HER POSITIONS EVOLVE ALONG WITH THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY:

🚨Kamala wants to abolish the filibuster, but here's the letter she signed as Senator pledging to support the filibuster to ensure the Senate "continues to serve as the world's greatest deliberative body."

Her word is meaningless.

She'll say anything to get elected. pic.twitter.com/XzDY4ZfJ8S

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) September 24, 2024

HOW FAUCI’S INNER CIRCLE PROTECTED WUHAN: The full story of the relationship between Tony Fauci, the former NIAID Administrator and highest-paid federal employee in the country, and China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology may never be known, but Emily Kopp at U.S. Right to Know advances the ball in a major way today.

“Some of the NIAID officials who helped [EcoHealth Alliance chief Peter] Daszak were key to approving his coronavirus research in Wuhan in the first place, including gain-of-function research, research that can enhances the pathogenicity or transmissibility of a pathogen.

“Some of these NIAID officials had spent years championing gain-of-function research as worth the risks, congressional transcripts also show. Namely, [Fauci science advisor David] Morens and another NIAID employee named “Jeff T.” were the liaisons between the scientific community and Fauci during the years-long debates about gain-of-function research leading up to the pandemic, one email shows.

“After the pandemic arose, Morens and another NIAID scientist named Jeffery Taubenberger wrote an editorial defending EcoHealth and referred to people concerned about gain-of-function research as ‘luddites’ and ‘the complaining crowd.’

“Thousands of pages of grant proposals and other documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that EcoHealth planned to use the new NIAID funding to continue research similar to the work that had brought the group under scrutiny, using the very same viral samples. Most of the NIAID employees who helped Daszak maintain funding amid the pandemic still retain positions of influence at NIAID.”

That last sentence above is a big reason why you should take the time to read this report in its entirety.

KRUISER: Zombie Journalism. “A perfect example is this very column. I’m writing about AI doing what those of us who work in media worry about, yet I used AI (that I paid for) to generate the feature image. Apparently, the Luddites won’t need to worry about having to welcome me any time soon.”

WOEING: FAA boss: Boeing faces yearslong safety culture change.

In response to an FAA request, Boeing earlier this year provided the agency with a comprehensive action plan to address quality issues following the door-plug blowout on a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines flight. But that plan doesn’t end the FAA’s increased oversight of Boeing and its suppliers, FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said at a House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation panel.

“There must be a shift in the company’s safety culture to holistically address its systemic quality assurance and production issues,” Whitaker said during his prepared remarks. “Our goal is to make sure Boeing implements the necessary changes and has the right tools in place to sustain those changes in the long term.”

Boeing declined to comment on Whitaker’s and lawmakers’ remarks. The company is dealing with an ongoing work stoppage from 33,000 Machinists, whose strike began Sept. 13 after they voted down a tentative contract. Boeing substantially raised its contract offer Monday in an effort to end the strike. The aviation giant also faces an ongoing criminal probe, lawsuits and federal investigation related to the Alaska incident.

Whitaker said the FAA is following the strike, to which Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Everett, interjected “you’re not the only one.”

Boeing’s plan includes, in part, increased employee training and enhanced reporting systems that encourage workers to report concerns; decrease in “traveled work” so work happens in the correct sequence; and greater supplier oversight.

Here’s to hoping they get the job done.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Art instructor who threatened journalist with machete chants about ‘slitting the master’s throat.’

COLLEGE BOARD NOW RECALIBRATING AP TEST SCORES. Upwards, of course. What does it say about our education system that every time this happens, the tests get easier? I think you know.

MOCK HARDER: Cartoonist Dares to Mock Rashida Tlaib, Gets the Predictable Response

STANDING UP AGAINST HATRED AND BIGOTRY: NY state senator pressures Democrats to take action against campus anti-Semitism.

HERE’S SOME GOOD BACKGROUND ON THE GROUNDING OF THE USNS BIG HORN: Perfect Biden-HARRIS Metaphor: Only Navy Oiler in ME Runs Aground, Springs Leaks.

If there ever was a need for a poster child for the neglect and indifference that characterizes the Biden-HARRIS administration’s attitude towards governance, someone now could easily slap up a picture of the USNS Big Horn.

The ship’s sad story has all the elements that are now bedeviling the Americans it serves thanks to the malevolent, arrogant, indifferent clowns who currently rule over us.

Almost a year ago, I wrote something I headlined, “US Maritime Woes: God Forbid We Go to War.” I was trying to shine a light on the utterly shameful, almost downright criminal neglect with which the Biden-HARRIS administration had treated our US Merchant Marine Fleet. It operates under the auspices of the US Maritime Administration (MARAD), which belongs to the Department of Transportation (aka Mayor Pete) – perhaps you’re already beginning to sense part of the problem if you don’t remember or haven’t read the column.

The administration has an “admiral” named as head of MARAD, one RADM Ann Phillips, who has performed exactly as damn near any other Biden cabinet secretary, particularly Mayor Pete – they haven’t seen her.

Much more at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Israel Continues to Alter Terms of Hezbollah Leaders’ Retirement Packages. “Until Joe Biden and his band of his radical progressive puppet masters began occupying the Oval Office, the United States of America was Israel’s staunchest ally. During Israel’s wholly justified war against Hamas, its government and its people have had to deal with mixed messaging and, on occasion, diplomatic threats from the superpower they could once count on.”

