Archive for 2026

January 22, 2026

NYU’S SHAME:

Posted at 12:40 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 22nd, 2026

THE CAPTAIN HAS SPOKEN:

I mean, after all:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 22nd, 2026

RICHARD FERNANDEZ NAILS IT:

Posted at 12:29 pm by Stephen Green on Jan 22nd, 2026

MOST LARGE-SCALE M&As FAIL TO DELIVER SHAREHOLDER VALUE: Netflix Stock Hits 52-Week Low, Analysts Cut Price Targets, See Warner Bros. Deal as a Drag. “The streaming giant’s fourth-quarter updates included news that it ended 2025 with more than 325 million global paid subscribers, up from 302 million as of the end of 2024. But the company’s financial outlook, especially for profit margins, disappointed.”

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green on Jan 22nd, 2026

LOL, EXPERTS:

I thought it was Americans who didn’t know geography, but this “expert” sure seems to think his European viewers are ignorant.

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green on Jan 22nd, 2026

HOW DO YOU SAY “NO MORE ANCHOR BABIES” IN MANDARIN?

Posted at 10:56 am by Stephen Green on Jan 22nd, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch.

The sprawling International Space Station is due to be decommissioned less than five years from now, and the US space agency has yet to formally publish rules and requirements for the follow-on stations being designed and developed by several different private companies.

Although there are expected to be multiple bidders in “phase two” of NASA’s commercial space station program, there are at present four main contenders: Voyager Technologies, Axiom Space, Blue Origin, and Vast Space. At some point later this year, the space agency is expected to select one, or more likely two, of these companies for larger contracts that will support their efforts to build their stations.

To get a sense of the overall landscape as the competition heats up, Ars recently interviewed Voyager chief executive Dylan Taylor about his company’s plans for a private station, Starlab. Today we are publishing an interview with Max Haot, the chief executive of Vast. The company is furthest along in terms of development, choosing to build a smaller, interim space station, Haven-1, capable of short-duration stays. Eventually, NASA wants facilities capable of continuous habitation, but it is not clear whether that will be a requirement starting in 2030.

Until today, Haven-1 had a public launch date of mid-2026. However, as Haot explained in our interview, that launch date is no longer tenable.

Much more at the link.

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green on Jan 22nd, 2026

BREAKING: FBI Arrests Church-Raid Leaders in Minneapolis. “Considering the evidence on hand, the DoJ took its time. The group published the evidence of its own violations of the FACE Act on social media, as well as evidence of violating other federal statutes, on Sunday. Presumably, Bondi had a grand jury review the X/Twitter streams and let them reach their own conclusions before seeking arrest warrants. The evidence was so compelling that CNN’s Erin Burnett tried to pretend it didn’t matter while interviewing Armstrong yesterday. Guy Benson noticed, and scoffed.”

Scoffing at Erin Burnett is pretty much always justified. Such a shill.

Posted at 10:40 am by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 22nd, 2026

THE ART OF THE DEAL:

As a result, soon:

Since setting the tone for the first Buc-ee’s in Greenland is so important, there is only one man who can be trusted to be the new location’s first manager:

Related: The European mind cannot comprehend the wonders of Buc-ee’s:

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Jan 22nd, 2026

STAY WARM, AND STAY OFF THE ROADS IF YOU CAN: Maps show where winter storm threatens to bring heavy snow, brutal cold this weekend.

This will make temperatures drop well below average for this time of year and even bring record-breaking temperatures to some locations. Frostbite can occur in as little as 5-10 minutes if exposed to this dangerous cold. Wind chill temperatures are forecast to feel like 40-50 degrees below zero in some places across the northern U.S.

Ice is expected to accumulate along the southern side of the storm’s track, but considering its slow movement, the amount of accumulation is expected to be between two-tenths of an inch to up to half an inch. Impacts of this magnitude can bring down power lines. With the harsh cold in place, power outages can lead to lack of indoor heating, crippling communities.

