The left has moved on from the climate scam, to Gaza.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Took Long Enough
Vance has been removed from any more ability to continue to screw up the war. It will be interesting to see what kind of inroads he can make with the Democrat corruption.
It Begins
Texas Democrats want to shut down launches from Boca Chica.
Well, they won’t be able to do it before tomorrow’s flight.
Richard Posner
RIP.
51 Years On
Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald.
I remember it very distinctly; I was still living in Michigan at the time, attending junior college in Flint.
Impeaching Pete
What a pathetic joke this is.
https://t.co/OTdwjW9X2n
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) November 10, 2026
[Update a few minutes later]
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar: Military Leadership and the Constitutional Standard for Impeachment https://t.co/w0VtWIcV7s
— Supersonic Redheadš« (@Supersonic_Red) November 10, 2026
Do They Never Learn?
We’re setting ourselves up for something far worse than Pearl Harbor.
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) November 9, 2026
Go Out And Vote For The Crook
It’s important.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Well, I guess they voted for the wrong crooks.
And J.D. Vance’s post mortem is politically convenient to him, but nonsensical.
[Thursday-morning update]
What J.D. Vance got wrong.
[Update a few minutes later]
I decided to sleep on JD Vanceās post from yesterday before commenting on it substantively. I have done so, and given it substantial thought. My verdict? Here is what I believe that post actually was saying: āYeah we lost the election big time. But itās not my fault, itās the fault of the guy who made me who I am, and to whom I owe my entire political career. If only everybody had listened to me everything would have been OK. Oh yeah, Iām specifically throwing my boss under the bus, but I am also impliedly throwing Rubio and Hegseth under the bus too because I want to be President. No, Iām not going to talk about the way my lunatic belief that the Iranian mullahs could be reasoned with is really what brought us to this point. Iām also not going to talk about how my hatred of Israel and alliance with fellow Israel-haters and groyper-adjacent loons like Tucker chases away far more voters than it attracts. In other words, Iām not taking responsibility for anything and blaming everybody else. And Iām dropping this literally hours after the election is over so I can set the narrative now before anybody else has a chance to talk that says Iām the good guy, that MAGA is dead, and that Iām the leader of what comes next. No, I did not coordinate this with Trump, I just told him Iām going to do it. And he will say itās OK because if he does not heāll get savaged with reports that he has lost control of the Presidency, which was kind of what I wanted. Itās DC. Loyalty does not matter. Vote for me for President.ā Does loyalty matter? I believe it does, because if someone is disloyal to the man who made them, they will also be disloyal to the voters who put them into office. My 2c. (And yes, if Vance is the nominee Iāll still vote for him over communist jihadists, but now is the time to debate these kinds of issues inside our own movement.)
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) November 5, 2026
[Late-morning update]
“Vance wants an ‘honest conversation’; fine, here’s one.“
Who’s A Good Human?
This song is so damn catchy I could totally see this on a 100 top hits pop chart list. Who would play this at their wedding? I would; it beats the chicken dance. I think itās running neck and neck with āYouāre Too Sweet For Me.ā š
— Lori Gaye (@LoriGaye1) November 1, 2026
Civil Rights Update
Common use comes to December:
If lawmakers really want fewer murders, the hard work is somewhere else. Itās in the neighborhoods where so many of our homicides happen. Itās in broken families, missing fathers, and mental illness. If you tackle the underlying causes of homicide and drug deaths, you would also influence the mass shooting issue. Extremely rarely do lawmakers tackle these hard issues. A rifle ban is faster. You get a signing ceremony and a press release. Fixing the real problems takes a generation, and nobody gets a ribbon cutting for that.
The principle the founding era left us still works. Punish misuse, and leave the arm alone. A man who murders with a rifle should go to prison. A man who keeps one in his safe and takes it to the range on Saturday has done nothing wrong. A ban punishes the second man for what the first man did, and it multiplies that by 26 million.
On December 2 and 3, the Supreme Court will hear these cases. The Second Amendment isnāt whatās on trial. These bans are. The question is whether they can pass the test the Court has already written. And itās whether the Court meant what it said in Heller, in Caetano, in Bruen, and in Wolford. I think it did.
Cook County and Connecticut picked this hill. They picked one of the most popular rifles in America, from a category the FBI ties to only a small share of the murders it counts. They picked a test the Court already wrote, and they asked it to look the other way. In December, we find out whether that hill holds.
Fortunately, with this court, it’s quite unlikely to.