SHOTS AT COLBERT? CBS Reminisces About Johnny Carson as Late Night Withers.

After weathering a week of blistering heat from the rest of the liberal media following the announcement that The Late Show and host Stephen Colbert were being kicked to the curb, CBS seemed to respond in the form of a love letter to Johnny Carson and reminiscing about what late night used to look like. CBS News Sunday Morning put together a piece remarking on how Carson brought people “peace,” “hope,” and laughter at the end of the day instead of being a divisive political silo.

“With so much talk about the future of late-night TV shows just now, we thought it was the perfect time for Jim Axelrod to take a look back to a time when late night was the place to be and ruled by a most singular man,” proclaimed fill-in host Tracy Smith as she introduced the segment.

Walking into the legendary Studio 1, Axelrod marveled at space. “It may not look like much now, but once upon a time, this was where the king of comedy held court,” he beamed. “As Johnny Carson presided over not just late night, but American popular culture.”

Something no current late night host could boast.

How is Colbert’s ride into the sunset going? Stephen Colbert continues to be bested by Gutfeld after announcing cancellation.

Fox News’s Gutfeld! topped the late-night ratings this week, even after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert saw a bump in viewership since Colbert announced the show’s cancellation.

Colbert’s show attracted an average of 1.9 million total viewers. In the week since the show was confirmed to end in May 2026, viewership bumped up to 2.4 million according to Nielsen ratings.

Still, this bump wasn’t enough to beat Gutfeld!, which saw a 3.1 million viewers tune in this week. Almost 400,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 chose Greg Gutfeld over Colbert. The Late Show reported less than 300,000 viewers within this demographic.

Probably for the best for all concerned that no one is watching: Canceled Colbert Rips on Paramount With Stream of Pee Jokes.

Stephen Colbert emptied his bladder all over Paramount with a stream of pee-related jokes, tearing into the network for cancelling his show and bowing to President Donald Trump to get an $8.6 billion merger with Skydance Media approved.

Reacting with a spit-take to news that the Paramount-Skydance merger had been approved by the FCC following the cancellation of his show, Colbert quipped, “I’m cancelled!? What!? And I’m being told I already knew that, but I spent the weekend huffing airport glue.”

Composing himself, he added, “I’m thrilled for everyone at Paramount that the deal went through and very excited for our newly announced official combined Paramount-SkyDance stock ticker name, which will go from ‘PARA’ to ‘PSKY.

“Soon, PSKY will blast hot streaming content right in your face with hits like Yellowstone, Yellowjackets, and the full variety of water sports. I predict PSKY will become synonymous with number one. PSKY: a pitcher of warm entertainment.”

And thus, the would-be successor to David Letterman comes full circle:

OR, RICHER PEOPLE LIVE LONGER AND LIKE TO LIVE NEAR WATER: Living near water could mean you’ll live longer.

CAN AMERICA BE GREAT AGAIN WITHOUT A RETURN TO THE MOON?

July 20 marked 56 years since Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walked across that “magnificent desolation,” to borrow the words Aldrin radioed back to millions of television viewers on Earth.

From the summer of 1969 to the end of 1972, through six Apollo Moon landing missions, the United States of America placed no less than a dozen human beings on the surface of the Moon.

The rest of the world could only watch in awe – or, in the Soviet Union’s case, envy.

With the lunar dust kicked up by those first explorers long since settled, Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” is at risk of reverting to merely “one small step.”

That will be the case if America retreats from its admirable legacy of lunar exploration.

Put simply, NASA’s “rebooting” of the Moon is in trouble: the Artemis program aims to return American astronauts to the Moon, this time to establish a sustainable presence. But projected budget cuts and layoffs, including senior leadership – and an enormous amount of difficult-to-replace human capital – have translated to delays, scaled-back missions, and an overall “brain drain” that place the administration and its mission on shaky footing.

America will eventually get back to the moon; but it could well be via the private efforts of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, rather than bloated post-Apollo version of NASA.

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES REIGNS SUPREME: Israel Might Annex Gaza… All Because of France?

SPACE: SpaceX launches 24 satellites to polar areas to boost Internet access.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology.

There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the two uncrewed spacecraft have made a succession of longer flights. The first made its longest and latest flight from 2020 to 2022 over a span of 908 days. The second flew more recently, landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 7 after 434 days in orbit.

It’s likely that the first of these two vehicles, both of which are about 29 feet (9 meters) long and roughly one-quarter the length of one of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters, will launch next month.

