NICK PLUMB: Foreign students and H-1B spouses sweating $1,800 premium processing fees and downloading case trackers just to get their OPT/H4/GC EADs so Americans can be displaced quicker.

This is what the “talent shortage” actually looks like.

Foreign students and H-1B spouses sweating $1,800 premium processing fees and downloading case trackers just to get their OPT/H4/GC EADs so Americans can be displaced quicker.

The entire cottage industry of EAD trackers,… pic.twitter.com/YU8J436Pkn

— Nick Plumb (@PlumbNick) August 11, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: Better to be a poor writer with a soul than a great one who is just a product of the machine (not that AI is anything close to great writing).

So many people these days, people I otherwise respect, use AI to write these days. Anyone who has read even a bit of AI writing can always tell when an article is machine-generated. Better to be a poor writer with a soul than a great one who is just a product of the machine (not… https://t.co/DOCWO1qr9I

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) August 10, 2026

HANDRE: Cash for Clunkers destroyed $2.4 billion in working capital in 2009. The government paid dealers to pour sodium silicate into 690,000 perfectly functioning engines -- rendering them permanently inoperable.

Cash for Clunkers destroyed $2.4 billion in working capital in 2009. The government paid dealers to pour sodium silicate into 690,000 perfectly functioning engines -- rendering them permanently inoperable.

These weren't junkyard cars. The program required trade-ins to be…

— Handre (@Handre) March 31, 2026

Cash for Clunkers destroyed $2.4 billion in working capital in 2009. The government paid dealers to pour sodium silicate into 690,000 perfectly functioning engines -- rendering them permanently inoperable. These weren't junkyard cars. The program required trade-ins to be drivable and insured. You had working vehicles that poor families desperately needed, and bureaucrats systematically destroyed them to boost GM sales (while GM was under government ownership, naturally).

The environmental impact? Pure theater. Most clunkers got 18+ mpg -- hardly gas guzzlers. Meanwhile, building new cars generates 25 tons of CO2 per vehicle before they leave the factory. The program likely increased net emissions while making transportation less affordable for everyone earning under $50k. 

There is something important here: St. George Police Department officially uses automated license-plate readers (ALPRs). Its policy says the system automatically detects plates and can be used to identify stolen/wanted vehicles, stolen plates, missing persons, active warrants, and for “suspect interdiction” and electronic surveillance.

So if you personally experienced a St. George officer notice your California plate and then follow you for three blocks, it is reasonable to consider the possibility that the plate attracted attention. That still doesn't tell us why the officer followed you—the plate could have triggered an automated alert, or the officer could simply have decided to take a closer look.

The ad for las Vegas, "What happens in vegas, stays in Vegas."  No it doesn't.  It can stick to you like stink and never leave you.

Reacted ❤️ to “I'm convinced that "community policing" is a constellation of forces that put direct but unseen pressure on citizen. 1) electronic surveillance, like traffic tickets and a general panopticon surveillance of all activity to secure courtroom evidence, 2) word of mouth from any and all citizen in the city organized a la Stasi as in "Lives of Others," 3) squad cars cruise the blvd to get real-time compliance, muscle the occasional vagabond, or answer complaints called into the PD, 4) City Council, 5) Zoning, Chamber of Commerce, & grocery chain surveillance under the guise of "theft protection."  Did I miss anything?”

RIP WHEELER: How America Traded Logging Jobs for a Perpetual Firefighting Economy

Don’t think for a second those pushing this through as legislation didn’t understand what the future costs would be.

Sadly, just like single-use zoning fanatics in the 1960s/70s, the loony ‘left’ is always looking for a Utopian cause to champion, to the detriment of everyone… https://t.co/rqYcsvSZoG

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) August 10, 2026