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July 18, 2025
EXACTLY WHAT YOU’D EXPECT: Meet the Liberal Hack From CBS Who Just Became President of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
ATTENTION TENNESSEE-BASED FACULTY AND STUDENTS!!!: I need volunteers from the Volunteer State to join Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (“FASORP”)!
If you are a student or faculty member at a university located in Tennessee, you can help. In fact, if you are a student or faculty member anywhere, it’s a bit of a help.
FASORP along with the National Association of Scholars will soon be intervening in litigation pending in federal court in Tennessee. They will be represented by attorneys with the American Civil Right Project (where I am chairman of the board). Our goal is to have the federal government’s Minority Serving Institutions programs declared unconstitutional. These programs shovel billions of taxpayer dollars to colleges and universities based on the race of their students. For example, to qualify as a Hispanic Serving Institution, which is by far the largest and best financed such program, a school must be able to certify annually that at least 25% of its students are Hispanic.
Can you imagine the shrieks and hollers we would be hearing if Congress was funding program that gave money to schools only if at least 25% of their students were white? Neither can I. For that reason, Congress can’t have a program for other races either.
(Note that the Historically Black Colleges and Universities program is different. For reasons I’ll tell you about when all of us have a lot of time on our hands in the future, HBCUs are on a different and stronger constitutional footing. For now, I’ll just note that, among other reasons, HBCUs have no incentive to discriminate. They would remain HBCUs even if all their students were white or Asian. Some HBCUs are indeed majority white.)
FASORP will arguably be in a stronger position to intervene in the litigation the more Tennessee students and faculty it has as members. It already has some, but in case they get hit by a truck, I’d like for it to have more. Membership is free and confidential. All you have to do is fill out this quick form. (The form asks if you have evidence of discrimination at your institution. You can ignore that part. All you need to do is join.)
Full disclosure: There is always a very, very remote possibility that at some point in the future FASORP could be compelled to disclose its membership to the court. But it would not happen before our members were given an opportunity to drop out if that’s their preference. But frankly, if you’re a frequent Instapundit reader, you probably lost your reputation for political correctness long ago.
Thank you for any help you are able to give us!
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
Remember that woman who Democrats and the media claimed was kidnapped from a parking lot by ICE, shoved into an unmarked car, held in a building, starved, to force her to self-deport???
Turns out she staged the entire “kidnapping”
She’s now facing criminal charges for… pic.twitter.com/QG7NrKWkWA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2025
SHOCK: CBS Will Cancel Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show In May 2026.
He was the epitome of the downfall of late night comedy into what could be called late night clapter, where the applauding of conservative misfortunes replaced wit or cleverness. Under Colbert, The Late Show became an avenue for liberals to vent their frustration at conservatives through cathartic booing.
Colbert was the most likely of all the permanent late night hosts to bring on liberal guests. His show would have been a must-visit place for 2028 Democratic hopefuls. Even on this Thursday, Colbert is scheduled to have Sen. Adam Schiff on.
The future of light night is bleak. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel has mused about retiring next year and is pessimistic about the state of the industry, a sentiment shared by NBC’s Seth Meyers. The death of late night was caused by many things, including increased competition that comes from streaming platforms and YouTube, but Colbert-like liberals also played a role. You can’t just write off half the country and expect a 30+ year-old institution to survive forever.
Of course not, but maybe focusing so hard on an audience of homogeneous leftists kept the late night shows on the air for at least a decade after their freshness dates had expired.
Related: Colbert, who made his bones playing a parody of Bill O’Reilly, had the chance to do real journalism in 2018 and decided he’d better quickly change the subject instead:
Sad @colbertlateshow is cancelled. I'll miss moments like this, where Claire Danes is talking about "the intelligence community allying itself with journalists" & Colbert abruptly changes the subject! pic.twitter.com/yVWoHMFFyu
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) July 18, 2025
VDH: The World Woke Up.
The unthinkable has become the banal.
Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden?
Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.
Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration.
It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws—and a new president.
How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?
Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?
And now?
In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.
Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans—especially white males—that they were not systemically racist after all.
Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?
Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to five percent.
Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance.
Much more at the link.
Trump delivered bigly in his first six months with much more to come. Anyone obsessed with the Epstein “list” over all those accomplishments might lack perspective.
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YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: Are Media Folks Literally Insane?
Journalists’ brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, according to a new study, which means they have a below-average ability to regulate their emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and show creative and flexible thinking.
The study, led by Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and leadership coach, analysed 40 journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and online platforms over seven months. The participants took part in tests related to their lifestyle, health, and behaviour. . . .
Each subject completed a blood test, wore a heart-rate monitor for three days, kept a food and drink diary for a week, and completed a brain profile questionnaire.
The results showed that journalists’ brains were operating at a lower level than the average population, particularly because of dehydration and the tendency of journalists to self-medicate with alcohol, caffeine, and high-sugar foods.
Forty-one percent of the subjects said they drank 18 or more units of alcohol a week, which is four units above the recommended weekly allowance. Less than 5% drank the recommended amount of water.
However, in interviews conducted in conjunction with the brain profile results, the participants indicated they felt their jobs had a lot of meaning and purpose.
But of course.
GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK:
New Yorkers are excited about Rikers being emptied into Manhattan. https://t.co/eusSm9TrkH
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 18, 2025
Bane smiles under his mask:
Related: Mamdani’s anti-cop zealotry means crime and chaos for NYC — it’s all in his agenda.
Zohran Mamdani is one smooth talker.
He claims he “no longer believes,” as he did just five years ago, that the New York City Police Department is a “wicked and corrupt” institution that must be “defunded” and “dismantled.”
He says he really didn’t mean it when he blamed “the police themselves” for “perpetrating an enormous amount” of violent crime, “especially with regard to sexual violence.”
He insists he was misunderstood when he tweeted, “The NYPD is racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.”
Bull. Mamdani will be a disaster for public safety in New York City if he becomes our mayor.
This was Kamala Harris’ strategy last year to try to disavow all the crazy stuff she said in the past without ever actually disavowing it. Despite a supine media allowing her to get away with her flip/flops, it ultimately blew up in her face. (“Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”) But with three other candidates splitting the rest of voting, Mamdani could well sail through, despite (because of?) his radical past and concomitant bonkers statements.
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FRANK TIPLER ON THE QUALITY OF HARVARD’S “HARD SCIENCE” RESEARCH: “Sadly, the evidence shows Harvard has also wrecked the hard sciences.”
HE’S STAYING IN PRACTICE: Gavin Newsom Just Lost Another Battle to Trump.
BARRY’S TIME HAS PASSED: Former Dem Strategist Torches Obama Over Tone-Deaf Message to Liberals.
I’VE BEEN REPEATEDLY ASSURED THAT FEDERAL FUNDING WAS JUST A SMALL PART OF THE PBS/NPR BUDGETS: Sorry, NPR/PBS, You’re Losing Your Funding: Senate Passes Trump’s Rescissions Package.
I FEAR THIS WILL ONLY FEED THE “EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!” CRAZY. NEVER GIVE THE HECKLERS THE VETO: Trump directs AG Pam Bondi to release ‘pertinent Grand Jury testimony’ in Epstein case.
I WORRY THAT LOCAL OFFICIALS NEED MENTAL HEALTH HELP: ICE Arrests MS-13 Fentanyl Trafficker in Providence, RI and Local Officials Worry Police May Have Assisted.
BECAUSE WE’RE PAYING THE TAXES THAT FINANCE THE LEFT, SIR: As I’ve Said, There’s No Money On The Right.
MENTAL ILLNESS IS WIDESPREAD AND LIFE-IMPAIRING: Steve Miller Band Cancels US Tour Due to Climate Change-Induced Weather Risks.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA REVERSES COURSE AND GOES NUTS: How Universities Commit Unassisted Suicide.
MORE SOMALI-COMMUNITY FRAUD OF GOVERNMENT BENEFITS: Feds execute search warrants connected to ‘massive scheme to defraud’ a Minnesota housing program.