"Modern man is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the Old World built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it."
- Jeremy Wayne Tate
The Phillies made a hype video for their ballboy and it is the greatest thing ever 👏
‘Dominant questioners’ is the generous term that Adam Feldman uses to describe the most talkative justices at oral argument.
I’m all for active questioning. But I sure wish that the two dominant questioners would be much better questioners. Today’s oral argument in an immigration case (Noem v. Al Otro Lado) provides apt illustrations of what too often happens.
Early in assistant solicitor general Vivek Suri’s argument, Sotomayor makes a 276-word speech-ending-in-a-question. Surek starts to answer, but Sotomayor won’t even let him complete a sentence before she interrupts him with an 84-word rebuttal. Suri manages to interject a 12-word sentence before Sotomayor interjects another question. He’s four words into his response when she cuts him off with another 69 words.
Jackson cuts Suri off before he can say a word in response to another Sotomayor question, and she speechifies for 196 words. Suri says that he has “two reasons” to provide in answer to her “Why on earth?” question, but Jackson cuts him off before he can get to his second reason. When he starts to provide it, she cuts him off in the middle of his second sentence and uses 84 words to rebut him. When the Chief and Justice Barrett try to ask their own questions, Jackson says “can I just finish?” and goes on for another 105 words.
Jackson also had her own ill-formed pet theory that the case was somehow moot or otherwise nonjusticiable. She spoke around 1,000—yes, one thousand—words on the topic on five or so different exchanges with counsel.
So after hearing, O’Leary wanted to explain restricted access to me. I said, “no it is prohibited access.” He said “I’ve never heard of that!” Me: “That’s exactly the problem!”
Only 60% of grants were terminated? Why is the NIH funding any research on "gender-affirming care"?
The first time I abandoned a girlfriend in the mountains was an accident.
We had an argument about something trivial, and she decided to go off on her own for a bit to cool down. I insisted she stick to the trail, but she said she didn’t need me mansplaining how to find her way in the woods. So I dropped it. How does one manage to get lost on a mountainside, anyway? You just walk downhill until you hit a switchback or reach the valley. Common sense stuff.
Well, she managed it. When she didn’t turn up by nightfall, I contacted the ranger station and they set out to find her. By 1am, I got tired of waiting and drove home.
They called the next morning to say they’d found her in a makeshift den she’d dug beneath a deadfall. She was naked, gone completely feral, her face painted with menstrual blood. A ranger tried to wrap a blanket around her shoulders, and she bit a golf ball-sized gobbet of flesh from his shoulder. So they sedated her and took her straight to the nearest hospital.
That was three years ago and she still hasn’t recovered human language.
Needless to say, I acquired a taste for it. I’m up to a baker’s dozen now, not counting the one that found her way back to the car before I could drive off.
But you never forget your first. Sarah will always have a special place in my heart.
Republican voters to the US Senate on passing the SAVE Act...
Astonishingly hypocritical sketch from The Daily Show called “Free Speech Plus”:
WOMAN 1: “Oh, my gosh. Have you been watching the news? They’re cracking down on anyone who criticizes the president.”
“I’m worried about my freedom of speech.”
WOMAN 2: “You mean like if I say: ‘I don’t really think President Trump is doing that great a job?’”
WOMAN 1: “Shh. You’re gonna get in trouble.”
WOMAN 2: “Not me, because I just signed up for Free Speech Plus.”
WOMAN 3: “What’s that?”
WOMAN 2: “It’s this new service from the Trump administration. I can say anything I want about the president for just $50 a month.”
WOMAN 1: “What a deal!”
The same people who cheered when the Biden administration created a ‘Ministry of Truth’ to scold you for ‘doing your own research’ are now acting like they always believed in free speech.
Where was this comedy sketch when people were being kicked off social media for criticizing a government-mandated “vaccine?”
I think the problem is more that the democrats are holding our airports hostage in an attempt to neuter our border security, as evidenced by the fact that they were also, incoherently, furious when elon offered to simply pay the TSA agents himself
US election security would be nice, of course, but not if it means Joe Scarborough has to go through the hassle of tracking down his birth certificate or passport.
In addition to fraud detection/mitigation and waste reduction (e.g., DOGE), it's also weird that election security and transparency is, somehow, a right-coded thing. Why are all these fundamental government integrity measures so strongly opposed by the Left?
There you have it.
Democrats won’t fund DHS/TSA until it’s clear ICE agents won’t show up at polling places to stop illegal aliens from voting.
They might as well announce they’re cheating with a bullhorn.
City of Minneapolis won’t comment on employees who ‘despise law enforcement’
Sources say a Minneapolis 911 supervisor had been assisting anti-ICE protesters while on duty and was later placed on leave.
Grievance Olympics cringe
This is why California’s fraud is so massive:
Just look at their Medi-Cal budget vs Medi-Cal enrollment and population
In 2022 the budget was $108 B and this year it will be $222 B, for what?
Their population and enrollment hasn’t increased exponentially but their spending has more than doubled.
Prime example of fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars.
The Mueller Special Counsel's Office brought two indictments that went into great detail about the supposed Russian "interference" in the 2016 election.
Both were long "speaking indictments" laying out the ALLEGATIONS made by the Mueller prosecutors. Those allegations were dutifully reported by the press and Dems as "Facts" -- something they continue to do to this day.