CAN’T THINK, CAN’T TALK:

The Question is…"We'd really love to know what your plan is to lower the cost of living?"

Listen to Kamala's answer… pic.twitter.com/6dq2ivGk0y

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) September 20, 2024

“What’s your plan?” “We really need to deal with that?”

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED, MOST QUITE WILLINGLY SO: Wikipedia Employs Left-Wing Groups to Edit Controversial Topics.

BAD NEWS BEES:

About 20 years ago, some honeybees died from “colony collapse disorder.”

The media went into a buzz.

But beekeepers rebuilt lost colonies and the disorder soon diminished.

Now, there are 31% MORE bees in America.

Since the media won’t report on that, I will: pic.twitter.com/JTYcvGXPIb

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) September 23, 2024

You’d think that the heroic efforts of beekeepers would warrant some attention from the State Steno Pool but then what approved narrative would that push?

MAKE THEM PAY: Ashli Babbitt $30 million ‘wrongful death’ suit gets green light.

TO BE FAIR, THAT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH: Trump’s Act of Kindness at Grocery Store Sends Liberals Into a Frenzy

STOCHASTIC TERRORISM: Going Nuclear: How Ben Rhodes and the Obama Bro ‘Echo Chamber’ Inspired a Would-Be Trump Assassin.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

And she was wrong when she said it pic.twitter.com/BBLUXJxRTv

— Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) September 24, 2024

Most are predicting Virginia will go to Kamala.

It’s interesting because Harris and Biden are practically begging for a nuclear WWIII.

Virginia is very close to DC… a major target for an adversary.

Preventing this should be VA’s # 1 priority pic.twitter.com/K67z3hvgib

— Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) September 21, 2024

CRIME: Homicides are Plummeting in Philly, and It’s Not Because of Gun Control.

The criminal justice professors say that “resumed court operations, improved violence intervention programs, police recruitment efforts and reduced disability claims” may help to explain why violent crime is plummeting in the city, but add that “new leadership and crime-fighting strategies” are playing a role as well.

Specifically, the academics credit new police commissioner Kevin Bethel’s strategy of focusing on reducing crime in the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods, which makes sense. Crime in any given community is driven by a relatively small number of prolific offenders, so strategies that target them and the locations where they operate is more likely to both reduce crime and improve relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve than, say, stopping and frisking tens of thousands of Philadelphia residents in the hopes of discovering someone illegally carrying a gun.

The professors note that Philadelphia isn’t alone in seeing a dramatic decline in the number of homicides. Most cities across the country are seeing fewer murders this year compared to the spike in 2020 and 2021. The researchers once again credit a return to relative normalcy following the COVID pandemic, but they also offer up an intriguing theory that the increase in crime a few years ago led to the demise of some of those prolific offenders I mentioned above.

Policing works. And when that fails, the bad guys getting themselves killed off can work, too.

LIGHTNING DEAL: The Original Gorilla Grip Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Smooth Edge Manual Can Opener. #CommissionEarned

TO PARAPHRASE KEITH LAUMER, I’M FOR PEACE, AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE PEACEFUL THAN A DEAD TROUBLEMAKER.

This graphic is insane. pic.twitter.com/XaOCePUV2M

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 24, 2024

#PANIC:

🚨SCOOP: A postal union called @realDonaldTrump an "existential threat" in a letter to its members.

The chapter president, whose name appears on the letter, claims the national union attached his name without permission.@FDRLST pic.twitter.com/ccH0nw44q6

— Logan Washburn (@loganwashburn76) September 25, 2024

CRUSHING OF DISSENT: Penn Law Suspends Tenured Prof Amy Wax For One-Year With Half-Pay For Making Racist Remarks. “Racist” remarks on their admissions program that are more inconvenient than racist.

Notice the difference in the way her criticism of affirmative action has been treated, as compared to others’ expression in support of genocide against Jews.

IT’S ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN: Law Enforcement Group Backing Kamala Harris Exposed as a Sham.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

So does anyone want to talk about how we've had two of our three logistical ships in 5th Fleet AOR run aground over the last few months so we now only have one Lewis and Clarke dry cargo ship (carries
441,000 Gallons DFM and 315,000 Gallons JP5) is somehow supposed to supply the…

— Intelschizo (@Schizointel) September 24, 2024

The fleet’s too thin, especially on the non-glamorous logistics vessel side. But we also seem to have a problem steering our ships and not setting them on fire.

FROM HOLLY CHISM:  Light Up the Night.

#CommissionEarned

Dane Crockford is tired. Tired of the green energy crapping out and leaving his wife Rose gasping for breath when their air conditioning dies, tired of trying to hide his use of his own solar panels from the nationalized electrical company, and tired of worrying about his daughter and son-in-law, trapped in an abusive indenture program to pay off their student loans. He’s not the only one, either. Everyone in his home town is in a similar situation, many of them with their children doing dangerous jobs without pay to offset crippling student debt. So when his grandson Toby accidentally discovers an energy generation method that isn’t wholly owned by the federal government, he jumps on the possibility of building something that works, in spite of and around the federal monopoly.

But what the monopoly doesn’t realize is that their grip on Dane, and on his home town, is far less secure than they think. When they disconnect his house from the power grid, they have nothing to hold over him, to force him to work for small rebates on his monthly bill. The utility has unleashed the power of a cranky old man with a rare skill, and they’ve got no idea that they’ve tossed the pebble that starts an avalanche.