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Townhall on the riots in France: "'"From the River to the Sea" Isn’t So Fun When It’s the Seine to the Mediterranean, Huh?' "

What a great story

Boston Globe: "Squeals, shrieks and hugs. Boston-born Nobel Prize winner shares big news with his overjoyed children."

This story says this guy is 54 but he looks like he's 34.  His daughters are young-ish.  Good for him.

When you're entirely dependent on the government

Unreported Truths: "Europe is in trouble" - "And its crisis goes a long way to explaining why the American left remains a longshot to take power durably, despite the big gains it will probably make next month."

Europeans have seen the heavy hand of government in a way that Americans, even blue-state Americans, cannot imagine. French local and national government spending makes up 57 percent of the country’s domestic product. In other words, taxpayers (or bondholders) pay for almost three out of every five euros of economic activity. Italy and Germany are at 50 percent. (The United States is at 38 percent.)

That stifling bureaucracy makes starting companies in Europe hard and growing them next to impossible.

The trend is most clearly seen in technology, where Europe is not even an also-ran.

That 57% economic activity statistic is just wild: over half of the country's economic activity depends on the government coffers.  

How is this remotely legal?

Just the News: "Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff's phone - Declassified memos reveal that Jack Smith's secret dragnet, codenamed "Plasmic Echo," monitored senior Trump associates and staff's contacts with lawyers, staff, and journalists during the 2024 campaign." 

Am I the crazy one here?  I thought that wiretapping a lawyer was extremely out-of-bounds unless there's credible evidence he/she is involved in a criminal conspiracy.

Take a wild guess why

Red State: "FlyDubai Attacker Reveals Why He Waited Until the Plane Was Near Israel to Attack Captain."

He was going to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.  The New York Times has described this as an "aggressive landing procedure." 

Undefeated

Washington Post editorial: "The evidence on anti-free-market price controls has not changed - They're still destroying investment and causing shortages around the world."

ICYMI: "Manhattan rents reach all-time high of $6,655/month amid Mamdani’s rent freeze and pied-a-terre tax threat." 

Ah, it'll be different this time.

And yet, Becerra is gonna win

Washington Post editorial: "Who can save California?" - "California, with an economy larger than every country but the United States, China and Germany, is the epicenter of artificial intelligence development. It’s also a basket case, deteriorating at a pace that cannot be ignored or denied in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)." 

This is going to end badly for Jane Doe

Sasha Stone: "The Cornell 7 and The “Consent” Trap - Why We Need Decency and Morality Back."

I didn't know until reading this - but should have known - that the names of the accusers have been released and publicized.  It really was only a matter of time.  As Sasha points out, their pictures are being circulated like "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters.

But the same goes for Jane Doe.  It will be impossible to keep her name secret once the chatter at Cornell picks up and the internet sleuths are unleashed.  At some point she will have to explain her text message reading "At the end of the day non [sic] of the sexual stuff was illegal" two days after the incident.  It's a terrible situation for all involved but a night of regret is going to upend the lives of everybody involved.

You got Kaepernicked

Red State: "Nike Is the Latest to Discover That Wokeness Doesn't Pay, As Net Sales, Revenue Nosedive."

Socialism is for children

And there's no bigger child than New York's mayor: "Mamdani: Socialism Is Just Dignity."

Like Bernie Sanders, this guy has never worked a real job in his life and has no grasp on how the socialism works in practice.

Killing the golden goose

Ripple: "Can a wealth tax solve our political and fiscal problems? The math says no. - Economists have advocated for wealth taxation as a way to reduce political power resulting from wealth concentration. Here’s why that won’t work."

The most recent poll out of California indicates the margin between those who support and those who oppose the wealth tax is shrinking.  Even Gavin Newsom is whipping against it.  But I think it will pass because there's nothing more alluring than getting "somebody else" to pay for things you want.

Go long on U-Haul futures.

If only there were some signs

GB News: "Omani hijacker who stabbed Flydubai captain is 'religious extremist who refused to shake hands with women'." 

Minor tiff among pilots resolved

Twitchy: "End Wokeness Shows How Fast the Copy and Paste Hijacking Spin Made the Media Rounds."

100 Israeli passengers vs One Muslim Pilot. What a completely disproportionate response from israel.

— Anastasia Volkova (@thedutchessil) September 30, 2026

Compare and contrast

"Forcing CNN to fly commercial is the end of the First Amendment!"

Meanwhile: "Jack Smith Crossed the Line: 87 White House Phones and 17 Major News Outlets Swept Up in Dragnet."

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning, and Chairman Chuck Grassley wasted little time revealing new details about the extraordinary reach of the investigation that eventually became Smith's election case against President Donald Trump.

The biggest revelation may be just how far investigators reached beyond Trump himself.

Grassley said investigators subpoenaed 87 phones belonging to Trump White House officials and obtained records containing communications with journalists at major news organizations, including CBS News, CNN, Fox News, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Federalist. CBS News reported the disclosure live from Tuesday's hearing.

The "No Kings!" crowd should be apocalyptic over the government spying on media outlets.  But they're not just like the last time a Democrat wiretapped the press. 

We're running out of fiscal space

The era of easy borrowing is close to an end.  Washington Post editorial board: "When America’s pot of debt will overflow."

This can't be cured by just "taxing the rich":

Budget reforms must be based primarily on spending constraints, not tax hikes. While some moderate tax increases could help reduce the deficit, it is not feasible to structure a tax system in which revenue grows faster than the economy every year, which is what would be necessary given current spending projections.

Even boosting revenue as a share of GDP to the highest levels in American history would close less than half of this year’s deficit, and such a large tax hike would destroy economic growth. No major tax proposal on its own, except perhaps a national value-added tax, comes anywhere near closing the deficit when the effect on economic growth is properly accounted for.

Where are we going to cut spending?

Constraining spending will need to be primarily focused on entitlement programs.

Yeah, good luck with that. 

Jew-hatred is central to the DSA

Legal Insurrection: "AOC Cornell Event Hosted by DSA Begins With ‘From the River to the Sea’ Chant - AOC’s campaign described the event as “part of an effort by the Congresswoman to boost turnout in Democratic strongholds ahead of the November election.”

Will anybody ask AOC if she disowns this call to destroy Israel?  Don't hold your breath.