October 29, 2026

PROFILES IN COURAGE…

…that you’ll never get to witness.

Posted at 2:02 pm by Stephen Green

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

“Don’t panic,” the wise man once wrote.

Posted at 1:47 pm by Stephen Green

HOWARD HUSOCK: No More ‘Little Deuce Coupe.’

Reports based on Federal Highway Administration statistics show a dramatic drop in the number of teenagers choosing to get driver’s licenses—down nearly 50% among 16-year-olds since the 1980s. But no one who follows popular music should be surprised by the decline. The golden age of hit songs about cars is now firmly in the cultural rearview mirror.

The song widely considered to be the first rock’n’roll hit was about a car. “Rocket 88,” recorded by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats featuring Ike Turner in 1951, described a six-passenger Oldsmobile. “Step in my Rocket and don’t be late / We’re pullin’ out about half past 8,” crooned Brenston to an unnamed girlfriend, who likely cuddled up to him in the front seat, sans seatbelts.

The ’50s and ’60s would see a jam of similarly celebratory songs. Plenty of hits told stories of cars in fast-paced detail, notably Chuck Berry’s “No Money Down,” about a Cadillac with a “full Murphy bed in my back seat.” But even confining the list to songs with car names in the title leads to a hit parade.

Back in May of 2009, in a Wall Street Journal article titled, “The End of the Affair,” the late P.J. O’Rourke wrote an encomium to cars, which the Obama-Biden administration was then just beginning its war on (as part of its still-ongoing war with many other aspects of American life), that was also at times, an encomium to the suburbs:

But cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.

Eight years later, self-driving cars began to first emerge, and Charles Cooke warned of “The War on Driving to Come.” Or as Iowahawk warned right around the same time, America “needs a Second Amendment protecting the right to keep and bear cars.”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: L.A. Real Estate Is Partying Like It’s 2008. “There was no global financial panic. No world war. No recession. No pandemic. Just Southern California stuck in a self-imposed rut from which there seems to be no escape.”

Posted at 1:16 pm by Stephen Green

KEEP AN EYE ON THIS:

Posted at 1:04 pm by Charlie Martin

THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: ‘Affordability’ Is A Trojan Horse For Democrats To Bring Back The Biden Years.

By “restore money that was improperly cut,” the Times means that Democrats will refuse to pass budget bills that don’t include funding for all the multibillion-dollar scam projects that help fund their cause, like USAID and every anti-American NGO. When they say “scientific research and disease prevention,” that’s what they’re referring to.

The editorial went on to encourage Democrats in power to heavily rely on “hearings, subpoenas and more” to “hold the president and his appointees responsible.” And why stop at government officials? There’s plenty of harassment to go around for Trump supporters! “Even if Mr. Trump and his aides illegally defy subpoenas,” the Times said, “the House can summon corporate executives and others who have enabled him.”

In the event Democrats secure the Senate, too, the Times suggested they block future political appointees and, of course, Supreme Court nominees. The editorial said only judges who “uphold the law” should be confirmed, which of course means judges who will reliably side with Democrats in their blood-thirsty crusades to imprison their political opponents.

None of this will lower the cost of gas and groceries.

Government and affordability go together like Scotch and Jolly Ranchers.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Stephen Green

DID ISRAELI-ARAB PARTY STEAL THE ELECTION? Richard Pollock rounds up substantial evidence that funds channeled from Qatar to the Israeli-Arab party via Muslim terrorist channels turned Tuesday’s voting into a “stolen election.”

 

Posted at 12:30 pm by Mark Tapscott

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION:

Honestly, I might prefer this kind of thing to almost any bipartisan backroom deal.

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

MADE IN THE USA:

“The pattern is always the same. Manufacture scarcity through law, call it protection, and tell everyone there’s no other way.”

Posted at 11:58 am by Stephen Green

HMM:

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green

MORE OF THAT MALE PRIVILEGE ON DISPLAY:

Posted at 10:56 am by Stephen Green

IT’S BIG: Cowboy Space unveils ‘Big Iron’ rocket to launch 20,000 AI data centers.

“It’s a fundamentally novel approach to rocketry in the modern era, in our opinion,” Bhatt said during the event. “The idea is that you have a two-stage rocket where the upper stage of the rocket itself transforms into the satellite.”

That rocket is called Big Iron, Bhatt told us on Monday night. And so is the data-center satellite, as both are considered to be part of the same system.

The stainless-steel rocket will be 282 feet (86 meters) tall and 15.4 feet (4.7 m) wide. It will be powered by Cowboy Space’s Clydesdale engines — nine in the first stage and one in the upper stage, the same configuration employed by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

The upper stage, meanwhile, will stay in orbit as a Big Iron satellite.

Novel approach — wish them luck.

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green