EASILY THE WORST GERMAN CHANCELLOR SINCE… YOU KNOW: German Leader Angela Merkel Admits the Globalist Plan With Mass Migration.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 11, 2026
MY GUESS IS THAT “ITALIAN” IN THE HEADLINE IS DOING AN AWFUL LOT OF WORK: Italian teenager arrested for ISIS association, antisemitic and neo-Nazi propaganda. “The police did not publicly mention the boy’s ethnicity.”
NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED:
Introducing GHOST.
We’ve mastered the art of building launch sites. Now we’re making them deployable worldwide.
GHOST = Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology. A containerized, deployable launch site system that enables Electron and HASTE launches anywhere,… pic.twitter.com/6Za05Ov2Nn
— Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) August 10, 2026
Tweet continues:
GHOST = Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology. A containerized, deployable launch site system that enables Electron and HASTE launches anywhere, anytime.
Missile defense. Responsive launch. Sovereign launch capability. Delivered where it’s needed most.
Coming soon across two pads in Alaska in 2027.
“Sovereign” is where the implications get truly interesting.
UGH: Madison Named the Officer. Now Kiel Baitinger-Peterson Has to Watch His Back. “Welcome to the second ordeal faced by an officer who already survived the first one.”
WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP: Happy 25th Anniversary to Professor Glenn Reynolds and the Instapundit Blog! “Everyone here at Legal Insurrection would like to wish Glenn and the Instapundit team a happy anniversary.”
And the same from all of us co-bloggers.
What Steve said — Charlie
JONATHAN TURLEY: Sam Alito is Locked and Loaded . . . and He is Not Going Anywhere.
Even after overturning Roe v. Wade and other historic opinions, Alito still has unfinished business. An example can be found in two cases involving bans on semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 that are now awaiting argument in the October term.
Many of us have been frustrated by the Court’s failure to address these laws barring AR-15s and other weapons. Just last year, the Supreme Court declined review of such a Maryland law. Alito and Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch indicated that they wanted to hear the case, falling just one vote short of granting certiorari.
Notably, the required fourth vote could have come from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who called the Fourth Circuit’s ruling in Snopes v. Brown “questionable” and added that the Court “should and presumably will address the AR-15 issue soon, in the next Term or two.”
Now, it will.
This could end up a big term for civil rights — stay tuned.
HIS TRUE MOTIVE MAY NEVER BE KNOWN:
A man yelling “Allahu Akbar” attacked three police officers in Toulouse, France, today, stabbing two before a male officer tackled and subdued him. pic.twitter.com/hbaqKP7E20
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 10, 2026
Next time, empty a magazine or two into him, fellas.
THE ABSURDITIES ARE HEIGHTENING: Trans Rep Sarah McBride Has a Sad but I Can’t Stop Laughing. “‘This strategy of cutting off conversation and even cutting off relationships, it was done from a good place,’ McBride claimed in the video, equating family-destroying temper tantrums with moral suasion.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California sued over policy that could free serial killers as Laci Peterson’s friend sounds alarm.
Schubert singled out some high-profile prisoners serving life without parole:
Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son after she vanished on Christmas Eve in 2002. Gang member David Hill fatally shot San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza in 2004 and wounded his partner. Darryl Lamar Collins was 24 when he killed two people in 1995 but was granted early release in 2017 thanks to changes in California’s youthful offender parole law — only to kill his girlfriend Fatima Johnson less than a year later. They are among thousands who could potentially benefit from the new regulations, Schubert said.
According to Schubert, the board exceeded its statutory authority by using the bureaucratic rulemaking process to create a resentencing and clemency review system for prisoners sentenced to life without parole, a plan that California’s Office of Administrative Law approved on July 9.
Exit quote: “The main primary arguments deal with the fact that one, they don’t have the legal authority to do this, that this is an administrative bureaucratic agency that’s trying to rewrite the legislature, that they’re trying to rewrite sentencing laws that came out of ballot initiative.”
But Muh Democracy™ or whatever.
DECOUPLING IS A STRATEGIC NECESSITY:
The UK Ministry of Defense has discovered that the Royal Navy’s new fleet of spy drones, being operated by elements of the Royal Marines since March, have been secretly transmitting information from the drone’s primary camera to China, according to an investigation from The… pic.twitter.com/8ok38w9Vx1
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 10, 2026
JAW, JAW WAS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: Iranian Media Official: No More Negotiations With Trump.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Critical To China’s Space Program Blows Up Just 85 Seconds After Launch.
According to Space News, China National Radio (CNR) published a report around the time of liftoff on what the mission was expected to accomplish, referring to the payload as Zhongxing-4B. The report now shows a 404 error.
The outlet reported that Zhongxing satellites are possibly used for military communications.
Monday’s launch marked China’s 56th orbital launch attempt of 2026 and its fourth failure of the year. Earlier setbacks included a Long March 3B failure and the failed debut of the Ceres-2 solid-fueled rocket in January, followed by the loss of the Tianlong-3 rocket during its maiden flight in early April, Space News reported.
The Long March 7A is not an experimental rocket making its first appearance. It debuted in March 2020, but the inaugural mission ended in failure as well after the rocket exploded, the outlet reported.
