2026 PREVIEW: The Canaries in the Coalmine: In Just 63 Days, We’ll Know If the GOP Will Win the 2026 Midterms. “If the GOP wins either Virginia or New Jersey, it will likely mean that the national realignment is still ongoing, and the Republicans are still on the upswing. That, coupled with the Democrats’ disastrous brand identity, would give the GOP a solid 50%-50% shot at winning the midterms and keeping the House.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 2, 2025
September 1, 2025
CHANGE: Trump says India offering to cut all tariffs in US trade agreement. “What few people understand is that we do very little business with India, but they do a tremendous amount of business with us. In other words, they sell us massive amounts of goods, their biggest ‘client,’ but we sell them very little – Until now a totally one sided relationship, and it has been for many decades.”
HMM: People on Antipsychotics Should Have Their Gun Rights Paused. “The Violence Project’s analysis found that 24% of mass shooters had previously taken psychiatric medication. Again, to be clear: The vast majority of people prescribed antipsychotic drugs do not commit violent crimes. But it is still reasonable to create a temporary, reviewable pause of gun rights tied to active treatment with specified antipsychotics. To protect liberty and avoid stigma, the pause should be (1) time-limited, (2) rebuttable through a rapid petition or possibly through a physician’s attestation that the individual is not dangerous, and (3) privacy-respecting, relying on minimal, purpose-built reporting (or voluntary certificates) rather than broad disclosures of medical records.”
OUCH: Rudy Giuliani Injured in Crash After Assisting Crime Victim. “Michael Ragusa, head of Giuliani’s security, released a statement on X Sunday confirming that Giuliani had been injured in a car accident but that the former mayor and show host is now ‘in good spirits and recovering tremendously.’ It does not appear that the crash had anything to do with Giuliani’s effort to help the domestic violence victim, except that he was delayed and consequently in the spot where the crash occurred because of his stop. Giuliani reportedly sustained multiple serious injuries.”
WELL, GOOD: Kristi Noem confirms plan to expand ICE operations in major cities. “We’ve already had ongoing operations with ICE in Chicago and throughout Illinois and other states, making sure that we’re upholding our laws, but we do intend to add more resources to those operations.”
JAMIE K WILSON: The Two Beasts: How the Media Gets Every Shooting Wrong.
“NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE,” RAHM EMANUEL ONCE SAID…:
The Trayvon Martin case gave rise to the BLM hashtag, which became the BLM organization after Michael Brown. The most influential movement of this century was birthed from fabricated racism narratives. https://t.co/qZDnMbz5Oc
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) September 1, 2025
…And “even if you have to invent it” was strongly implied.
THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHEN: Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says.
The insolvency of the trust funds next decade will be the key driver for reforms, just as it was in the early 1980s when lawmakers hiked taxes to shore them up, Yaros said.
“For lawmakers to feel the urgency to take corrective fiscal action, voters need to connect the dots between the unsustainability of the federal budget and their own financial wellbeing,” he explained.
But the tightening that he predicts in the 2030s will mostly take the form of cuts to non-discretionary programs, like Social Security, because discretionary spending is a smaller share of total government outlays, he noted.
Without some reductions, the trust funds will run out of money and retirees would face even more draconian cuts, including a sudden 19% drop across the board for Social Security, as payroll tax revenue becomes the sole funding source for entitlements.
“Therefore, a return to fiscal responsibility in the forecast will be more painful than in prior episodes as it will fall heaviest on federal transfer payments to individuals, which have historically been spared from past belt-tightening,” Yaros said.
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The ability of bond investors to force lawmakers to change course has earned them the “bond vigilantes” moniker, which was coined by Wall Street veteran Ed Yardeni in the 1980s.
James Carville, 1994: “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Might End Hugo Chávez’s Posthumous Reign of Error in Venezuela. “Nicolás Maduro is the current commie dictator of Venezuela, but he’s pretty much just the ghost of Hugo Chávez, carrying on the work of destroying his country that his predecessor started early this century. The Venezuelan people haven’t been able to stop the madness, but the United States might soon give them an assist.”
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Pentagon to build new task force to counter drone threats.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Department of Defense wants to address the growing threat and to improve its systems to protect people and equipment at home and overseas.
“We’re moving fast – cutting through bureaucracy, consolidating resources, and empowering this task force with the utmost authority to outpace our adversaries,” Hegseth said. “We will innovate, we will lead and we will win.”
Hegseth directed Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll to establish the Joint Interagency Task Force 401. The task force will gather top talent from across agencies, according to a memo.
The Pentagon said drones, which it calls unmanned aircraft systems or UAS, pose a particularly dangerous threat.
Well, yes.
