Archive for 2025
July 8, 2025
I MISSED THIS ONE, TOO, BUT THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS BAD PUBLICITY — RIGHT, GOVERNOR?
I missed this…probably because the story and his resignation dropped midday on July 4th, when absolutely no one was paying attention.
A sneaky little PR move on his way out! @GovKathyHochul will hope this is never mentioned again… https://t.co/TfO5EmgF3f
— Chrissy Casilio (@ChrissyCasilio) July 8, 2025
BEGUN, THE CLONE WARS HAVE: Yikes: Marco Rubio Imposter Used AI to Contact Five Government Officials Including Foreign Ministers.
WHEN THE LEDE DOESN’T MATCH THE HEADLINE: “Hondurans, Nicaraguans in Nevada to lose temporary protective status,” screams the Las Vegas Review-Journal headline, only for the reader to be told:
Hundreds of Nevada residents from Honduras and Nicaragua who have been shielded from deportation for a quarter-century are set to lose their temporary protection after the Trump administration announced Monday that it was revoking their legal status.
President Reagan famously said that “a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” Similarly, only in lefty-speak is “temporary protection” meant to last a quarter of a century.
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THIS SOUNDS RIGHT: Running injuries often strike suddenly, not gradually: Study challenges understanding of overuse injuries. I’ve never been much of a runner, though I’m running a bit at the moment. Basically sprints for intervals, not running distance. Sprinting flat-out feels very freeing to me; running for distance and pacing myself feels like plodding work.
K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Transgender HS coach who resigned over porn video admits he’s the one who sent it.
MY TALK ON FREE SPEECH FROM TED2025 IS NOW UP ON YOUTUBE: Check it out if you haven’t yet (or even if you have)!
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: New concealed carry burdens heaped on law-abiding Coloradans.
A state law in effect as of July 1 layers on new education and training burdens for obtaining and renewing permits for the carrying of a concealed handgun in Colorado, this despite data suggesting permit holders are already an exceptionally responsible and law-abiding group.
House Bill 24-1174 passed along party lines in the Democrat-controlled legislature last year, and among other things significantly expands classroom training requirements to obtain a concealed handgun permit (CHP), to include a live-fire exercise and a written exam, with instructors “verified” by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The bill additionally requires a “refresher” class for the renewal of a permit, which includes the exam and live-fire mandates. Nowhere does the bill cite evidence of any issues arising from previous requirements, nor of CHP holders as committing acts of gun violence.
This is on top of the fingerprint-based background check already long required by law.
The in-person course, among other things, covers firearm handling, shooting and storage, as well as state laws on self-defense and purchasing, owning, or transporting a firearm. The course can be broken up into hourly increments if necessary.
Colorado concealed carry permits are valid for five years, and a CHP holder may renew their permit up to 120 days before expiration.
Despite a growing hostility towards CHP holders by the legislature and anti-gun rights groups, Colorado continues to see an uptick in concealed carry permits.
With Democrats dominating both chambers by two-to-one margins, the question isn’t whether they’ll come up with some new infringement, but how quickly — and how annoying.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teachers Union Resolves To Call Trump ‘Fascist,’ Support Student Protests Over ICE Raids.
The largest teachers union in the United States has demanded that $3500 be set aside so that it can officially refer to President Donald Trump and his “programs and actions” as “fascist.”
Members of the National Education Association, during its annual convention, adopted a resolution that would have the group put up the cash so that all official NEA materials would “correctly characterize” the agenda of the Trump administration as “fascist.”
Corey DeAngelis shared several of the resolutions that were adopted by the NEA, saying in a Monday X post, “I just received a copy of the National Education Association’s resolutions that they passed at their annual convention. They kept them private this year.”
Smearing Trump with the F-word was a dead-end for Kamala and Walz last year, but it’s particularly shameful that the NEA wished to program a generation of kids to believe this idea. Naturally, the NEA doesn’t know it, but it’s also an indictment of America’s public education system. In February, when CBS’s Margaret Brennan absurdly claimed to Marco Rubio that JD Vance “was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Mark Steyn responded, “I did not think it was possible to despise the ‘mainstream’ media more than I already did. In a society thoroughly moronized by Brain-Dead Brennan and her ilk, Hitler is the sole remaining historical figure anybody’s heard of. And they can’t even get that right. ‘Weaponising’ free speech? What does that even mean? In Germany, tweets get you gaoled but rape is just part of your ‘cultural tradition’. And CBS News knows which side it’s on.”
