EH, WHO HASN’T? These freaky fish use their forehead teeth to have better sex.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 9, 2025
NOW OUT: From Jimmy Hawkins, who played Tommy Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life: The Heart of It’s a Wonderful Life: How the Most Inspirational Movie of All Time Still Inspires the Spirit.
LET’S FIND THEM SOONER IN THE FUTURE, EH? Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet.
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS? New poll: Students say free speech matters until someone says something offensive.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northeastern to celebrate ‘sexual liberation’ with free Plan B, ‘anti-fascist’ dance party.
THEY’RE NOT AGAINST PEOPLE BEING SHOT, IF IT’S THE RIGHT PEOPLE GETTING SHOT:
Jay Jones is endorsed by… Giffords PAC. Yeah, it's the PAC you think it is. pic.twitter.com/VaPpknr59h
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 9, 2025
“Personnel is policy.” As far as I have been able to discover, that slogan gained currency in the Reagan administration. But it articulates a truth that political thinkers from Aristotle to Machiavelli to James Madison appreciated. The first line of Article II of the Constitution reads: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That’s “a President.” Only one. Not “a President and a bunch of district court judges.” Not “a President and sundry federal agencies staffed by unaccountable bureaucrats.”
Over the course of many decades, the sublimely uncluttered principle articulated at the beginning of Article II has been undermined and stymied, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, by what we have come to call the administrative state. What is the administrative state? It is difficult to take precise measure of this amorphous, protean, self-engorging organism. But one salient characteristic is its habit of substituting judicial intervention for constitutional principle.
“Personnel is policy.” Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes. The administrative state, supported by a battalion of liberal judges and scrambling litigants, says “not so fast.”
As I write, the Trump administration is contending with some 300 lawsuits. Many have to do with agencies he wishes to trim or abolish, previously appropriated funds he wishes to divert or sequester, employees he wishes to fire. So far, the Supreme Court has, if in somewhat piecemeal fashion, mostly sided with Trump. The executive, the Court has recognized, ought to be allowed to execute, viz “to carry out or put into effect a plan, order, or course of action.” Inherent in that power is the President’s prerogative of “making the best possible appointments.” Why? because personnel is policy. Agents of the administrative state also understand this principle. It’s just that they believe that power, or at least large swaths of it, should rest with them, not the President. They do not have the Constitution on their side. But they do have a litany of legal decisions which have accumulated like barnacles on the hull of the ship of state, rotting its timbers, impeding its progress.
More like teredo worms, but yeah.
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: FBI Fires agents, Dismantles Corruption Squad After Probe Unveils Monitoring of GOP Senators. They should be prosecuted.
I DON’T EXPECT THE NOBEL COMMITTEE TO RECOGNIZE THAT, THOUGH:
Simple fact is Trump has a better record on the Mid East than any president in living memory, and it’s not a close call
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) October 9, 2025
Related: The Libs Are Totally Stunned Over What Could Be Trump’s Signature Foreign Policy Achievement.
ME: WHO’S THIS BAD BUNNY GUY ANYWAY?
Oh. Makes sense then.
Still think they should have gone with Daddy Yankee if they were going to get a guy who sings in Spanish. He’s listened to by hot Latinas in tight dresses.
TRUMP IS AN “AUTHORITARIAN” WHO’S DOING WHAT VOTERS WANT: Majority of Americans Support Deportation of Illegals, Says … NYT/Siena?
SO VERY TRUE:
If Bari Weiss was of a different political persuasion we'd be flooded with glamorizing profiles detailing her life story and struggles making it big in a man's world while being a gay woman.
— Holden (@Holden114) October 8, 2025
MATT TAIBBI: James Comey Was Sure He Was Above The Law. Supporters Hope He’s Right: As James Comey is arraigned, new documents show the FBI under his watch criminally investigated first, and looked for reasons later. “Anything you can get away with doing to an elected billionaire president can be done to everyone. If you get away with breaking attorney-client privilege for Trump, no conversation with any lawyer is safe; if you test-a-lie your way to Trump surveillance warrants, anyone can be spied on; if FBI goons can target the president for criminal investigation first and hunt for predication later, any FBI chief can cook up any case he or she pleases. The prospect of this particular ex-FBI chief walking is outrageous since no one, not even former CIA chief John Brennan, lied so frequently, fluidly, and with such absolute assurance of getting away with it as James Comey.”
Make an example of him that will terrify his successors for decades.
#JOURNALISM:
🧵 NYT coverage of the Jay Jones ‘I want to shoot evil Republicans in the head and also murder their fascist children’ scandal in Virginia: 🦗 🦗 🦗
All the news* that’s fit to print… pic.twitter.com/zLg9VEWjok
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 8, 2025
October 8, 2025
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Notice every single goddamn Democrat that’s been screaming about a ceasefire that doesn’t congratulate our president for accomplishing one.
Because it was never about moral opposition to violence, but rather a sick fantasy of annihilating the only Jewish state.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 8, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE NEWS IS THAT THIS STUFF ISN’T REALLY NEWS ANYMORE: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites on its 29th-ever liftoff.
BOB GRABOYES: Hamas, Its Origins, Its Groupies.
I DON’T TRUST THEM: Hamas Agrees to Trump’s Peace Deal, Signing Planned for Tomorrow.
But I suspect that neither does Trump, and he has a plan to make them an example when they break the deal.
#RESISTANCE:
Zohran Mamdani gets BOOED out of a restaurant in Staten Island.
"There's the communist. You are not welcome, you Jew-hating piece of sh*t. You hate this country."
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 8, 2025