THE NEW SPACE RACE: America Must Prepare for Chinese ‘Space Stalking.’
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 1, 2025
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Another Lefty ‘ICE Kidnapping’ Story Is Blown Wide Open. “This week we were treated to another hoax by the left about the immigration cops’ “kidnapping” of another innocent, “hard-working” man who just happened to be in the U.S. illegally. These stories, like the race hoaxes we’ve become accustomed to seeing staged on college campuses, are beginning to make some of us wonder: If you have to make up stories, how bad is the program, anyway?”
DEAR LEFTIES: MONTY PYTHON WAS NOT AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL.
Monty Python was ahead of the curve
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) August 1, 2025
WELL, GOOD: Trump Halts Biden-Era Texas Land Grab. “Remember back in 2024, when the Biden Administration wanted to grab 700,000 acres of Texas and New Mexico land in the name of environmentalism? Trump47 is finally putting an end to that nonsense.”
Washington owns far too much land as it is.
WELL, GET TO IT: Trump Says Russia Hoax Perpetrators Must ‘Pay a Big Price.’
WHEN YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT AND NEW YORK MAG IS SHOWING YOU THE DOOR…: Kamala Harris Won’t Run in 2026. She Should Skip 2028, Too. “The former veep can obviously take her time in planning next steps, but in examining her plight, I’m reminded of what a veteran baseball pitcher once said about the way to get over a sore pitching arm: ‘First you take a year off. Then you retire.’ Kamala Harris is halfway there. She has many opportunities for enjoying private life and continuing her public service somewhere, anywhere, other than on the campaign trail.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Kamala’s Colbert Cringe-Fest. “Before CBS finally rolls end credits on ‘The Late Show’ — or boots cranky host Stephen Colbert out with a cardboard box of swag — the soon-to-be-former talkshow host seems determined to go down in a blaze of cringe.”
RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA: Existing NASA Spacecraft Could Intercept the Weird Interstellar Object Cruising Into Our Star System.
It’s an exceedingly rare occurrence, marking only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system, all of which have been detected since 2017.
Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb was quick to raise the tantalizing — albeit admittedly far-fetched — possibility that the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, could have been an alien probe sent to us by an intelligent civilization.
And now, in a twist right out of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 “2001: A Space Odyssey,” he’s suggesting a way that we could use an existing spacecraft to intercept the object’s path to test that very hypothesis.
In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, the researcher argued that NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which was designed to study Jupiter and launched in 2011, could get eerily close to 3I/ATLAS by March 14, 2026.
Juno would have to apply a thrust of 1.66 miles per second on September 14, 2025, Loeb calculated, to intercept the mysterious object’s path.
On a side note, spotting three interstellar objects all since 2017 makes me think it isn’t “an exceedingly rare occurrence,” but just stuff we’ve gotten better at spotting.
DAVID MANNEY: Not One More Number: Say Their Names or Admit You Don’t Care. “We count those successful ICE raids like wins on the scoreboard. It’s what sits underneath the scoreboard that hits hard: Each raid is also a confession of how a system failed, resulting in a child paying the ultimate price.”
PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING THEY DO TO ALL THE OTHER RIGHTS: Chris Murphy Gives Gun Owners a Preview of What Dems Would Do to Gun Rights If and When They Regain Power.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) slipped a proposed amendment into a defense spending bill that would skyrocket the National Firearms Act tax to $4,709. That proposal comes just weeks after Congress reduced the tax to $0 from the previous $200 where it’s been since 1934.
Gun control advocates like Sen. Murphy don’t just recoil at the idea of lawful gun ownership. Politicians like him, bought and paid for by billionaire gun control benefactors, absolutely loathe Americans exercising their Second Amendment. And they’re willing to make gun owners pay the price. Literally.
Sen. Murphy slipped his proposed amendment into the House bill for Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies. That bill, H.R. 3944, is currently being considered in the Senate. That’s where Murphy proposed Senate Amendment 2973, which states, “There shall be levied, collected, and paid on firearms transferred a tax at the rate of $4,709 for each firearm transferred.” That’s specific to the tax levied by the 1934 NFA, so it would apply to all tax stamps for suppressors, short-barrel rifles, short-barrel shotguns. The $5 tax on “Any Other Weapon” would increase to $55.
Sen. Murphy didn’t feel the need to punish gun owners for exercising their Second Amendment rights when they were paying the $200 tax. It’s only now that the tax has been eliminated that he’s taking out his frustrations that he couldn’t stop the changes included in the One, Big, Beautiful Bill.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
ABOUT THAT “WEAK” JOBS REPORT:
Today's jobs report is a consequence of the illegal alien labor purge: foreign-born workers down 4 months in a row, down 1.5 million since April.
