EVEN NOMINALLY CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTIONS ARE OVERRUN WITH LEFTISTS: Lipscomb Academy Asks Parent, TPUSA Spokesman to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements After Charlie Kirk Controversy.

In the wake of Lipscomb Academy’s admission that it initially prohibited students from wearing suit jackets and ties to mourn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) spokesperson and conservative influencer Savannah Chrisley told The Tennessee Star on Tuesday that she was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) prior to meeting with Lipscomb University President Dr. Candice McQueen and Lipscomb Academy Head of School Dr. Brad Schultz. . . .

Chrisley told The Star that the meeting was called after faculty members responded to the recent reassignment of former Head of School Dr. Jesse Savage, who originally prohibited students from wearing jackets and ties to mourn Kirk’s assassination on September 11, by staging two separate protests.

According to Chrisley, the first protest saw faculty members wear black clothing, as though in mourning, to express solidarity with Savage on September 25. . . .

Chrisley provided multiple photographs to The Star that appear to confirm this occurred, including one photo that purportedly depicts the classroom of a Lipscomb Academy Bible instructor, who refused to instruct students while participating in the September 25 protest.

“I’m not teaching today,” the instructor informed students using an overhead projector, according to a photo.

Instead of normal classroom instruction, the teacher reportedly launched into a political lecture.

According to a Lipscomb Academy parent, the teacher, “went on a rant about how the left isn’t evil, the right isn’t evil, LGBTQ isn’t evil, and made them sit in silence the entire class while he cried. Literally cried at his desk.”

That’s just pathetic. Lipscomb Academy tuition: $23,255.

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Letitia James’ ‘fugitive’ grandniece at center of NY AG’s bank fraud rap goes on fib-filled Facebook rant.

Letitia James’ fugitive grand-niece at the center of the federal indictment against the New York attorney general posted a boastful, fib-filled Facebook post after her extensive criminal record became national news.

“For all inquiring minds no I’m not in trouble havent been in years at all,” wrote Nakia Thompson, 36.

She claimed her extensive rap sheet dating, back nearly 20 years, including two charges of assaulting cops, was “OLD AS HELL” and “fabricated.”

“Very much a active mother to my children everyday, work everyday, and very much in college and about to graduate with my B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Criminal Justice,” she wrote, omitting that she was arrested for felony larceny with her kids in tow as recently as 2019.

She would have been about 30 at the time — hardly a youthful indiscretion.

More: “The criminal case against James comes down to whether Thompson paid rent after moving into the property. In mortgages docs, James listed the house as a ‘second home’ where she would be the primary resident.”

NO APOLOGIES WILL BE FORTHCOMING:

All the people who said Trump would start WWIII are pretty silent now as he just ended yet another global conflict.

Imagine ending eight wars in ten months and having the Democrat Party still drone on about your “tone” and “temperament”.

— Keith Gross (@KeithGrossFL) October 14, 2025

TO BE FAIR, ARE THEY EVER HAPPY? Feminists Have Discovered “Nose Ring Theory” And They’re Not Happy.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Academia Is Still the Problem and It Must Be Destroyed.

The pièce de résistance, however, is what happens to those minds that go to college.

The ivory tower academics who are shaping the future of this country are avowed America-hating commies who have made a fortune decrying capitalism. They tell impressionable kids that all we hold dear here in the United States is wrong and that the worst actors in the rest of the world are the good guys.

And they make the kids rack up crippling debt in the process.

As always, read the whole thing.

JON CALDARA: Colorado’s increasing EV subsidies belie ‘budget crisis’ claims.

Colorado’s governor just made this statement “The market has made it clear, EVs (electric vehicles) are here to stay.”

I agree with him. Electric cars, unlike 8-track tapes and rotary-dial phones, will continue to be available to consumers for a long, long time. Cool. But why he made the statement puzzles me. He did so while touting his decision that the state will increase one of its subsidies to buy a new EV from $6,000 to $9,000.

Wait a second. Which one is it? Has the market made clear electric vehicles are “here to stay”? Or do we need to increase the EV subsidy by a third to keep its market alive?

And it begs another question: If the state is in a budget crisis, why spend our very scarce money buying people cars instead of providing core governmental services? Oddly, it’s the governor’s decision alone.

During the recent special session, instead of doing their constitutional job of setting budget priorities, the state legislature booted that power to the governor. This hard-left legislature, that screams President Donald Trump has too much executive authority, just gifted their highest authority to Colorado’s chief executive.

Colorado Democrats govern as though they’ll never be out of power — and at the rate my state is declining, they might be right.

