Author Archive: Stephen Green

HMM:

We’ll learn more tomorrow night.

WHEN YOU’RE A REPUBLICAN WHO’S GONE TOO FAR LEFT FOR HAKEEM JEFFRIES:

LATE, BUT WELCOME: Defense industry’s major players gather in Pennsylvania as US weapon stockpiles hit new low.

President Trump himself will join a roundtable Wednesday as part of the two-day Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, hosted by Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.).

Keystone State companies produce thousands of parts along the US military’s supply chain, playing vital roles in producing ships, vehicles and weapons, according to a new report produced by logistics firm Exiger and shared exclusively with The Post Tuesday.

Pennsylvania-based defense organizations supply 113,000 parts, employ 190,000 people, and have received more than $263 billion in Department of War funding over the past two decades, the seventh-most among the 50 states.

Firms like Philadelphia-based Rhoads Industries and Howmet Aerospace in Pittsburgh produce a “substantial number of components that cannot be readily replaced,” the report found, adding that some 2,000 weapon systems rely on parts manufactured in Pennsylvania.

“Our report gives leaders convening at the US Army War College deep visibility into the Commonwealth’s supply chain and into the role it plays in the larger defense industrial base,” said Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels.

It was clear — at least to anyone who pays much attention to history — even before the full-scale Russo-Ukraine War, that the West simply didn’t stockpile enough munitions. The start of that war made it undeniable.

That was four and a half years ago, and we’ve only started coming out of denial.

MUSK HAD TO DELIVER A PRODUCT, NEWSOM HAD TO WET EVERYBODY’S BEAKS:

COOL. NOW DO MOSQUITOS. AND MAYBE FRUIT FLIES:

I’D TAKE IT OFF THEIR HANDS FOR HALF THAT MUCH:

I SOMEHOW MISSED THIS FROM FRIDAY’S ROCKET REPORT: Impulse Space enters military launch competition.

This week, the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company, cracking into the lucrative US military launch market is both a sign of maturity, as well as an important source of revenue. The inclusion of Relativity Space, which is making credible progress toward the launch of its heavy-lift Terran R rocket, is perhaps not a huge surprise, Ars reports. But the other company, a provider of in-space propulsion, was.

The Space Force gets creative … Impulse Space is developing a “kick stage” it calls Helios, which can provide up to 9 km/s of delta-V to a payload, rapidly boosting it from low-Earth orbit to geostationary orbit about 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface. Essentially, this allows the company to transform a medium-lift rocket, such as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 vehicle, and give it the performance of a larger and more powerful rocket.

Nifty.

FAIL, BRITANNIA:

QUEERS FOR PALESTINE OR WHATEVER:

UGH: George Floyd in medical journals: Analysis documents rise of ‘woke terminology’ in research.

The analysis covers the use of words such as indigenous knowledge, microaggression, justice, safe space, and health equity in medical journals.

Published recently by James Nuzzo, an exercise scientist and men’s health researcher, it documents “woke medical terminology” found on the PubMed database.

For example, the phrase “lived experience” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 10,631 articles indexed in PubMed, and “transgender” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 15,741 articles.

George Floyd’s death “markedly increased discussions on race in academia, including in health and medical journals,” it states. “In fact, George Floyd’s name appeared in the titles or abstracts of 269 articles indexed in PubMed between 2020 and 2025.”

Nuzzo said the trend is alarming.

“There is no evidence that implementing woke medicine improves health outcomes,” Nuzzo told The College Fix in an email interview. “In fact, the shift away from the individual patient to the patient’s group identity is presumably harmful to the patient.”

You don’t say.

I HAVE NO CORK TO POP FOR THESE THINGS: Don’t pop the cork yet on Colorado’s renewables ‘milestone.’

The trouble is that this jubilant announcement of a “majority” renewables power grid owes more to a stark drop in coal-fired generation than the wind and solar that was added. Percentages rely on both the numerator — how much wind, solar, and hydropower was generated — as well as the denominator, or how much total generation there was.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Electric Power Monthly net generation by state data, released June 25, demonstrates this. Renewables’ utility-scale generation rose 15.8 percent year-over-year between the first quarters of 2025 (5,934 Gigawatt hours, or GWh) and 2026 (6,872 GWh). However, coal generation dropped by 62% between over that same period, from 4,342 to 1,643 GWh.

Overall, Colorado’s total in-state generation actually dropped by 922 GWh in Q1 2026 compared with Q1 2025.

The state produces less energy, and more of what we do produce is higher-cost — which explains my electric rates.

NICE WORK, INEZ:

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Turns Out, Big Brother Is Actually a Matronly Euro-Scold. “We need to set the age at which they can, the children can, legally access social media,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this week, which translates into American (via bad Japanese translation) as “All your screen are belong to us.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:

Dhimmis are forbidden from repairing old churches and synagogues, and from building new ones.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, reveals what went wrong on previous launch.

According to a new SpaceX analysis, a sequence change in Ship’s engines, which ignite before the two rocket halves physically detach in a maneuver known as “hot staging,” led to a 90-degree error in Super Heavy’s orientation after separation. Super Heavy’s boostback burn was also cut short when five of its 33 engines failed to relight. SpaceX says it has introduced a modified startup sequence for Ship and hardware updates to Super Heavy to address the orientation anomaly and ignition issues, respectively, “along with updates to engine alarms and aborts to match the conditions seen in the multi-engine flight environment.”

Ship ran into a bit of trouble during Flight 12 but also managed to pull off some firsts. One of the spacecraft’s three vacuum-optimized Raptors was lost 40 seconds after stage separation, but it still reached its designated suborbital trajectory, demonstrating its “engine out” capabilities, according to the SpaceX update. The loss did, however, prevent Ship’s in-space engine relight attempt. SpaceX traced the failure to “interconnected causes” and has introduced a number of fixes for the upcoming Flight 13, “with additional reliability improvements planned in upcoming versions of the Raptor engine.”

Godspeed, Flight 13.

YOU DON’T SAY:

Bless the New York Post for never running out of lame excuses to run photos of attractive women.

AMY CURTIS: With Extreme Poverty at All-Time Lows, Democratic Socialists Hope to Reverse the Trend.

Capitalism is the world’s great equalizer, and it has done more to raise people out of poverty than any other economic system on the planet. That, of course, is why the communists and their socialist cousins hate it. Under the ideal communist regime, there are only two classes: the wealthy, which consists of the politicians and those who are adequate bootlickers, and the poor.

Communism has to be that way. A robust middle class negates the need for centralized planning and massive government control over every aspect of our lives, from the cradle to the mass grave. That’s why the commies have to destroy anything and everything that builds up the middle class: culture, religion, and especially the nuclear family.

Socialism isn’t just about “the equal sharing of miseries.” It’s also about creating misery where there isn’t any — about the only thing it creates in abundance.

SPOILER: NO ONE AT NETFLIX READ THE SOURCE MATERIAL. OR AT LEAST CARED:

Not sure anyone is looking forward to The Vampire Diariafication of Little House.