Over the past decade and a half, the Space Force has largely remained silent about the purpose of this space plane, flying classified payloads and providing only limited information about the purpose of each flight.

However, for this flight, OTV-8, the military has provided a bit more detail about its intentions. The vehicle will fly with a service module that will expand its capacity for experiments, allowing the space plane to host payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Innovation Unit.

The mission’s goals include tests of “high-bandwidth inter-satellite laser communications technologies.”

“OTV-8’s laser communications demonstration will mark an important step in the US Space Force’s ability to leverage commercial space networks as part of proliferated, diversified, and redundant space architectures,” said US Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman in a statement. “In so doing, it will strengthen the resilience, reliability, adaptability, and data transport speeds of our satellite communications architectures.”

Meanwhile: China adds new satellites to Guowang constellation, eyes accelerated launch rate.

GREAT MOMENTS IN LAW AND ORDER: Cincinnati’s DEI-Loving Police Chief Gives Jaw-Dropping Statement on Viral Attack.

Is there some requirement that left-wing cities have female police chiefs who are terrible at their jobs? It seems like every time a story goes national involving crime in a major blue city, the same archetype is always in charge. Are we to believe that these women are truly just the best of the best and being selected on merit alone when around 88 percent of police officers are men? New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Oakland, Portland, Louisville, and Seattle all have female police chiefs. That’s not because they were selected without gender bias in mind.

The president’s son responded:

Maybe one of the reasons there is so much crime and violence on the streets of Cincinnati is because they have this absolute moron as their Police Chief? https://t.co/9I5isxbBzZ

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 29, 2025

ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT WOMEN DO ALL THE EMOTIONAL LABOR IN A RELATIONSHIP HAS NEVER BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH A WOMAN: “Never heard of mankeeping? I hadn’t either but apparently it’s the hip new topic after the word was coined last year by a postdoc at Stanford.”

Well, postdocs at elite universities are surely a source of relationship insight. “The term, coined by Angelica Puzio Ferrara, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, has taken off online. It describes the work women do to meet the social and emotional needs of the men in their lives, from supporting their partners through daily challenges and inner turmoil, to encouraging them to meet up with their friends.”

GOOD: DOJ, FBI Shut Down Disgusting Websites That Attracted Hundreds of Thousands.

IT’S COME TO THIS: MSNBC Goes Full Racist, Attacking Sydney Sweeney Ad Campaign.

Remember how, in recent years, nearly every high-profile “racist incident” that dominated the headlines eventually turned out to be a false flag or outright hoax? Well, nothing’s changed. The outrage-obsessed left has apparently run out of real things to be angry about, so now they’re inventing reasons to keep the mob frothing.

Case in point: the latest American Eagle ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. According to some perpetually offended leftists, it’s somehow Nazi propaganda. Yes, really.

Yeah, I don’t get it either. In one spot, Sweeney says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My genes are blue.” From that, the usual outrage machine decided the campaign’s playful “great genes” riff is secretly pushing white genetic superiority.

And naturally, the gatekeepers of left-wing culture are more than happy to amplify this.

MSNBC producer Hannah Holland, for one, has written a scathing critique of Sweeney’s casting. Instead of acknowledging the innocuous nature of a celebrity endorsement, Holland frames the entire campaign as a symptom of what she calls “an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness.” She writes, “Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is an uncomfortable truth about who we’re really elevating.”

How can Sweeney’s ad be racist? At no point does she utter the words “golf” and “Chicago.”

Incidentally, here’s Hannah Holland, on the reich, right.

What exactly is the Comcast-owned network implying here?

YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP, THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Ron DeSantis: At Least 100 Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz Have Been ‘Fully Deported.’

DeSantis has continued to champion the quick work of the Florida Division of Emergency Management which transformed the existing Miami-Dade Collier Training Facility in the Florida Everglades into a deportation hub to house and process migrants illegally residing in the country. The governor previously said that deportations were already underway, noting that most of the individuals housed at the facility are military-aged males.

“These are folks — and a lot of them have of criminal records. But that’s what’s happening here, and I think it’s been very effective now,” he said.

DeSantis has since confirmed that 100 individuals who were processed and housed at the facility “have fully been deported,” noting that the Department of Homeland Security is largely handling the departures for deportation.

“There’s an aggressive… deportation schedule,” DeSantis said. “That’s what you’re seeing is starting to occur here down at Alligator Alcatraz.”

Faster, please.

