until the next floor session. The next floor session is not scheduled to start until Saturday, May 16 at noon.

After Thursday’s floor session wrapped up, an altercation broke out on the House floor involving GOP Rep. Elliott Engen and DFL Rep. Aisha Gomez. Video of that moment shows Gomez confronting Engen as shouting can be heard.

GOP Rep. Drew Roach posted a video of the altercation and said Gomez told “[Engen] to ‘go fucking kill himself.’” Engen reposted that video and said “Can confirm. Didn’t have multiple Democrat colleagues yelling at me to ‘go f’ing shoot myself’ on my bingo card…”

Shortly after that moment, the House GOP issued a statement which called on House DFL Leader Zack Stephenson to remove Gomez from her role as Tax Committee co-chair. The statement also called on Gov. Tim Walz to condemn Gomez’s behavior.

I’m sure no one in the Minnesota GOP is holding their breath, considering that this is Walz’s lieutenant governor a potential US senator, running to “Avenge Minnesota.”  “She wants to ‘avenge all that has been taken from us.’ So, who is ‘us’? And what supposedly has been taken from us?”

Last year’s assassinations of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her spouse, and the shooting of State Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse add to the tension in post-2020 Minnesota politics.

And don’t get Mrs. Walz started on how much she enjoys a whiff of the old ultraviolence herself: Tim Walz’s Wife Gwen Kept Windows Open During BLM Riots to ‘Smell the Burning Tires.’

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

NORMAL IS PRACTICALLY A FREAKSHOW IN TODAY’S LA:

Posted at 4:38 pm by Stephen Green

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE IRON EYES CODY, WARD CHURCHILL, AND FAUXCAHONTAS HAVE GONE BEFORE: Buffy Sainte-Marie Stripped of Honorary Degree Over Native American Ancestry Dispute.

Buffy Sainte-Marie — the Oscar-winning folk singer who claims to be an Indigenous woman of Cree descent — was recently stripped of an honorary degree over an ancestry dispute.

On Wednesday, May 13, the University of Toronto announced that it had rescinded Sainte-Marie’s honorary Doctor of Laws degree. She received the honor in 2019 for her “excellence in the arts, as a singer-songwriter, actress and visual artist.”

The decision, approved on May 13, came more than two years after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired a documentary from The Fifth Estate alleging that Sainte-Marie lied about her Native American ancestry. In it, a birth certificate indicated that she was born in Massachusetts to Italian-American parents. Family members also confirmed this.

Flashback to a much more enlightened and tolerant 2023: Rachel Dolezal ahead of her time? The “Pretendian” wave in Academia. “Even eight years ago, I point out, Dolezal justified her posturing as a black woman — who wound up running a local NAACP chapter in Washington — because, as she told Matt Lauer, she ‘identifies as black.’ Was she just ahead of her time? If biology has nothing to do with sexual identity, can anyone argue that it has a role in ethnic identity? And if so, what does that do to the entire edifice of affirmative action in both admissions and faculty hiring, especially in Academia?”

Or as a wise Assistant to the Traveling Secretary of the New York Yankees once said:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: That Guy Is SO Going Back to Venezuela. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why they call it blow, what not to do to your boss’s Subaru, and when to stop drinking on that flight to Cuba.”

Posted at 4:23 pm by Stephen Green

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:

Posted at 4:07 pm by Stephen Green

SECRET SERVICE: One Loser Got Far Too Close…So What Happens When Four Pros Show Up? “Let’s revisit that same glittering ballroom. We’re back again with the same black-tie crowd of self-important media elites and administration heavyweights at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2.0 in D.C. with the same velvet-rope security theater outside.”

Posted at 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

REDISTRICTING DIDN’T LEAVE HIM MUCH CHOICE:

You’re in MAGA country now, Congressman.

Posted at 3:36 pm by Stephen Green

LARRY KUDLOW: Mr. Xi Can Saber-Rattle, But Mr. Trump Has the Goods

In recent weeks he has watched America end his influence in Venezuela, the Panama Canal, soon it will be Cuba, and of course Iran. I mean Communist China’s buying 90 percent of Iran’s oil and gas exports.

But with Mr. Trump’s air-tight blockade of Iranian ports, China is starving for energy. They might make a deal with us, but that too remains to be seen if it comes under Treasury Man Scott Bessent’s investment board idea.

Meanwhile Mr. Trump has elbowed China out of the Middle East and out of the Western Hemisphere.

And on top of all that, China’s economy has never recovered from the real estate property crash of a couple years ago.

They used to post GDP growth rates of 15 percent or more. Now that’s down to 5 percent or even less, which is essentially for them a recession.

And if they have bad economic statistics cropping up, they have decided not to publish them at all.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green

THE GOP SHOULD PROBABLY GO AHEAD AND DO IT BEFORE THE DEMS DO, BUT IT WON’T.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NICE WORK, FELLAS:

Posted at 2:34 pm by Stephen Green

HOORAY FOR PALLYWOOD! Why would the NY Times make such horrific claims about Israel? The reasons are several-fold.

Nicholas Kristof raped my dog. At least that is what I have heard, from an anonymous source. A source who is intensely hostile to the New York Times columnist. And that’s good enough for me. Now I come to think of it, my pet pug has had a strange look on his face lately.

As it happens, the rumor that I have just attempted to spread is far less lurid and fanciful than the one that the New York Times chose to spread around the world this week.

In a piece that has already been widely debunked, Kristof claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use rape as a method of torture on Palestinian prisoners. The piece portrayed Israeli prison guards and soldiers as rapists, sadists and akin to Nazi prison camp guards. Perhaps even worse.

Kristof’s most grotesque claim is based on an anonymous source who is described as a “journalist” from Gaza. According to this source, while being held in an Israeli prison in 2024, the Gazan man was stripped naked, blindfolded and handcuffed. Then “a dog was summoned.” The dog’s handler — who we are helpfully told was speaking Hebrew — then encouraged the dog to “mount him.”

The “source” goes on to claim that he “tried to dislodge the dog, but it penetrated him.” During this time, the Israeli guards were allegedly taking photos and filming the assault while laughing and “giggling.”

Like a number of other journalists, I have spent far too much time this week reading up on the relevant literature about this claim. My computer’s search engine history is probably now as suspect as Kristof’s.

Exit questions:

I’m so old, I can still remember when newspapers still employed their own reporters, but that was quite a long time ago. These days, just think of the DNC-MSM as the American distribution wing of Hamas propaganda, and it all makes sense.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

WELL, BYE:

Posted at 1:32 pm by Stephen Green