ON THIS DAY IN 1789, JOHN JAY WAS SWORN IN AS THE FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES: During his nearly six years in office, the Supreme Court decided only a tiny handful of cases. No wonder he gave it up to be Governor of New York. It’s a little for hard for me to imagine someone giving up the job for a governorship today.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Ex-teacher pleads guilty to sex with 14-year-old student. “Stephanie Peterson, 27, who previously taught at New Smyrna Beach Middle School, pleaded guilty Tuesday as part of a plea deal to lewd or lascivious battery sex act with a child and transmission of harmful material to minors by electronic means, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Peterson, of New Smyrna Beach, was arrested by deputies in Volusia County in February after she allegedly picked up the eighth-grade student at his home before having sex in her home and her car. They also had sex in a barn behind the student’s house between November 2017 and January, court documents show.”

IT’S ALL MEMOREX: The Embarrassing Spectacle of Betomania.

DON’T GET COCKY OR COMPLACENT. EVEN IF YOU LIKE TO PICK AND CHOOSE, THIS YEAR VOTE STRAIGHT GOP. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS CURRENTLY CONSTITUTED IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE REPUBLIC AND WILL NOT CHANGE EXCEPT THROUGH PERSISTENT DEBACLE:  ‘Blue Wave’ Ebbing? Dem Advantages Offset by Strong Economy.

WELL…  GOP Candidate Recovering From Assault Blames Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, and Eric Holder.

STILL NOT TIRED OF WINNING:  World Economic Forum: US back on top of world economies for competitiveness.

SEEMS…. LEGIT:  Dem strategy in Florida: Embrace Fidel Castro?

OKAY… THAT’S… CLEVER:  Senate DNA one-upmanship.

TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO CAME HERE IN THE 80s FROM A COUNTRY WHERE COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS WERE MORE OPEN: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, IF NOT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS, WERE ALWAYS THIS FAR LEFT. THEY JUST USED TO HIDE IT BETTER.  PART OF THE LOUDER SCREAMING IS DESPERATION AS WE FIND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AND ENTERTAINMENT:  The Democrats’ Leftward March.

THE BABYLON BEE THREATENS TO DISPLACE THE ENQUIRER AS AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  Don’t Confuse the Mafia With Democrats!

IT COULD HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH THE WAY THE MOB THE DEMS HAVE BEEN BEHAVING. THREATS OF VIOLENCE INCREASE NEED FOR DEFENSE: Poll: Support for Gun Control Drops Ahead of Midterm Elections.  But remember how wrong the polls were in 16. So even if it seems to favor us, don’t get cocky.  Don’t answer polls, or lie, vote as late as you can, and if you can in person (if they don’t know how many votes to manufacture we get to surprise them) but above all VOTE.

“JOKINGLY”:  Two MN Republican candidates assaulted as Dem spokesman jokingly threatens violence.

AND YET, WHY DOES IT MATTER? LET’S HIRE BY MERIT NOT BY COLOR.  TRUMP IS GETTING A LOT ACHIEVED, SO HIS HIRES MUST BE GOOD. WHAT’S THIS “DIVERSITY” BY GROUP CHARACTERISTICS NONSENSE?  Trump State Department Among Most Diverse in History.

IN THE MIDDLE EAST THE RESULT OF ANY “INVESTIGATION” IS A FABLE COATED IN OBFUSCATION AND COVERED IN A PATINA OF CONFUSION. FORGET IT, JACK, IT’S TALES FROM ARABIA:  Jamal Khashoggi Mystery Grows With NY Times Article.

I HAVE FEARS OF ALL THE WOKE PRINCESSES WHO THINK THE PAST IS A MYSTERY AND LOGIC IS A TOOL OF PATRIARCHY: Kristen Bell Has Fears About Unwoke Disney Princess.

CHANGE: Major breakthrough: Army artillery hits target at 38 miles, doubling range.

AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: Radical Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ): Accused Bush Of Putting Arsenic In The Water And ‘Crowning Himself King Of The World.’

MICHAEL LEDEEN: As Iran Wobbles, Washington Is Still Without a Winning Strategy.

REST IN PEACE, HERO: Felix Smith, Who Piloted Covert Flights Over Asia, Is Dead at 100.

LIFE UNDER LATE SOCIALISM: Venezuelans Have Come To Regret The Socialist Revolution.

MOBS VS. JOBS: GOP Candidate Recovering From Assault Blames Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, and Eric Holder. “Shane Mekeland, a Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives, blamed Democrats for the climate of incivility and violence that led to the assault against him last weekend. He also called out the Minnesota Democratic Party for refusing to fire a staffer who posted on Facebook that Democrats would ‘guillotine’ Republicans after the election. On Friday evening, he suffered a concussion after being sucker-punched in the head in a politically motivated attack. A full recovery will take 4 to 6 weeks. The election is in 19 days.”

CLEANING UP A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: FBI agents raid San Juan, Puerto Rico city offices in fraud, obstruction investigation.

#WARONWOMEN: Dem Operative Arrested in Nevada After Assaulting Female GOP Staffer: ‘I kept screaming help me, stop hurting me, you are hurting me.’

He’s just lucky it wasn’t this woman.

I’M PROUD TO SAY THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE now has a Blacksmithing Club.