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September 5, 2025

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Starmer makes Lammy deputy PM and Cooper foreign secretary after Rayner resignation.

Sir Keir Starmer is set to make David Lammy deputy prime minister as the PM embarks on a major cabinet reshuffle following Angela Rayner stepping down from her government roles after an investigation into her tax affairs.

Yvette Cooper will be moved from home secretary and take up a new role as foreign secretary, with justice secretary Shabana Mahmood replacing her at the Home Office.

Mr Lammy will also become justice secretary as well as deputy PM. Lucy Powell, the leader of the House of Commons, and Scottish secretary Ian Murray have been sacked from their roles this afternoon.

The YooKay (classical reference) is in the best of hands:

Flashbacks:

● Trump inflamed George Floyd row to ‘distract from Covid,’ Lammy claimed.

● ‘Key moment’ David Lammy ridiculed for not knowing when Churchill became Prime Minister.

● Climate a more fundamental threat than terror – Lammy.

Posted at 12:47 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 5th, 2025

OOPS: Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Outburst at RFK Said the Quiet Part Out Loud.

Has Bernie seen Al Pacino’s And Just for All one too many times?

Exit question:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 5th, 2025

ONLY STATE-RUN MEDIA CAN SAVE DEMOCRACY FROM ITSELF: NPR CEO Maher Tells Colbert Public Radio Needed To Protect Democracy Itself.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed NPR CEO Katherine Maher to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a grieving session on the latter being defunded. According to Maher, the fate of democracy depends on NPR, and only people who seek to divide and pit Americans against each other could possibly support defunding it.

Colbert put the ball on the tee for Maher by repeating the idea that public broadcasting is of vital importance for local news, “And while it’s possible now to, like, use streaming wherever you are and basically get another radio station, one of the things, as I understand it, is that with the decline of local newspapers and local news, these NPR stations are critical sources for people to know about their own community.”

Flashback: NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher on CNN: “As far as the accusations that we’re biased, I’d stand up and say, ‘Please show me a story that concerns you.’”

In addition to all of the examples at the link, these responses from Maher are quite concerning:

Incidentally, it’s great to see Colbert, on his victory lap before his show’s retirement, continue to deliver the megawatt superstars of the entertainment world that the American public are absolutely clamoring for…

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 5th, 2025

FIVE FOR FIGHTING’S JOHN ONDRASIK: My Tour-Bus Pharmacy Went on a Health Kick.

I had to smile at Kyle Smith’s op-ed about the ability of aging rock stars to keep on keeping on (“Classic Rock of the 70s and Older,” op-ed, Aug. 21). Though I didn’t partake in much of the flagrant drug use of the ’70s and ’80s, it was certainly readily available. We knew the passwords to get into the post-gig speakeasies, and the band’s daily hangovers were as biting as their solos.

But times, like the body and mind, change. The tour-bus pharmacy has evolved. Pot has been replaced with probiotics, cigarettes are now Celexa, and Jose Cuervo is lost somewhere behind the Omega 3s, Vitamin Bs and beta blockers. If that looks like cocaine, feel free to sample our low-carb protein powder.

The delightful after-show pizzas have graduated to yogurt and granola. Our rider now includes multivitamins and Maalox to go with the nuts, fruit and dark chocolate (a healthy alternative!). Motrin now dulls the arthritis to keep the joints going for one more gig. On off days, I tend to see the boys more often on a run, or in the gym, than in the bar. Each bunk has a heating pad.

The times, they have a-changed.

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green on Sep 5th, 2025

CHANGE (IT BACK): Federal workers bowing to Trump’s order to show up for work.

President Trump’s effort to get federal employees back into their offices for work is proving to be stunningly effective, with the number of full-time in-office employees nearly tripling over the past six months.

Data compiled by Gallup show that 46% of feds were working on-site as of the second quarter of this year. That’s up from 17% in late 2024 under President Biden, and more than double the national average for all workers, at 21%.

The big change has been in hybrid workers — those who spend some time in the office and some time at home. They comprised 61% of the federal workforce last year, but are now just 28%. The rest are fully remote.
“In Washington, the hybrid era is over,” Gallup proclaimed.

The change is all the more staggering given how easy it appears to have been achieved.

