THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS? New poll: Students say free speech matters until someone says something offensive.
Archive for 2025
October 9, 2025
WE DON’T DESERVE DOLLY, BUT I’M SURE GLAD WE HAVE HER (STILL): Dolly Parton Gives Us a Health Update, Shuts Down Online Rumors.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northeastern to celebrate ‘sexual liberation’ with free Plan B, ‘anti-fascist’ dance party.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Paxton Goes After Antifa. “It’s long been known that far left organizations like George Soros’ Tides Foundation or Neville Roy Singham’s Party for Socialism and Liberation have pumped money into Antifa, sometimes through organizational cutouts to obscure the cash flow. Both Paxton and Kash Patel should be working on subpoenas for bank and communication records for such organizations, to be followed quickly by criminal charges and lawsuits to shut them down for good.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Behaving Badly — Not Enough Xanax in the World for These Loons. “Kamala Harris once again made the unfortunate choice to go out in public after her second box of breakfast Franzia and remind everyone just how lucky this nation is that she no longer has a job. I know that I often write about Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris being drunk. I don’t do that because I’m a misogynist, I do it because I’m a professional entertainer who’s spent most of my adult life doing shows in nightclubs and I know what drunk people look like.”
THEY’RE NOT AGAINST PEOPLE BEING SHOT, IF IT’S THE RIGHT PEOPLE GETTING SHOT:
Jay Jones is endorsed by… Giffords PAC. Yeah, it's the PAC you think it is. pic.twitter.com/VaPpknr59h
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 9, 2025
JAY JONES’ TOP DONOR AREN’T TALKING: The Washington Stand asked each of the Virginia Democratic Attorney General candidate’s top 10 donors if they are requesting refunds of their cumulative $5.2 million in contributions. Not one responded
“Personnel is policy.” As far as I have been able to discover, that slogan gained currency in the Reagan administration. But it articulates a truth that political thinkers from Aristotle to Machiavelli to James Madison appreciated. The first line of Article II of the Constitution reads: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That’s “a President.” Only one. Not “a President and a bunch of district court judges.” Not “a President and sundry federal agencies staffed by unaccountable bureaucrats.”
Over the course of many decades, the sublimely uncluttered principle articulated at the beginning of Article II has been undermined and stymied, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, by what we have come to call the administrative state. What is the administrative state? It is difficult to take precise measure of this amorphous, protean, self-engorging organism. But one salient characteristic is its habit of substituting judicial intervention for constitutional principle.
“Personnel is policy.” Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes. The administrative state, supported by a battalion of liberal judges and scrambling litigants, says “not so fast.”
As I write, the Trump administration is contending with some 300 lawsuits. Many have to do with agencies he wishes to trim or abolish, previously appropriated funds he wishes to divert or sequester, employees he wishes to fire. So far, the Supreme Court has, if in somewhat piecemeal fashion, mostly sided with Trump. The executive, the Court has recognized, ought to be allowed to execute, viz “to carry out or put into effect a plan, order, or course of action.” Inherent in that power is the President’s prerogative of “making the best possible appointments.” Why? because personnel is policy. Agents of the administrative state also understand this principle. It’s just that they believe that power, or at least large swaths of it, should rest with them, not the President. They do not have the Constitution on their side. But they do have a litany of legal decisions which have accumulated like barnacles on the hull of the ship of state, rotting its timbers, impeding its progress.
More like teredo worms, but yeah.
THIS IS NOT A JOE BIDEN HEADLINE FROM 2023: World’s Oldest Leader Aims to Rule Until Age 99.
At 92, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya—the world’s oldest head of state—is defying age critics and history.
Launching his campaign on Tuesday in Maroua, he pledged to tighten security, create jobs, and rebuild infrastructure as he seeks an eighth term, reinforcing his iron grip on power after more than four decades at the helm.
Biya’s bid comes amid growing scrutiny of his health and leadership. In power since 1982, he has outlasted every other African leader and most of his global peers. His continued rule has come to symbolize both political continuity and democratic stagnation. As Cameroon faces economic strain and security threats, questions are mounting over whether the nonagenarian president can still deliver the reforms he promises.
He just needs more time.
“DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO YOU? They just tricked you into massively lowering your expectations:”
They played a mental trick on you. pic.twitter.com/K97BFY1WYO
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) October 9, 2025
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: FBI Fires agents, Dismantles Corruption Squad After Probe Unveils Monitoring of GOP Senators. They should be prosecuted.
I DON’T EXPECT THE NOBEL COMMITTEE TO RECOGNIZE THAT, THOUGH:
Simple fact is Trump has a better record on the Mid East than any president in living memory, and it’s not a close call
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) October 9, 2025
Related: The Libs Are Totally Stunned Over What Could Be Trump’s Signature Foreign Policy Achievement.
ME: WHO’S THIS BAD BUNNY GUY ANYWAY?
Oh. Makes sense then.
Still think they should have gone with Daddy Yankee if they were going to get a guy who sings in Spanish. He’s listened to by hot Latinas in tight dresses.
TRUMP IS AN “AUTHORITARIAN” WHO’S DOING WHAT VOTERS WANT: Majority of Americans Support Deportation of Illegals, Says … NYT/Siena?
SO VERY TRUE:
If Bari Weiss was of a different political persuasion we'd be flooded with glamorizing profiles detailing her life story and struggles making it big in a man's world while being a gay woman.
— Holden (@Holden114) October 8, 2025
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GOOD AND HARD, FUN CITY: NYPD Cops: ‘I Will Quit If Zohran Is Elected.’
ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE:
2.2 Million Decline in Foreign Population Thanks to Record Low Illegal Immigration and Migrants Returning Home.Significantly, the illegal alien population has declined by 1.6 million over that period, indicating that the Trump administration’s increased interior immigration enforcement has had swift and large results.
Camarota and Zeigler say that although some analysts could chalk up the numbers to “a statistical fluke,” they believe the numbers are very much real and mostly thanks to the Trump administration’s record-low illegal immigration levels as well as self-deportations.
The Left and the press (but I repeat myself) lambasted Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting self-deportations.
MICHAEL DUKAKIS, SLIGHT RETURN:
Wow. Democrat Mayor of Chicago refuses to answer a simple question about an illegal who bashed a woman’s head into the sidewalk & raped her.
“If that had been your wife, would you want ICE to deport that rapist illegal?”
Should be a simple answer🤷♂️
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) October 8, 2025
Classical reference in headline:
MATT TAIBBI: James Comey Was Sure He Was Above The Law. Supporters Hope He’s Right: As James Comey is arraigned, new documents show the FBI under his watch criminally investigated first, and looked for reasons later. “Anything you can get away with doing to an elected billionaire president can be done to everyone. If you get away with breaking attorney-client privilege for Trump, no conversation with any lawyer is safe; if you test-a-lie your way to Trump surveillance warrants, anyone can be spied on; if FBI goons can target the president for criminal investigation first and hunt for predication later, any FBI chief can cook up any case he or she pleases. The prospect of this particular ex-FBI chief walking is outrageous since no one, not even former CIA chief John Brennan, lied so frequently, fluidly, and with such absolute assurance of getting away with it as James Comey.”
Make an example of him that will terrify his successors for decades.
FROM DENTON SALLE: The Summoned Sage: The Summoned Sage Book 1.
“Don’t bother. I’m already dead,” the man said. “Only a spell keeps me here.”
I froze and he continued speaking. “I am sorry I had to summon you. I wanted a young hero, not a sage. But someone must carry the scroll to my teachers, lest the world end in blood and terror.”A dying scribe-magician ripped me from my retirement in Texas to help save his world. A world kind of like Old China, where the legends and tales about cultivators are real. And I have no idea how this works. All I have is some years of practicing an internal martial art.
But I’m trying to complete his quest as thugs from a tong, monsters, and other cultivators hunt me before some catalysmic event destroys the world. They killed him for this scroll, and I’m pretty sure I’m next. If the foxes or fu dogs don’t eat me first.
And I’ve picked up this girl by mistake, which complicates things even more. Maybe I don’t want to go home? But can I even survive in a world like this? Assuming I can complete this quest before it all goes to hell?
If you enjoy Beware of Chicken or the Unintended Cultivator, you’ll love this isakai adventure where a man from Texas finds the magic powers of taoist myth are real and a world depends on his choices.
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