Author Archive: Stephen Green

THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT: Responding to Their Customers, Gun Stores Take Down Their Flock Cameras. “The​ir ire is but the latest manifestation of a nationwide privacy-rights backlash against​ ​Flock’s artificial intelligence-powered cameras discreetly installed on street corners, in parks, parking lots, neighborhoods or on drones buzzing overhead.”

MODERATE DEMS HAVE BEEN HUNTED TO NEAR-EXTINCTION:

THAT SEEMS LOW: $65 Billion In ObamaCare Fraud? “Remember back when Democrats swore up and down that ObamaCare was going to solve all our health care problems? That prices were going to fall and we could all keep our doctors? Those were lies meant to let them cartelize medicine and generate record profits for Big Medicine. One effect: A huge jump in fraud.”

KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY:

And keep lots of powder.

GULF OF AMERICA: The Next Wave of American Innovation Isn’t Being Built in Silicon Valley. Here’s Where It’s Actually Happening.

The most important shift in global capital right now is not about which sector is hot or which market is recovering. It is about how the system itself is being reorganized. While much of the investment world remains fixated on AI and software, the next wave of opportunity lies where technology intersects with physical infrastructure — from energy and logistics to manufacturing and defense. Those industries are being reshaped by innovation, and the Gulf South is emerging as one of the places where that future is being built.

The Gulf South sits at the intersection of American productive capacity and global demand in a way that very few regions in this country can claim, and that positioning is not yet reflected in how institutional capital is allocated here. The gap between what this region represents structurally and how it is currently valued is, in my assessment, one of the most significant mispricings in American economic geography.

Go South, young man.

JUST THE 20TH CENTURY’S SECOND-GREATEST MASS MURDERER…:

…being honored by a medical school.

DON’T GET COCKY: Iran Is Facing Its Soviet Moment and Possibly Its End.

On September 13, 1985, Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani announced that his country would stop propping up the price of crude. Prices collapsed, and the Soviet Union lost roughly $20 billion a year in hard currency—“money without which the country simply could not survive,” in the estimate of Yegor Gaidar, later Russia’s acting prime minister. Gaidar dated the collapse of the Soviet Union to that announcement.

Tehran is now in a weaker position than Moscow was in that autumn. The Islamic Republic is exporting almost no oil, its currency has lost nearly a third of its value since March, and it is rationing water and electricity to its own capital.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a sweeping new sanctions campaign last week, Operation Economic Outcast, aimed at what remains of the regime’s revenue, with the stated objective of severing “every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.”

I guess we’ll see how much lifeline Beijing and Moscow can get to Tehran under the new sanctions.

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Here’s Hoping Trump Leaves the MSM Propaganda Machine in Ruins. “Near the end of 2024, I wrote a column in which I said that the MSM death rattle had begun, but it was going to be a long one. I believe that President Trump and his administration’s relentless kneecapping of the antagonistic media bottom-feeders has probably sped up my timetable on that.”

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

HE SAYS THAT LIKE IT’S A BAD THING: Hunter Biden’s Lawyer: DOJ Would Not Have Prosecuted Without Pressure From IRS Whistleblowers.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer asserted that the Justice Department was on the cusp of a “non-prosecution resolution” with his client had it not been for the two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers.

IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler had alleged the Justice Department slow-walked the probe of the 46th president’s son. Shortly after going public with their concern, attorney Abbe Lowell said federal prosecutors changed course.

The Daily Signal obtained documents from the Justice Department about the prosecution of Hunter Biden for tax and gun charges through a Freedom of Information Act request. A Delaware jury convicted Hunter, but his father, President Joe Biden, pardoned him shortly before leaving office.

In an Aug. 14, 2023, letter to special counsel David Weiss, Lowell complained that prosecutors made a complete reversal.

“Before the May 2023 leaks, discussions with your Office involved a consensual non-prosecution resolution to all conduct under investigation, where the resolution proposed by both sides did not include any guilty plea,” Lowell wrote.

But he wrote that changed after Shapley was interviewed by CBS News.

Isn’t that how whistleblowing is supposed to work?

WHEN COMMIES AREN’T ACTUALLY MURDERERS, THEY’RE HAPPY TO EXCUSE OR JUSTIFY MURDERERS:

Fascinating history, and new to me.

COLORADO DEMS:

Full post:

From Douglas County Campaign Watch:

“This is unacceptable.

“Democrat Christian Schilder is asking voters to elect him to the Colorado House while video from the middle of his campaign shows him restrained in the back of a police transport vehicle following his arrest.

“This isn’t an old mistake from years ago. This happened during the campaign he is running right now.

“Candidates for public office should be held to a higher standard. Douglas County voters deserve better than excuses, spin, or a campaign pretending this never happened.

“Democrat Christian Schilder should withdraw from the race for HD39.

“The campaign photo may be polished.

“The video tells a very different story.”

The arrest video is from May, and judging by the wrap and the helmet, he was quite a handful.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: ‘It’s going to be beautiful’: President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy.

President Donald Trump today (Aug. 28) signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, an institution of higher learning that will train students for a career studying, exploring, exploiting or helping to protect the final frontier.

“It’ll serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry, and it’ll attract, train and graduate the very very best of our nation,” Trump said today during a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, at which he awarded the Artemis II moon astronauts the nation’s highest space honor.

Within the next 120 days, the commission will submit a report “with recommendations on governance framework, service obligations for graduates, physical location of the academy, legislative requirements and more,” NASA officials wrote in today’s statement.

It’s a shame the name Starfleet Academy is sullied.

YES:

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Did What We All Want to Do to Cyclists Sometimes. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the worst excuse for super-speeding, how to get lucky with Sheriff Grady, and the perfect thing to wear to a robbery in Tennessee.”

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Laser used to shoot down cartel drones near Mexico border. “Officials described the drones, though exact locations were not disclosed, as ‘hostile’ and that they posed a ‘physical threat’ to U.S. service members and Customs and Border Protection personnel.”