READER FAVORITE: : 2×3 Washable Area Rug – Soft, Non-Slip Entrance Rug. #CommissionEarned

THE ABA IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION, BUT AN ILLEGITIMATE LEFTIST ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION: Ohio Is Third State To Reconsider ABA Accreditation Of Law Schools.

WINNING: The U.S. Economy Just Got Its Mojo Back as Consumers Brush Off Tariff Trauma.

Big banks like JPMorgan Chase initially forecasted a slowdown or even a recession. Those warnings have faded as economic indicators have improved. The bank now expects continued growth, though at a moderate pace.

Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs have also reported healthier revenues. At United Airlines, travel demand rose sharply. All of this suggests that the economy is outperforming earlier fears.

A survey, conducted by marketing platform Constant Contact, of over 1,200 small-business owners showed that many are seeing stronger demand than projected in January. Nearly one in three entrepreneurs now plans to hire in the coming months.

These signs suggest that optimism is spreading beyond Wall Street and into Main Street. Small businesses are adding staff and expanding services to meet rising customer interest.

Still, growth remains modest and inflation is steady but above the Federal Reserve’s ideal. Manufacturing has shrunk for four consecutive months as of June.

Manufacturing ought to rebound as supply chains adjust to the tariff situation, which Trump warned us would be rough going at first.

CHANGE: USC professor’s gender transitioning clinic shuts down amid Trump administration pressure.

IMAGINE BANNING BOOKS BEFORE THEY’RE WRITTEN. That’s what regulating AI speech could mean.

STARVING THE BEAST: How We Cut Hamas Out of the Aid Game.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Oregon State axes two DEI programs amid federal scrutiny.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK COLUMN IS UP: Slouching Toward War? Foreign or domestic.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Colorado’s auto theft capital gives green light to car thieves.

According to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer, from 1985 until about 2000, Colorado averaged around 1,000 stolen cars per month. Increasing population and recession push that number slowly upward, to briefly touch 2,000 in 2006, before returning to the previous average for another decade.

Then, in 2014, the Colorado legislature, without any dissenting votes, passed a law to tie the level of criminal mischief for car theft to the value of the car stolen, while lowering the overall penalties. The sliding scale of punishment not only encouraged more theft, but it also encouraged thieves to pick on poor and working-class people, stealing cheaper cars to avoid more severe punishment. (This was a double-whammy to those families, coming on the heels of the federal Cash for Clunkers program which removed hundreds of thousands of inexpensive replacement vehicles from circulation.)

And so, unsurprisingly, car theft began to rise again, this time taking only three years to reach 2,000 a month, and prompting newly-elected Governor Jared Polis to declare car theft a major priority for his administration. That worked so well that car thefts doubled again to 4,000 a month from 2020 to 2022, from the combination of loose enforcement and economic restrictions from Covid and the George Floyd/BLM Summer of Love in 2020.

In Denver, reported thefts climbed to nearly 15,000 a year in 2022, or 1,250 a month. That was more than the entire state of Colorado had registered for most of its history.
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Which makes it all the more infuriating that the Denver City Council voted to terminate the Flock camera program at the end of the year, not over legitimate privacy concerns, but in order to protect illegal aliens from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Good and harder, Denver.

Previously: ‘F’ Is for Democrat: Colorado’s Collapse Under One-Party Rule.

HE’S A MASTER TROLL: Don Surber: Getting media to cover Obamagate: Crazy Like A Fox Trump did it again with a fake but accurate video.

The media refused this weekend to cover the story of the century, in which Obama personally helped create and promote Russiagate which tied the first presidency of Donald Trump up in knots for years and also served as a cover story for Obama using the FBI to spy on Trump.

Watergate was for suckers. Obama called in the pros to spy because they had experience and had the deep-state judiciary’s approval through FISA.

In his second presidency, Trump’s attorney general has the evidence and the will to take the case to a grand jury. No excitement without an indictment, of course, but we will laugh it up when they lawyer up.

It would b helpful if the media told the story but the media is a subsidiary of the intelligence community. All that fat talk about fighting government censorship masks the real role of the media to peddle the lies from the FBI and the rest. . . .

Trump’s video—which shows Obama being arrested and dragged into prison—not only entertains the half of the nation that voted for Trump, but his posting the video makes the possibility of Obama being dragged to prison newsworthy.

Did I say “master troll?” I meant “Galactic Grandmaster Troll.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: That Escalated Quickly — Obama Russia Hoax Edition. “The Trump 47 administration is a well-oiled machine and — contrary to what the Dems would have you believe — not much for mere grandstanding. If there is a legal move to be made, this group makes it.”

“NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW,” AS WE WERE FREQUENTLY TOLD BY PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE, IN FACT, ABOVE THE LAW: Getting Real: DoJ Confirms Gabbard Criminal Referral of Russia-Collusion Hoax Evidence.

OFF-RAMP TO NOWHERE: California’s Bullet Train Is a Model of Progressive Governance. “Trump gave Newsom a perfect opportunity to cut his losses and shift blame. Why didn’t he take it?”

This first leg should have been relatively easy since the state’s rural Central Valley is lightly developed and populated. No need to raze strip malls and housing developments. A private company built a 235-mile high-speed train from Orlando to Miami in 11 years for about $6 billion. Yet it has taken California more than a decade merely to bulldoze permitting barriers and clear lawsuits.

If all goes according to Mr. Newsom’s plans, the first leg might be done by the end of his second presidential term in 2036. Might. The state last week sued to restore the federal funds, which could mean years of litigation and more delays. “Trump wants to hand China the future and abandon the Central Valley,” he declared. “We won’t let him.”

Under the Chinese economic model, the government spurs unproductive growth by subsidizing wasteful investment, whether it be in real estate, electric vehicles or public works. China has borrowed some $1 trillion to build nearly 30,000 miles of high-speed rail lines, many of which connect lightly populated towns and carry few passengers.

That’s the future of Mr. Newsom’s bullet train to nowhere. Companies routinely cancel and write off bad investments. Why won’t Mr. Newsom and his Democratic Legislature? Because they fear voters will realize they were conned.

The thing I’ve learned about progressive voters is that they seem to enjoy being conned, so long as they’re in on the latest moral crusade.

DO TELL: Ex-NPR CEO: Mixing Journalism And Federal Funding A ‘Recipe For Disaster’: Her statement lends support to Republicans’ longstanding concerns about the state-funded media company’s liberal bias.

DRONE WARS: Russia and Ukraine Race Toward a New Normal.

THE LEFT IS JUST AN INTERLOCKING RING OF MONEY LAUNDRIES: Gavin Newsom Pushed Private Foundation To Donate $500,000 to Anti-ICE Defund Police Group, Records Show.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Lenovo 15.6″ Laptop Computer for Home Business. #CommissionEarned

BRING IT ON HOME: AstraZeneca plans to invest $50 billion in America for medicines manufacturing and R&D.

AstraZeneca today announces $50 billion of investment in the United States by 2030, building on America’s global leadership in medicines manufacturing and R&D. This investment is expected to create tens of thousands of new, highly skilled direct and indirect jobs across the country powering growth and delivering next generation medicines for patients in America and worldwide.

The cornerstone of this landmark investment is a new multi-billion dollar US manufacturing facility that will produce drug substances for the Company’s innovative weight management and metabolic portfolio, including oral GLP-1, baxdrostat, oral PCSK9 and combination small molecule products. The new state-of-the-art centre will produce small molecules, peptides and oligonucleotides. This multi-billion dollar capital investment is in addition to the $3.5 billion announced in November 2024.

Offshoring pharmaceutical production was always stupid.

I GAVE A SPEECH AT THE ATLANTA FED A FEW YEARS AGO. THEY WERE VERY NICE PEOPLE, AND THEIR JOBS SEEMED VERY CUSHY. Bessent: It’s About Time We Took a Good Look at the Fed, Doncha Think? “As for Bessent’s comment about universal basic income for well-placed academics, there is a certain amount of truth to that. . . . Who is at the Fed, and what do they all do?”

STRIKING VIDEO.

It is religious dogma with Western infantry leaders that drones ARE NOT and CANNOT BE a close combat weapon against infantry inside fortifications and buildings.

Videos like this show you how utterly detached from reality such individuals are. https://t.co/9ZAdTGeFZZ

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) July 21, 2025

Clearly it’s not enough to put doglegs in trenches now, you need drone nets.

Also, where is everybody?

CARING: LA Mayor Says She’s Not Worried About Harm to Doxxed ICE Agents. Are You Listening to Yourself, Karen?

THINGS ARE MOVING FORWARD:  E Arcs Have Happened.

MARK JUDGE: A Hard-Boiled Take on Jim Comey’s Crime Novel.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:  The world started with a ‘bang’ but will end in a scary ‘big crunch’ — and scientists think they know when that will be.

THIS SHOULD MAKE IT EASY FOR ICE TO ROUND THEM UP:  NYC block taken over by migrant workers for delivery bike parking as guard keeps overnight watch.