James Woods on X: "This was one of the best campaign ads in history.

Hung Cao has been confirmed as Under Secretary of the Navy. Of course, Democrats voted against this extraordinary American." / X - James Woods@RealJamesWoods
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh - Oct 1

• BREAKING: US Senate ADVANCES the confirmation of Hung Cao as Under Secretary of the Navy, 52-47. 
• He's about to be formally CONFIRMED. 
• Cao is a bad*ss.

Exclusive: China behind massive nationwide SIM farm network that directly threatens American critical infrastructure | Blaze Media

Exclusive: China behind massive nationwide SIM farm network that directly threatens American critical infrastructure | Blaze Media: 

The discovery of SIM farms that threatened cellular networks in New York City is only the tip of a massive nationwide network run by the Chinese Communist government that poses an immediate threat to critical American infrastructure and has led to terrorist acts including hoax SWAT raids at the homes of national leaders, Blaze News has learned.

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Warning on Russia and NATO

El Salvador Does for Its Public Schools What the United States Won't

If we must have public schools, they should focus on education, not indoctrination.  - Sarah Anderson 
But how many times do we see the opposite happen here in the United States? 

• We have kids in cities across the country who can't read, write, or do basic math, but they can tell you their pronouns and what gender they feel like they identify with that day.
• This week, leaders in El Salvador took steps to do something leaders in the United States can't seem to find it in themselves to do: ban all that gender ideology nonsense. 

On Thursday, the country's president, Nayib Bukele, and his education minister, Karla Trigueros, posted the new rules on X.
Here's what Trigueros' post reads (translation from Spanish):

Today I issued the instruction to prohibit the so-called «inclusive language» in all public educational centers and dependencies of our institution. With this measure, of strict compliance at the national level, we guarantee the proper use of our language in all materials and content, in addition to protecting Early Childhood, children, and adolescents from ideological interferences that affect their integral development.

The posts also included a letter to other education officials and staff that reads in part (again, translated from Spanish)...

Lunch video-----An End To Climate Alarmism

Noon-toon

 

'Impossible to fathom': Mamdani's $100 million deportation-defense pledge leaves NYC lawmakers stunned * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller News Foundation

'Impossible to fathom': Mamdani's $100 million deportation-defense pledge leaves NYC lawmakers stunned * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

"New York is in a fiscal crisis, and Mamdani wants to rip another $100 million from taxpayers to bankroll deportation defense, rewarding lawbreaking while seniors, classrooms, sanitation, and public safety go without," Council Member Robert Holden, a Democrat, said on social media. "It spits in the face of every immigrant who played by the rules, and I will fight this giveaway with everything I've got."

Kid's cartoons??!!

 

When Equal Treatment Feels like Discrimination - American Thinker

The counter-programming from secretary of War Pete Hegseth during his September 30 Quantico speech to top military brass doubtless received a frosty reception from at least some of the high-ranking commissioned officers who had grown accustomed to preferential treatment. - Todd Gregory, Erik Gregory

Dr. Thomas Sowell famously and rightly remarked when people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Consider the psychological mindset of a DIE-privileged general, perhaps someone like Hegseth’s predecessor (the race- and climate-obsessed Gen. Lloyd Austin) or Gen. C.Q. Brown, Jr., formerly of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter...

• Such officers sitting in the audience listening to Hegseth’s scary-sounding speech would feel singled out and offended by Hegseth’s demand for rigorous, uniform, meritocratic standards to be enforced. After all, that’s not how progressives understand the word equity.
• The DIE generals and admirals–turned–pronoun police might think (to themselves or zirselves): Hegseth was a mere platoon leader in Iraq, whereas I’m a two-star general who memorized von Clausewitz and studied military theory in the classroom at West Point. I’m credentialed, and I’ve sat in on important meetings with allied generals throughout the world.
• I’m far more accomplished than Hegseth, who attained only the rank of major in the military before becoming a right-wing pundit on Fox News. Who is Hegseth to lecture me about military readiness, or whether I need to get on Ozempic and commence daily P.T.? How dare this administration humiliate me, force me to come to Quantico, and listen to this crap?...

"tools of projection..."

 

AG Bondi to Appeal 'Woefully Insufficient' Sentence for Justice Kavanaugh's Would-be Assassin

Will the next person who tries to assassinate a member of the GOP, or heaven forbid, Trump again, get community service and time served?...  - Matt Vespa

Why? 

• Well, because the suspect is now transgender. 
• Even worse, the presiding judge took that into account at sentencing, giving Nicholas John Roske, aka ‘Sophia, only eight years for this attack on our judicial system. 

The Justice Department was asking for 30 years. 

• In 2022, Roske tried to assassinate the sitting Supreme Court justice, traveling from California to the Kavanaugh home, where he was arrested with zip ties, ammunition, a knife, and a Glock handgun.
• Roske got eight years for trying to assassinate a member of the Supreme Court. 

That’s not only exceedingly lenient, but it’s also a perversion of justice...

#1 This day 1967-----The Box Tops - The Letter (Upbeat 1967)

Grieving families' fury exposes Democrats' gaslighting on crime

On Monday, as I watched the House Judiciary Committee convene its field hearing on violent crime in Charlotte, NC, it all came rushing back. - Jennifer Harrison
In April 2023, I testified before that same committee here in New York, in a hearing made necessary by the disastrous progressive policies implemented by a George Soros-funded district attorney and the state’s “soft-on-crime” laws.

