August 13, 2026

SPLC’S DEMAND FOR RACISM FAR OUTSTRIPPED THE SUPPLY:

See also: Hate crimes.

Posted at 1:02 pm by Stephen Green

BILL GERTZ: General says China space weapons threat a major challenge.

Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, commander of the Colorado-based Space Command, said the space weapons deployed by China and Russia are “in some ways getting harder to fight.”

“We operate in a domain in which our opponents have built a suite of counterspace capabilities to hold our satellites at risk in all orbital regimes,” Gen. Whiting told the Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama.

The four-star general singled out the Chinese Communist Party for what he called its “breathtaking pace of space and counterspace” weapons development.

Asked the most significant issue he faces as a commander, Gen. Whiting said: “I think the ongoing greatest challenge is just the speed at which China is moving to rapidly improve their space capabilities and the threat that that potentially poses.”

People’s Liberation Army space weapons now include a “robust suite” of arms and capabilities that can blind and deafen U.S. military forces by disrupting and destroying satellites, he said.

“These include direct descent [anti-satellite] missiles, ground-based lasers, jammers and maneuverable co-orbital ASATs and dual-use satellites like the SJ-21,” he said.

What the U.S. has — in SpaceX — is unmatched lift and satellite-manufacturing capacity. What nobody has yet is the means to deal with a possible Kessler syndrome resulting from orbital warfare.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Stephen Green

IT MAY BE LATER THAN YOU THINK:

Posted at 12:40 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Crash And Burn – The Patty Jenkins Story.

The Drinker’s next “Crash and Burn” video may have just written itself:

Tweet concludes, “‘People like it, but they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast. I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people,’ Wachowski said on KCRW’s ‘The Business’ podcast. ‘This is a script that was extremely important for me to write. It was a response to what is happening in the world for trans people, and it gave me a hugely cathartic receptacle to dump all of my anger and rage and frustration into.’”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO COME DOWN TO MURDERING JEWS:

Slightly off-topic, but this came to mind.

More than 30 years ago, Ralph Peters wrote in the afterword to The War in 2020: “The destruction of Israel in a nuclear exchange, for example, will be less likely to trigger Islamic unity than to utterly dissolve it. Unable to direct their frustrations at the Zionist devil, the Islamic nations of the Eurasian landmass would quickly rediscover the holy and delectable mission of slaughtering each other over trivia.”

Posted at 12:29 pm by Stephen Green

STEPHEN HALBROOK: Second Amendment Roundup: The Militia of the Sea: The Marque and Reprisal Clause as Textual Proof of Private Heavy-Arms Ownership at the Founding. “Under Article I, the only power over private armed force at sea that Congress received was power over the commissioning of that private force on behalf of the United States. Congress did not give permission for the ship owner to arm the ship with cannon. The Founders who ratified the Constitution’s Article I in 1788 and the Second Amendment three years later in 1791 did not appear troubled that private parties owned heavily armed ships. Indeed, they took the widespread ownership of such heavily armed ships as a given, so much so that Congress principally concerned itself not with the private ownership of significant armaments, but rather with the transformation of that private ownership into a lawful use on behalf of the federal government itself.”

Posted at 12:12 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THIS WILL BE MY NEXT FAST FOOD BURGER REVIEW: America’s burger wars have crowned a new fast-food favorite — while the loser’s popularity is in freefall. I’ve always liked a good Whopper — the qualification being that BK’s quality control is uneven, though not as badly as Hardees — and I suspect this will be better than the not-awful Big Arch.

But how will it compare to the Big Glenn?

And a while back I did recommend that McDonalds get a CEO who actually likes burgers. BK has learned the lesson: “BK president Tom Curtis appeared in Whopper’s relaunch ad, along with another clip depicting him gleefully devouring a Whopper in an apparent at McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski’s cringeworthy attempt at eating a Big Arch this past Spring.”

More free advice for Mickey D’s: Bring back the Beef Tallow Fries. They were the best thing you had and you got rid of them in the face of bullying from food activists.

Posted at 12:03 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Posted at 11:58 am by Stephen Green

COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green

“SPEND LESS THAN YOU MAKE” STILL SEEMS TO WORK EVERYWHERE IT’S TRIED:

Admittedly, things would be easier for the rest of us if Washington would try it again.

Posted at 10:56 am by Stephen Green

MAGA: BofA to plow $250 billion into critical infrastructure projects. “The investment is intended for projects including data centers and compute power, renewable-power generation, energy storage, natural gas, electricity transmission and critical minerals and mining. The goal is to support energy security, job growth and economic competitiveness, the bank said in a statement Wednesday.”

Unlike under the previous administration, there seems to be very little money directed at making our highways less racist.

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green

SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT’S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN’S SAMPLER COPYWRITER:

Chocolate Cherry Cordial

You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon’s true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.

Caramel Chew

There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.

Heh, indeed. Read the whole thingℱ— if you dare!

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:

Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

THE MANSPLAINERS talk with Terrence Popp who has saved 604 men from suicide:

Posted at 10:15 am by Helen Smith

I REMAIN STEADFAST AGAINST RODENT URINE: ‘Rodent Urine’ & Other Unsanitary Conditions Spark MAJOR Recall Across Multiple Food Brands.

A major recall spanning hundreds of products across multiple industries is raising eyebrows (and clearing pantries) across several states. Gold Star Distribution, Inc. has recalled numerous grocery items, canned goods, medications, and other products due to unsanitary conditions at its Minneapolis storage facility. According to the recall, the FDA found “the presence of rodent excreta, rodent urine, and bird droppings in areas where medical devices, drugs, human food, pet food, and cosmetic products were held.”

As you can probably imagine, that’s a serious health risk.

The facility distributed recalled products to 50 stores across three states: Indiana, Minnesota, and North Dakota. “Exposure to contaminated products can pose serious health risks to consumers, including the potential for bacterial contamination, which may result in illness or infection, including Salmonella,” the recall states. And contamination from rodent droppings isn’t just gross—it can make people sick even from contact with packaging.

Check the link for details if you might be at risk.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green