The Mueller SCO those documents publicly, with all the names of Russian defendants there for everyone to see, guaranteeing that none of those people would 1) travel to the US or 2) travel to any country that might extradict them to the U.S. They could have kept them sealed until they had an opportunity to arrest the named defendants -- many of whom had lived in the U.S. at one time or another.
But instead the Mueller SCO had grand press conferences where they treated the ALLEGATIONS as fact.
But then a strange thing happened. One company named in one of the indictments had a US law firm appear on its behalf. With the Law Firm standing in as a Corporate Reprensentative -- as is allowed by law -- the Russian company pled "Not Guilty" and announced "Game On".
The Mueller SCO resisted having to prosecute the case on a variety of grounds -- losing each time.
The Mueller SCO then closed up shop and handed the burning bag of dog poop to the U.S. Attorney for DC.
Within months the U.S. Attorney dismissed the case.
What I typed above is the ENTIRETY of what the Mueller SCO "proved" about Russian "collusion" in the 2016 election -- exactly nothing.
Holy cow!!!!!!
So now @xx_xyathletics has been removed from all other platforms!!!! This company, these clothes are so subversive they won’t even let them advertise!!!
You’re not allowed to wear this shirt!!!
This is nuts!!!!
Participant in a soft-coup against the elected President of the U.S. based upon "information" known to be false within weeks of getting started.
Rather than shut it down, it persisted for nearly two years.
Agree with every word. Lockdowns were wholly disproportionate, unscientific and immensely destructive. Many of our current problems arise from these terrible interventions.
#ICYMI: Former USF Professor Sami Al-Arian, Deported for Terror Links: Israel Will Not Stop with Iran, Turkey Will Be Next; Soon America and Israel Will Cry for the War to Be Over
The economic illiteracy and overall idiocy of blue states keeps chasing away producers and high earners and creating a larger tax burden for the middle class.
Grow. The. Damn. Pie. You. Idiots.
Communism: "The film industry, we’re not letting it walk away."
Your team has raised taxes on Californians so much that the movie industry left awhile ago.
Catch up.
And change parties if you want more affordable production costs.
These are all people who are here illegally. They're the ones to whom your party opened the border. Remember? And I'm sure ICE would be happy to empty these detention centers and deport them faster if activist judges weren't trying hard to obstruct and keep them all here.
🚨FLASHBACK: Barksdale AFB is where @LenczyckiPhilip found two golf courses flanking the base owned by a CCP intelligence official.
All things CCP must be expelled from base proximity.
And the expelled from the USA.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/05/exclusive-ccp-intel-official-owns-golf-clubs-barksdale-afb/
IRS finally posted the 2023 domestic migration data, and people with another $20 billion in net income moved to Florida.
FBI Misled Court To Spy on Second Trump Campaign Adviser https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/03/20/fbi_misled_court_to_spy_on_second_trump_campaign_adviser_1171646.html
When you let your three year old write the lyrics for your next song. 😂
The Left is a parasitic Borg that loots the public treasury on behalf of an army of public and NGO employees who exacerbate the problems they purport to address at an ever burgeoning price tag. There is no effective countervailing force anywhere in Blue America.
Former SecDef Chuck Hagel is the tone-deaf clown who told US troops at Bagram AF Base in sharing the news of deserter Bo Bergdahl's release by the Taliban, "It's a happy day! We got one of our own back!" The troops’ reaction? Complete silence. No cheers, applause or clapping.
🚨New: A DHS spokesperson said, “ICE arrested Abdul Jalloh on November 27, 2018. He was in custody for 702 days, until ICE was forced to release him following a judge’s ruling that he could not be removed to his home nation of Sierra Leone. ICE can only detain illegals for the purpose of removal. Without third country removals, there was no possibility for this criminal to be removed or further detained.
“This case illustrates the importance of third country removals to public safety. Now, thanks to President Trump, criminals including murderers, gang members, rapists, pedophiles, and terrorists, who judges have ordered cannot return to their home countries, can be removed from the United States and sent to a third country.”
There is a culture war and it must be fought.
New to MilX? You missed the A-10 funding war, think tank establishment vs. “stubborn” warplane supporters. It was epic.
I stayed mostly out, just suggested giving them to the Merchant Marine to protect ships.
My take got laughed at THE hardest by the “experts” with PhDs.
California is ground zero for massive public assistance fraud. It’s been fueled and ignored by the Newsom administration.
Your friendly reminder that Kevin Clinesmith was let off with a wrist slap by…
(Wait for it)
…Judge Boasberg.
We definitely* did not “undercount” COVID deaths.
What *did* happen was virtually *every* hospital and morgue was testing every patient and body at the time for Covid … and then cross-referencing every death certificate with testing records to find even more among the supposed "negatives."
And let’s not forget they were using tests with cycle thresholds high enough to detect DNA from practically *anything*.
Oh, and they *had* to do it or risk losing federal funding.
And now some “researchers” have gone and trained an algorithm to recognize the “characteristics” of a Covid death under the above conditions — basically turning “Covid-related” into “anything in a hospital” — and then extrapolated that model to deaths in places that weren’t swabbing everything with and without a pulse … and of course they get “undercounting.”
Garbage in, garbage out isn’t a new concept.
And people still wonder why no one trusts “science” anymore.
186 Democrats just voted against a bill mandating that illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud be deported.
If only they cared as much about the welfare of Americans as the illegals whose votes they want.
When I want a critique of weaponized intelligence, I look to the bastion on non-politicized intelligence, John Brennan.