GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA: Australia accuses Iran of directing antisemitic attacks on cafe and synagogue. “Intelligence services linked Iran to an arson attack on a cafe in Sydney in October last year, and another on a synagogue in Melbourne in December, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a press conference on Tuesday.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 27, 2025
MORE THAN BIDEN EVER DID: Trump Honors Victims of Afghanistan Withdrawal Terror Attack.
August 26, 2025
2026 PREVIEW: Mayra Flores ditches Cuellar to run against Gonzalez after Texas redistricting boosts odds. “Flores announced in April that she was running to challenge Cuellar in the 28th District after losing twice over the last few cycles to Gonzalez in the 34th District, where she briefly served as congresswoman. But Flores has changed her plans after Texas redrew its congressional maps, adding five GOP congressional seats and widening Republican margins in existing districts.”
PAULA BOLYARD IS LEAVING US: Farewell, PJ Media Readers.
Just one of the best people I’ve ever worked for. She’ll be missed by me and the whole crew.
DOG BITES MAN: Portland Antifa knife attack suspect re-arrested after breaking release terms. “Julie Mikela Winters, formerly known as Christopher Hudson, was arrested June 24 during an Antifa riot outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in southwest Portland. Video showed Winters brandishing a long-bladed weapon at DHS agents guarding the facility before hurling it as a projectile toward one of them.”
JAMIE K WILSON: The Death of Enchantment: Why Hollywood No Longer Holds Us.
SPACE: Jupiter’s core isn’t what we thought.
It had been thought that a colossal collision with an early planet containing half of Jupiter’s core material could have mixed up the central region of the gas giant, enough to explain its interior today.
But a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests its make-up is actually down to how the growing planet absorbed heavy and light materials as it formed and evolved.
Unlike what scientists once expected, the core of the largest planet in our solar system doesn’t have a sharp boundary but instead gradually blends into the surrounding layers of mostly hydrogen – a structure known as a dilute core.
So not an Earth-sized diamond?
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND GOVERNMENT STATISTICS: White House Uncovers ‘Massive Scandal’ With DC Police.
MAKING DO: Hunting Russian Drones in a Prop Plane With Shotguns and Rifles.
This month, a beaten-up, Soviet-era propeller-driven plane taxied to a halt on a rural runway and two of Ukraine’s top air aces clambered out, one carrying a rifle. The pair, clad in olive-drab flight suits, are part of a low-tech solution to the high-tech problem of Russian drones.
The 56-year-old pilot, who learned to fly as a hobby before the war, and the gunner, 38, a former auto mechanic who had never been in a plane before the invasion, are part of a squadron dedicated to knocking down the unmanned Russian attack and reconnaissance aircraft that are the bane of ground troops and civilians.
In the past year, these two unlikely air warriors have flown around 300 combat missions as part of the 11th Army Aviation Brigade and downed almost half the unit’s total of 120 drones eliminated, according to its deputy commander, Col. Mykola Lykhatskiy.
Ukraine has some of the West’s most advanced air defenses, including the Patriot missile system. It also has F-16 jets that it sometimes uses to down missiles and drones. But it has also developed a series of lower-cost tactics to counter the threat from the skies, ranging from nets to signal jamming.
Is the Pentagon paying attention?
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Ending Rural Solar Subsidies Was the Right Call.
LANGUAGE RULES FOR CRAZY PEOPLE: Democrat Forbidden Words For 2025 (Plus Additions). “See, the problem with the modern woke mind-virus, social justice-infected Democrat Party doesn’t begin, or end, with their obfuscating academic jargon. Their need to Orwellize the language is a result of the deeply unpopular, racist, bigoted, anti-borders, anti-reality policies social justice democrats have been promulgating. Their language is bad because their ideas are bad.”
FAIL, BRITANNIA: From the ‘Banter Bill’ to Bias Hotlines: The Alarming Rise of Snitch Networks.
