March 19, 2025

DON SURBER: Mobius Strip Journalism: Sitting on $13 billion, Johns Hopkins University cries poverty. NBC sobs. “Here is what they didn’t say: Johns Hopkins has a $13 billion endowment that grew by $2.5 billion in the last fiscal year. That increase was triple the $800 million in savings U.S. taxpayers will enjoy by dethroning this welfare queen. Johns Hopkins, railroad millionaire and banker, deserved a better legacy than what the greed of these craven little cowards have done to the hospital and university he founded.”

Posted at 10:13 am by Glenn Reynolds 18

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM PART II: Today in Domestic Terrorism: an Online Tool for Torching Teslas. “If you’re a lefty just itching to do violence upon your fellow Americans who A) Have the gall to disagree with you politically, and B) Own a Tesla, today is your lucky day to pop open a browser tab and find a nearby victim.”

Posted at 10:09 am by Stephen Green 42

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Teslas set on fire with Molotov cocktails and shot with gun in Las Vegas attack.

A suspect armed with a gun and Molotov cocktails launched a “targeted attack” against a Tesla location in Las Vegas early Tuesday, spray painting “resist,” firing several shots and torching multiple cars, authorities said.

Gunshots and flames erupted at the Tesla Collision Center, at 6260 Badura Ave., at 2:45 a.m. in the latest violent incident involving property associated with Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and adviser to President Donald Trump.

“This was a targeted attack against a Tesla facility, ” LVMPD Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren told reporters. “We do believe that it is isolated at this time. We do not believe there is further threat to the general public.”

Unless you drive a Tesla, I guess.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green 146

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: A Nation, Not A Side Quest. We’re lucky to have Elon to help save us, but let’s turn America into a nation that doesn’t need saving.

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Posted at 9:11 am by Glenn Reynolds 48

YEP: Left Ramping Up the Domestic Terrorism Something Fierce.

Draw them out, arrest them, prosecute them, go after their funders.

Posted at 9:06 am by Glenn Reynolds 154

“NOT AN ‘ELECTION WEEK'”: CA law giving mail ballots a week after Election Day to arrive is illegal, lawsuit says.

“Federal law requires an Election Day – not an ‘Election Week,’” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the same release. “California’s counting of ballots that arrive a full seven days after Election Day is unlawful, encourages fraud, and undermines voter confidence in election outcomes.”

The lawsuit is similar to others Judicial Watch has launched across the country, also challenging extended vote-by-mail receipt and counting deadlines.

In a lawsuit against a deadline extension law in Mississippi, Judicial Watch secured a ruling in their favor from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which declared counting ballots received after Election Day in federal races violated federal law.

In Illinois, Judicial Watch challenged a vote-by-mail law, which forces election officials to count all mail-in ballots received up to two weeks after Election Day, even if the ballots don’t include a postmark proving they were mailed by Election Day, as otherwise required by law.

Judicial Watch, along with U.S. Rep. Michael Bost, R-Illinois, lost in the lower courts. However, they have appealed those rulings to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court is currently awaiting a response brief from Illinois state officials defending the law. The court set a deadline of April 4 to receive the state of Illinois’ response.

In the meantime, Judicial Watch has partnered with Issa to open a third front in the fight to end the counting of vote-by-mail ballots that come in long after Election Day.

Representative democracy requires trust in the system, and California’s system (among others’) is untrustworthy.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green 40

THESE ARE ALL GOOD QUESTIONS:

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Posted at 8:29 am by Glenn Reynolds 96

MANNY KLAUSNER, RIP:  I learned yesterday evening that Manny Klausner has passed away at the age of 85.  He was a wonderfully optimistic soul and a great ally in the fight for liberty and equal protection under the law–the happiest of warriors.  It was impossible not to love him.  More on Manny here.

Posted at 7:48 am by Gail Heriot 0

CHANGE? Germany votes for historic boost to defence spending.

State government representatives in the upper house, the Bundesrat, still need to approve the moves – also by a two-thirds majority – before they officially become law. That vote is set for Friday.

Friedrich Merz, the man behind these plans and who is expected to soon be confirmed as Germany’s new chancellor, told the lower house during Tuesday’s debate that the country had “felt a false sense of security” for the past decade.

“The decision we are taking today… can be nothing less than the first major step towards a new European defence community,” he said, adding that it includes countries that are “not members of the European Union”.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the vote “excellent news”.

Speaking at a press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, she said the vote “sends a very clear message to Europe that Germany is determined to invest massively in defence”.

Frederiksen meanwhile called it “fantastic news for all Europeans”.

It will be fantastic news if the bill passes the upper house and Berlin actually follows through. Even then, there’s still Germany’s ongoing deindustrialization, birth dearth, and immigration crisis to deal with.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green 70

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS WORLD, YOU’RE FEELING THE CHANGE OF THE GUARD:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds 66

IF WESTERN MILITARIES WERE ALLOWED TO WIN, THEY ALWAYS WOULD. THEN THE WEST WOULD RULE TRIUMPHANT, WITH FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE, AND WE CAN’T HAVE THAT.

Now that the West’s governments have been sufficiently corrupted — *cough* Keir Starmer *cough* — they may be allowed to win again.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds 72

BAH. HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN CENSORING AND CANCELLING ALL THE WAY DOWN FOR DECADES:  Tim Roth: Trump Will Censor Artists.

And we haven’t seen much in the way of art out of it for a long time.

Posted at 6:26 am by Sarah Hoyt 63