So does the NEA.
Flashback: The Left’s fear of fascism under Trump is the ultimate example of projection.
PRIME DAY SALE: Oura Ring 4 – Gold – Size 12 – Smart Ring. #CommissionEarned Glenn bought one of these and it tracks sleep quality, heart rate and exercise and even stress levels. He loves it and feels that it helps him stay on track.
MANY YEARS AGO A KID TRIED TO PICKPOCKET THE INSTA-WIFE IN PARIS AND SHE PUT HIM ON THE GROUND:
Reason # 713,503,112 that Americans are the greatest people on earth: pic.twitter.com/Yn5GbtRjBD
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) July 8, 2025
Her sister tried to give her a sob story and Helen was like don’t care, don’t touch my stuff.
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Biden’s Team Scolded Reporters, Changed His Number After They Called Personal Cellphone: Report.
According to the book, [NYT White House correspondent Tyler Pager, the co-author of the upcoming 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America] obtained Biden’s personal number and called him directly on March 25, and the former president picked up.
Notice that the Times couldn’t be bothered to report this detail when it occurred, lest it alter the dynamic of the race, during the period when the Biden “Politburo” was still attempting some variation of the 2020 basement campaign to get the (p)resident across the finish line once again. And notice that as always throughout his four years in office, the figurehead of a president never pushed back against or fired a staffer who overrode him.
DEFINING GENIUS DOWN: You’re a genius! You’re a genius! You’re a genius! “It’s good to see student’s potential, not just their problems. What’s not so good is to pretend that everything’s just fine when it’s not. Constantly looking for ways to improve teaching and curriculum? Good. Constantly changing the meaning of words so nobody has to face up to failure? Bad.”
INDEED: Biology Isn’t Bigotry: California’s War on Girls’ Sports. “In Gavin Newsom’s California, the rules aren’t written for girls anymore. They’re rewritten around boys.”
SAVE ON A TABLET: Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ Tablet 11” 64GB Android Tablet. #CommissionEarned
PRIORITIES: California Ready To Rumble With Trump To Keep Men In Women’s Sports.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) in June announced it found California in violation of federal civil rights for allowing men to compete in women’s sports and access women’s spaces, such as locker rooms and restrooms. CDE apparently notified ED it would not be complying with the Trump administration’s proposed resolution, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced on X.
The California department said it “respectfully disagrees” with the Office of Civil Rights’ (OCR) findings and added “it will not sign the Proposed Resolution Agreement,” according to the email posted by McMahon. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), which was also found in violation of the same law, told ED it “concurs” with CDE’s response.
“California has just REJECTED our resolution agreement to follow federal law and keep men out of women’s sports,” McMahon wrote in the X post. “Turns out [Democratic California] Gov. [Gavin] Newsom’s acknowledgment that ‘it’s an issue of fairness’ was empty political grandstanding.”
McMahon warned Newsom that the state will not be referred to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
I wonder how this might effect Newsom’s red-state outreach.
READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro 2 Wireless Earbuds. #CommissionEarned
I THINK THIS HAS BEEN UNDERPLAYED: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ overhauls student loans, introduces higher ed reforms.
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Honda scraps EV SUV development due to decreased US demand. “Instead, the company aims to curb investments in EVs and redirect efforts towards increasing production of profitable hybrid vehicles.”
Hybrids make a lot more sense, economic and environmental — and don’t require boatloads of tax dollars to get carmakers to build them or consumers to buy them.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Reagan Really Nailed It When He Said Libs ‘Know So Much That Isn’t So.’ “The Democrats are more untethered from reality now than ever before, which has had me pondering this Ronald Reagan gem a lot: ‘Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.'”
TIT FOR TAT IS THE ONLY VIABLE LONG-TERM STRATEGY FOR ENFORCING NORMS AMONG REPEAT PLAYERS:
Disbar Judge Talwanihttps://t.co/VN6SYSfI9Y
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) July 8, 2025