PRC’s Climate Tax Hitting Consumers Nationwide

By William Teach August 10, 2026 – 5:18 pm

The People’s Republic Of California likes to spread the pain out to all Americans. Well, not the rich ones who can afford to pay extra while cruising in their big gas guzzling SUVs and private jets

Gavin Newsom’s ‘hidden climate tax’ hitting Americans nationwide, lawmaker warns

A California lawmaker is fighting back against an environmental regulation that he says is raising costs for Americans across the country via a “hidden tax” on a variety of goods.

Rep. Vince Fong, R-Calif., is leading legislation to roll back a Biden administration-era regulatory rule that effectively allows California to levy massive cost penalties on shipping vessels docked in its ports.

“It’s a massive hidden climate tax that’s being imposed on every single ship that’s coming into California. And so all of those costs now are getting passed on to consumers,” Fong told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Our ports, they work through and process over 40% of all the containers that come into the United States.”

Fong’s legislation would target the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authorization allowing California to enforce the rule, called the Vessel At Berth regulation, which was granted in 2020 under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s tenure.

It lets the California Air Resources Board (CARB) force a number of large vessels, like cargo ships, to shut off their diesel engines and instead use a state-approved emissions strategy when docked in the Golden State’s ports. A failure to do so could result in potentially tens of thousands of dollars of penalties — costs that Fong said are then passed to people buying goods delivered by those ships.

Let’s not forget, the CARB is made up of a bunch on unelected bureaucrats appointed by Gavin, and totally unaccountable to the people of California. Or anyone else but Gavin. All to solve a mythical problem.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 10, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing desertification, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on “More than 200 homes damaged by solar panel fires in a year”

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AOC Shrugs Off Her Past Defund The Police Comments

By William Teach August 10, 2026 – 10:30 am

Is this a good indicator that she’s going to try running for president?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shrugs off past ‘defund the police’ comments, joking ‘Woke 1 was crazy’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., dismissed her and other socialist politicians’ past extreme controversial comments on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, joking that the “Woke 1” era was “crazy.”

Host Jon Karl asked Ocasio-Cortez to comment on Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong and her controversial comments, such as calling for Thanksgiving to be canceled or for prisons to be abolished. Hong has sought to backtrack on some of her past views as she seeks the Democratic nomination in her state.

“I have a local city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy,'” Ocasio-Cortez said laughing, adding, “And I think that what’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.”

“Saying now”, eh? Everything in the past was just yammering?

Karl followed by asking if there was a point when the socialist movement went “too far,” remarking that Ocasio-Cortez had previously supported defunding the police as well. Ocasio-Cortez clarified that most of these comments were made during the height of the COVID shutdowns with people more open to change.

“And I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that were had in that time were quite fruitful,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

She added, “I think that when we talk about crime today, it’s fundamentally different than the way that we talked about crime in bringing crime down, right? And I think that we all share the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible. I think that during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today. And I’m grateful that these candidates have the opportunity to present who they are to their electorate, and what they’re campaigning on in this moment.”

Well, the national DSA wants the police defunded. Gone. No more police. They also do not support AOC because she’s not sufficiently anti-Israel. She did say in response to NYC mayor Bill De Blasio asking for a $1 billion reduction for the NYPD: “Defunding police means defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools.” That seems rather specific.

When Obama criticized her and the other defund Democrats she replied “The whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable.” And you still have this on her own website

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the proponents of the call to defund the police, and a recent post on her Instagram story on the subject quickly went viral, after it was screenshotted and shared by Twitter user Ashley Quan. Asked, “What does an America with defunded police look like to you?” Ocasio-Cortez responded, “It looks like a suburb.”

Most of those suburbs are run by Republicans, have a mixed political structure, or are DINOs (Democrats in name only). Little d Democrats, who aren’t nutbags. And are full of people who are not leftist, violent, criminal wankers, so, they do not need as many police. But, anyhow, does this mean she’s running for president? The defund movement doesn’t work as well on a national stage. I guess we’ll have to see when it comes to other political beliefs of hers she might change.

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Climate Doom Is Making People Lonelier Or Something

By William Teach August 10, 2026 – 7:15 am

Have I seen this one before? I can’t find anything in the archives. Maybe I didn’t touch on this? Regardless, this seems like more insane scaremongering from the doomsday cult (FYI, I cut most of the links out of the story, can always see them at the link)

Climate change may be making us lonelier. How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections

Severe storms, heat waves and wildfires can shut down the social life of a community, flooding out festivals, canceling community events and keeping people indoors.

They’re also evidence of how climate change isn’t just changing the environments we all live in, but also impeding our ability to connect with one another.

Around the world, social connection is increasingly recognized as essential to individual and collective well-being. It keeps our brains active and can lower stress levels. During emergencies, social ties can also save lives. Relationships are conduits for timely information sharing, mutual aid and collective action. When temperatures soar, friends and neighbors share heat warnings, check on older adults or other community members who may need help, and coordinate community cooling shelters when formal systems are overwhelmed.

Yet, the effects of climate change may be weakening the very social fabric that helps communities thrive.

As extreme weather becomes more common and disruptive, the effects can impair relationships, interrupt routines and communication, and damage gathering places and the foundations of community traditions.

It’s called weather. Humans have done fine with the weather throughout our history. This is just the cult being the cult, doomsaying, blaming things that really have nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with the kiddies really just spending a lot of time alone at home, playing games, doing social media stuff, etc. Technology. Hell, they can be gathered in a group and they’ll all be staring at their phones. And COVID and the post-COVID world did not help.

Oh, and

No religious or spiritual life, too much focus on one’s own feelings, and the changing nature of work — with more remote and hybrid schedules —   were perceived causes of loneliness selected by around 50% of people who participated in the survey

Interestingly, Millennials are essentially the worst for loneliness, with Gen Z being more adapted. It ain’t global boiling.

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“Faith” Leaders Rally Against North Carolina Requiring Law Enforcement To Work With NICE

By William Teach August 10, 2026 – 7:00 am

Why does it seem that so many “faith” leaders seem to take the view of lawlessness and Leftism?

Faith leaders gather in Raleigh in opposition of immigration bill aimed at state agencies

Clergy and faith leaders gathered Saturday at Halifax Mall in downtown Raleigh for a prayer vigil for law enforcement and immigrant communities affected by a new law aimed at cracking down on undocumented immigrants in North Carolina.

With voices lifted and heads bowed, the event was a show of support from faith leaders for those affected by Senate Bill 153, a law that requires state agencies, including the State Highway Patrol, to cooperate with ICE.

“This is not what state troopers signed up for,” Rev. Joel Simpson from United Methodist Church of Taylorsville said. “It makes their responsibility even greater while pulling them away from good and important work they’re already doing across our state.”

The bill became law in June when Republican House lawmakers voted to override Gov. Josh Stein’s veto.

All 153 does is require key state law enforcement agencies, the State Highway Patrol, Department of Public Safety, Department of Adult Correction, and State Bureau of Investigation, to enter into formal 287(g) agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That’s it in terms of cooperation. They aren’t being tasked with going out and rounding up illegals, but, simply informing NICE when they catch one for something else, and holding them.

It also bans NC governments, all the way down to localities, as well as the UNC school system, from acting as sanctuary jurisdictions. Finally, it bans illegal aliens from receiving state benefits, including Medicaid, housing assistance, child care subsidies, and more.

Becky Showalter, who held a sign amongst the crowd, said she worries about the tough decisions officers may be forced to make and what it could mean for immigrants.

“When immigrant populations are not going to go to law enforcement now to report crimes because they’re afraid that they’re going to be taken away, we’re all less safe for that,” Showalter said.

Well, they can always leave the US and go elsewhere if the illegals are concerned

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 9, 2026 – 1:53 pm

…is  an Evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on “Tucker Carlson And The Great Third-Party Fantasy Of 2028”

