INTERVIEW: Los Alamos Scientist’s Insights On The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. “So you’d have to have those in a sequence that took all of that into account. You’re surely going to have suspended material. But if you can avoid the shock from the initial explosion for the second and third penetrators – you know that that is really highly, highly tuned delivery, and we have gotten very good now. I’m not saying that I know anything about that. I’m just saying that that was part of the discussion during the time that I was working on it, could we actually do these sequential miracles and get these things on target? And when we watch Elon Musk land rocket ships, we go, maybe we’re in that kind of a world.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 4, 2025
ICYMI [VIP]: What the Hell Is Going on in China?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA: SRT is Back: Stellantis Revives Street and Racing Technology Division. “In a move guaranteed to crank the driveshafts of performance junkies and Mopar faithful alike, Stellantis announced the triumphant return of its iconic Street and Racing Technology (SRT) performance division. The revived SRT brand will now unify high-performance efforts across Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, promising a new (reborn) era of factory-built horsepower and street-and-track engineering prowess.”
ASHLEY MCCULLY: North Carolina Addresses Teacher Shortage by Doing Nothing. “I am the kind of person you want teaching your kids. I don’t have funky piercings or hair color; I will shut down any discussion about pronouns faster than a New York minute; I can take any topic (except math, let’s be real) and make it interesting. But, I’m out.”
Read the whole thing.
July 3, 2025
PAULA BOLYARD HAS THE DETAILS: We’re Learning More About That Church Shooting in MI—and the Good Deacons With Guns.
THEY SHOULD HAVE NAMED IT RAMA: NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an ‘interstellar visitor’ — and it has a new name.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Return of Kremlinology — Now with Chinese Characteristics. “Having undone Deng’s reforms, there are now multiple signs that Xi’s rule is coming undone. Over the last several months, I’ve read a series of credible-looking reports that Xi might have received a modified Khrushchev treatment.”
INDEED:
The far right in Congress believes we should deport illegals & kick them off welfare.
The far left in Congress wants to trans kids and eliminate the combustion engine. These 2 centers of gravity are not equidistant from the center of the spectrum
— James (@MoronDoctor_) July 3, 2025
BREAKING: Congress Passes One Big Beautiful Bill.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS: More Iran Strike Followup.
VICTORIA TAFT: Well, Now We Know Why Trump-Hating Newspaper Hid Reader Comments on Assassination Story… “We first got tipped off about the comments situation from a post over at Powerline, but even John Hinderacker didn’t know the comments were as wildly non compos mentis as the Post’s choice to be the leader of the free world — President Autopen, himself, Joe Biden.”
RUY TEIXEIRA: Is Our Democrats Learning? “Democrats have a hard time thinking outside their own views of Trump and the GOP. They are deeply convinced that Trump is perhaps the worst person to ever walk the earth and find it difficult to relate to voters whose views are more mixed. They are convinced that a breaking point from Trump’s actions will inevitably be reached where voters will wake up and realize Democrats were right all along, with happy political results to follow. This fallacy undergirded Democrats’ thinking in the 2024 campaign with rather unhappy results when that breaking point was not reached. Democrats’ reliably florid responses to Trump’s outrage-of-the-day in 2025 indicates that they are still hoping that breaking point can be reached and that they are puzzled, indeed outraged, that voters have not yet mounted the barricades. Conveniently, the expectation of a breaking point let’s Democrats off the hook from changing very much in their own party.”
Of course, that kind of thinking both predated Trump, and also helps explain why GOP voters took a chance on him in 2016.
I’D CALL IT A GOOD START:
Notice you didn't bother to include the source of this information or what these job losses specifically entail. Shocker.
-The Weldon Cooper for Public Service at crazy liberal UVA put this out.
-These job losses are federal workers.The fact that we have this many government… https://t.co/WiaSztnw3U
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) July 3, 2025
NEITHER DOES HE: We Have Absolutely No Idea What the Hell Rep. Jim McGovern is Talking About. “Combining a silencer & a concealable short-barreled rifle with easy to assemble & totally legal parts would allow people to convert them into untraceable unregistered machineguns.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Tax dollars flow to non-profit run by Colorado state legislator.
