BECAUSE THEY’RE GARBAGE PEOPLE WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS? Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence: A new survey finds more than half of left-wing respondents believe assassinating Donald Trump could be justified.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 17, 2025
OH, HE REALLY SHOULD: Will Trump Do a Bob Jones on Haahvaahd?
They keep making rules they never expected to live by. https://t.co/LLaPVhjirw
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 16, 2025
The results of the vast majority of all government-funded scientific studies can't be reproduced.
For every $1 of government scientific research funding cut, private industry raises $3.
There's no correlation between government-funded scientific research and economic growth.
— Tim Starr (@timstarr2001) April 16, 2025
New York Post: Harvard may be free to target Jews — but not on the taxpayers’ dime.
STANDING UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: Trump Admin Halts New York Offshore Wind Project, Orders Review of All Existing Biden-Era Wind Permits.
PERSONALLY, I CAN THINK OF OTHERS WHO NEED FLAGELLATION A LOT MORE: A mission of guilt: On the West’s latest self-flagellation. “The great factory for the production of such poisonous ideas, and the emotions upon which they feed, is the modern university, which seems never to have discovered an anti-Western idea it could not endorse.”
But the “guilt” is all bullshit. The people pushing it don’t feel guilty, they’re just using it as a manipulative tool.
WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR: Is Civil War Coming to Europe? Ordinary Europeans are starting to admit what their leaders won’t: civil unrest may be closer than anyone dares to say.
Nearly every educated English person I know under the age of forty is seeking to emigrate, having lost hope that their country has the wherewithal to pull out of its cultural and economic crisis. In Oxford recently, an American student told me, “If the ruling class here openly hated the British people, it’s hard to know what they would be doing differently.”
Spending a week in France last month, I recalled the scandalous open letter that 20 retired French generals and 1,000 active duty service members released in 2021, warning that their country was headed to civil war unless the government acted firmly against Islamic radicals in the suburbs, and turned away from divisive policies driven by so-called “anti-racism.”
In a number of private conversations with ordinary French people—this was before the Le Pen verdict—I brought up the Betz interview (none had heard about it), and asked them if they foresaw civil war coming to France. Nearly all of them said yes. They said so with an unnerving sense of calm, as if they accepted it as a matter of course. When I complimented one couple on their country, and told them that one day I would like to live in France, they responded in unison, “No!” Stay in Hungary, they said; you’ll be safe there.
You would never know from the mainstream media that this sort of sentiment is bubbling among the population of Europe and the UK.
It’s the media’s job to cover it up.
CHANGE:
Post-Watergate Jimmy Carter was the best thing that happened for the Republican party for a generation. A version of that may be repeating with Biden playing the Carter role.
— The Translator (@October_Blue_2) April 16, 2025
April 16, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
MAYBE GET TANKS THAT WORK FIRST? Germany’s military wants its own Starlink-like satellite constellation.
THE ONES TO REALLY WORRY ABOUT ARE THE ONES THAT DELIBERATELY FAIL: A Chatbot Has Passed a Critical Test For Human-Like Intelligence. Now What?
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Thought To Be Impossible: Scientists Break Century-Old Physics Barrier.
WHEN I THINK OF JUDGE BOASBERG, I THINK OF CONTEMPT: Jeb Boasberg’s “Criminal Contempt” Finding Makes Mockery of Separation of Powers: After setting the contempt trap, Judge James Boasberg today snapped the trap shut with a wild 46-page opinion accusing Trump officials of “willful disregard” for his now vacated court orders.
Somebody sure wants to create a constitutional crisis. https://t.co/P7uZNtaBSb
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 16, 2025
IN A NATION OF 300 MILLION PEOPLE THAT DOESN’T SEEM LIKE MANY AT ALL, ACTUALLY: Emergency rooms treat a gunshot wound every half-hour. I’d guess they remove foreign objects from people’s anuses about that often.
A CRAZY IDEA: Mazda’s Rotary-Engined Sports Car Is Almost Ready.
THE DEMAND FOR RIGHT-WING VIOLENCE IN AMERICA VASTLY EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: “The man accused of setting fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence Sunday indicated he was motivated by his views on the Israel-Gaza war and believed Shapiro needed to stop the killing of Palestinians a newly unveiled search warrant says.”
STANDING UP FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES: FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink.
THE PEOPLE WHO AFFECT TO BE UPSET ABOUT THIS DON’T SUPPORT JAILING OR DEPORTING THE SHOOTERS, THOUGH: Emergency rooms treat a gunshot wound every half-hour.
THE U.S. ACCOUNTS FOR .1% OF GLOBAL SHIPBUILDING: So, Does China’s Shipbuilding Capacity Concern You?
WHY WOULD MEN AVOID TODAY’S COLLEGES? More than 20 colleges join initiative to address male enrollment decline.
TWO PROBLEMS: 1. PEOPLE HATE CELEBRITIES NOW. 2. SPACEX TOTALLY OVERSHADOWS BLUE ORIGIN. Mainstream Media Attempts to Generate Excitement Over Blue Origin’s Bevy of “Glamornauts:” Meanwhile, alternative media was a little more skeptical of mission’s contribution to female power or a serious space program.
I mean, this would have been a big deal in 2010.
DISGRACEFUL. Fired Insubordinate Officers Reveal Massive U.S. Military Resentment Against Elected Civilian Command. They’re the tip of the iceberg, I fear.