NEWS YOU CAN USE: The armed citizen needs to know more than just defensive tactics and how to shoot. “Not long ago, I went to an area gun show and, of course, took a couple of guns to trade. At the safety table were two middle-age deputy sheriffs, nice guys. I handed one a double-action Smith & Wesson revolver and gave the other a double-action Colt revolver. The first deputy held the gun and just stared at it; he clearly didn’t know how to open it. I told him to push forward on that little button right there. He did, and the second deputy started pushing forward on the cylinder release on the Colt. No sir, you have to pull back on that one. The first deputy, with an embarrassed grin, said that you learn something new every day.”
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May 16, 2025
SCIENTISTS BAFFLED: Scientists don’t actually know why period cramps hurt. Maybe because they’re cramps? Just spitballing here.
Also, if you’re talking about “menstruating people,” are you really talking about science?
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: The Motorola RAZR is back. But, like everything these days, with “too much AI.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Drug said to be effective against early migraine symptoms.
WE NEED TO SUBJECT THEM TO A STEADY ONSLAUGHT OF UNANTICIPATED ACCOUNTABILITY: Politico: Democrats Realizing Their Biden Nightmare Is Just Beginning.
And by we, I mean America.
WHEN TWO-TIERED JUSTICE COMES TO AN END. UNEXPECTEDLY!
🚨BREAKING: President Trump goes scorched earth on James Comey for the assassination threat, says he knew exactly what “8647” meant:
“You're the FBI director.. You know that meant assassination. He wasn't very competent, but he’s competent enough to know what that meant..” pic.twitter.com/sFwoRHRFMw
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
🚨BREAKING: Associate Deputy AG Ed Martin says James Comey is going to prison over Trump assassination threat — Either lie to the jury or admit he knew what "8647" meant:
“He knew… He’s got a problem. Perjury traps are next. Going to jail on one or the other.” pic.twitter.com/VYA6cYe2dM
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
🚨BREAKING: The DOJ set to announce charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver as early as today for assaulting law enforcement at a New Jersey ICE facility, according to New Jersey Globe.pic.twitter.com/v6KdaJgp88
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
I don’t understand why anyone feels that they have to default to assuming either good intentions by Comey or that they must somehow explain that we are overreacting to his childish, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, murder the president post.
It is essential that we treat this creep,…
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 16, 2025
As science has proven, “tit for tat” is the only way to ensure honesty in repeat-player interactions.
JUST SAW THIS AND IT’S KINDA PROFOUND:
A lot of being “trans” has to do with males wishing they were the objects of sexual desire, and females wishing they weren’t.
— J🇺🇸 (@The_Feminist_TM) July 7, 2024
ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING “UNFOUNDED:” Racial slur charges dropped against Yale conservative leader – ‘cannot be proven.’
It’s not 2020 anymore.
I’M BAACK! Returned home last night. Regular service will gradually resume today, with help from my loyal team. Thanks to them for keeping the lights on while I got some much needed R&R.
THIS SEEMS RIGHT:
The entire federal bureaucracy in DC was built to elevate unimpressive but impeccably credentialed sociopaths like Comey. These are products of elite institutions who mistake conformity for wisdom & status for merit. The system is rigged to exclude those with courage, conviction,… https://t.co/GzCqCcCEWX
— Gavin M. Wax (@GavinWax) May 16, 2025
DON SURBER: No one is above the law, but.
MAYBE DELIBERATELY BREAKING THE LAW AND LYING ABOUT IT WAS A BAD APPROACH:
Harvard officials now fear that their discrimination machine might expose them to criminal liability. Justice is coming. https://t.co/Yok54vyyDl
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 16, 2025
May 8, 2025
HAHA, IT’S NOT ACTUALLY “YOUR MONEY” IN ANY MEANINGFUL SENSE, RUBE:
I’d like to withdraw my money from this terrible investment, please. https://t.co/dBg3XA6ftb
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) May 8, 2025
CHANGE: I Don’t Need Ozempic. But I Want It. GLP-1s are looking more and more like a miracle drug. Are we ready for miracles? “The side effects are different for everyone, but for me, I’m prettier, happier, more confident, my clothes look better, and more men take notice of me.”
As I’ve said from the beginning, my question is whether being slim will be less cool once everyone can do it — or a taken-for-granted necessity since everyone can do it.
ICYMI: GONE FISHING: I’m off to a secure, undisclosed vacation for a week and will be as offline as I can manage. I have a few posts saved, but the rest of the Insta-Crew will keep the lights on while I enjoy a much-deserved (and much-needed!) break. See you in a week! Well, a bit more than that.
ICYMI: GONE FISHING: I’m off to a secure, undisclosed vacation for a week and will be as offline as I can manage. I have a few posts saved, but the rest of the Insta-Crew will keep the lights on while I enjoy a much-deserved (and much-needed!) break. See you in a week! Well, a bit more than that.
IT’S NOT AS IF THE GOVERNMENT IS RUN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE: Government Officials and Contractors Are Surprisingly Indifferent to Human Trafficking.
I MEAN, YEAH.
Well I guess 99% of your political views are based on economic illiteracy. https://t.co/8JSG3wv4Ru
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) May 7, 2025
WELL, YES, YOU’RE TALKING TO A LEFTIST AFTER ALL:
Well I guess 99% of your political views are based on economic illiteracy. https://t.co/8JSG3wv4Ru
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) May 7, 2025
ELITE PREJUDICES AGAINST THE SOUTH GUARANTEE THIS: Mississippi Can’t Possibly Have Good Schools: And yet it does. Are we ready to deal?
Wikipedia has an entry dedicated to the phrase “Thank God for Mississippi” because its horrible performance on so many metrics saves other states the embarrassment of finishing last. The term has been used since at least 1945.
Which has made it awkward in recent years as Mississippi has become the fastest improving school system in the country.
You read that right. Mississippi is taking names.
In 2003, only the District of Columbia had more fourth graders in the lowest achievement level on our national reading test (NAEP) than Mississippi.1 By 2024, only four states had fewer.
To be fair, for nearly all those years when Mississippi was a joke, it was ruled by Democrats.
Related: ‘F’ Is for Democrat: Colorado’s Collapse Under One-Party Rule. “Colorado’s economic report card is in and my beloved home state — formerly a solid A and B student — just flunked every subject.”
But they’re making A+ in graft.
GONE FISHING: I’m off to a secure, undisclosed vacation for a week and will be as offline as I can manage. I have a few posts saved, but the rest of the Insta-Crew will keep the lights on while I enjoy a much-deserved (and much-needed!) break. See you in a week! Well, a bit more than that.
HMM: CFTC ‘Staff’ Placed on Leave Amid Investigation. “The interesting reference Chairman Pham made regarding the union leadership’s part in facilitating this fraud might also turn out to be uncomfortable for those folks, considering the seriousness of the violations listed in the IG report. Chairman Pham does say ‘criminal violations of the law’ in her official statement and ‘members’ of the staff have been put on administrative leave. Could be a serious house cleaning coming.”
The government needs a lot of that.
May 7, 2025
JOEL KOTKIN: Who Gets Hurt with Green Policies?
Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable.
Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity in the state is now the highest in the continental U.S., at 30.22 cents per kilowatt hour.
You might want to blame the discrepancies on greed — Big Oil practicing price gouging, as Gov. Gavin Newsom has suggested, and utilities lining their shareholders’ pockets. But at the pump and on your light and power bill, California’s high energy prices are better understood as a self-inflicted wound, traceable to the state’s quixotic green energy policy.
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An electric vehicle plugged in at a charging station in Anaheim. California’s climate agenda relies on expensive, and intermittent, energy sources, such as wind and solar.
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By Joel KotkinContributing writer
May 7, 2025 3 AM PTSince the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable.
Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity in the state is now the highest in the continental U.S., at 30.22 cents per kilowatt hour.
You might want to blame the discrepancies on greed — Big Oil practicing price gouging, as Gov. Gavin Newsom has suggested, and utilities lining their shareholders’ pockets. But at the pump and on your light and power bill, California’s high energy prices are better understood as a self-inflicted wound, traceable to the state’s quixotic green energy policy.
The notoriously high cost of gas in the state is the result of a lot of factors — we tax gas to pay for road infrastructure and a less-polluting fuel mix in the summer months. Last year, Sacramento decided to move harder, faster toward its goal of a carbon-less future, adding disincentives for refineries and incentives for EVs that the California Air Resources Board has predicted will add 47 cents a gallon at the pump.
AdvertisementOverall, California’s zero-carbon climate policies — pushing EVs as your next car purchase and heat pumps to cool and heat your house — rely largely on electricity that in turn depends on expensive, and intermittent, energy sources, such as wind and solar. Come hell or high water, California’s leaders are trying to regulate, tax and incentivize their way to electricity that is 100% carbon-free by 2045.
Unfortunately, as green-skeptic energy analyst Robert Bryce notes in books and on his Substack, wherever governments have tried to base their energy supply on a swift shift to renewables — the UK, Germany, California — the result has been huge spikes in energy prices. Germany’s vaunted industrial economy has slowed in part, according to most observers, because of the high cost of renewable energy.
It’s a built-in cost of government run by crooks and morons.