AND THERE ARE MORE IDIOTS THAN GUNS: Sen. Kennedy Says ‘We Need More Idiot Control’ After NYC Shooting.

AARON HANSCOM IS BACK: Nightmare in America’s Cities. “The system should be working to bring justice to victims like Cecilia and her family. Instead, Caldwell says, it too often seems to be helping the criminals. Is that just an exaggeration? Well, consider the SAFE-T Act in Illinois, which eliminated cash bail throughout the state.”

KEEP YOUR KNIVES SHARP: Orange Ninja 4-Stage Knife Sharpener. #CommissionEarned

WOEING: Boeing division handling Trump fighter jet program braces for strike after union rejects contract offer.

The International Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), representing 3,200 employees across three St. Louis-area facilities, turned down a proposal that included a 20% general wage increase over four years, a $5,000 ratification bonus and expanded vacation time and sick leave benefits, according to Reuters.

IAM did not specify which parts of the offer led to the rejection, stating only that it “fell short of addressing the priorities and sacrifices” of its members.
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Boeing’s defense division has been expanding operations in the St. Louis region to support the production of the U.S. Air Force’s new F-47 fighter jet, after securing the Pentagon contract earlier this year.

Developing…

MAKE THEM PAY: Janitors trapped by pro-Palestinian mob reach settlement with Columbia University.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Lockheed Has Something ‘Magical,’ Costly as Hell, and Totally Secret Up its Sleeve. “Defense giant Lockheed Martin just reported a rare — and yuge — quarterly loss of $1.6 billion, but CEO James D. Taiclet sounded unfazed thanks to a ‘magical’ classified aeronautics program he claims will create a ‘game-changing capability for our joint U.S. and international customers.'”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: LEVOIT – Tower Fan for Bedroom – Quiet for Sleep. #CommissionEarned

THIS WILL GO OVER WELL IN ALABAMA: Faculty form group to defend DEI at the University of Alabama in response to anti-DEI law.

UPPING THE STAKES:

BREAKING 🔴

Within 48 hours, Jerusalem is expected to make a critical decision: if Hamxs refuses to release the hostages, Israel may move to formally annex parts of Gaza.

Unlike military withdrawals, which can be executed at any time, annexation is a near-permanent step. Under… pic.twitter.com/BSBRAWO35i

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 29, 2025

That map predates Israel’s 2005 exit from Gaza, presumably to make a point.

EXCLUSIVE: New Data Shows Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens Have Made a ‘Real Impact on Public Safety,’ DHS Official Announces.

During the first six months of 2025, homicides fell 17% across 30 U.S. cities when compared with the first half 2024, according to the Council on Criminal Justice, an independent research organization, which has just published its midyear report on crime trends in U.S. cities.

In the first six months of 2025, there were “10% fewer reported aggravated assaults, 21% fewer gun assaults, 10% fewer sexual assaults, and 3% more domestic violence incidents” when compared to the time last year, according to the report.

Robberies are also down 20% and carjacking fell by 24%. Vehicle theft was rising from the summer of 2020 through 2023, according to the Council on Criminal Justice, but the trend began reversing in 2024.

Since Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, the Trump administration has arrested nearly 300,000 illegal aliens and deported more than 239,000, according to DHS.

Fewer criminals, less crime — who’d a thunk it?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Time Once Again for a Quick Jasmine Crockett-Bashing Break. “Sure, it’s the Republicans’ fault that she’s an off-putting windbag.”

BY ITS FRUIT, THE TREE IS KNOWN:

It’s deliberate. The GOP Senate is slow-walking nominees on purpose. https://t.co/93bMq20MAO

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 29, 2025

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Trump is bursting the bureaucrats’ DC bubble, one agency at a time.

SMART: Sen. Josh Hawley introduces bill to send tariff rebate checks to Americans.

Hawley submitted his legislation after pledging to do so Friday following President Donald Trump’s remark to reporters that he would be interested in sending a tariff-related rebate check to Americans.

“Like President Trump proposed, my legislation would allow hard-working Americans to benefit from the wealth that Trump’s tariffs are returning to this country,” Hawley said in a statement.

Hawley, who championed stimulus check legislation with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., amid the Covid pandemic in 2020, authored his new bill to echo that past effort. The program would be set up as a refundable tax credit, with the government sending checks this year should the bill advance through Congress and get Trump’s signature. The bill would ensure that the amount provided to each adult and dependent child is at least $600. It also allows for a larger rebate per person should tariff revenue exceed projections.

This one ought to be a no-brainer — which means very little in Washington, unfortunately.