Author Archive: Stephen Green

APPARENTLY, E&E WAS A TRADE PUBLICATION WITH ONE CUSTOMER — YOUR TAX DOLLARS:

Heinlein wrote that “A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore,” and the same applies to so-called journalists.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Do So Many Prosecutors Let Criminals Who Have Illegally Converted GLOCK Pistols Walk? “In any case, whatever scary or misleading lingo politicians employ to justify these gun bans, it’s just so much noise if criminals who illegally modify guns aren’t actually prosecuted. On May 30, for instance, St. Louis, Missouri police ‘detained two people in [a recklessly-operated] vehicle and found several guns that had been modified with auto-sear switches, converting them to fully automatic firearms.’ The police department publicized the arrests, saying the city was ‘safer today because of the proactive work of these detectives, which led to dangerous weapons being removed from the streets.’ Nevertheless, the dangerous individuals themselves were reportedly and inexplicably back on the streets.”

CHANGE:

BECAUSE OF COURSE:

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: More than 10,000 applicants vie for 15 affordable apartments in Seattle.

More than 10,000 applicants are vying for 15 rent-reduced apartments under a new Seattle affordable housing program funded by a city tax on workers who make more than $1 million a year.

Amazon, Microsoft and other companies fought the tax, but voters approved it in a 2025 referendum.

The program was expected to create only several hundred apartments a year, as the so-called social housing developer constructed new buildings.

But the first allotment of apartments is even smaller because the social housing developer decided to buy an existing luxury apartment building and won’t require tenants to leave.

The Social Housing Developer announced last month that it purchased a 150-unit building by the Pike Place Market for around $60 million.

It looks to me like The Social Housing Developer used taxpayer money to buy a luxury apartment building because the profits are better, and that they’ll get around to the less lucrative affordable housing stuff sometime between mañana and inshallah.

YES:

“This is YOUR identity politics. Never was ours. Maybe in the south when it was run by Democrats but not for most of the nation.”

FINGERS CROSSED, I SUPPOSE:

One the one hand, riots are bad. On the other, they tend to turn off normies who don’t much care for them or for convicted murderers.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Newsom targets undocumented Californians with new healthcare cost increase.

At the end of 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom framed it as a matter of principle when under his administration, California became the first state in the nation to pay for undocumented immigrants to use Medicaid.

“In California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care coverage – regardless of income or immigration status,” Newsom said in a statement to ABC News at the time.

People flocked to the system, with about 1.5 million undocumented Californians using the state’s Medi-Cal healthcare by November 2025. But now Newsom and fellow Democrats in Sacramento are walking back on their promise to provide healthcare access to all.

Lawmakers have slashed the program in a series of cuts over the last year with more expected to come. In January, the state froze any new undocumented adults from applying for the program. Dental benefits for undocumented people are set to expire in July. And Newsom’s latest budget proposal, released in May, calls for increasing premiums from a planned $30 to $50 for undocumented people starting in July next year.

Illegal aliens paying a lousy $50 premium for taxpayer-subsidized insurance, and SF Gate frames it as “It’s getting harder for undocumented people in California to get insurance.”

You cannot despise these people enough.

I’D HATE TO SEE HER GO; SHE RUNS A TIGHT SHIP: Susie Wiles on reported White House departure: ‘I am not going anywhere.’

“After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily Mail,” Wiles wrote on social platform X.

“To be crystal clear, I am not going anywhere. I am honored and proud to serve President Trump, proud of our team and remain fully committed to advancing his agenda on behalf of the American people.

The Daily Mail, citing five sources, reported Friday that Wiles was preparing to leave the administration after the November elections. The longtime GOP operative ran Trump’s successful 2024 campaign and is the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff.

The Daily Mail, eh?

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN (COLORADO EDITION):

It’s difficult to imagine a reason not to investigate improper payments except for being in on the action.

I’VE SEEN THE VIDEO, AND IT ISN’T EASY TO WATCH…:

…but if it “radicalizes” just one more Briton into rejecting his country’s cultural destruction, then it’s worth it.

Visegrád 24 posted it here.

FORGET IT, JAKE:

STILL FURIOUS ABOUT THIS:

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Penn Station slashing suspect was free despite eerily similar 2022 attack.

The homeless madman who allegedly slashed five people with a double-edged knife in Penn Station carried out an eerily similar attack in New Jersey just four years ago, The Post has learned.

But despite the victim being grievously injured in that 2022 Newark stabbing, Hector Deleon, 51, was given just two years of probation as a sentence, court records show.

The victim in that heinous attack, a man who wasn’t publicly identified, landed in the trauma ward, where he received nine stitches to close the knife wound on the left side of his neck, a criminal complaint from February 2022 shows.

Still, Deleon doesn’t appear to have spent any significant time behind bars before Sunday evening — when he allegedly went on a random rampage in the busy Midtown commuter hub, according to law-enforcement sources and witnesses.

The mentally ill don’t belong on the streets.

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE: