#JOURNALISM: “Why talk to the press other than to hurt RFK Jr. (and to drain him of the power to help Trump)?”

I HAVE A LITTLE LIST…: What Should the Israelis Blow Up Next? We Have a Few Suggestions.

ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: If You’re A Minuteman, Dress The Part: Everyday carry and clothing for the citizen responder.

FASTER, PLEASE: Army embraces Ukraine-style warfare with new all-drone unit.

CHANGE: FDA approves FluMist for upcoming flu season. “The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday an approval of a new self- and caregiver-administered nose spray against the flu. The FDA said FluMist, which can be used for children 2 to 5 years old, does not need to be administered by a physician.”

WE CAN’T AFFORD EVEN FOUR MONTHS OF BIDEN-WALZ: Here’s How Far Down the Road to WWIII Biden-Harris Has Taken Us.

THOSE “CONCERNS” SHOULD LEAD TO PUNISHMENT OR THEY DON’T MATTER: Quad Summit leaders note ‘serious concerns’ over China’s maritime violations in Indo-Pacific.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH LEON PANETTA?

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta calls Israel's explosive pager operation "terrorism" in an interview with CBS today:

"I don't think there's any question it's a form of terrorism."

"When you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question: what the… pic.twitter.com/18coO8lTQq

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 22, 2024

Terrorism is targeting civilians. Operation Grim Beeper could not have been more directly targeted at Hezbollah.

RIP: Michael Valentine, Who Saved 1,000s of Drivers from 1,000s of Tickets, Has Died. “We needed a hero, and Mike Valentine was it. No one could drive 55. Tickets were being spat out of police writing pads like winner’s receipts in SkeeBall. So Mike Valentine and wife Peg founded Cincinnati Microwave and started making radar detectors. Cincinnati Microwave became Escort, one of the biggest companies in the industry. The Valentines later left Escort and founded Valentine Research Inc. in 1983, and radar detection has been an industry ever since.”

BREAKING: Second Trump Shooter Wrote a Chilling Letter Before Assassination Attempt.

GET IN THEIR FACE. PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Take back the public square: Why silence won’t slow polarization. “Are you among the silent majority? I once was. With polarization plaguing public discourse, I saw no point in engaging. But then I began to wonder if my silence was part of the problem.”

OUT ON A LIMB: Kamala Harris Is Not an Ideas Candidate.

There’s a lot more pandering and pablum in Harris’ answers than any philosophizing about the structure of the economy.

The most obvious takeaway isn’t that Harris has some new-fangled approach to economic policy. Rather, it’s that she unexpectedly found herself at the top of the Democratic ticket and has been grasping for a policy agenda ever since.

In the rush to cobble that agenda together, she’s picked up on some relatively fresh ideas (help the private sector build more homes), some stale ones (homebuyer and small business subsidies), and a few already tried disasters (price controls).

But there’s no coherent idea connecting these policies. Columnists can do all the heavy lifting they want to try and find a connecting thread. But the fact is there is just no there there.

There are a few ideas that she appears to have, however:

Kamala Harris wants to flood the United States with illegal immigration. It is her explicit goal, and she accomplished it with flying colors as Vice President. https://t.co/rB8qzYl7eR

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 23, 2024

Roll the tape…

Kamala Harris: "There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking."

Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians would lose their jobs.#Debate2024 pic.twitter.com/AAtaP6Ycbb

— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) September 11, 2024

● Kamala Harris praised ‘defund the police’ movement in June 2020 radio interview.

And also during 2020:

YOU DON’T SAY:

White House National Security spokesman John Kirby: “It doesn’t appear that Mr. Sinwar is prepared at all to keep negotiating in good faith, especially after he murdered six hostages in a tunnel, execution style. It doesn’t appear as if he’s willing to move this forward.”

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) September 22, 2024

This entire administration is naifs, weaklings, idiots, and Marxists.

I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO START LIVING FOREVER 20 YEARS AGO — OR EVEN JUST 10 — BUT THIS WILL HAVE TO DO: The World’s Top Futurist Predicts We’re 10 Years from Immortality. Are You Ready to Live Forever?

READER FAVORITE: Apple iPad (9th Generation): with A13 Bionic chip. #CommissionEarned

NICE SHOOTING: Ukrainian Drones Just Blew Up 2,000 Tons Of Ammo in Southern Russia.

