Is it just me, or does this man look like he's a couple of cans short of a six-pack?

How it is that we have paramedic services, when we didn't 60 years ago. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

How it is that we have paramedic services, when we didn't 60 years ago.

Almost enough to make one sympathize with Luigi Mangione.

See How Your Values Stack Up Against the Rest of America www.wsj.com/articles/see...

"This House" is obviously not the House of Representatives.

Trump's War

As if we needed more reasons to despise DJT. He overlooks Fisk and Gould and the gold scandal in the Grant administration, but maybe US Grant wasn't that personally involved. reason.com/2026/07/09/t...

Republicans have been trying to kill the ACA for 16 years. It looks as though they may finally be successful. Why Obamacare premiums are set for another double-digit jump www.axios.com/2026/07/08/o...

So instead we have a band of thieves, reactionaries and lunatic cultists looting and pillaging our nation. I guess that narrowly, strictly speaking, he is right.

For those of us related to vaccine skeptics, this from The Lancet will confuse them with facts. The Lancet is, in my experience, one of the gold-standard journals. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Headline on RT: "Israeli military seeking space laser weapon" If they get one, they should be obligated to name it for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I find it noteworthy, but hardly surprising, that right-wing non-profits "engaged in fraud, violence, improper politics, foreign collusion or terrorism" are excluded from prosecution by the Trump administration. justthenews.com/accountabili...

Too close to the truth to be funny.

From The Economist: A Rusty Propaganda Machine open.substack.com/pub/kaltoons...

The hot new thing in financials is "perp" futures. Anyone who watches cop procedurals on TV knows that "perp" stands for "perpetrator," the one who committed the crime. Seems appropriate.

Detailed breakdown of the Memorandum of Understanding, by someone without a dog in the fight. Or, details of the surrender document, according to your tastes in the matter. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

[A]n “insidious plot” that was “motivated by a personal vendetta and their desire to gain fame.” Sounds like a description of the last 15 years of Donald Trumps activities. www.notus.org/donald-trump...

Ramirez nailed it:

Some interesting statistics on gun ownership versus violent crime. Stipulated: violent crime, in spite of FUD from DC, has been on the decrease for some time, so increase in people carrying can hardly be credited for all of the effect. www.realclearwire.com/articles/202...

Gun control and crime rates arguments led me to think. I am of a different era. For my cohort, JFK's "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country" was a call to arms. In this era, it could only be a rebuke.

Is it a coincidence that the increase in national-level conflicts seems to run parallel to the increase in far-right political movements around the world? www.opb.org/article/2026...

Nice idea, but the cartoonist got the handedness wrong. There is no way Bibi or Trump would pass up an opportunity to turn to the right.

For the other techno-nerds among us, Techspot has a collection of famous sayings by Big Tech leaders of their times. www.techspot.com/article/3134...

Just when you think you couldn't respect them less, they excel themselves. reason.com/2026/06/08/s...

<snark>After all, why try to protect an election that "lefties" are just going to steal anyway?</snark> www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Is it any wonder that the war in Iran keeps going on...and on.... The surge in Renewables is obviously just an unintended consequence. bbc.com/news/article...

Isn't redistributing the wealth produced by others the description of what senior management and oligarchs do for a living?

The rest of the story on the "Anti-Weaponization Fund." When Shakespeare wrote "A Comedy of Errors" he surely did not have this in mind. The only good news out of the whole debacle is that it finally woke up Congress to the fact that "DJT" does not actually spell "God." reason.com/volokh/2026/...

The next chapter in the "Weaponization Fund" debacle. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

A cogent and detailed explanation of "treason" and "sedition." Applied to Trump, but should be a caveat to many here who throw the terms around without apparently realizing what they actually mean. reason.com/2026/05/30/t...

Headline on NOTUS: "Congressional Republicans Leave Their Ballroom and Go Home" It's been obvious for some time that the Congressional Republicans don't need ball room.

And they will be known as oligarchs -- or politicians, who are frequently chattels of the oligarchs.

"[T]he Fortress is an armored menace that looks poised to terrorize the streets." Designed as the new official ICE vehicle? www.caranddriver.com/news/a714315...

"George Washington actively opposed the U.S. Mint putting his face on coinage, as it would've resembled the reverence reserved for monarchs." Obviously, Trump is not a George Washington, and the reverence is the point here. reason.com/2026/05/29/t...

More on what's wrong with the "Anti-Weaponization Fund." reason.com/volokh/2026/...

MAGA, of course, will claim that the drop is from deporting all those "illegal aliens," rather than the accumulated effect of years of effort when Trump was out of office. theconversation.com/us-violent-c...

A cogent explanation of the root cause of many of the things in Government that we hate. wapo.st/4faKj6y

A description of the "Anti-Weaponization settlement": reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Is there any truth to the rumor that the reason the Donald didn't show up for his son's wedding is that they denied him droit de seigneur?

The difference between a President and a Fuehrer is the same as the difference between "jawboning" and "strong-arming." This administration goes in for "strong-arming."

JD Vance: "Why don‘t we prosecute people who violate the law?" Because they are in the administration. That's why.

This ought to ring a bell for a lot of us. www.vice.com/en/article/i...

This can explain a lot of what is posted here versus what is posted on X. FWIW, I line up on the "correspondence" side. reason.com/2026/05/15/t...

This lays out the situation in Europe. It is easy to draw parallels with the situation in the US. The warning that overusing the terms lessens their meaning should be taken carefully. We do that a lot here, and it is not helpful, except for venting. www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...

It's also admitting that the Epstein files contain evidence of criminal acts. Blanche continues Bondi's practice of sitting on the files, keeping them from being used in prosecution for, at the very least, statutory rape.

Is it just me, or does the SCotUS gerrymandering decision saying that it is unconstitutional to redistrict to favor a particular race also apply to redistricting to favor the white race?

Judicial Watch is crowing about cleaning 800,000 "dirty" names from Oregon voter rolls. If they are working at the state level, the bulk of those "dirty" registrations are going to be in rural areas, where election officials are understaffed and under-budgeted, so can't check up on everyone. 1\4

I had not thought of "American Caesar" until I saw this, by Ilya Somin. If Trump is Caesar, then is Bannon his Brutus, and Miller his Cassius? reason.com/volokh/2026/...

As a longtime self-anointed lexicographer, I have to say that Hart got it right this time.