Author Archive: Stephen Green

AND NOW YOU KNOW… THE REST OF THE STORY:

Monopoly vendors lose their monopolies (to the taxpayer’s benefit), go squealing to the press, and the press is happy to play along.

And then, of course, there’s this:

The Dems have their priorities and preferences.

CHANGE: Kansas Revokes Drivers’ Licenses of 1,700 Trans-Identifying Individuals. “Hundreds of people who claim to be transgender have already received letters from the state telling them their driver’s licenses are ‘invalid immediately,’ according to the report. The letters also inform them they “may be subject to additional penalties” if they continue to drive unless they receive a new one with their birth sex from the Kansas Division of Vehicles and surrender the old license.”

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW:

If you think of the media as a conspiracy organized to keep the public ignorant, angry, and voting Democrat, then you’ve got it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Never Forget How Quickly Everything Can Go ‘Full Spanberger.’ “Virginia law doesn’t allow governors to serve consecutive turns, so Winsome Earle-Seares ran to replace her boss. She was easily defeated by Democrat Abigail Spanberger. Worse yet, Virginia elected an attorney general who had openly fantasized about killing Republicans. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a whiplash turnaround.”

ISLAM IS A CONQUERING RELIGION:

Previously: LIBYAN leader, Muammar Gaddafi, predicted in 2006 that Islam would conquer the West without firing a shot.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: First Grader’s ‘Any Life’ Message Sparks Major First Amendment Ruling.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.”

The student, with the initials B.B., said she added the message while in first grade in 2021, inspired by a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. She shared the drawing with a friend.

The school principal told her the drawing was inappropriate and punished her, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented the family in the case. The principal forced her to apologize, banned her from giving drawings to classmates, and excluded her from recess for two weeks.

The parents, who didn’t find out about the punishment until a year later, sued the Capistrano Unified School District in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Good lord.

THIS IS CNN:

Will David Ellison let this …stuff… continue when he takes ownership?

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Nationalism Sucks. Britain Might Need Some Anyway. “Like so many other bad ideas — state terror, postmodernism, the 1956 Renault Dauphine — modern nationalism was born in France. I chose nationalism for this week’s essay in part because when patriotism fails, nationalism tends to rear its ugly head.”

WE DON’T TARGET CIVILIANS, AND IT SHOWS:

EPIC FURY: Trump: ‘Practically nothing left’ to bomb in Iran.

In a phone interview with Axios, Trump said there is “practically nothing left to target,” just “little this and that. … Any time I want it to end, it will end.”

He also claimed the U.S.-Israeli military campaign “is going great.”
“We are way ahead of the timetable. We have done more damage than we thought possible, even in the original six-week period,” Trump said.

The Trump administration has offered shifting timelines and objectives for the war, which is in its 11th day and has been met with retaliatory strikes from Iran.

Trump originally said the conflict was estimated to last four to five weeks, but he announced Monday it was “pretty much” complete and would end “soon.”

The operation ought to continue until the regime runs out of money.

UNTIL THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES, THIS KIND OF LYING WILL CONTINUE:

CNN is about to come under new ownership. Do you get it yet, David Ellison?

Update:

Not much of an apology, was it?

SO YOU NOTICED THAT, EH? Adam Carolla on Obama: ‘All He Does Is Race Hustle.’ “He really could have been impactful, a man in his position … he and his wife, who’s worse than him, all they do is sit around and bad mouth this country and tell us how bad it is.”

Much more at the link, courtesy of Christian Toto.

BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 11. “Iranian ‘numbers’ station under attack. Numbers stations are mysterious radio stations that feature numbers spoken over the air, presumably to send coded messages to spies and other agents. But Iran seems to be jamming the station, suggesting someone other than the regime put it up.”

IT’S GOT A GREAT LOOK, RETRO-FUTURE RIGHT OUT OF THE ’50S: Air Force-Backed Hypersonic Aircraft Startup Flies Demonstrator.

The latest flight took off from Spaceport America over White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and operators flew Quarterhorse remotely from the company’s ground-based flight deck. The unmanned aircraft is about as big as an F-16 fighter and three times the size of its predecessor Mk 1, which flew for the first time last May.

“Hermeus’ Quarterhorse program follows a rapid, iterative development roadmap in which multiple aircraft are designed, built, and flown in quick succession—steadily increasing speed and performance,” the company said in a statement. “By continuously building and flying prototypes, the company uses real flight data to refine designs, reduce risk, and accelerate progress with each new aircraft.”

Part of an iterative development and test plan, the flight is a step toward Hermeus’ larger goal of mass-producing high-speed drones and passenger aircraft for both commercial and defense customers. In the near-term, officials have said the next goal is to fly the next iteration of Quarterhorse, Mk 2.2, at supersonic speeds.

Faster? Please!

IRAN: What Happens When the Money Runs Out? “Iran’s Asaluyeh gas and petrochemical complex is the largest in the world and an economic powerhouse, providing more than half of the regime’s income via LNG and petchem exports. While “next payroll” and “no more oil exports to China” might prove to be exaggerations, any reduction in shipping from Asaluyeh — plainly seen in those images — presents Tehran with a serious cash-flow problem.”