STRANGE NEW RESPECT: Bernie Sanders Identifies Marjorie Taylor Greene as a ‘Good’ Republican.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: A Surprisingly Good Self-Defense Decision From Massachusetts’ Top Court.

GOOD IDEA: Stefanik, Cotton Urge Treasury Department To Probe CAIR for ‘Financial Links to Hamas.’

#WINNING:

Sitting in world history class and 4 other students just on my row in this lecture hall have on Charlie Kirk t-shirts. It’s been 5 weeks. Nothing else can even compare. They silenced the man but they couldn’t silence the movement he built! Incredible to see!

— Brilyn Hollyhand (@BrilynHollyhand) October 15, 2025

Andrew Jackson told Aaron Burr that Alexander Hamilton dead was a more dangerous opponent to him than Alexander Hamilton alive. Something similar is happening with Charlie Kirk. Before it’s over, they’ll wish they’d left him alive.

THE UPCOMING ‘NO KINGS’ ZOMBIE BARN DANCE AND BBQ:

Men, at least ones still in possession of their original equipment, tend to be very logical creatures. And yet, the Democrats have been hitting us for years now, with positions that are about as logical as a football bat. Among them:

• Allowing crime is compassion.
• Men can be women, and vice versa.
• National borders are an option.
• If we take that open border policy as an indication, citizenship means nothing.
• Joe Biden’s dementia is still regarded as being “sharp as a tack.”
• Guatemalan gang members who abuse their wives are called “Maryland dads.”
• After it was absolutely clear that Biden had the brain capacity of a doorknob (or less), they stuffed a candidate with an even lower IQ into the replacement role.
• The chosen replacement candidate had absolutely no primary votes whatsoever, and yet Democrats publicly regard this as “saving democracy.”

All of these declarations of insanity have collectively attained an almost religious dedication among the left. The left assumes that these positions simply can’t be wrong, regardless of the carnage wherever they are applied. The violent chatter from their side has been going on for so long now in support of these obvious incongruities that it has become a part of who they are. They see altering their position on these matters as more of a problem than cutting off one’s b— er, sorry — surgically altering one’s sex.

The attitude seems to be, “We said it, it can’t be wrong, so now the violence, which is now threatening to break out into Civil War, is just fine with us.”

I tell you true, I’ll not be shocked if this next “No Kings” Barndance and Bar-B-Que on Oct. 18 shows us at least some of that, complete with Zombie suits.

To be fair though, I think we can say with great certainty that no one in America wants any kings:

Strongly considering going to the No Kings protest and being like “yeah! Fuck him! Fuck King George! Fuck King Charles! Fuck all the kings!” Until someone explains it’s about Trump and then be like “but he’s a president?” And act totally stupid and force them to explain it to me

— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) October 14, 2025

“I feel like this anti-Trump rally has misleading branding and though I am sympathetic to your substantive criticisms, i thought I was coming to an anti-monarchy protest against the kings of Europe.”

— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) October 14, 2025

BOB KRUMM: War is a Young Man’s Game. “The typical non-combat, non-accident death was a stroke, heart attack, or suicide. Often, the victims were majors, lieutenant colonels, master sergeants, or sergeants major in their 40s or 50s, or they were contractors recently retired at those ranks and in that age group. They were usually male, which was not disproportionate to the deployed population, but their senior rank and age was very disproportionate to the population of mostly younger military members in Iraq. There was something else in common about those non-combat deaths: the victims were often overweight and out of shape. . . . Not long after my second deployment to Iraq, I was a battalion commander in the U.S. Army Reserve. My unit had a high percentage of people who were unqualified to deploy without a waiver. Among the largest causes was the number of Soldiers who failed the Army’s Physical Fitness Test.”

Pete Hegseth is trying to do something about that last.

ICYMI: Milk Carton Diplomacy: Have You Seen These Two Men? “There are two big dogs that didn’t so much as whimper while President Donald Trump remade the Middle East (at least a little) in his own peace-loving image.”

BRETIGNE SHAFFER: “Having spoken with more OB/Gyn doctors, and heard about others’ experiences, I now believe that the profession is dominated by eugenicists. My advice to new mothers: Find an OB/Gyn who is openly Christian. Even if you are not Christian yourself. You won’t regret it.”

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GOOD AND HARD, FUN CITY:

I don't understand why no one is panicking about this.

America is about to have a full blown communist running the FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD…

New York City, what happened to you?! https://t.co/P86hFa9ALP

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) October 15, 2025

What could possibly go wrong?

New Yorkers are about to elect a man who openly sympathizes with the ideology of those who took down the Twin Towers. https://t.co/Y4YPkVtsor

— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) October 15, 2025

HMM: Beijing’s Military Diplomacy Is Making Major Gains.