Democrat State Representative Lorena Garcia was appointed by a vacancy committee to her seat in the Colorado legislature after her predecessor resigned in 2023. She successfully passed a re-election bid in 2024 and is now serving out a full term in the statehouse.
Prior to that, Garcia worked at a number of nonprofits, landing in 2018 as the executive director of Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition (CSPC), a job she presently still holds.
Mirroring Garcia’s political rise among the majority Democrats at the Capitol, CSPC’s fortunes have also greatly improved. According to the nonprofit’s tax form 990, CSPC’s revenues when Garcia took the helm were about $517,000, growing by about five times to $2.7 million in 2023 (the last filing year available).
Clearly CSPC was pleased with Garcia’s leadership, since her salary went from $57,000 to $133,000 in the same period.
This in and of itself isn’t remarkable. It makes sense that those at the helm of a non-profit be compensated when the organization does better; it would, at least, be smart to align things that way. There is a plot twist here, however. CSPC’s revenues have ballooned in large part because of lots of state tax dollars flowing in.
Colorado runs a website called the Transparency Online Project (TOPS), a statewide database where, among other things, you can search to see who the state is paying, from what department, for what, etc. Think of it as an online register for Colorado’s checkbook.
Details at the link.
WAS ANYONE GENUINELY SURPRISED? ‘Disgusted’: Megyn Kelly Bashes Diddy Combs Verdict.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Amazon will soon employ more robots than humans as 1 million machines toil across facilities.
Many of these robots cover the heavy lifting involved in warehouse work, picking items down from tall shelves and moving goods around facilities.
Others are advanced enough to help humans sort and package orders, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Three-quarters of Amazon’s global deliveries are now assisted in some way by robots, according to the company.
“They’re one step closer to that realization of the full integration of robotics,” Rueben Scriven, research manager at robotics consulting firm Interact Analysis, told the Journal.
Exit quote: “These advanced bots work in tandem with human workers at the Louisiana warehouse, handing products to employees to fill orders and reaching for hard-to-grab items inside shelves as workers supervise. Products whizz through this facility 25% faster than at other warehouses.”
TALES FROM THE SWAMPLAND: Despite Being Fired by Trump, Many Deep State Subversives Are Still on the Job.
CHANGE? Gov. Gavin Newsom signs housing bill overhauling California’s landmark environmental law.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law an overhaul of California’s landmark environmental protection rules that he says is essential to address the state’s critical housing shortage and long-running homeless crisis.
The Democratic governor widely seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate called the two-bill package a historic reshaping of environmental rules that, while initially well intentioned, too often resulted in tangles of litigation and costly delays that strangled much-needed development.
Newsom said the bills, which he signed Monday night, represent the most consequential housing reform in recent California history.
“We have too much demand chasing too little supply,” Newsom said at a news conference. “So many of the challenges that ail us can be connected back to this issue.”
Well, yeah — it’s just weird to hear a progressive Democrat say it.
Also: He’s running.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump’s Win Over CBS Another Nail in the MSM Coffin. “The condescending arrogance of the leftists in the media is really something to behold, given how paste-eatingly (I just made it up, it’s a thing now) stupid they all are. Almost every fabrication that they try to sell to the Dem base is easily disprovable by anyone with internet access who knows how to watch a video.”
WELL, GOOD: The Dalai Lama announces plans for a successor, signaling China won’t have a say.
It is unclear when the search for his successor will start, though the process can take several years. The Dalai Lama has only said it would be “in accordance with tradition.”
The Tibetan spiritual leader had previously speculated that his successor might be an adult, could be an “attractive” woman, or there might not be one at all. In his recently released book Voice for the Voiceless, he said that the new Dalai Lama will be born “in the free world” and outside of China.
“Free Tibet” seems to have disappeared from the Left’s concerns in recent years.
RED-PILLED: Climate change influencer once chums with Greta Thunberg now calls the movement a ‘scam.’ “While her fans cheered her on, Biggers told Just the News that her beliefs in a ‘climate crisis’ took a toll on her mental health. That’s true of many young people. The most recent poll on the topic, published in the renowned medical journal The Lancet, surveyed over 15,000 people aged 16-25 in the U.S. about their thoughts and emotions about climate change. The poll found that 85% are moderately worried about climate change, and nearly 58% are very or extremely worried. Nearly 43% said it impacts their mental health.”