MAKING THE MOON THE 51ST STATE? I think we need to put people there first. Also, it’ll be like 54th, behind Canada, Greenland, and Gaza.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 6, 2025
WAIT, WHAT? ALL THE BEST PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHEERING FOR CANNABIS: Is CBD use during pregnancy as safe as people think? New study uncovers potential risks to babies.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Quantum teleportation used to distribute a calculation.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Study ties marijuana use to increase in schizophrenia.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: District Court Judge Rules Ban on Machinegun Ownership Unconstitutional Under Bruen. “The United States had charged Justin Brown with possession of an unregistered machinegun. Mr. Brown objected to the charge based on the fact that he’s a lawful firearm owner and claimed that the ban on machinegun ownership is unconstitutional. In his ruling, Judge Carlton Reeves, an Obama appointee, made no bones at all about the fact that he hated what he was doing, but under Bruen — of which he is also not a fan — the law is very clear.”
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Donald Trump, libertarian president?
THEY ALWAYS REGARD ALL MEANINGFUL OPPOSITION AS ILLEGITIMATE: The New ‘Resistance:’ Democrats are pretending again that an administration they oppose is illegitimate.
Politics tends to attract people with more ambition than intelligence, more charisma than industriousness. So it’s a rare stroke of luck for U.S. citizens that a few of the smartest people in the country have agreed to come to Washington and work around the clock to identify federal waste, fraud and abuse. Last year Donald Trump campaigned with Elon Musk and promised to appoint the entrepreneur to lead such an effort. Voters then elected Mr. Trump and he has kept his word. Yet many Democrats now pretend that Mr. Musk, tasked by our duly elected president to fulfill this promise to voters, is somehow illegitimate and that the real authority in our government rests with unelected bureaucrats. They even have the nerve to refer to their play for unearned power as “democracy.”
This “resistance” act is getting old, especially since the well-fed participants are mainly resisting challenges to the profligate Beltway status quo. Congressional Democrats have decided to position themselves as ardent apologists for every last misspent nickel in Washington. Witness their howling defense of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Yet a few prominent Democrats have begun to wonder out loud whether they really ought to be defending the indefensible.
Even if most voters have never heard of USAID, they are skeptical of its alleged purpose. Jason Lange reports for Reuters on a new poll of Americans finding that “56% backed freezing U.S.-funded foreign assistance programs, with 40% of respondents opposed to such cuts.”
The public’s significant opposition to foreign aid is bound to increase as people learn just how little of it makes its way to feeding and clothing the needy.
It’s just a money laundry for connected members of the Uniparty. Mostly Democrats, but with enough Republicans to provide “bipartisan” shills and cover.
IT’S A DISGRACE THAT THIS IS AN ISSUE: George Mason backtracks, says female students can criticize tampons in men’s bathrooms.
Two female law students can now freely criticize tampons in men’s bathrooms at Georgia Mason University without fear of reprisal.
Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom announced a settlement in its lawsuit against the Virginia public university.
The university censored two students, Selene Cerankosky and Maria Arcara, ordering them not to talk to a peer who wanted “feminine hygiene products” available in men’s bathrooms.
Winning on the issue is nice, but $15,000 isn’t enough. There should be two more zeroes here plus a couple of fired administrators.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “These Events Took Place in 2023—Not 1943”: Title VI Anti-Semitic Harassment Claim Against Cooper Union May Proceed.
DON SURBER: Trump is lapping Democrats.
Related:
Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this. pic.twitter.com/mzR7l5k1OW
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 6, 2025
Oft evil will shall evil mar.
Plus:
Democrats are terrified of DOGE and Musk because they have never witnessed this degree of competence. It looks alien to them.
I mean that literally. People with experience see in DOGE a process that is necessarily messy but 100% on target in terms of speed, talent, and energy…
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 6, 2025
WELL SAID:
How Steelworkers (or any number of other industries impacted by trade, politics, corporate takeovers, dispassionate & disconnected hedge fund owners & mergers) felt 40 years ago.
And ever since for that matter. https://t.co/mfnTJrahOL— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) February 6, 2025
Related: Smashing the Rice Bowls.
I MEAN, SHE’S NOT WRONG:
Why the hell should anyone pay taxes again after the criminal way our government has stolen from us to fund Democrat campaigns and gun control? You Republicans better get a big set of brass balls and abolish the IRS in addition to every agency not authorized under Art 1 Sec 8.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 6, 2025
Related:
There is a US agency, with a $50B budget, that was redundant to our US State Dept, but with next to zero oversight or transparency, funding all sorts of ridiculous and partisan projects and allies.
Democrats are defending this up to and including the threat of violence.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 6, 2025
According to the Columbia Journalism Review, USAID supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society organizations in 30 different countries.
No wonder the news all sounds the same.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 6, 2025
DON’T GET DISTRACTED: THEY’RE NOT. CDR Salamander: The Chinese Arctic is an Actual Thing.
THIS IS GOING TO MAKE THE USAID CORRUPTION LOOK LIKE PEANUTS: Elon Musk’s DOGE agency gains access to Medicare, Medicaid payments.
CELEBRATE:
The American people endured a century-long psychological operation meant to turn them into leftist cattle, and broke through an election system rigged from top to bottom against them to elect the most right wing leader in Modern history.
The impossible is what Americans do best. https://t.co/C4V0RN80Fh
— KG (@interstatejuche) February 6, 2025
“YOU WANT PENISES IN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS AND I’M NOT GOING TO HAVE IT!” Nancy Mace Goes Nuclear on Democrat Who Accused Her of Using a ‘Slur’ During Committee Hearing.
I think Americans are tired of kowtowing to “communities” and their definitions of “slurs.” That sort of stuff has exploited people’s good faith intent to be nice, and now people think these language police aren’t operating in good faith themselves.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:
Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other" pic.twitter.com/5CzzZT0i2H
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) February 5, 2025
CHARLATAN’S CAREER HEADS SOUTH: The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi: The race guru’s research center will close. You spelled “race grifter” wrong.
HOW THE SCAM WORKS:
1️⃣ Gov-funded NGO gets a USAID grant for something vague like “strengthening education.”
2️⃣ That NGO dumps millions into a DAF (Donor-Advised Fund).
3️⃣ The DAF isn’t required to disclose what the NGO told them to do with the money.
4️⃣ But somehow, every hyperpolitical…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 5, 2025