CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Supreme Court May Consider the Age-Old Second Amendment Question. “Out of the Fourth Circuit comes West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. At issue in this case is whether a federal law that bans licensed sales of handguns and handgun ammunition to anyone under the age of 21 violates the Second Amendment rights of 18- to 20-year-olds who otherwise can own firearms, in general. The 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen requires a “plain text” reading of the Second Amendment, consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulations.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
November 14, 2025
IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Step Out of the Porta-Potty With Your Hands Up and Your Pants Down. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll never learn where the wooden stakes came from, why she wouldn’t go home with the cop, or how much Arizona Judge really had to drink.”
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
To people who matter and are in charge of policy (ie not you), the Bataclan massacre was a powerful reason for increased Muslim immigration and government control over the Internet.
What you do with this knowledge is up to you. https://t.co/PDigNmB4XR
— James Kirkpatrick (@VDAREJamesK) November 14, 2025
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Nancy Pelosi Is the Avatar of Everything Wrong With California.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: IRS unveils Roth IRA income limits for 2026. “In its release on Thursday, the agency increased the 2026 IRA contribution limit to $7,500, up from $7,000 in 2025. The IRS also boosted the IRA catch-up contributions for investors age 50 and older to $1,100, up from $1,000 in 2025.”
That applies to Roth and traditional IRAs.
“I’M FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND I’M HERE TO HELP.”
Government subsidies for health care increased 670% in just 11 years.
• From $18 Billion in 2014 to $138 Billion in 2025.
• Insurers make 350% more profit per ACA patient in 2025 than in 2014.
• At the same time insurance companies saw profits skyrocket 230+%
— Wolfways 🇺🇸🐺 (@Wolfways44) November 14, 2025
Still the nine most frightening words in the English language.
CDR SALAMANDER: The Last 600 Meters: PBS’s 17 Year Disgrace. “The American people were not given the opportunity to see and understand — and honor — their Marines for the worst reasons by the worst people.”
2004 was 21 years ago.
That is the difference from the end of WWI to 1939, the start of WWII; from the end of WWII to 1966; and from the attacks of 9/11 to 2022.
What is an example of a great documentary about one of the above? Let’s take Victory at Sea. It came out in 1952, seven years after the end of WWII. The documentary was a long series about a very broad topic with about 13 hours’ run time.
What if you were going to focus on just a battle instead of the broad sweep like VaS took and wanted to keep it inside 90 minutes? Would it take half as long, 3 or 4 years?
Imagine a documentary of WWI, WWII, or 9/11, full of primary sources from the major players, and footage not seen anywhere else, but refusing to air it because you didn’t want Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, or George W. Bush to be seen in a good light…no, belay that.
You did not want the Doughboys, the US Navy, and FDNY to look good. That was your reason.
I’m talking about the documentary by Michael Peck, The Last 600 Meters: The Battles of Najaf and Fallujah that was played on the USMC’s Birthday Monday on PBS, and is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Read the whole thing.
And if you have Prime, maybe check out Peck’s work.
DEPENDENCE IS A CHOICE: How Trump Reasserted America’s Control Over Energy.
CLEANUP ON LEO SIX: A giant inflatable bag could catch asteroids and space junk. “Space junk capture tests have been successfully conducted for years, but while no full-scale solution has yet been deployed, the risks associated with orbital debris keep growing. Many different technological solutions have been proposed, from complex robotic arms to magnets and even harpoons.”
RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Left vs Right: The Battle for Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN A BLUE STATE? YEP: Massachusetts man convicted of threatening Republican state rep. “Rep. Steven Xiarhos, a Barnstable Republican, is thanking Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois and his office for prosecuting James Spence, a 63-year-old Dennis resident set to serve six months in jail.”
COLD WAR II: Days after Fujian launch, images point to work on China’s first nuclear-powered carrier.
A week after China commissioned its third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, newly leaked images, including satellite imagery and other photos, suggest that the fourth might be nuclear powered.
US military website The War Zone reported on Wednesday that China’s new Type 004 aircraft carrier, which is under construction at the Dalian shipyard in the northeastern province of Liaoning, showed a hull structure apparently similar to that of American nuclear-powered supercarriers.
Citing social media posts with photos and satellite imagery of the Type 004 under construction, it said the hull featured what appeared to be a reactor containment structure, a “key indicator” of the propulsion system.
It’s also a key indicator of global ambitions.
INSIDERS: Chuck Schumer to Retire in 2028.
OUCH: Oil climbs as Russian port suspends oil exports after Ukrainian attack.
Oil prices climbed around 2% on Friday, boosted by supply fears after the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk halted oil exports following a Ukrainian drone attack that hit an oil depot in the major Russian energy hub.