Possible snowfall amounts are fluctuating as the forecast models continue to come together. Up to 5-10 inches of snowfall is already expected across the southern Plains as the system takes shape over the region on Friday into Saturday.

Looks like a nasty one. The best time to get prepared was before winter, but the next best time is right now, before the weather hits.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green on Jan 22nd, 2026

DON SURBER: The Art of the Deal in Davos. “If your country isn’t worth defending, why should the USA?”

Posted at 9:34 am by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 22nd, 2026

ROGER KIMBALL: Why shouldn’t the Board of Peace replace the UN? It’s not hard to be more effective than the UN, but one has to start somewhere.

The latest media palpitation about Donald Trump concerns his just-announced “Board of Peace.” Unveiled as an initiative to manage the introduction of tranquillity and physical reconstruction of that pile of rubble formerly known as Gaza, the Board of Peace seems to be filling all the empty space in the parking lot reserved for international relations. Think Big! The BoP now seems to take as its mandate international conflict more generally. Reporting on the fledgling enterprise, a story on ABC News mournfully told the world that “Critics and government leaders are decrying the board, saying it undermines the United Nations.”

Is that a promise? And more to the point, how would anyone be able to tell whether that monstrous, superannuated magnet for spies and third-world grifters had been “undermined?” Inquiring minds want to know.

I will come back to Trump’s latest action idea in a moment. First, I have something to propose for the United Nations. Many countries have the sads about the United States. Their leaders think Trump is a bully. They hate it that he plucked the dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their bedroom in Caracas and flew them, free and for nothing, to New York. They are weepy about his talk of appropriating Greenland and making its 56,000 residents rich. All the Danes had to offer was forced sterilization for the ladies, but we’re not supposed to talk about that.

But back to the UN. Why should New York get all the glory? I know the assorted despots like to come to Manhattan in their cloud of all-expense-paid diplomatic immunity to rail against the evils of Israel and the United States. But shouldn’t we take a page from that great Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama and seek to spread the wealth around?

Here’s my proposal. Untether the UN from the US. Beginning next year, let’s locate that august (in its own eye) body in various spots around the world for a term of, say, three years. Since everyone is so keen on Somalia at the moment, let’s move the UN to Mogadishu for three years beginning in January 2027. Then it might go to Ukraine for three years. Then to Gaza, where its great moral authority might help restore the tissues of that unfortunate stretch of beach-front property.

Meanwhile, the hideous Corbusier structure in New York can either be demolished outright or taken apart piecemeal and shipped to Brussels, where it can be reassembled and open as a museum commemorating the unique combination of corruption and hectoring utopian blather that the UN has always specialized in. As for its site on the East River, that’s prime real estate. I suggest transforming it into some useful for once, a golf course, for example, or putting green.

If only we knew someone with Manhattan real estate development experience who could handle the repurposing.

Posted at 9:31 am by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 22nd, 2026

SAY ANYTHING: I thought lawyers were the only ones to operate on the principle of “for enough money, I’ll say anything.” Apparently, Jack Smith and Christopher Wray seem to think this is appropriate. Just The News is reporting that:

“The Biden-era FBI made more than $100,000 in payments to informants who were members of an anonymous group of tech sleuths known as the “Sedition Hunters” to gather and analyze video evidence in the January 6 Capitol riot — echoing the bureau’s reliance on paid FBI informant and British ex-spy Christopher Steele in 2016.”

Did the FBI disclose that their “informants” were often foreign based and paid? That’s one of those “rhetorical” questions I keep hearing about.

Posted at 9:28 am by Charles Glasser on Jan 22nd, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Greenland or Bust! “A purchase of Greenland would be legitimate, of course, but Dems don’t know that because they don’t read real history books. They’re not aware of how a lot of this continent became part of the United States. I live in a city that was part of the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. As far as I know, there were no radical loons back then who were bent out of shape because President Franklin Pierce made a land deal.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green on Jan 22nd, 2026

YOUR DAVOS NOTES:

Posted at 8:54 am by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 22nd, 2026
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