Archive for 2025

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Chat GPT vs. Grok. A good illustration of why I prefer Grok.

HOW MUCH OF THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS WAS REALLY JUST THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRISIS?

LEFTISTS INFLATE ANY CURRENCY THEY CONTROL, WHETHER FINANCIAL, INTELLECTUAL, OR MORAL.

GOOD LORD: Chilling new details emerge about killer migrants responsible for 29 homicides sprung from NY jails instead of being handed off to ICE.

The violent rogue’s gallery includes the likes of Cuban national and convicted killer Jose Antonio Andreo-Quezada, an illegal alien with a criminal history involving homicide, larceny, disorderly conduct, possession of stolen property, dangerous drugs, burglary, trespassing and assault, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

He was released from Rikers Island, only to be picked up again on a parole violation, with ICE promptly putting in a detainer for him Aug. 16.

Another is Anastacio Tejada Almonte, a criminal and Dominican national with a rap sheet including homicide, assault, illegally carrying a weapon and flight to avoid prosecution, DHS said.

Despite an ICE detainer being lodged in May, he was released from the New York Department of Corrections on July 27.

The men are just two of the 6,947 criminals released from New York jails in the past year, despite having active ICE detainers requesting they be handed over to immigration authorities for deportation.

New Yorkers keep voting for this, and shockingly, they keep getting it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: When Does the Part Where Obamacare Fixes Everything Happen? “What affordability it did provide happened the only way that Democrats know how to reduce the price of anything — by getting American taxpayers to pay for steep subsidies. Somebody always ends up paying more when the Democrats reduce the price of something.”

WOULD KING DAVID KILL THE DRUG BOAT SURVIVORS? Now there’s an interesting question because David was the King of Israel after God’s own heart. As The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold points out, David had his own “no survivors” controversy but the context in which occurred makes it doubtful as a precedent.

MAKE AFFORDABLE CARS AGAIN: Trump signs executive order to end Biden-era fuel standards.

“Today, we’re taking one more step to kill the ‘Green New Scam'” Trump said, referring to the “Green New Deal” programs backed by the far-left Squad.

“They imposed expensive restrictions and all sorts of problems,” Trump said of the Biden administration. “It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices.”

“These policies forced automakers to build cars using expensive tech that drove up prices and made the car WORSE,” Trump went on.

“The action is expected to save the typical consumer $1,000 off the price of a car.”

Thank you.

YES.

ICYMI: Washington’s Spending Train Is ‘Unstoppable.’ “We have to talk about that thing again — you know, that thing everybody else squinches their eyes shut and plugs their ears and says, ‘NANANANANA-I-CAN’T-HEAR-YOU,’ whenever it comes up.”

HOW MANY FAKE OBAMACARE RECIPIENTS ARE THERE? Government Accounting Office (GAO) investigators planted two dozen fake Obamacare beneficiaries two years ago and as of yesterday’s report, the feds running the program have only uncovered two.

But wait! There’s more. A lot more. Like 190,000 cases in which it appeared somebody — bureaucrats, brokers, agents? — made unauthorized changes to individuals’ healthcare insurance policies. And then there’s the 97,000 cases in which individual beneficiaries’ Social Security numbers (SSNs) and tax filings don’t lineup, suggesting fake SSNs.

GOODER AND HARDER, WASHINGTON: Democratic socialist lawmaker introduces statewide payroll tax.

On the steps of the legislative building in Olympia, the first-term Democrat told a dozen reporters that “progressive revenue” is needed to ensure that the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share.

The representative’s payroll excise tax proposal is intended to offset federal funding cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4.

Scott’s legislation aims to generate more than $2 billion annually for social service programs that are facing funding cuts at the federal level.

The bill would target private employers whose workers earn more than $125,000 a year. It would impose a 5% tax on payroll expenses above that salary threshold. Companies with more than 50 workers, a payroll exceeding $7 million, and gross receipts exceeding $5 million would be subject to the tax.

Tax the rich? In the Washington suburbs, $125,000 is solidly middle class, and probably sits at the lower end of the middle class in Seattle proper.

CDR SALAMANDER: Can Maritime Power Recapture San Francisco Bay? “From top to bottom, San Francisco Bay used to be covered thickly with naval bases, shipyards and everything else you would expect from a world dominating naval power. However due to a political climate hostile to both the military and industry, grasping developers, and the domination of green-eyeshade accountants over strategists and national-security-minded people, as we see a challenge on the other side of the Pacific not seen since Imperial Japan, the bay’s once potent military ecosystem is almost completely abandoned and derelict like some forgotten remains of a once great empire—which they might be. . . . Yes, to all the problems, but the requirement remains. If you can’t refurbish, claw back, restart, reclaim, or otherwise take back what the Jesus Jones Era took away—what do you do? Is all lost? No, not really.

REALCLEARDEFENSE: The Seditious Six.. “As a retired Naval officer, Mark Kelly is still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and, theoretically, could be recalled to active duty to face military discipline. The discipline could range from administrative action, such as a letter of reprimand, to a general court-martial for violating Art. 134, UCMJ, insofar as it incorporates 18 U.S.C. § 2387 which punishes actions taken with an ‘intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline’ or Art. 94, UCMJ, which punishes mutiny.”

FLASHBACK: Draft women? Why not? It occurs to me that if you want to boost birthrates, having a draft for women with a pregnancy/motherhood exception would probably do it. We certainly see high pregnancy rates among female troops scheduled for deployment already . . . .