It’s big truck week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 9, 2026 – 8:58 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the squirrels are barking from the back deck. This pinup is some AI creation, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Change Dispatch: Decades Of Climate Change Lies Still Drive The Narrative
  2. Jo Nova: The Great Battery Bungle: Taxpayers Paid Billions for Batteries the Grid Can’t Use
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That: Why Has It Been So Hot This Summer?
  4. Gatestone Institute: Making Policy: Marxist Rainbows and Mob Shock Troops
  5. Geller Report: Terror Group Muslim Brotherhood Celebrates Election of Abdul El Sayed
  6. Irons In The Fire: Ah, more wonders from that well-run-by-communists city of Los Angeles,
  7. Jihad Watch: Media describes Massachusetts Muslim migrant rapist as ‘delivery man’
  8. Legal Insurrection: As Latin America Shifts Towards Israel, New Colombian President Promises Embassy Move To Jerusalem
  9. Moonbattery: Coca-Cola Bans God From Customized Cans
  10. neo-neocon: Primaries versus the general
  11. Newsbusters: CNN’s Ward: Science Says Images of Mass Invasion of Spain Trigger Heartless Response
  12. Pacific Pundit: Far-left Washington Post panics over Francesca Hong – says taxpayers will flee Wisconsin is Hong is elected
  13. Powerline: The incredible shrinking government
  14. The American Conservative: On the Death and Consolations of Reading
  15. And last, but, not least, The Gateway Pundit has “REPORT: More Than HALF of New York Students Grades 3-5 Failed Basic Reading Tests This Year”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Good News: NICE Rounded Up Over 700 Criminal Illegals In Atlanta Area

By William Teach August 9, 2026 – 7:00 am

This must make Democrats very upset

Georgia ICE sweep nabs over 700 criminal illegal aliens, including sex offenders, child abusers

Federal immigration officers arrested more than 1,200 illegal immigrants in the Atlanta, Georgia, area, including 720 who DHS said had been convicted of or charged with crimes.

Speaking on “Fox & Friends,” Marcos Charles, executive associate director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, said the sweep took violent criminals, including sex offenders and child abusers, off the streets.

“We arrested over 1,200 aliens, illegal aliens, out in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. More than half of those people had criminal histories,” Charles said.

“We’re talking about sex crimes, assault and battery, some with DUI convictions, domestic violence. These individuals needed to be taken off the street, not only because they’re criminals, but because they are here illegally in the United States.”

The Department of Homeland Security announced online that the sweep, Operation Safe Community – Atlanta, focused on criminal illegal immigrants.

Too bad that NICE can’t confine them to the homes of Democrats calling to abolish NICE.

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Islamic Extremists Like El-Sayed Are The Future Of The Dem Party

By William Teach August 8, 2026 – 4:50 pm

In 25 years we’ve gone from Islamic jihadis attacking the US, taking down the Twin Towers, damaging the Pentagon, and killing 2,996 on that fateful day to the Democrats deciding to let them into the US, to bring them in, and embrace them, and then put them in office

Ron Fournier: El-Sayed Type Candidates Are the Future of the Democratic Party for Better or Worse

Former political reporter Ron Fournier discusses Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on “Morning Joe,” describing him as one of the most talented political campaigners he has covered.

WILLIE GEIST, ‘MORNING JOE’ CO-HOST: So, Ron, talk a little bit about, if you would, about Abdul El-Sayed. Obviously, there’s been this national attempt in the state of Michigan to paint him as a radical, and I think some people do not disagree, obviously, with his views on Israel, for example. He has some things to answer for there.

But what kind of public servant has he been? What kind of candidate has he been? And then what kind of, potentially, United States senator would he be for Michigan?

RON FOURNIER, FORMER POLITICS REPORTER: I use the word radical in the sense of populism, that both parties, because of how dysfunctional our politics are and how weak our economy and our way of life is in America now, there’s a push from both extremes to have a more populist movement. Abdul El-Sayed is a, as a public servant, relatively untested. He’s been a public health doctor in Wayne County, in Detroit. (WT note: he’s not an actual doctor) (snip)

He’s very mission- and values-driven. He’s somebody to watch, whether he wins or lose today. He’s the type of candidate that’s the future of the Democratic Party, for better or worse.

There’s video of this at the link, but, yeah, we see this with the wackos in The Squad, the Jew haters, the Islamic extremists like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. The Dems sold their souls, an so much of this is being driven by the uber-white, affluent liberals, who one would think would be smart enough to see the danger of what this Islamic push is about, but, no, they let themselves be indoctrinated in college, which is why most working class and minorities did not actually vote for El-Sayed.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 8, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area where the forest is dying due to climate doom, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post on “I Must Apologize To Bernie Sanders”

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