#METOO: Trump Has No Problem Seeing Comey, Brennan Behind Bars For Russiagate Hoax. “What they did is a disgrace. They cheated, they lied, they did so many bad things, evil things that were so bad for the country, and because they did something to me that should have never been done, nobody thought they’d ever do that. Actually, when I left, nobody thought that would happen. They get – they just went crazy. They’re bad people. They’re sick people. They’re the ones that committed all the crimes. We didn’t commit crimes. They committed all the crimes, there should be, I can’t tell you whether or not because I really I don’t have to stay uninvolved. I’m allowed to stay involved, but I purposely don’t get involved. I can say that they should be arrested.”
August 29, 2025
GOOD LORD: A general and an admiral turned down last-minute chances to keep Taliban out of Kabul.
A top U.S. general and a key U.S. rear admiral both turned down last-minute chances which potentially could have kept the Taliban out of Kabul during the August 2021 fiasco of evacuation from Afghanistan. General Frank McKenzie rejected a proposal from the Taliban to keep the enemy forces out of Kabul, while Rear Admiral Peter Vasely shot down an overture from allied Afghan commanders that may have saved the nation’s capital from the utter chaos that ensued.
McKenzie, the now-former commander of CENTCOM, held a mid-August 2021 meeting with Taliban leader Mullah Baradar in Doha, Qatar which would end with the Taliban taking control of Kabul and the U.S. relying upon the goodwill of Taliban fighters to provide security at the Kabul airport during the evacuation.
During that meeting, Baradar said the Taliban was willing to withdraw its forces from in and around Kabul and would let the U.S. send in as many troops as it wanted to secure the Afghan capital and conduct the U.S. evacuation free from Taliban interference, but McKenzie admits that he turned the offer down on the spot.
Neither McKenzie nor Vasely responded to Jerry Dunleavy’s requests for a comment.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: That’s a Gun in My Pants AND I’m Happy to See You. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to get the police’s attention with undo haste, the uncomfortable truth about freelance dentistry, and why Kentucky Woman is your next ex-girlfriend.”
NOTED FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: If Your Church’s Leader Keeps You As A Slave, You Might Be In A Cult. “I am not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure a bunch of those are illegal under both state and federal law. Not to mention the Thirteenth Amendment.”
UGH: Like Parkland, Police Had Been Called to Minnesota Killer’s Home Twice Prior to Shooting. “The heavily redacted police report NBC News obtained from the police department in Eagan, Minnesota, is dated Jan. 26, 2018, and it includes a two-word description explaining why an officer was dispatched to that address: mental health.”
MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: America’s first modular nuclear reactor begins construction near Idaho lab.
The facility, called Aalo-X, is being built next to the Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex in Idaho Falls. Aalo expects to complete construction and reach criticality by July 4, 2026, a timeline the company says demonstrates the speed at which small, modular nuclear reactors can be deployed.
The groundbreaking comes just two weeks after the Department of Energy (DOE) selected Aalo to participate in President Trump’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, announced in June 2025.
The initiative is designed to fast-track the testing and approval of next-generation nuclear designs outside of national labs, clearing a quicker path toward commercial deployment.
Would it be rude to add a “Faster, please,” anyway?
KURT WARNED THEM ABOUT THEIR NEW RULES, TIME AND TIME AGAIN:
Democrats pulled security from several Trump 1.0 officials who the Iranians threatened to murder.
There’s only going to be one set of rules, and this is why you should think carefully about which ones you select. https://t.co/KFbgnM3vgU
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 29, 2025
RAGE FOR THE MACHINE: ‘Dark money’ group paying pro-Dem influencers up to $8K a month.
The “Chorus Creator Incubator Program” is said to be funded by the “Sixteen Thirty Fund,” a nonprofit sometimes portrayed as the left’s answer to the Koch network and which has funneled money to dozens of Democratic-friendly influencers, according to WIRED magazine.
The names attached to the program span some of the most recognizable liberal voices online.
They include Olivia Julianna, the Gen Z activist who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention; Loren Piretra, a former Playboy executive turned Occupy Democrats YouTuber; and Barrett Adair, the content creator who runs a viral American Girl Doll–themed meme account.
Nice work if you can stomach it, I suppose.
SCARIER THAN TIM WALZ? Meet the Latest Gun-Totin’ Christian Democrat Who Has Republicans Running Scared! “Now, in the 2026 midterm elections, the left imagines it will win back normal men with their latest great white hope, Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand. Sand is running as a Democrat to replace retiring Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican who has held the office since 2017.”
INSURRECTION, STRAIGHT UP:
Another Democratic member has called for people to "rise up" against the federal government and analogized the conduct of ICE to "the SS and the Gestapo.” Connecticut Rep. John Larson's comments come at a time when there has been an 830% surge in assaults on federal agents.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 29, 2025