June 9, 2025

NOW THEY’VE GONE TOO FAR: Iranian Cities Ban Dog-Walking in Effort To Prevent Western Culture of Pet Ownership From Taking Hold.

Taking Tehran’s lead, which banned dog-walking in 2019 — though it is not evenly enforced, at least 17 cities in Iran announced this week that they also are banning dog-walking in public. Prosecutors in densely-populated cities like Isfahan, Qazvin, and Mazandaran have called dog-walking a public health violation.

Hamedan Prosecutor Abbas Najafi announced that domestic dogs are now banned in city parks, public places, and private cars, according to Iranian news sources. Violators could face prosecution.

“Walking with dogs” is a “violation of public rights” and “a threat to the comfort and tranquility of citizens,” Mr. Najafi reportedly said, adding, dog-walking is “anti-religious,” “reprehensible” and a “threat to public health.”

The police have been ordered to “systematically and physically seize vehicles carrying dogs,” reports IranWire.com, an English-language news agency monitoring Iran.

No way these people can be allowed to obtain nukes.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green 85

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Los Angeles Is What Happens When the Democrats Are Left In Charge. “Los Angeles is falling apart because the Democrats have no respect for the rule of law. They actually champion criminals and lawlessness. It’s their raison d’être. The riots in Los Angeles are precisely what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been urging the Democratic base to do. He should be locked up along with all of the rioters. As I wrote last week: Arrest all the Democrats.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green 129

SO HOW’S THAT RIOT STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Note the bump from just last week.

Posted at 8:51 am by Glenn Reynolds 113

YES:

The network of trainers, financiers, etc. behind this stuff should be treated as a criminal conspiracy by federal prosecutors, and broken up.

Posted at 8:49 am by Glenn Reynolds 109

HMM: Experts point to signs of Xi Jinping’s declining authority, which undermines his influence in U.S.-China negotiations.

In an interview with The Epoch Times on June 3, Wu Zuolai, a U.S.-based scholar and political commentator, offered a detailed analysis of what he sees as significant changes to Xi’s standing within the CCP.

According to Wu, Xi’s core leadership position has been notably weakened since the CCP’s Third Plenum meeting in July 2024, with a new internal counterweight emerging—led by reformist and moderate factions.

“There appears to be a temporary central group that has effectively sidelined Xi’s core authority,” Wu said.

He suggested that this reformist force likely draws strength from the political legacy of retired leaders such as Wen Jiabao and Hu Jintao, with support from select members of the Politburo and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s top advisory body.

“Look at the ongoing personnel reshuffling—it’s coming from all directions, not just Xi’s loyalists. Together, they form a diverse network of internal checks and balances,” he noted. “Many of those he previously promoted have been removed, suggesting a systematic effort to dismantle the foundations of Xi’s long-term rule.”

Wu described the shift not as open defiance, but as a quiet rebalancing of power, driven by personnel changes and policy adjustments aimed at curbing Xi’s cult of personality and policy extremism.

It’s almost impossible to say if there’s anything to this report. But the systems Deng established 40 years ago were meant to prevent the emergence of one-man rule by another Mao-type figure. I guess it’s possible something like that is happening again.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green 45

ANARCHO-TYRANNY:

Posted at 8:25 am by Glenn Reynolds 68

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds 36

DON SURBER: Fire and ICE: Democrats rioting will put California in play. “For a decade now, the media has libeled him as a racist for saying that Mexico and other nations are not sending their best. Republican strategists said they feared he would cost their party the Hispanic vote forever. It is now the most solidly pro-Trump demographic group in the country. MS-13, TdA and other Hispanic thugs live among legal Hispanic citizens. Desperate to turn this into 2020, Democrats side with the thugs, not with the citizens.”

Posted at 7:54 am by Glenn Reynolds 72

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Posted at 7:36 am by Helen Smith 4

UH-HUH: California Democrats push back on Trump’s decision to mobilize the National Guard.

“Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into LA County — not to meet an unmet need, but to manufacture a crisis. He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control,” Newsom said in a Sunday post on X, where he also urged people to “stay peaceful.”

Newsom’s comments come after Trump deployed the National Guard despite the governor’s opposition. Guard soldiers can be deployed by governors or the federal government, though it is unusual for a president to call the National Guard into federal service in a state where the governor objects, according to experts.

Several California Democrats criticized the administration’s response to the Los Angeles protests as “inflammatory,” “reckless” and escalatory.

The riots remain “fiery but mostly peaceful.”

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green 76

ICYMI:

Posted at 7:10 am by Glenn Reynolds 35

ICYMI: WAIT UNTL 2025-ERA GAVIN NEWSOM DISCOVERS WHAT GAVIN NEWSOM DID IN 2020!

UPDATE: From April of 2020:

As Jack Dunphy wrote in April of 2020: Crackdowns on Lone Surfers and Paddleboarders Threaten to Erode Respect for Law Enforcement Even Further.

UPDATE: Question asked:


(Original post from Ed.)

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds 2