Archive for 2025

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

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EVERYTHING IS FINE, Just Russia Banning Gas and Diesel Exports. “That said, these are all reasonable measures, and none indicates that Russia is running out of gas or diesel. What they do indicate is that Kyiv’s efforts have, in fairly short order, produced too much pressure on Russian energy production for Moscow to ignore.”

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:

The Left projects. Always.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL: China’s Aircraft Carrier Capability Just Made A Stunning Leap Forward.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has demonstrated its ability to launch and recover aircraft from its first catapult-equipped aircraft carrier, the Fujian. Official imagery released by the PLAN today confirms that the new J-35 naval stealth fighters and KJ-600 airborne early warning and control aircraft are carrying out carrier trials, something that had not been seen until now. Meanwhile, we’ve also got a much better view of the J-15T single-seat carrier-based fighter launching and recovering aboard Fujian, having previously seen it in position for a catapult launch with its afterburners engaged. The sudden appearance of video of all three aircraft operating from the ship for the first time is something of a stunning revelation, one of many that has come this year from China’s air power portfolio.

The undated videos and photos showing flight operations aboard Fujian reveal examples of all three aircraft being prepared for catapult launch, taking off, and then making arrested recoveries. The aircraft are also shown in flight, including in formation with a J-15D series electronic warfare aircraft, and Fujian is shown from above, with the J-35, KJ-600, and J-15T arranged on its deck.

While we don’t know how long these fixed-wing aircraft types have now been conducting flight operations aboard the carrier, revealing all three in action at once is something of a coup.

Carrier operations are difficult and dangerous, and China is working very hard at getting good at them.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH:

DON’T JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY — CHASE IT DOWN:

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Planned to Murder As Many as 4 SCOTUS Justices to Protect Roe v. Wade. “The Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot was bad enough as it was originally revealed when the assassin (Nicholas Roske, a man identifying as a woman in court proceedings, a fact first reported in 2022) encountered law enforcement and turned himself in. The assassin has pleaded guilty and will soon be sentenced. A Justice Department sentencing memorandum filed on Friday, seeking a 30-year prison sentence, laid out more details, revealing the extent of the assassin’s advance planning.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Reminder that they never told us who the leaker of the draft opinion was.

GREAT MOMENTS IN ANTI-JOURNALISM:

If only Todd had some staffers while still at NBC who could have briefed him on Antifa’s origins, much like there was apparently no one on his former colleague Tom Brokaw’s staff to bring him up to speed on Obama’s foreign policy views by the eve of the 2008 election:

Related: Chuck Todd’s Antifa Blackout: Too Dumb or Perhaps Just Drowning in Leftist Kool-Aid.

UPDATE: Like Brokaw in 2008, Todd in 2025 is simply gaslighting his leftist audience:

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THE CORBYNIZATION OF JEREMY CORBYN’S PARTY* CONTINUES APACE:

*Former.

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The science is never settled.

Related (From Ed):

FASTER? PLEASE! Trump on record-setting deregulation pace, ‘lowest ever.’

“As of Sept. 22, there have been 1,879 final rules published in the Federal Register, including 243 inherited from Biden. That projects to about 2,590 by year-end — the lowest ever — with the ‘net’ even lower once deregulatory ‘unrules’ are counted,” according to the analysis from Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Trump has made slashing federal regulations a hallmark of his presidency. In his first term, he promised to cut two for every new rule he proposed. In his second presidency, he has promised to raise that to 10 for every new regulation.

In his new analysis, Crews found that Trump actually cut five regulations for every new one in his first term. And, he told Secrets, Trump is doubling that in his second term.

“These are of such a volume that it looks like Trump ought not have any problem meeting the one in, 10 out goals,” Crews said.

That’s a good start.