The ammo dump in Toropets reportedly held large stocks of small arms rounds, mortar shells, artillery rockets and long-range ballistic missiles potentially including Russian-made Iskanders and North Korean KN-23s.

According to the Ukrainian general staff, the dump in Tikhoretsk “is one of the three largest occupying ammunition storage bases and is one of the keys in the logistical system of Russian troops.”

The general staff estimated 2,000 tons of ammo, including North Korean-made rounds, were in the Tikhoretsk dump when the drones struck. The towering fireball resulting from the impact seems to confirm that estimate. The initial Toropets raid and the later Tikhoretsk raid were both big enough to register as small earthquakes and also draw the attention of NASA’s fire-spotting satellites.

The back-to-back ammo dump raids signal a shift in Ukraine’s campaign of deep strikes targeting strategic targets inside Russia.

For many months, officials in Kyiv have pleaded with their European and American counterparts for permission to use donated long-range munitions—British Storm Shadow and French SCALP-EG cruise missiles and American Army Tactical Missile System rockets—against targets deep inside Russia, including munitions stockpiles.

But the Europeans and Americans have consistently withheld that permission.

In other words, Ukraine could have blown up those dumps long before last week if they hadn’t been forced by their friends in the West to waste time and lives jury-rigging a drone solution.

MORE CRUSHING OF DISSENT: School calls cops on parents wearing ‘XX’ wristbands to protest male player on girls team: Superintendent: bands were ‘threatening, harassing, intimidating.’

Leftists love to pretend that disagreement is somehow violence. As a friend says, anyone who thinks words are violence has never been punched in the nose.

BECAUSE SHE’S A LIAR AND NOT A CONVINCING ONE: PA Energy Workers Don’t Buy Kamala’s Flip-Flop.

WELL, BYE: Rutgers president to step down following backlash over handling of anti-Semitism: Holloway has faced criticism for his handling of anti-Semitism, with some accusing him of empowering anti-Israel sentiment during his tenure.

DITTO:

The celebrities that knew about or attended P. Diddy’s parties, where people were being raped, blackmailed & drugged…. are the same celebrities claiming President Trump is a threat & a liar.

These people have zero integrity/credibility.

I hope they all go down in flames 🔥

— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) September 22, 2024

Whatever happened to that Epstein client list, anyway?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Daring to Dream About a Trump Win in Pennsylvania. “Of course, it’s not just Pennsylvanians who work in the energy sector who may be wistful for a return to the Trump years. Harris still leads in most of the polling there, but it is very tight and — all together now — polls are often garbage. Trump certainly has a case to make to the state’s undecided voters, if there are still any left.”

WHY BRITAIN HAS STAGNATED. “These are not just disconnected observations. They highlight the most important economic fact about modern Britain: that it is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere. This prevents investment, increases energy costs, and makes it harder for productive economic clusters to expand. This, in turn, lowers our productivity, incomes, and tax revenues.”

We’re in the same situation, just not quite as far along.

CAM EDWARDS: The ‘Common Sense’ Gun Law Democrats Don’t Want to Talk About.

Kamala Harris loves to trot out her talking points about her gun control proposals in campaign appearances, which inevitably include her description of them as “common sense”. According to Harris, it’s just common sense to ban the most popular rifles in the country (though she’s now silent on whether its also common sense to include a compensated confiscation component to her gun ban scheme). It’s also common sense, at least to Harris, to mandate background checks on every private transfer of a firearm, even temporarily or if the seller is well aware that the buyer isn’t prohibited from possessing or purchasing a gun.

Waiting periods? Common sense. Gun rationing laws? Common sense. Magazine bans? Common sense. Whatever a gun control activist is proposing, they’re sure to tell us that it’s only common sense.

There is, however, one policy that seems perfectly reasonable to me (and I would argue, most Americans) that Democrats are largely unwilling to get behind: increasing the penalty for stealing a gun or possessing a stolen firearm.

Going after actual criminals would cut into one of the Democrats’ core constituencies.

CDR SALAMANDER: How do You Say “Frog Soup” in Mandarin? “Taiwan’s military has registered a record 2,076 PLA incursions this year into its air defence identification zone.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: ‘Climate Literacy’ in Schools Replacing Actual Literacy.