A troubling new piece of legislation continues to make its way through the British parliament. Dubbed the “Banter Bill,” the Employment Rights Bill would criminalize any speech that might be considered offensive by any passerby.
As Dominic Green reports for The Free Press, under this proposed law, “Britons can be prosecuted for a remark that a worker in a public space overhears and finds insulting.” Under this standard, whether a certain sentiment (for instance, that Britain should reduce immigration) is legal will now depend on whether someone in the vicinity takes offense.
Unfortunately, this new subjective standard for what types of speech are allowed isn’t restricted to Great Britain. In the United States, more and more states are experimenting with a similar system. The Washington Free Beacon reports that eight states have set up “bias-response hotlines” which citizens are encouraged to call if they hear a comment — from a neighbor, coworker, or even passersby on the street — that they consider to be offensive. As Oregon says of their hotline, if you see or hear someone “creating racist images/drawings; mocking someone with a disability; or telling or sharing offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity” they want to hear about it.
“The Lives of Others” was not supposed to be a training film.
CONSEQUENCES: Unsafe spaces: Throw rocks at the teacher, get ‘Tiger tokens.’
Lax discipline policies are creating classroom chaos, writes Neetu Arnold, a Manhattan Institute policy analyst, in City Journal. Teachers, citing “chronic student misbehavior as the top source of stress and burnout,” quit.
Parents, worried about their children’s safety, turn to homeschooling, private or charter schools.
“Restorative justice” often gets the blame, writes Arnold but it’s far less common than Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), which has been around for decades. PBIS “masks its anti-punitive bias behind uncontroversial goals” such as collecting data and setting clear behavior expectations. It’s not overtly political. The idea is to reward positive student behavior and avoid punishments. Schools have lots of discretion on how to use it.
The U.S. Department of Education has urged schools to use PBIS as an “equitable” way to reduce racial disparities in discipline, she writes. The easiest way to do that is to reduce discipline.
Unexpectedly, they get more of what the tolerate.
KAMALA’S REVENGE: Harris Screwed the Democrats So Badly I Can’t Stop Laughing. “Forget the old-school thrills of ‘F1,’ the family charm of ‘Freakier Friday,’ and even the surprisingly pro-life ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ — because this summer’s feel-good movie turns out to be an August sleeper hit that virtually nobody saw coming.”
“JOURNALIST”:
Hamas journalist Mohammed Salama infiltrated Israel on October 7.
Here is one of his videos from inside Israel, chanting “Allahu Akbar.”
He has been eliminated today. pic.twitter.com/Bgk8hBiA2s
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 25, 2025
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick voids ‘illegal’ $7.4B payment to Biden ally-staffed nonprofit for semiconductor research.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick canceled an Biden administration agreement Monday to distribute billions of dollars for semiconductor research through a nonprofit set up and staffed by former political appointees, according to a letter obtained by The Post.
The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act provided for $11 billion in semiconductor research and development funding to be given out by the Commerce Department’s National Semiconductor Technology Center.
“Rather than establishing these operations within the Department, however, Biden Administration officials spent significant time, effort, and resources creating an unaccountable, outside entity–Natcast–to administer taxpayer funds,” Lutnick wrote Natcast CEO Deirdre Hanford.
Four days before Biden left office on Jan. 20, Lutnick noted, the Commerce Department agreed to set aside $7.4 billion in “advance payments” to Natcast after spending nearly two years setting it up and tapping administration officials, advisers and allies to fill out positions.
That arrangement both effectively removed the incoming Trump administration from being involved in the process and provided “virtually all” of Natcast’s funding — prompting incoming Departments of Justice and Commerce officials to take another look at the Sunnyvale, Calif., nonprofit.
The most corrupt administration in history.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: England Continues to Hemorrhage Cautionary Tales for the U.S. “This is a fight for the soul of a once-great nation that, honestly, may not work out so well for the people who are fans of the principles that made it great. Free speech is also under relentless assault across the pond, where people are being detained, arrested, and jailed for their social media activity.”
