Author Archive: Stephen Green

THIS IS CNN:

It’s (D)ifferent when Anderson Cooper does it.

MIRANDA DEVINE:

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Seriously, has anyone listened to the whole Hur audio? The establishment takeout that this is just about Joe Biden having pudding for brains is lazy and misses the deeper point, which is that the prosecutors had him cold on possessing classified documents he had no right to keep.

Biden lies and dissembles and filibusters and goes vague and mumbly at all the crucial points, with the help of lawyer Bob Bauer, who interrupts every time Joe might incriminate himself and laughs like a hyena when Joe gets feisty or cracks a sarcastic joke at the prosecutors’ expense.

It is vintage Biden, nasty, smarmy, and self aggrandizing. He tries to impress the lawyers in the room with exaggerated highlights of his subpar legal career. At one point he boasts about spending Thanksgiving in Nantucket handwriting a memo about Afghanistan to Obama to try to “save his ass”. Delusions of grandeur.

You can hear the prosecutors’ frustration – they’re in a straitjacket and with a strict time limit. He reminds them out of the gate that he has just been on the phone to Bibi Netanyahu talking about the Oct. 7 attack – the previous day — just so they know they are keeping him from more important business.

Bottom line is he absurdly lies throughout. He denies having kept classified material for his personal use. It is not something he would ever do because he’s so upright and honorable.

And yet the prosecutors found reams of it tucked away everywhere in his house, garage, and Penn Center office, along with Biden’s recorded admission to his ghostwriter that he had found classified material in his basement he could use for his memoir.

So they had a dilemma. Do they charge the sitting president and label him a pathological liar, causing a massive scandal and constitutional crisis? Or do they use his age and mental fog as an excuse not to charge him? Pretty clear which was the easier path.

“Easier,” not “better” or “correct.”

SORRY, BUT YOU LOST ME AT “FUNCTIONING LEGACY MEDIA”:

PSA tests are actually less common for men over 70 for various reasons, but I find it difficult to believe that POTUS isn’t screened for pretty much everything.

JAMES VARNEY: Wasting Away in Wind-and-Solarville.

Greens insist that reductions in carbon emissions will more than compensate for increased levels of potentially toxic garbage; others fret that renewable energy advocates have not been forthright about their lack of eco-friendly plans and the technology to handle the waste.

“Nobody planned on this, nobody had a plan to get rid of them, nobody planned for closure,” said Dwight Clark, whose company, Solar E Waste Solutions, recycles solar panels. “Nobody thought this through.”

The discussion about what to do with worn-out solar and wind equipment is another topic usually elided in Net Zero blueprints, which often focus on the claimed benefits of projects while discounting or ignoring the costs. As RealClearInvestigations previously reported regarding the lack of plans for acquiring the massive amounts of land for solar and wind farms needed to achieve net zero, the math can get fuzzy, and the numbers cited most frequently are those rosiest for renewables.

“They’ve been either silent, or incoherent – or just hand-wave that we should recycle all this stuff without telling us how,” said Mark Mills, executive director of the National Center on Energy Analytics. In the headlong effort to make solar and wind seem as inexpensive as possible, they have not included fees that address the eventual cost of disposal, which could leave taxpayers holding the bag.

Could?

THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE:

Where is the GOP Congress?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Fake Breakup Between the MSM and the DNC Is a Bit Much to Stomach. “Let us just take a look at how the MSMers are trying to fashion the story. Then we we’ll explore why their masters at the DNC are letting them get away with it. It’s a family feud of epic political proportions, but it’s not really a feud. We’re dealing with the most awful people in the history of the Republic feigning honesty because they know that they can get away with it.”

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: FBI Director Patel says unreleased Russia probe documents will soon be made public.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Fox News that “truckloads” of previously unreleased documents related to the Russia probe known as Crossfire Hurricane and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will soon be made public in a “wave of transparency.”

He said the previous FBI leadership hid documents and information pertaining to the Russia probe “where people weren’t supposed to look.”

Patel, alongside Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, said on the Fox Business Network show “Sunday Morning Futures” that the release could happen within two weeks.

“Just give us about a week or two,” Patel said.

Faster, please.

