Author Archive: Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

The Islamic Republic’s only hope seems to rest with an American political party that always seems to somehow find itself on the other side.

PERSPECTIVE:

That’s hardly the Miami Vice-scale story the press laid out.

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS: Two New Analyses Provide a Clearer Picture of the Almost Half a Billion Guns Americans Own.

The 2026 National Firearms Survey, conducted by Georgetown University professor William English, estimates the private stock includes roughly 208 million handguns, 154 million rifles, and 99 million shotguns. It also estimates that about 32.7 percent of U.S. adults—approximately 88 million people—personally own firearms.

The survey was administered online in July and August to a representative sample of 51,398 U.S. adults. It identified 16,688 internally validated gun owners who completed detailed ownership questions. The average validated gun owner reported owning about 5.2 firearms.

Those estimates aren’t a physical count of every firearm in the country. But a separate analysis by AmmoLand writer Dean Weingarten found that the survey’s breakdown among handguns, rifles, and shotguns closely matches proportions derived from historical federal manufacturing, import, and export records.

That comparison doesn’t independently prove that 461 million firearms currently exist in private hands. It does provide another useful check on whether the survey’s reported mix of firearm types resembles what more than a century of firearms-commerce records would lead researchers to expect.

I suspect perhaps not everyone was completely honest about whether they own any firearms, or how many.

WOW:

Developing story…

PROCEED: SCOTUS Overturns Blockade On Trump’s Third-Country Deportations. “In its unsigned order, the high court granted the Trump administration’s request to pause a ruling issued by Massachusetts-based District Judge Brian Murphy. The Biden appointee’s directive sought to block the government’s deportation of illegal aliens to third countries –countries not of their national origin.”

HERE’S HOW THAT SPACE PROGRAM IS COMING ALONG:

Key quote: “The shift is deliberate: commanders would get faster, probabilistic warnings even if the first measurements are less precise, then see the track automatically tighten as more sensor data arrives.”

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ: Essex supermarket has sex-segregated checkout lines.

“The scene irritated English people, who say they are now forced to obey the rules of Islamist migrants in their own country.”

Well, I’ve been warning about this for years, but of course, such warnings were “Islamophobic.” In Muslim countries, non-Muslims are expected to conform their behavior to Islamic mores and beliefs. And in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims are expected to conform their behavior to Islamic mores and beliefs. Especially when that non-Muslim country is quickly becoming a Muslim country.

For those of us on this side of the pond, here’s a nifty primer on UK politics:

> Eventually, we’d had enough.. but there was no other serious movement on the right yet.. so we punished them with a historically low vote, removing them from power.

> This meant the mainstream left wing party won by default. But quickly realised all their ideas had been implemented..

> So now all they do is tinker at the edges and brutally crack down on anyone deemed to be problematic to the race communism revolution / replacement program.

So here we are.. patiently waiting for 2029 for our next vote.. as if in an orderly queue.. with a party in power that is the antithesis of what the majority of British people actually want.

Meanwhile the right is so unbelievably frustrated that it has fractured into 3 parties.

1) the original conservatives “we’re sorry we will definitely lower immigration this time.”

2) Reform : “anyone can be British as long as it’s legal – we just want to grow the economy and stop the illegals.”

3) Restore : “millions must go.”

All the Brits wanted was the nice country they’d always had, but that was too much for their so-called elites to bear.

SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University of Minnesota declares to new students Declaration of Independence has ’embodied sexist policies.’

Additionally, the university has “identity knowledge checks,” according to the report, where students have to match particular terms to definitions of terms common in identity politics such as “race,” “nationalist,” “sexuality,” and others.

Libs of TikTok said in a post with screenshots, “They also push radical gender ideology while conducting ‘identity knowledge checks.’ This university is a far-left indoctrination camp. They should be investigated and defunded.”

Also included in the screenshots was the definition of “gender identity,” which the material at the college claimed to be “different than sex assigned at birth.” The materials went further and said that gender identity “is your own, internal, personal sense of self expression” and that it can also include “male, female, or non-binary.”