Space is hard. But China made a great leap forward, to coin a phrase, last month on one of the hardest parts: China catches its first reusable booster.
THE SUICIDE OF THE WEST (CONT’D):
🚨 Cambridge University: first the Jason Arday disaster, now this.
They’ve appointed Farah Ahmed as Assistant Professor of Education — a woman who called Western education a “threat” to Muslims, democracy a “corrupt tradition,” and literacy plus qualifications un-Islamic. She…— Donna-Louise (@NoLongerTheFuzz) August 11, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Liked the Dems Better When AOC Was Their Craziest Commie. “Seriously, these lunatics are going to have me writing about how much I miss Jasmine Crockett before St. Patrick’s Day rolls around next year.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE LEFT THE STATE YEARS AGO: Colorado’s one-party rulers enjoy a progressive press pass. “Unfortunately, the demographic and political realities of this state mean nothing about this will be changing any time soon. With most of the state’s politicians clustered in the blue Front Range, Democrats know that they don’t have to venture into parts of the state where they might face tough questions. They don’t have to appear on the media outlets that the red parts of the state watch and read. Why would they when there’s no penalty for it? No one will hear the complaints from outlets like Center Square over Weiser’s lack of transparency when he can easily shout any story down by talking to Colorado Public Radio.”
“Democrat operatives with bylines” remains as true as ever.
SOLID CONCLUSION, BUT I THINK HE MEANT “JUST EXPECTED” AT THE START:
Just incredible that I hadn’t even heard about this yet. She voted against a bill that criminalized adults trying to sexually pursue children.
Dems have themselves a real winner with the DSA candidate in Wisconsin. https://t.co/M0ewQIiHP7
— AG (@AGHamilton29) August 11, 2026
ROBERT SPENCER: Romeo and WHO? “Next month, Riverside Studios, a trendy “arts centre” in London, is proudly (what else?) presenting Romeo and Hamed, which it describes as ‘a bold, provocative queer reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy from debut writer Scott Horgan.’ It is likely quite provocative, and queer it certainly is, both in the old and new senses of the word, but bold? Nah. The play, you see, was originally called Romeo and Mohammed, but the leftists at Riverside Studios allowed themselves enough “Islamophobia” to realize that a production with a title like that could get them all killed, and they decided to tone it down a bit.”
Where is James Talarico to explain that Mohammed was nonbinary?
UGH: US emergency oil reserve falls below 300M barrels for first time since 1980s.
Flashback: Oil purchase to fill strategic reserve dropped from stimulus. “Senate Democrats took credit for stripping out that money from the Senate bill, unveiled Wednesday, calling it a ‘bailout’ for the oil industry.”
ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:
I ran into a “Republicans for Talarico” type lady here once, came into my replies talking about how she was a lifelong conservative Republican voter who’d been forced to support Democrats because of how radical the Republican Party had become, so I searched her history and found… https://t.co/9k6DEAjPBY
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) August 10, 2026
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Wait, Rubio Revoked How Many Visas? Just Wait Until You See Why.
August 10, 2026
RESCUE MISSION FOR THE RESCUE MISSION: Katalyst Space makes progress in restoring control of Swift servicing spacecraft. “Katalyst said it was planning to upload a ‘significant flight software update’ in the coming days to allow for attitude control in the spacecraft’s current configuration. That will allow the company’s engineers to restore full attitude control of the spacecraft and resume plans to head toward NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
The white American middle class are literally the best people on the planet. All my life I grew up with people dunking on them for their cordial relations and stuffy mores and middlebrow taste but it turns out that everything runs on their largesse. When I was an immigrant kid…
— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) August 10, 2026
Update:
Well done. The world stands on the backs of the normies and every artist and freak and mystic and dissident etc needs to remember that. Then it can all balance out and work: When we respect and appreciate each other.
— The Armpit of Truth (@psychmystic) August 10, 2026
OPSEC:
Here's the straight answer:
"We're not going to tell Iran or anyone else how long they may or may not have to hold out against us." https://t.co/RYkazGHIQ6
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 10, 2026
THAT’S NOT FUNNY (ACTUALLY, YES IT IS): The Joke that Sparked Death Threats for Arynne Wexler.
Wexler shared the fallout from an immigration bit with “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” last week.
Wexler said she was shocked that another joke from her repertoire drew little outrage. She has compared Muslims to pit bulls, suggesting the majority of both groups aren’t violent, but …
She didn’t get blowback from pit bull owners from that routine. Instead, she heard positive feedback from dog owners.
The one that sparked the death threats?
She was at the White House in the spring of 2025 as part of an influencer gathering. She got some face time with spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, and she opened with the riff that caused a kerfuffle. Leavitt brought up President Donald Trump’s work with deportations and securing the southern border.
That gave Wexler an opening.
“I can attest to the fact that deportations are working because my Uber drivers finally speak English again,” she told Leavitt.
“Everyone laughed,” she recalled. “I leave the room and my phone is blowing up … I’m getting so many death threats in my Instagram, to my web site. I was put in touch with the FBI because I was getting so many threats over it … over that joke.’”
“And I put [the gag] on Instagram because I can’t help myself,” she added.
Read the whole thing. And don’t miss the clip of her doing the Pit Bull/Muslims bit.