JOEL KOTKIN: AI revolution will crush the blue states.
In the class I teach with Marshall Koplansky at Chapman University, several students predicted that the jobs they currently hold will soon disappear. Among them were a game designer, two human-resources executives, and a manufacturing and warehouse manager.
My engineering colleagues report a similar trend. While opportunities remain strong for mechanical and chemical engineers, as well as for those designing robotics, the outlook is far less certain for computer science students. Despite soaring profits at the largest tech companies, AI programming tools have enabled sweeping layoffs at firms such as Amazon, Intel, Meta and Microsoft. Today, among college graduates aged 22-27, computer science and computer engineering majors face some of the highest unemployment rates, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In response, many firms are now focusing on building tangible products rather than merely shifting algorithms for commerce or generating more social media. In the aerospace and defence sectors, for example, AI is seen not as an end but a tool. It is a means to enhance human creativity and productivity rather than replace it. “Software is not in the greatest position with AI,” Delian Asparouhov, who runs a firm focused on in-space manufacturing, told me. “Now people are shifting to hard tech. Designing and building spaceships still needs people.”
This could spell trouble for elite universities, but represents a major advantage for schools that teach the practical skills companies actually need. So far, these opportunities are largely concentrated in red and purple states in the Midwest and South — the regions most focused on reshoring manufacturing and other industries from overseas.
Gavin Newsom can boast about California having the fourth-largest GDP in the world, thanks largely to the tech giants. But the benefits will keep trickling down to normal-sized people in places like Texas and Florida.
FINGER ON THE PULSE OF THE NATION:
During a presentation on crime at the DNC's summer meeting, a lady from left-wing think tank the Vera Institute tells them that "migrant crime and carjackings are things that don't matter to many Americans." pic.twitter.com/5c0qkCPm7O
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 25, 2025
And:
It’s a total mystery why the Democrat brand is in the toilet.
We may never know. pic.twitter.com/AOhgowhcDe
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 25, 2025
WHEN PURPLE STATES TURN BLUE: Coloradans getting first-hand taste of progressive squalor.
Have you noticed recently how trash-laden the Denver-area highways have become? It never used to be that way. It’s a sign of social and governmental breakdown. The last time I saw anything like it was in Greece in 2015 when the country was in the midst of a debt crisis brought on by socialist overspending. The last time before that was in Oklahoma in the mid-1980s, when government corruption coupled with an oil price crash devastated the state’s economy.
Colorado started on a pretty high plane, so thus far the rot is not as visible as in Bolivia, or as it was in Greece or Oklahoma. But the incipient signs are everywhere. First, of course, soaring taxes—oops, I mean soaring “fees” and “enterprises” (labeled that way so the people don’t get a chance to vote on them). Drugged-out zombies wandering around. Unsafe schools, with teachers who don’t dare to enforce discipline. Crumbling roads and traffic jams from projects that seem to take forever—projects of repair and showcase schemes of “progressive” virtue like the ongoing Colfax Avenue mess.
No wonder stores in Wyoming are selling bumber stickers that announce: “COLORADO — WYOMING’S MEXICO!”
If you have any doubts about how bad Colorado’s roads are, drive from our state into Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, or Utah. (I haven’t been to New Mexico or Arizona recently.) Once you are over the border you actually can drive around smoothly. Your teeth don’t rattle and your tires don’t fall into potholes. It’s really nice.
When I told a lady at the Kansas Welcome Center that their roads were a lot better than those in Colorado, she responded, “That’s the most common thing we hear from people who just left Colorado.”
And did I mention the highway trash? Oh, I see that I did.
When Bill Whittle dropped by from Los Angeles on his way to a conference here about a decade ago, he marveled at how clean our highways are.
But that was a decade ago.
NO MORE CASHLESS BAIL: Trump Takes Yet Another Step Toward Restoring Law & Order in D.C. and Nationwide.