There’s no reason for taxpayers to support these institutions.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING AN EXTENDED SABBATICAL: Minneapolis audit finds ‘violence interrupter’ program vulnerable to fraud, favoritism, and political influence. “According to a recent 60-page report from the Minneapolis City Auditor’s Office, government investigators concluded that the city’s Neighborhood Safety Department fails to properly oversee the millions of dollars it pays nonprofit groups to patrol certain high-crime areas in place of police.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

Barely four months left in office, and he’s still executing.

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF SANITY: Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund.

A federal judge has struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, blocking the state from collecting $75 billion from fossil fuel companies to pay for projects addressing concerns the state attributed to climate change.

The Justice Department on Sept. 28 hailed the ruling as a “significant step in … protecting American energy from state overreach.” U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel issued a judgment against the law on Sept. 25 after stating two days earlier that it intruded on federal authority in multiple ways, including by regulating greenhouse gas emissions that cross state lines.

The law would have required large companies involved in fossil fuel extraction or crude oil refining to pay into a state fund over 25 years. Each company’s share would have been based on greenhouse gas emissions attributed to its products from 2000 through 2024. New York intended to use the money for infrastructure and other projects to help communities address issues the state blames on climate change.

The way I read it, the superfund was more of slush fund based on junk science.

I’M SURE THE VIEWS ARE PHENOMENAL, BUT DON’T BREATHE IN FROM A CLOUD CITY BALCONY:

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Russia raises 2027 military spending by 27%, budget documents show. “The documents showed that in 2026 the government will increase its net borrowing plan by 26% to 5 trillion roubles and spend 459 billion roubles — about 11% of the liquid part of its National Wealth Fund — to reduce the deficit. It also cut the oil and gas revenue estimate for 2026 to 7.6 trillion roubles from 8.9 trillion roubles previously.”

WHAT???

From the replies: “Wow. I never understood that bluff — Fox rolling over on that settlement when it appeared that Dominion had unclean hands.”

And here’s the direct link to Byrne’s piece, which is probably the finest thing you’ll read all day.

FAIL, BRITANNIA: The RAF Fairford Follies, Day Three.

With the news seemingly so dire, and reports that Fairford and other joint UK-US bases had been on heightened alert in the preceding days because of increased radical chatter, everyone wondered why Prime Minister Andy Burnham hadn’t called a Cobra meeting yet, which is their crisis management committee.

That’s where we left off.

When at last it was announced the PM was going to…

“…chair a COBRA meeting this afternoon about the RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot…”

…that word was overshadowed by everyone’s collective gasps of disbelief, as the five explosive and terrorist bomb plot suspects were suddenly turned loose on bail.

Full story, unbelievable as it is, at the link.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Ms Rachel said, ‘I am political.’ Parents should take her at her word.

Wearing a pink headband and talking in a sing-songy voice, Ms. Rachel’s “Songs for Littles” is a phenomenon among toddlers. She’s the new Mr. Rogers, according to some, a safe place to park your children while you do the dishes or laundry.

The reality is that Rachel Griffin Accurso, who plays the character of Ms. Rachel, should not be trusted with your kids.

She’s become a prominent anti-Israel activist, but that’s just one part of her overall political messaging. If you’re letting your child watch Ms. Rachel because her anti-Israel comments don’t bother you, it’s important to understand that those comments are part of a larger grouping of far-left opinions.

Don’t let her near your kids or grandkids.

WOEING: Boeing’s Starliner won’t launch astronauts until 2028 (and may need a new rocket), NASA says.

If all goes according to plan, Starliner will conduct an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) this coming December or January, then carry astronauts up sometime in 2028, NASA announced in an update today (Sept. 28).

It’s a vote of confidence for a vehicle that has experienced some serious setbacks on its three test flights to date.

Except that Starliner was supposed to start delivering astronauts to ISS in 2017, when the space station still had a 13 years left of service life. It didn’t manage to do that until 2022 — and I’m sure you remember how badly that went — and now it won’t again until maybe 2028, just two years before ISS is scheduled to be de-orbited.

WELL SAID: