THE CORRELATION OF FORCES IS NOT FAVORABLE: Victor Davis Hanson: Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government? “Harvard and most elite schools like it want it both ways. They do as they please on their own turf and yet still demand that the taxpayers send them multibillion-dollar checks in addition to their multibillion-dollar private incomes. Aside from the issues of autonomy and free expression, there are lots of campus practices that higher education would prefer were not widely known to the public. But soon they will be, and thus will become sources of public anger.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 23, 2025
April 22, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
Sorry for the delay. This got accidentally sked for tomorrow night.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: DARPA requests proposals for water-prospecting lunar orbiter.
MICHAEL WALSH: Fight With Soldiers, Not Lawyers.
THIS SEEMS RIGHT:
Elon is doing applied political science. He had a hypothesis, and then he bet on it. And in being correct, we are learning empirically: The Professional Managerial Class has perfected a system of moral blackmail through which they convert third world suffering into personal…
— Justin Murphy (@jmrphy) February 5, 2025
WELL:
Whether it was intentional or fortuitous, the media press in haring after the Signal leaks, had very little reportage about the Houthi campaign, treating it as the mindless spasm of an idiot administration. The Iranians of course knew something was afoot.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 22, 2025
HEH. THIS IS SO TYPICAL.
They're freaking out because Israelis look like they are Middle Eastern (they are in fact Middle Eastern).
What an unhinged post lol pic.twitter.com/udl2M0FdXI
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 20, 2025
WHY FIXING EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT:
The left doesn’t have enough kids to win.
That’s why they’re so insistent on controlling your kid’s education.
So maybe…just don’t voluntarily hand over your kids, and we win this whole thing in a generation.
— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) April 21, 2025
And at this point, “fixing” will require a lot of demolition work.
WHY, INDEED? Why Does The IRS Need Guns Act. “Disarming Americans is a sore subject around these parts, as it should be, considering the natural right to self-preservation recognized by our Constitution. But, something tells me today’s disarmament discussion may be better received, as this time it is focused on the federal government, specifically the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Republican Representative Barry Moore from Alabama has introduced a bill that seeks to disarm the agency aptly named the Why Does The IRS Need Guns Act.”
Also disarm the EPA and a host of other agencies.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Negligent Discharges Can Ruin More Than Your Day.
IT’S COMPLICATED: NASA snaps detailed photos of ‘strikingly complicated’ asteroid.
HOW CAN YOU BE DEPRESSED AROUND ALL THAT GREAT KOREAN FOOD? Living alone with depression and anxiety raises suicide risk by more than 500%, study of Korean adults suggests.
YOU WANT YOUR GLOBE-RULING AI TO BE LESS NICE? HAVE YOU THOUGHT THAT THROUGH? Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone.
OUT THIS WEEK FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets On The Sunset Strip.
THIS SEEMS RIGHT:
It’s quite simple – there are 3 things that the MAGA base wants:
1. Mass deportations
2. Deep State arrests
3. Passing the Trump agenda into lawDo those 3 things, and we’ll expand our majorities in the midterms
Don’t do those 3 things and we’ll lose the House and Trump will… https://t.co/V7iw91XF0U
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 22, 2025
UPDATE (From Ed):
I can't take seriously anyone who uses the word "chaos" to describe Trump-related matters.
It's such a strong tell. https://t.co/a9y6O8ZnPy
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 22, 2025
LOL: ‘Racist repression’: UCLA students protest professor for opposing race-based admissions.
The role model for this is one of my old professors who, when presented with student complaints, responded “That might bother me, if I cared what students think.”
TRUMP NEEDS TO PICK UP THE BALL: 60 Judicial Vacancies and No Nominees.
SANCTIONS, PLEASE:
WHOO BOY: In an order filed last night, Judge James Hendrix–the judge in Texas presiding over latest Alien Enemies Act case which prompted unprecedented intervention by SCOTUS–accused ACLU atty of violating federal code of conduct rules by calling his chambers AFTER Hendrix… pic.twitter.com/0kYMJbsPjc
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2025
WHERE WE ARE:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2025
HOW DARE HE DINE WITH THE PRESIDENT: Scott Jennings: The Elites Sent a Message to Maher — And Everyone Else. “This isn’t about the dinner that Bill Maher had with Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago. It’s about the next dinner invitation that Maher or anyone else receives. The Left — especially the entertainment-industry and mainstream-media Left — will launch a vicious character-assassination campaign against anyone who dares to engage with the political opposition.”
This was a bigger threat back when people cared what the entertainment industry and the “mainstream-media” Left thought.
Also, the left’s childish “Mean Girls” style efforts at ostracism are just, well, childish and should be punished. Send them to bed without their supper, by which I mean bankrupt their corrupt, incompetent industries.
OH, THERE’S A SHOCK: Funeral For Pope Francis Will Deviate From Tradition.