Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 26, 2025
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Mark Steyn’s Vindication: A Triumph for Free Speech and Personal Fortitude.
PAY YOUR DEBTS: Millions of Americans hit with bad credit after missed student loan payments. “Credit scores dipped by more than 100 points for 2.2 million delinquent student loan borrowers, and 150 points or more for more than 1 million in the first three months of 2025, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It’s the kind of credit score drop that follows a personal bankruptcy filing. Roughly 2.4 million of those Americans previously had favorable credit scores and would have qualified for car loans, mortgages or credit cards before these delinquencies were reported, researchers said.”
UNEXPECTEDLY: Despite decades of Democrat health initiatives, Americans are sicker than ever.
Another failed Democrat health program: former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. It aimed to expand healthcare access, reduce costs, and improve care quality through insurance mandates, exchanges, and Medicaid expansion.
The truth and the outcome are vastly different than its intended purpose. While it insured 20 million more people, premiums and deductibles soared.
The average family premium exploded 61% from 2010 to 2020, and as a result, bureaucracy ballooned. Rural hospital closures spiked (138 since 2010), and some argue it entrenched a profit-driven system rather than addressing root inefficiencies. As premium prices rose, coverage quality declined l.
In February 2010, former First Lady Michelle Obama launched “Let’s Move,” a public health initiative aimed at reducing childhood obesity, and promoting healthy lifestyles among children in the United States.
In the midst of a growing obesity pandemic, it sought to encourage healthier eating habits through school lunch programs, increase physical activity and provide better access for nutritious foods.
The reality is that obesity rates haven’t demonstrably changed: 42% of U.S. adults were obese in 2020, up from 30% in 2000. The “Let’s Move” program often focused and implemented change on individual behavior while ignoring structural issues like food desserts, subsidy-driven cheap junk food, and sedentary environments.
The Healthy Lunchbox Campaign in California backfired when free lunch bags were found to contain lead, exposing kids to health risks.
Government-run health care is about as reliable as government-run anything else, but not quite.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Remember Those Who Gave Their All.
IT IS UNWISE TO EMBARRASS LITTLE ROCKET MAN: North Korea detains 3 shipyard officials over the failed launch of a naval destroyer. “North Korea authorities have detained three shipyard officials over the recent failed launch of a naval destroyer, an incident that leader Kim Jong Un said was caused by criminal negligence, state media said Sunday.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Netanyahu: ‘Free Palestine’ Is Today’s ‘Heil Hitler.’
May 23, 2025
WELL, WHICH IS IT?
BREAKING: Hasan Piker—hailed by the New York Times as the “future of progressivism”—tells his audience that the DC attack might’ve been a false flag… then immediately says:
“The guy was genuine with his actions!”
This is glorification of terrorism.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 23, 2025
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Leave That MAGA Man Alone. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, you’ll learn where not to punch a cop, the worst time to play hide and seek, and all about the Texas Mom who really knows how to throw a party.”
THEY’LL PROBABLY BE NECESSARY, REGARDLESS: More B-21s May Be Necessary If B-52J Upgrade Goes Awry, Allvin Says.
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Woke-Slayer Trump Scores Victory In War on Gas Cars! Gavin Newsom Hardest Hit.
THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE HUGE:
Very big impact: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week after school progam in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" at very low costs pic.twitter.com/nL6LahKAVQ
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) May 20, 2025
From the study: “The findings highlight that artificial intelligence-powered tutoring, when designed and used properly, can have transformative impacts in the education sector in low-resource settings.”
MIDDLE EAST: IDF control of Gaza Strip jumps over 50%, on the way to vast majority. “Israel’s primary goal is to seize territory to separate the Gaza civilian population from Hamas and control food distribution, IDF’s recent updates indicate.”
IT’S WAY UP ON THE LIST: Trump’s Kneecapping of Harvard May Be My Favorite Thing in the History of Trump. “Perspective is everything, and I’ve changed mine in recent weeks. I’ve begun to greatly enjoy the daily tizzies that the president and his administration send the Dems’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media into because I know that it means Trump is over the target with his agenda.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS KICKING BACK WITH A BOOK AND A GLASS OF WINE: Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported.
“Immigrants commit crimes in this country at a rate lower than natural-born citizens,” added Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. “So, if you want a safe town or a safe neighborhood, you are better off if you have immigrants.”