READINESS: Army halts tactical UAS competition without clear plan forward.

“It’s not that we don’t want a Future Tactical UAS. It’s just the one that was being developed didn’t meet our needs,” Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus told reporters at the Army Aviation Association of America’s annual conference.

As part of a larger directive issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to make major changes to structure, formations and programs, the Army decided to cancel the FTUAS program just as two vendors had just wrapped up a competitive flight demonstration phase.

“There’s a misnomer of, ‘We’ve killed FTUAS,’” Mingus said. “We still need short, medium, long-range unmanned systems that can sense, they can see, they can extend the network, they can kill, they’re kinetic, they’re [electronic warfare], they do all those things and so we’re still going to invest in systems like that.”

The decision comes after the Army approved just one year ago the characteristics it wants in an FTUAS and awarding contracts to two teams competing to build the drone.

More from X: “It’s official: The US Army has fewer drones than we had 3 years ago.”

MAKE AMERICA FLORIDA:

“Surplus,” Washington, did you see that part?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: US FAA approves license modifications for SpaceX Starship Flight 9 mission.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it approved license modifications for the SpaceX Starship Flight 9 mission, but did not immediately allow it to fly.

SpaceX will not be allowed to launch until the FAA either closes its Starship Flight 8 investigation or makes a return to flight determination, the FAA added.

Let’s get this done.

BUILT TO LAST: NASA Revives Voyager Thrusters ‘Considered Dead’ for 20 Years. “NASA’s engineers revived a set of thrusters on board the Voyager 1 spacecraft to use as backup while the mission goes offline for ongoing upgrades to a radio antenna used to communicate with deep space missions, the space agency revealed this week. Voyager’s primary roll thrusters had stopped working in 2004 after losing power in two small internal heaters, but the team managed to restart the thrusters while the spacecraft cruises through interstellar space at a distance of 15.14 billion miles away (24.4 billion kilometers).”

NIFTY: US Ally Revives Aircraft Carrier Plan Amid North Korea Threat. “The South Korean military will move forward with its aircraft carrier project after making modifications, newspaper The Chosun Daily reported on Monday. The original plan called for the construction of a 30,000-ton vessel equipped with F-35B stealth fighter jets. Under the revised project, the proposed aircraft carrier will be transformed into a ‘multifunctional unmanned combat force command ship,’ capable of carrying dozens of drones for a range of missions, including combat, self-detonation, surveillance and reconnaissance.”

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Marlboro Man Thought He Was Usain Bolt. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we learn what happens very quickly when a smoker tries to outrun police, why you shouldn’t replace your license plate with a piece of cardboard that says ‘PRIVATE,’ and Britain’s delusional depths.”

DATA REPUBLICAN APPEARS TO BE UNSTOPPABLE:

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Today, I launched a powerful new tool that indexes the National Endowment for Democracy journal… and here’s what it uncovers:

🔍 Dozen-plus Open Society Foundation staff, funded by George Soros, are writing in a U.S. government-backed journal.

🇺🇸 That journal is part of our taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-government operation tied to foreign “democracy” missions- and Congress sits on its board.

No conspiracy theories. This is hard data.

📎 This proves Soros and our intelligence apparatus are deeply intertwined.

You can sift through the data yourself, right here.

I DON’T DOUBT THEIR SINCERITY BUT PUTIN SO FAR HAS BEEN GIVEN LITTLE REASON TO COOPERATE: Rubio and Trump: This Is the ‘Only Way’ to End the War in Ukraine. “Yeah, it’s my assessment and I think it’s the President’s assessment. By the way, I think he said publicly today that the only way we’re going to have a breakthrough here – nothing is going to happen at this point – given everything we know, after months of working on this, nothing is going to happen until President Trump sits across the table from Vladimir Putin and puts it on the line and puts it on the table. I think that’s the only chance we have at peace at this point given everything we’ve seen over the last few weeks. There’s been talks, there’s been negotiations, there’s been trips and meetings. But in the end, I think we’ve reached the conclusion, and rightfully so, as the President has, that the only way this is going to happen – if it has a chance to happen, the only way it happens is – is the President directly engages with Vladimir Putin.”