January 18, 2026

FLORIDA SHERIFF EXPLAINS ANTI-ICE CHAOS: Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd lays out the simple facts that explain why riots erupted in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. And the villains don’t wear ICE uniforms.

Posted at 4:20 pm by Mark Tapscott

DISPATCHES FROM STARFLEET LEARING ACADEMY: John Nolte: Free Premiere of Trump-Hating Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Bombs.

Paramount+ made Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s premiere episode available for free and, after a full day, it has amassed only 81,000 views and a dreadful like-to-dislike ratio…

As of this writing, only 3.9K people have hit the “like” button, compared to the 10K that have hit the “dislike” button.

Gee, I wonder what the problem is?

Oh, wait…

What is that? A smug lesbian virtue-signaling with her strident Karen Power is supposed to be appealing, someone we can relate to, someone to aspire to? Does that teacher look like she should be training people to handle Starships or blowing whistles at ICE agents in Minnesota?

What a joke.

Everyone smelled this turd from a mile away, which is why no one bothered to tune in.

Nolte’s post went up on Friday; here’s where the likes and dislikes stand on its YouTube page as of Sunday afternoon:

I wonder how much money Paramount has left on the table by alienating men from the streaming iterations of the Trek franchise? In the 1970s, even prior to the massive Star Wars merchandizing blitz, Paramount made a fair chunk of change licensing the Star Trek brand to sell plenty of toys, books, blueprints, and wargames aimed at young males. (While Heineken apparently didn’t bother to seek Paramount’s permission to use Spock’s image to sell beer in 1975, an underemployed Leonard Nimoy being furious with the studio that he received zero royalties from the use of his image was a key sticking point that almost kept him out of the first Star Trek movie in 1979.) In the 1980s, sales of videotapes of the Trek movies and especially the old 1966 TV series were added to the mix. The same thing that someone recently posted on X about how Kathleen Kennedy killed Star Wars’ merchandizing and DVD sales dead by making the brand toxic for males applies to Trek as well:

Classical reference in headline:

Earlier, from Steve: I (Almost) Watched Starfleet Academy So You Don’t Have To.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

THEY REALLY SHOULD TEACH THAT IN LAW SCHOOL:

Posted at 3:55 pm by Stephen Green

HEH. AND DOUBLE HEH:

Posted at 3:36 pm by Stephen Green

I HOPE YOUR BEEPER DOESN’T GO OFF:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

SEEMS LIKE A FAIR TRADE:

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT!

The reaction to the left of California’s business community heading off to Galt’s Gulch has been instructive, though:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

“WELL, HERE YOU HAVE IT–THE EXACT MOMENT WHEN THE ARABS DECIDED TO INVENT A ‘PALESTINIAN PEOPLE’ FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESTROYING THE STATE OF ISRAEL:”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

“OH, THEY’RE ALREADY DOING IT:”

Posted at 10:23 am by Ed Driscoll

CONAN, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?

Posted at 10:14 am by Ed Driscoll