KRISTI NOEM: President Trump promised to secure the border. And he’s delivered.

History has immortalized Babe Ruth’s “called shot” in the 1932 World Series. The New York Yankees legend extended his arm toward the centerfield bleachers, then crushed a home run to the spot where he pointed. It was an iconic, seemingly impossible moment.

President Donald Trump, like Ruth, called his shot in the 2024 presidential campaign, saying that “you don’t need eight years, you need six months” to turn our nation around.

Seven months into his second term, it’s clear that the president has done what he said he’d do by reestablishing law and order at our southern border and by removing violent illegal immigrants from our nation. Both actions were necessary for Americans’ peace and prosperity.

President Trump called on me as secretary of Homeland Security to deliver on his promises. The best way to do that was to let law enforcement uphold our laws, to get out of their way and to put excellence at the heart of everything we do.

I had been assured by all the very best people that the border was broken, and that the only solution was massive new legislation that included amnesty.

DEMOCRATS DON’T LIKE MEN; THEY NEVER SEEMED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THE FEELING MIGHT BECOME MUTUAL:

No one forced Democrats to make their entire identity about telling normal men they're evil.

That's on them.

I'm just glad I get to see the fallout. It's glorious. https://t.co/f0MrsUmxez

— RBe (@RBPundit) August 21, 2025

COOL. NOW PUT THE BEEF TALLOW BACK IN THE FRYERS: McDonald’s is cutting prices of its combo meals to convince customers it’s affordable again.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Remember the Virginia County That Protected a Trans Predator? Now It’s Punishing Teen Boys for — What? “The Loudoun County School Board has decided to go to war with the U.S. Department of Education.”

COLORADO: Special session a chance to fix artificial intelligence mistake.

The epitaph on Jared Polis’ gubernatorial gravestone will simply read, “He knew better, but would not stand up to his own party.”

For seven years, our hyperprogressive legislature has sent him one industry-killing bill after another. And he kept signing them, even when he knows they are bad policy, economically devastating, and even if they go against his strongest-held convictions.

One such strongly held conviction is his faith in technology.

In the tech world, the man’s no slouch. As much as I’d like to tease Polis for just being a rich kid who got richer putting his momma’s greeting-card company online, the fact is he made fortunes many times over in varied tech ventures. And most importantly, he understands what the coming artificial intelligence revolution can bring for humanity in general, but also the endless opportunities it could bring Colorado in particular.

So then why did he agree to make Colorado the first state in the nation to effectively stamp out AI development by signing Senate Bill 24-205? This law will repel AI companies from providing us their services or locating here. The AI revolution could skip Colorado.

SB-205 was designed by the “we see oppression even before it exists” crowd. They are going to stamp out discrimination from — get this — software code. Starting next year, the law outlaws “algorithmic discrimination” in AI with ridiculously costly compliance regulations.

Even if AI turns out to be a bubble, that’s no reason to chase money and jobs out of the state.

Then there’s this: “Polis understands why what he signed is horrid. That’s why he included a call for fixing, delaying or repealing SB-205 in the upcoming special session.”

A special session to get Democrats to fix, delay, or repeal a bill they wrote and that Polis signed?

How’s that supposed to work?

ROBERT SPENCER: Adam Schiff Joins an Elite Group of Two Notorious Losers. “Adam Schiff, of course, isn’t like Charles Guiteau in every particular. He didn’t try to kill Trump; he just tried to destroy him. And yet the parallels are clear enough.”

SHHH, EVERYBODY TELL NEWSOM HE’S DOING GREAT:

All Newsom’s bluster has done is start a war Democrats cant win.

So congrats to him. pic.twitter.com/GQQ118FbLw

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 21, 2025

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Lee Zeldin tells ‘Pod Force One’ how Obama and Biden alums cashed in on $20B climate ‘slush fund.’

The Biden administration tried to tie the Environmental Protection Agency‘s “hands behind its back” by sticking it with billions of dollars that was later funneled to lefty nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told The Post’s Miranda Devine on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out now.

“When I was going through the confirmation process [in January], this video comes out,” the former Long Island congressman recalled. “It was done through Project Veritas, but it was of a Biden EPA employee who was talking about how the agency was tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. He was also talking about the desire to get themselves jobs at the recipient NGOs.”

After Zeldin was confirmed by the Senate, he and his staff began investigating “with great enthusiasm and eagerness.”

“Basically, every time we overturned a rock, we found something under it that was either filled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients or reduced agency oversight,” he recounted to Devine.

Read the whole thing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Would Love to Believe That the Dems Are in a Doom Spiral… “As we have discussed here many times this year, the Democrats aren’t making much of an effort to win back any of those voters they’ve lost. They’ve mostly been putting on a show for the dwindling base. Rather than face reality and try to broaden the party’s appeal, they’re high-fiving each other over South Park episodes about President Trump.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal District Court Rules NY’s Non-Resident Carry Ban Violates the Second Amendment. “This ruling will, of course, be appealed. The game, after all, is to delay, delay, delay. Still, this is a very positive ruling and another brick knocked out of the gun control wall.”

I choose to think of it as one small step on the way to nationwide constitutional carry.

ICYMI: Tulsi Stares Down UK, Scoring Another Big Win for American Consumers.

SHOT: D.C.’s Murder Rate Is More Than 500% Higher Than The Average State. “D.C.’s murder rate ran 169 percent higher than Louisiana’s, the deadliest state, and an astonishing 523 percent higher than that of the average state.”

Chaser: DC just had a murder-free week, and yes, Dems, Trump did that.

As the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Trump administration’s takeover of the Washington DC police force begins to fade, the results are coming in, and they are nothing short of extraordinary.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the nation’s capital has had no murders for seven days, something that had not been achieved since March and something I can find no recent record of in summer months when the murder rate is typically at its highest.

Last Monday, when a man was tragically gunned down in Logan Circle just hours after the Trump takeover, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., took to social media to say that “Trump owns this. No word if the congressman agrees Trump also owns the lives saved this past week.

And it’s not just murder, according to the local police union. Robbery dropped 46% in the week after the takeover, carjackings were down a whopping 83%, and violent crime down 22%. Who could possibly argue against that?

Democrats “committed to leg-humping criminals,” as Kruiser put it yesterday — that’s who.

But it’s the kind of change DC’s majority-minority residents might appreciate.

IT REALLY IS: Stephen Miller’s Rant on ‘White, Crazy Communist Hippie’ Rent-a-Mobs in D.C. Is Standing-O Worthy.

CORN, POPPED:

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft employees and "community members" calling themselves the "Worker Intifada" have established a "liberated zone," also known as an encampment, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. pic.twitter.com/X4hHO2DroA

— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 19, 2025

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Elephant in the Room’ Is the Perfect Rom-Com for Trump Era. “What if a dyed-in-the-wool liberal met a handsome MAGA man and, gasp, felt butterflies with every glance?”

Happens more often than Hollywood thinks.

“OUR MAGNIFICENT BASTARD TONGUE,” AS JOHN MCWHORTER CALLED IT, IS ALWAYS GROWING: Cambridge Dictionary adds ‘skibidi’ and ‘tradwife’ among 6,000 new words.

“Skibidi” is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary.

“Internet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary,” said Colin McIntosh, lexical program manager at Cambridge Dictionary, the world’s largest online dictionary.

“Skibidi” is a gibberish term coined by the creator of an animated YouTube series and can mean “cool” or “bad” or be used with no real meaning as a joke.

Other planned additions including “tradwife,” a contraction of “traditional wife” referring to a married mother who cooks, cleans and posts on social media, and “delulu,” a shortening of the word delusional that means “believing things that are not real or true, usually because you choose to.”

An increase in remote working since the pandemic has created the new dictionary entry “mouse jiggler,” a device or piece of software used to make it seem like you are working when you are not.

Still curiously absent, even after all these years, is one near and dear to my heart:

C’mon, Cambridge — it’s time.

PREDATOR WATCH: Your Weekly Roundup of Terrifying Animal Encounters.

PODCAST: The Invention That Changed Everything. “Salvatore Basile is the author of Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything, a deeply researched book on air-conditioning—not just as a machine, but as a force that completely changed how we live. Salvatore has deep insights into how AC has affected our architecture, urban development, and work habits.”

I’M STILL NOT TIRED OF ALL THE WINNING: Tulsi Stares Down UK, Scoring Another Big Win for American Consumers.

LAW AND ORDER: Trump’s D.C. Takeover Drives Crime Down…And Even Democrats Notice. “Who Trump, Republicans and police can’t work with as ‘positive partners’ to reduce crime are social justice-infected Democrats, because they don’t want to reduce crime. Some cadres believe high crime rates are key to radicalizing minorities and fomenting revolution against capitalism. There are others that believe that ‘whiteness’ and ‘structural racism’ mean that no black person should ever be punished for any crime against any white person. There are others that want to completely defund the police so they can rake off all police funding for their own graft and left-wing causes. Still others refuse to deport any illegal aliens, even rapists and murderers, because they still believe that amnestied illegal aliens are their key to achieving permanent electoral majorities.”

INDEED:

I mean, what could wrong with voting by phone? https://t.co/9KifO4HqMO pic.twitter.com/1UMBVosBSA

— Frank McCormick (@CBHeresy) August 19, 2025

FASTER, PLEASE: Glow, Baby Glow! U.S. Nuclear Industry Ready to Dominate the World.

BLUE STATE BLUES:

Official statement regarding @BedBathBeyond

We will not open retail stores in California.

This isn’t about politics — it’s about reality.
California’s system makes it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won’t put our company, our employees, or our… pic.twitter.com/G5dSaigB3y

— Marcus Lemonis (@marcuslemonis) August 20, 2025

From the replies:

Nice to see BB&B trying to make a brick and mortar comeback. Not surprised to see it won’t happen in California.

On the flip side, Gov. Gavin Newsom decided to use today’s news to tout his state’s business-friendly climate: “FUCK YOU. BYE.” his press office account tweeted in response.

I wrote yesterday about the overgrown children who actually write Newsom’s tweets, so today’s message came as no surprise, either.

Exit Question: Are you surprised that, just like most everything else he does, Newsom’s Trump impersonation — tone-deaf though it is — is staged on his behalf?

UPDATE, CORRECTION, AND APOLOGY:

The F-U quote was fabricated by Magills, and my apologies for mistaking it for real.

Here’s what Newsom’s “team of pros” actually tweeted:

After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed, Bath & Beyond no longer existed.

We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a 2nd store.

That amounts to the same thing, which is bad on them. But bad on me for mistaking Magills’ fake screencap for the real thing.

INSURRECTION, STRAIGHT UP: Massachusetts Colleges Protect Illegals From ICE.

I GUESS THEY FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT “LAWFUL” MEANS: DC Will No Longer Prosecute Lawful Carriers of Rifles and Shotguns.