Brent crude futures were up $1.50, or 2.4%, at $64.51 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude advanced $1.57, or 2.7%, to $60.26 a barrel.
Friday’s attack damaged a ship in port, apartment blocks and an oil depot in Novorossiysk, injuring three of the vessel’s crew, Russian officials said.
The port paused oil exports and oil pipeline monopoly Transneft suspended crude supplies to the outlet, two industry sources told Reuters.
“The intensity of these attacks has increased, it’s much more often. Eventually they could hit something that causes lasting disruption,” said Giovanni Staunovo, commodity analyst at UBS.
The market is trying to assess the impact of the latest attacks and what this means for Russian supply longer term, he said.
Plus: “About 1.4 million barrels per day of Russia’s oil, or almost a third of seaborne export potential, has been added to stocks held on tankers as unloading slows due to U.S. sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, JPMorgan said on Thursday.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Need a Permanent Time-Out for Their Childish Anti-Trump Antics. “Rather than spend any time coming up with policy ideas that would appeal to American voters, the TDS Dems spend their days looking for petty foot-stomping gestures that they believe prove they’re sticking it to President Trump. That’s what the government shutdown was all about. The Dems who wanted it to go on didn’t really care about who would be adversely affected, they just wanted to keep resisting the president.”
ACCOUNTABILITY: Judge refuses to toss assault case against New Jersey Democrat.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Rep. LaMonica McIver’s (D-N.J.) claims the Trump administration is selectively and vindictively prosecuting her for accusations she assaulted agents during a visit to an immigration facility in May.
U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper’s ruling enables McIver’s prosecution to proceed closer to trial, denying her bid to immediately dismiss the criminal charges. McIver pleaded not guilty.
“Defendant has failed to offer clear evidence that the charges in this case had a discriminatory effect, thus her claims of selective enforcement and prosecution must fail,” wrote Semper, an appointee of former President Biden.
Semper’s 41-page ruling also largely rejected McIver’s arguments that she is immune under the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause, which protects lawmakers for things they say or do as part of their legislative activities. But the judge said he’d rule on the defense later for one of the three counts.
Nobody knows how this plays out, but it’s nice to see something more than a judicial shrug for a congresscritter.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Meet the Monsters.
On Wednesday, the federal Department of Transportation took action against California. “U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy announced today that the California Department of Motor Vehicles has admitted to illegally issuing 17,000 non-domiciled Commercial Drivers Licenses to dangerous foreign drivers,” the department said in a press release. “Thanks to the Federal Motor Center Safety Administration’s ongoing audit, each of these licenses is being revoked.”
Duffy placed the blame squarely on California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the state’s lenient policies. “After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” Duffy said in a statement. “Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked. This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”
Newsom denied any problems with California’s system but has gone along with the revocation of the 17,000 licenses. The governor’s spokesman mocked the secretary as Sean “Road Rules” Duffy, a reference to his appearances on an MTV reality show 27 years ago. Newsom’s spokesman also accused Duffy of lying “in a sad and desperate attempt to please his dear leader,” using a favorite Resistance phrase for President Donald Trump.
People died, Newsom enabled it — which is cause for amusement, apparently.
November 13, 2025
LIFE… FINDS A WAY:
Multiple restaurants in New York City have found a way around paying the minimum wage
They are hiring virtual cashiers from the Philippines via zoom calls and only have to pay them $3.25 per hour
The locations doing this still ask for 18% tips on orders
Sansan Chicken, Sansan… pic.twitter.com/zqiYqkEyTO
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 13, 2025
Even at $3.25/hour, I’m still not tipping 18% for walk-up service.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Meet the Monsters.
We all have our blind spots, and a recent Thursday Essay brought one of mine into clear view.
“You Only Think the ‘Trans’ Crisis Is Over,” looked at four categories of so-called transgender people: those who are genuinely gender dysphoric, male loser athletes who can only win against women and girls, un-closeted autogynophiliacs, and the sex predators taking advantage of the current political atmosphere to force their way into women’s spaces — and worse.
Even though I was mostly happy with that essay, there were two problems with it. The first is that I neglected to mention that there is often overlap between the four categories. It was in my notes, but I just flat-out missed including it. My bad.
The second problem is that my particular blind spot caused me to miss the fifth category: the monsters.
Much more at the link.
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
BOOSTER TOUCHDOWN! New Glenn returns to its blue origin.
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) November 13, 2025
Bravo! And on the second attempt.
Update: Here’s the video feed.
LIVE NOW: Tune in to watch the NG-2 webcast! https://t.co/PZaV8KOyK8
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) November 13, 2025
YUGE:
BREAKING:
Rubio announces that the USA has decided to designate 4 Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists
The federal government will now start spending major resources on combatting them. pic.twitter.com/64uB0wzU84
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 13, 2025
Developing…