Speaking on the Senate floor last year, Murphy added, “Whether you choose to want to believe the facts or not, that is not my decision, it’s your decision, but…but it is the truth.”
This tenet is incessantly parroted by the legacy news media. Sample headline, this one from ABC News: “No, migrants are not driving a surge in violent crime as Trump claims.” ABC asserted that crime in this country is declining despite an influx of illegal immigrants.
This barrage has achieved its intended goal: A McLaughlin & Associates survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center on April 29, 2025, reveals that 41.6% of voters believe illegal immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens, compared to 33.3% who think otherwise.
Like most issues, U.S. public opinion on this question has a demographic and partisan component. Only men, Republicans, conservatives, whites, and those aged 41 to 55 believe illegal immigrants commit more crimes. The majority of young voters (18-29), Democrats, liberals, and African Americans most strongly assert that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes.
But is this “the truth”? Are these “the facts”?
The data suggests that the answer is pretty clearly “no.”
These claims usually conflate legal and illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants tend to follow the law, but illegal immigrants are a different story.
Every illegal alien’s first act on American soil was to break the law. Democrats conflate illegals with legal immigrants for various reasons — all political — and the result is more crime.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: House budget bill effectively halts US clean energy boom. “The House budget bill that narrowly passed in an early morning vote on Thursday would effectively put the brakes on a clean energy production boom in the United States spurred by subsidies enacted in 2022.”
Here’s a tip for Reuters: It’s not a boom if it’s financed by tax dollars and summoned into existence by mandates. It’s just another boondoggle.
COMMIES LYING IS NOTHING NEW; SADLY, NEITHER IS WESTERN ANALYSTS PARROTING THEIR LIES: China Is Hardly the Economic Juggernaut That Many Western Analysts Believe.
THE PRESS CRIBS FROM THE BIDEN PLAYBOOK WHICH WAS CRIBBED FROM THE OBAMA PLAYBOOK WHICH IS ’60S RADICALISM IN A NICE SUIT:
We had yet another left-wing domestic terrorism attack so that means the press need to tell us about “white nationalism.”
It’s their safe space. https://t.co/Ax2vIByKCE
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 23, 2025
Related:
GM, fellow "domestic violent extremists" pic.twitter.com/uor7P0UMyr
— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) May 23, 2025
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Is ADHD an excuse for punching classmate and a teacher?
“New York City’s public schools routinely flout federal rules designed to prevent schools from removing children from class for long periods due to behavior related to their disabilities, reports a Chalkbeat investigation. If Tristan’s disability had been considered a factor in the fight, the hearing office ruled, he could have been suspended for only one week.
Students with disabilities are far more likely to be suspended than non-disabled peers. In part, that’s because behavioral and emotional issues such as oppositional defiant disorder are disabilities.
The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires schools to educate disabled students with non-disabled students when possible, writes Zimmerman. If a student’s misbehavior is related to a disability, “the student is supposed to return to class immediately, and the school is required to conduct a behavior assessment.” There are exceptions for “extreme violence, drugs, or weapons possession.”
How does that promote the education of the vast majority of kids without behavioral issues?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Here’s Hoping Trump Crushes the Intifada and Its Enablers in Academia. “Leftists rally around slogans and talking points, largely because their mobs are comprised of easily-manipulated simpletons who need pithy phrases to achieve peak frenzy. They’re also incurious and easy prey for propagandists. All of this came together and led to the tragedy in Washington, D.C.”
“ANTI-WAR” SURE SEEMS TO MEAN “PRO-MURDER”:
BREAKING: The Bronx "Anti-War" Coalition just called Elias Rodriguez’s execution of two innocent people in D.C. the “highest expression of anti-Zionism.”
This group leads the pro-Palestinian rallies in NYC. Don’t ever try to tell me this movement isn’t fundamentally violent. pic.twitter.com/D7zzkHQHNx
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
Or, “Not anti-war, just on the other side,” to coin an Insta-phrase.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: ATF Issues a Statement Announcing That It Has Ushered In a ‘New Era of Reform.’ “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is ushering in a new chapter—marked by transparency, accountability, and partnership with the firearms industry. This is not the same ATF of the last four years. We are fundamentally changing course with a renewed focus on rebuilding trust with federal firearms licensees (FFLs), gun owners, and the public by prioritizing public safety and collaboration.”
Much more at the link.