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.

Too much debt

Here come the bond vigilantes.  Washington Post: "Bond markets are a canary. Trump isn’t listening. - Fiscal mismanagement could expose the United States to bond vigilantes."

Trump isn't listening?  This debt bomb has been growing over decades and Covid-era spending just super-charged it.  

Enemy of the state

NY Post: "Why Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn Iran’s Revolutionary Guard thugs"

El-Sayed certainly believes that Western nations are as evil as jihadists, or worse.

That moral equivalence was on display in his now-deleted 2021 tweet commemorating 9/11.

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed tweeted — before adding, “Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country.”

It’s clear from that comment that El-Sayed believes America is far worse than the Islamist extremists of the Middle East.

In a healthier era, any one of these relationships would have sunk a candidacy.

At this point, Michigan voters are well aware of El-Sayed’s radicalism — and yet he’s poised to become our first Islamist senator.

Of all the Democrats I want to see defeated in November, El-Sayed is #1.  But he's currently ahead in the polls in Michigan and part of me just can't believe it.  He's had a long list of anti-American statements, he's lied about being a doctor, and he simply refuses to distance himself from Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker, waving him away as a "Twitch streamer."

The media used to eat guys like this alive but they'll forgive anything and anyone on the other side of Trump.  That's where we are now.

Extra: PJ Media: "Nothing Says ‘Broaden the Coalition’ Like Threatening to Whup Bill Maher."

Don't commit murder while wearing your Apple watch

Townhall: "Is This the Cringiest Courtroom Moment in a Murder Trial?"

He allegedly murdered his wife and called 911 when he was woken by the "intruder" but his watch showed him walking all over the place before the call.

This reminds me of a story of a woman who found out her husband was cheating because her Fitbit weight scale kept reporting wide swings in weight.  Turns out the mistress was using the scale and the weight was automatically tracked in the Fitbit app.

C'mon, we all saw this coming

It’s all too predictable. https://t.co/WUqpf54AAY

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 25, 2026

It's a shame

Hot Air: "How Scared Are Students to Speak on College Campuses?"

No lies detected

Hot Air: "Milei: UN 'Useless Organization Whose...Purpose Is to Sustain a Caste of Fatally Arrogant Parasites'."