Steve Federico pointing to a photo of his late daughter Logan during his testimony about her murder at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight field hearing in Charlotte on Sept. 29, 2025.AP Photo/Nell Redmond

Two years later, House members convened in Charlotte for the very same reason, in the wake of the horrific light-rail slaying of Iryna Zarutska.

• Families shattered by murder and violent crime came to share their stories. Their words were gut-wrenching, their pain undeniable.

Yet just as we saw in New York, House Democrats in Charlotte did not come to listen with empathy or humility.

• They came armed with talking points and political spin, determined to discredit grieving parents and loved ones, and to invalidate the raw truth of what these families endure every single day.
• What we saw was grotesque...

America is back!

 

Only cultists still believe.

 

We Were Right: Newsom's $20 Min. Wage Has Now Nuked 20,000 Fast Food Jobs, Cost Remaining Workers Thousands in Lost Hours

We Were Right: Newsom's $20 Min. Wage Has Now Nuked 20,000 Fast Food Jobs, Cost Remaining Workers Thousands in Lost Hours: 

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised just short of utopia when he signed California’s FAST Recovery Act.

Two years later, the only thing raising the state’s minimum wage for fast-food workers has accomplished is to kill jobs.

The Washington Examiner reported, the Employment Policies Institute found California has lost nearly 20,000 fast-food jobs since Newsom’s law took effect.

Editorial: Illinois superintendents cash in while students fall behind

Education’s dirty little secret in Illinois is that if you want to make the big bucks, you ditch the classroom for a cushy gig in administration. - The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune

We should air that out in the open.
The Tribune’s recent analysis of 2024 salaries shed light on the pay of school district superintendents versus student achievement, highlighting some of the districts where the problem is worst...

• We think it’s worth reflecting on superintendent pay in light of how much regular taxpayers in that district earn, as well as the property tax burden they’re forced to shoulder.

A prime example is Dolton School District 148, which serves a shrinking number of pre-K through eighth-grade students. To be exact, 1,968 in 2024, down 10% from 2,197 in 2019.

• Longtime Superintendent Kevin Nohelty, who retired after the 2024-25 school year, raked in a base salary of $450,000 for serving as CEO of this relatively small district...
• Under Nohelty, the district was deeply troubled academically. Just 19% of students were proficient in reading, and a dismal 6.6% were proficient in math in 2024.

But what’s happening in Dolton is just one example...

AM fruitcake

 

History for October 5

History for October 5 - On-This-Day.com

Chester A. Arthur (U.S.) 1830

• 1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.
• 1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.
• 1985 - An Egyptian policeman went on a shooting rampage at a Sinai beach. Seven Israeli tourists were killed. The policeman died in prison the following January of an apparent suicide.
• 1988 - In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S., Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy."
• 2006 - Walmart rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.

Unconstitutionally vague: IRS scheme used to attack conservative organizations struck down! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Unconstitutionally vague: IRS scheme used to attack conservative organizations struck down! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

The judge said the IRS violated constitutional protections by denying the tax-exempt status the organization requested. "The ruling held that the agency's 'facts and circumstances' framework, an 11-part analysis derived from a 2004 IRS revenue ruling, fails to survive the heightened scrutiny required when government rules implicate First Amendment speech rights," the report said.

The way we were-----'Black Hawk Down' pilot: 'In my mind, I wa...

Why Arab countries ban all Gaza refugees

The joy of war films | Tom Jones | The Critic Magazine

We’re short of 200 pilots. Those we have are tired, strained, and all overdue for relief. We’re fighting for survival. Losing...Tom Jones

Gentlemen, you’re missing the essential truth. We’re short of 200 pilots. Those we have are tired, strained, and all overdue for relief. We’re fighting for survival. Losing. We don’t need a big wing or a small wing. We need pilots. And a miracle.

The miracle comes. 

• A lost German bomber accidentally drops its bombs on London, the RAF retaliates by dropping bombs on Berlin, and Hitler orders London razed. 
• The let up takes the pressure off the RAF’s airfields and means German fighters have only enough fuel for ten minutes’ combat. 

Through a relentless series of dizzying dogfights...the tide slowly turns, culminating on the 15th September.
The next day, across the Channel, German forces withdraw from the coast and Göring leaves the front.

The pilots are shown waiting anxiously, exhaustedly, for another scramble call that never comes. 

Dowding steps out of his office to look up at a clear blue sky; the strings swell, and so do the tears in my eyes...

If you watch Charlie Kirk’s debates, there’s something you’ll see in almost all of them.

It’s easy to miss until it’s pointed out to you, but once you’re aware, you’ll notice every time. -Wildfire Whispers@WildfireWhisper

• Here’s the pattern I’ve observed:

1. His first mission is to establish clarity.
- Asks his opponent to state their argument
- Asks them to define terms
- If they struggle with either, he offers one to them and asks if it’s FAIR
2. His second (and most important) mission is to find something, no matter how small, on which he can say the magical phrase: “I AGREE”

• Human beings WANT to be agreed with. It’s a fundamental drive...Read ALL!!