IT’S TIME: California Republican proposes ‘two-state solution’ amid Newsom’s redistricting push. “Whether you are from the North State, Central Valley, or the Inland empire, life has become harder and completely unaffordable. We have been overlooked for far too long, and now they are trying to rip away what little representation we have left.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 27, 2025
IT’S A BIG DEAL WHEN THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY IS ADMITTING THIS: How Florida Universities Became World-Class.
In the Washington Monthly’s 2025 Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, seven Florida universities rank in the top 100 (out of more than 1,400 schools). These include Florida International University (number eight), University of Central Florida (17), and New College (25), all of them public institutions. Four Florida state universities also make the Monthly’s 2025 Best Colleges for Research ranking, including the University of Florida (number 27) and Florida State (76). And 10 of the top 20 colleges on the Monthly’s Best Bang for the Buck ranking for the Southeast are in Florida.
Why do so many Florida universities do so well on the magazine’s rankings? Part of it is that Florida is a populous state with lots of universities. But Michigan and Pennsylvania have about the same combined population as Florida (23 million). Yet only two Pennsylvania colleges, both private—Haverford (19) and Swarthmore (37)—make the top 100 in the Monthly’s Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, and none from Michigan do.
Of course, they’re quick to inform us that it has absolutely nothing to do with Ron DeSantis.
I’VE BEEN ARGUING THIS FOR A WHILE:
The case is building for eliminating the District Court for DC, and making it part of the District of Maryland.
You cannot have a District Court that has a juror pool so extremely partisan that objective evidence is simply disregarded based on politics. https://t.co/UiaGZovbNQ
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 27, 2025
OUT: TRUMP’S INVESTIGATION OF BOLTON IS A POLITICAL PERSECUTION.
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DAY SAILI– ‘Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! The boat is cut in half.’
THAT WOULD BE NICE: Chrysler 300 Rumored to Return: Could This Be Its Bold New Look?
DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS ARE SCUM, EPISODE 4,224,378:
He immediately gets on the internet and blames Republicans for a shooting that occurred in a Democrat city, in a Democrat state, and was committed by person who became mentally ill because of the gender ideology that Democrats supports. https://t.co/di2QECeuiL
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2025
Catholic children get murdered while attending Mass by a trans person and this loser Mayor's first instinct is to a) criticize peoples' prayers and b) demand they stop being mean to trans people
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2025
If you look at WaPo's school shooting database and remove accidental discharges, gang violence, police shootings, etc., there have been four mass school shootings since 2023. Two of the perpetrators were transgender. 50%.
— Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) August 27, 2025
“Oh, you were murdered by a left-wing trans person? Let me take a dump on your religious beliefs then.”
Just a total and complete scumbag. https://t.co/vEUVjauwy6
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 27, 2025
NEWS YOU CAN USE: A Primer On Pepper Spray.
RAIN AND WIND AND STORM SURGE: Wind isn’t the only threat: Scientists urge shift to more informed hurricane scale.
JUDGES ARE LIKE PROFESSORS, AND TEND TO BE CARELESS: Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity.”
IT’S NOT EXACTLY THE PATIENT AS CEO: Study finds many doctors disregard wishes of cancer patients.
JESSE WALKER PROFILES CURTIS SLIWA: The Man in the Red Beret: What Curtis Sliwa Brings to New York’s Wild Mayoral Race. Love to see him win, but I think the non-Mamdani candidates should draw straws to see who stays in and the rest should quit so as not to split the anti-Mamdani vote.
NOTWITHSTANDING MY COLLEAGUE’S ACTION, MY CLASSES WILL MEET AS USUAL TOMORROW: Professor cancels class after learning Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged: ‘I can’t focus.’
In fact, he teaches social media strategies and this was a stunt, demonstrating his expertise. Clever!
MINE WAS ONE OF THEM: ‘No evidence’: Several campuses nationwide hit with false reports of active shooters.
A lot of speculation among students here that someone is trying to soften campuses up for something real by exhausting them with fake threats.
POOR SALESMANSHIP: Cracker Barrel and The Democrats Chose To Cater To The Affluent Niche…And Failed. “They aren’t thinking about you anymore. You’re not of their ilk. The marketing shift made by Cracker Barrel was motivated by the same reason the Democratic Party wanted to change their voter base target. Both wanted to cater to a more affluent audience and were willing to gamble losing their traditionally working-class base for this gain.”
This was motivated more by social snobbery than by a coherent plan for success.
I dunno, it’s also kinda funny. I mean except for the realization that one of America’s two major parties is crazy and useless and actually kinda dangerous.
ICYMI: SpaceX successfully completes 10th Starship test mission.
The booster separated from the rocket about three minutes after launch, performed a controlled flip after stage separation and then initiated a boostback burn, all while using three engine configurations. The test mission undertook multiple landing burn tests, tested the booster’s payload deployment and conducted several re-entry experiments aimed at returning the rocket’s upper stage to the launch site to be caught. . . .
After deploying the satellite simulators, SpaceX relit a single Raptor engine while in orbit before re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
The test affirms the engine’s ability to be used during orbital missions to break out of orbit and return to Earth, according to SpaceX.
The engine successfully relit about 38 minutes into the test launch, and the Starship began re-entry two minutes later.
The re-entry tested the Starship’s newly designed heat shields before it splashed down in the Indian Ocean after slowing from about five times the speed of sound during re-entry as part of a stress test to assess its limitations.
Iterative learning. It’s a thing.
THEY HAVEN’T BEEN PUNISHED ENOUGH YET, BECAUSE THEY HAVEN’T LEARNED YET: Columbia Law School Tells Students To Avoid Offensive Terms Like ‘Crazy Uncle’ and ‘Grandfathering:’ The mandatory session featured a former corporate attorney turned diversity consultant who has called on companies to ‘defend DEI.’
KURT LASH ON the originalist cases for and against birthright citizenship.
That you can argue both sides of this issue from an originalist standpoint supports my argument, many years ago, that Robert Bork’s support of originalism on the ground that it determines outcomes was thoroughly wrong. There are plenty of other good reasons to support originalism, but it’s not a machine that spits out the correct answer every time, or even nearly every time. It’s just another language for arguing about the law. Arguably a better one (I think so) but still just that.
DAN MITCHELL: The Most Important Election(s) of 2025.