Native-born workers up 383K in July pic.twitter.com/t4A2YdSBx7— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 1, 2025
We’re transitioning to a workforce much less dependent on cheap, illegal labor — and the pain is largely borne by illegals leaving the country one way or another.
The attendant effects on wages and the domestic labor force participation rate ought to be splendid.
DOING THE 2028 PIVOT: Pete Buttigieg acknowledges ‘fairness issues’ with trans athletes in women’s sports.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gender Sanity Is Slowly Returning to the World of Sports. “This obviously isn’t a result of Trump’s executive order, but that is what got this ball rolling. We are no longer being forced to praise an alternative-reality which posits that our eyes are lying to us. It’s still stunning to think of just how dystopian and surreal the Democrats’ version of the real world is.”
I VOTED SO HARD FOR THIS: Trump killing federal regulations at 10-1 rate, tops first term’s 4-1 cut.
Early indications from a key regulation watcher confirm that President Donald Trump is not just making good on a campaign promise to cut 10 regulations for every new one his team proposes, but has also paused issuing new regulations.
The change from the Biden approach is so radical that Washington’s regulation watchdog, Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, dubbed the new campaign the “Unrule.”
He said, “What we’re witnessing is the rise of the ‘Unrule,’ a revolt against the machinery of the administrative state.”
In a pending blog post shared with Washington Secrets, he said that many of the rules the Trump administration is imposing are actually targeting those on the books for elimination. “Many of the so-called ‘rules’ that have appeared this year aren’t new mandates at all. They’re reversals, delays, withdrawals — and a government-wide recognition that certain, perhaps most, regulations are not merely unjustified but actively harmful.”
Crews added that some deregulatory moves are significant, such as pulling back the Biden Environmental Protection Agency’s demand for clean vehicles, which Detroit said was unrealistic.
Much more like this, please.
I WOULD CERTAINLY HOPE SO: China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market.
China’s cyber regulator on Thursday said it had held a meeting with Nvidia over what it called “serious security issues” with the company’s artificial intelligence chips. It said US AI experts had “revealed that Nvidia’s computing chips have location tracking and can remotely shut down the technology.”
The Cyberspace Administration of China requested that Nvidia explain the security problems associated with the H20 chip, which was designed for the Chinese market to comply with US export restrictions, and submit documentation to support their case. The announcement comes as Nvidia is rebuilding its China business after Washington this month lifted a ban on H20 sales to the country.
After Washington’s U-turn, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang visited Beijing to meet officials and customers. He stressed his company’s commitment to the Chinese market and introduced a new graphics processing unit based on the latest Blackwell series that is tailored to align with existing US export controls.
“Look, China, do you want the chips or not?” should be our official response.
GET’EM WHILE THEY’RE YOUNG: Wisconsin School Districts Recommended ‘Trans’ Clinic to Students.
July 31, 2025
ICYMI: Cincinnati Councilwoman: ‘They Begged for That Beat Down.’
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): 21st Century Democratic Party politics.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1950830603659509865
UPDATE (From Ed): James Woods’ tweet doesn’t appear to be embedding, curiously enough. Here’s a screenshot:
More (From Ed):
THAT IS A LOT TO UNPACK IN ONE HEADLINE: Trantifa city council member facing recall over indecent exposure charges during topless protest now running for mayor of Stevenson, WA.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Nice job, Starmer and Macron. You own this shit now. https://t.co/6gzC1GTyB9
— Boo (@IzaBooboo) July 31, 2025
To be fair, Starmer and Macron are likely terrified of their local Muslim populations — and probably not without reason.
MAD MEN SHOULD ONLY CARE ABOUT WHAT SELLS: Has Mad Ave Gone Anti-Woke?
You can skip the rant, but I do want to address the label at the top: “Dunkin’ Donuts learned nothing from AE, Sweeney[.]” Fact check: pants on fire. Dunkin’ Donuts took the Sydney Sweeney lesson to heart, or at least its advertisers did.
And what is that lesson? It’s pretty simple: Normal people are normal. They respond to normal stimuli, such as attractive young women and men in advertising pitches. They don’t mind looking at “kings of summer” or svelte starlets in TV and print spots. In fact, normal people tend to prefer it.
Mainly, though, normal people don’t like being lectured about social-justice causes in sales pitches, or in other forms of entertainment. They have grown sick and tired of it, in fact, so much so that they are responding very enthusiastically to advertising campaigns that either eschew it, as Sweeney’s jeans campaign does, or deliberately provoke the Lefty lecture circuit, as Dunkin’ Donuts is doing. The days of Bud Light and other woke products scolding their customers is over, and ad companies have figured that out.
Read the whole thing.
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TO BE FAIR, HAVE ANY CONSERVATIVES WATCHED? Not A Single Conservative Guest Has Appeared On ‘The View’ In 2025.