January 16, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LOL, AMY KLOBUCHAR:

Posted at 8:40 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ASSORTED NEGOTIATIONS APPEAR TO BE AFOOT:

Posted at 8:39 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IF YOU’RE AGAINST VOTER ID, IT MEANS YOU’RE INVESTED IN VOTER FRAUD:

Posted at 7:57 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DOJ’S OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL FINDS THAT BAN ON MAILING LEGAL FIREARMS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, DOJ will no longer enforce it. USPS told to modify its regulations.

This is progress for civil rights, but who would trust their gun to the US Mail?

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: How Not to Become a TikTok Sensation. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the proper caliber for shooting up an Uber vehicle, how not to become a TikTok star, and why Wyoming really is the Cowboy State.”

Posted at 4:23 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Feckless Gavin Admits Calling ICE Agents ‘Terrorists’ Is ‘Unfair’, but… “Someday, voters on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ will choose governors who do more than raise taxes, sign laws that compromise the First Amendment, prioritize plants over people, and lie about giving away your money to illegal aliens. Until then, there’s Feckless Gavin Newsom, the unfortunately-named Tina Kotek, and Tax Man Bob Ferguson.”

Posted at 3:21 pm by Stephen Green

THE SMART CROWD IS SLAMMING TRUMP TODAY FOR DRIVING CANADA TOWARD BEIJING, BUT OTTAWA HAS LEANED HARDER IN THAT DIRECTION FOR SEVERAL YEARS:

Posted at 3:05 pm by Stephen Green

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green

REST IN PEACE GRANDPA VICHA:  In 2021, Antoine Watson, crossed the street to shove 84-year-old  Vicha Ratanapakdee to the pavement, resulting in Ratanapakdee’s death.  Watson then went back to his car to fetch his phone and took pictures of what he had done.   There was no apparent reason for Watson’s action.  He didn’t know Ratanapakdee.  It was pure free-floating malice.  Watson is a monster.

His murder trial just ended in San Francisco.  The jury found him NOT guilty of murder in either the first or second degree, but guilty of involuntary manslaughter and guilty of using force likely to produce great bodily harm.  Not surprisingly, there is disappointment in the Asian community, and I’m not so thrilled about it either.

Watson’s crime was brought to the attention of the Commission on Civil Rights when the Commission was working up its report on “Anti-Asian Racism.”  Then as now, I wasn’t  big on the concept of “hate crimes.”  I don’t much care if an animal like Watson was motivated by his victim’s race or just by the desire to inflict harm on some random person (and the latter seems to have been the case).  First and foremost the duty of government is to protect people from violence.  In the early 2020s, it was failing spectacularly in that duty.  And things still aren’t that great.

What bothered me most about the Commission’s report is how it seemed to be interested only in scaring Asian Americans into believing that large numbers of their fellow Americans wanted to kill them because of their race.  It didn’t have much to say about how to stop those crimes or about crime in general and how to stop it.  Instead, the report seemed to be cynically focused on funding useless “bias training” (and on the ever-popular task of getting votes for Democrats).  Anybody who thinks Antoine Watson would have benefited from a little “bias training” is an idiot.   My Commissioner Statement for that report is here.  

Posted at 2:34 pm by Gail Heriot

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY. NO, ACTUALLY, IT IS!

But wait, it gets better:

Posted at 2:14 pm by Glenn Reynolds