Military diplomacy can accrue significant soft and hard power advantages. In peacetime, it helps build goodwill, capacity and influence networks within foreign militaries. During conflict, it can enhance familiarity with preparedness levels, doctrine and command, or even underpin interoperability between forces. A cadet who trains abroad often carries that experience into senior leadership, shaping how a country thinks about security, alliances and even arms purchases.

China has always regarded the importance of military diplomacy as a critical element in how it engages with other countries. In LAC, however, these considerations often took a back seat to economic ties. Yet, China’s ambition to extend military cooperation with the region emerged in the Foreign Ministry’s 2008 Policy Paper, and was later reinforced in the country’s 2016 Policy Paper, which stated: “China will actively carry out military exchanges and cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries … in such fields as military training, personnel training and UN peacekeeping, [and] expand pragmatic cooperation in humanitarian relief, counter-terrorism and other non-traditional security fields.”

The policy papers explain why, a decade ago, China began a concerted effort to draw closer to LAC in the defense and security domain. It did so by launching the China-LAC High-Level Defense Forum, under the umbrella of the China-CELAC Forum, which deliberately excludes the U.S. and Canada. Over the past 10 years, this initiative has produced white papers and road maps for the region’s defense and security cooperation, while the ties have also thrived under non-traditional paths, such as the start of the China-LAC Military Medicine Forum.

Weird how China started playing in Latin America not long after then-SecState John Kerry pronounced the Monroe Doctrine dead.

But having quieted things down a bit in the Middle East — with Xi and Putin forced to the sidelines — Trump seems to be turning more of his attention to our own backyard.

Good.

OSSIFIED, LIKE BEFORE PEARL HARBOR: The Navy’s Kuhnian Crisis: The Navy’s Birthday, Paradigm Breakdown, and its impact on the Soul of the Navy. “The post-Cold War paradigm—built on unchallenged sea control, technological supremacy, and the assumption that platforms matter more than integration—is failing. The anomalies are everywhere. . . . These aren’t isolated failures. They’re symptoms of a paradigm that no longer works. The Navy’s operating assumptions—about how to design ships, how to develop technology, how to organize for war—are being falsified by reality and highlighted in an endless number of GAO, CBO and CRS reports. Yet the institution clings to them, because acknowledging paradigm failure means admitting that the entire framework of naval thinking needs rebuilding.”

BROKEN WINDOWS AT THE PENTAGON:

Hegseth denounced the erosion of standards and distraction from warfighting caused by DEI directives and unnecessary training. Having already eliminated the former at the very beginning of his term, Hegseth order the reduction of mandatory training from twenty-seven to sixteen courses and rescinded 350 hours of online modules required for promotion.

In its place, the secretary promised the “ruthless, dispassionate and common sense application” of the newly mandated fitness and grooming standards.

In particular, Hegseth elaborated on his two criteria for reinstituting past standards — the E-6 and 1990 tests.

Under the former, if a proposed change enables E-6s (or O-3s) “to get back to basics”, then the change is justified.

Under the latter, if a standard was in existence in 1990 and was modified for reasons other than changes to the battlefield, then the original is reinstated.

Curiously, Hegseth acknowledged he had no specific rationale for picking 1990 – “seems to be as good a place to start as any.”

Broken Windows Theory provides a clue.

Read the whole thing.

CNN VS. DHS: What Happened During an ICE Enforcement Action on Chicago’s Southeast Side?

DEMOCRATS IN A NUTSHELL:

So he wants to ban all guns from Americans, but doesn't want to ban guns from Hamas?

Make that make sense. pic.twitter.com/qatL2aCBpZ

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) October 15, 2025

FROM CELIA HAYES AND JEANNE HAYDEN:   A Full Dozen of Luna City (The Chronicles of Luna City Book 12).

The final chapter in the modern day chronicles of Luna City; where Richard Astor-Hall and Kate Heisel plan their wedding, Police Chief Joe Vaughn discovers that he is famous, the fabled Mills Treasure may have been found at last, and Miss Letty McAllister reveals all, in explaining the mystery of a rarely-seen ghost in the Cattleman Hotel.

ALL OF US NEED TO DO THIS:  Getting Serious About Russia, and China.

AFTER ALL, THEY’RE TAKING AWAY THE VOTERS OF THOSE IN POWER:  Los Angeles County Declares State of Emergency Over ICE Raids.

SHE’S SO RACIST SHE THINKS HER OWN RACE IS DISABLED:  Justice Jackson Compares Race Based Voting Districts to the ADA.