Just like the border.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green on Sep 5th, 2025

WHERE WERE SENATE DEMS WHEN CDC ISSUED THESE LIES? Yesterday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing in which Democrat after Democrat raised bogus issue after bogus issue should be understood in the context of the sorry performance of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Over and over again, in response to ridiculous Democratic claims that assumed the CDC could do no wrong, Kennedy retorted by pointing out Senator X said nothing for years as the nation became sicker and sicker.

Now Just Facts’ documents the reality that “the CDC issued reams of unscientific pronouncements that killed and harmed multitudes of people during the Covid-19 pandemic.” THIS IS A MUST-READ.

Posted at 10:08 am by Mark Tapscott on Sep 5th, 2025

THE HIGH PRICE OF OVERREGULATION: A look at the regulatory burden on Colorado childcare providers.

While the problem childcare operators face might not be new, I can tell you something that is: regulatory bloat. Since CDEC officially began in 2022, the agency added 27 new rules and regulations to the state’s already voluminous rulebook. By this point, the page count is up in the 500’s. From a purely pragmatic point of view, who can manage this complexity? How on earth are they supposed to do so fairly?

As things stand now, CDEC contracts with several agencies and nonprofits around the state to do their regulatory compliance and licensing checks. Per a CDEC spokesperson, this list has included Goodwill of Colorado, The Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence, Mesa County Public Health, and Red Rocks Community College.

Dawn Alexander of the Early Childhood Education Association of Colorado, a trade group, used to work for Red Rocks Community College as one of their inspectors. She told me that her training was partially done by the state, but Red Rocks did the bulk of it, with a few months of job shadowing (with her first following, then leading). Another contractor, who didn’t want to go on record, told me of a similar process; the state providing some training, with additional in-house training/mentoring prior to hitting the field alone.

Ms. Alexander, as well as the other contractor, also told me about meetings designed to make sure rules were consistently applied across the state and within an organization. This varied from a monthly in-house meeting in one case to a giant, virtual free for all in another.

In the grand tradition of rulemaking bodies, CDEC also puts out what they term administrative guides which don’t hold the legal force of rules, but they are intended to help inspectors and providers to understand and apply the rules in a consistent manner. I pawed through them too quickly to count pages, but I doubt they’d be much less than the rules themselves.

The likely “solution” will involve more subsidies. And with subsidies come… more regulations.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green on Sep 5th, 2025

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Are Lying Idiots and JD Vance Is Not Amused. “Trump had to fight a lot during that first term, against both Democrats and Republicans. There wasn’t a lot of support from within. His all-too-gentlemanly vice president just hung in the background and did the polite Republican thing.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green on Sep 5th, 2025

MICHAEL WALSH: And See Who Salutes. 

But what is wrong with hate? It’s a perfectly useful emotion, especially in times of war. Hatred of an existential enemy is not irrational but instinctive and self-protective; after all, they hate you and don’t pretend otherwise. Only governments bent on facilitating national suicide — which, let’s face it, is the very raison d’etre  of the EUSSR — would put its citizens in jail for trying to defend themselves, their families, and their culture from hostile aliens. But such has been the triumph of the Frankfurt School during the past 60 years or so, and its message is: lie down and die before we kill you.

So the flag revolutions now going on in the British Isles operate on two levels: 1) they are an expression of nationalist patriotism, 2) they send a clear message to illegals to get the hell out before they are thrown out. To pretend otherwise is nonsense.

The flags also utterly enrage British lefties, in the same way that our leftists despise the American flag, so it’s triple play.

Posted at 8:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Sep 5th, 2025

HMMM: Trump Waited in the Tall Grass for This Moment on Gun Rights. It’s Going to Be Brilliant.

A DOJ source told the Daily Wire that “individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.

A Justice Department spokesman told the Daily Wire that a “range of options” is being considered “to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools.”

Another officials said, “Democrats have called for common sense gun laws for a long time” and that “this seems pretty common sense to me.”

Given how Democrats react to anything Trump does, you know what’s coming: the anti-gun Left is going to sound like National Rifle Association members. They will likely devote endless hours to full-throated defenses of gun ownership and Second Amendment rights. The president is setting the stage for the Democrats to cannibalize their anti-gun positions, sacrificing generations of activism for transgender gun rights. The Left was ALWAYS wrong about gun rights; we just had to wait a long time to find an issue where the opposition could self-implode on this one, and they will.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:44 am by Ed Driscoll on Sep 5th, 2025

HEH:

It does always seem to work out that way, doesn’t it?

Related:

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green on Sep 5th, 2025
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