GREAT MOMENTS IN PHILADELPHIA FANDOM: Phillies Fan Sparks Outrage After Taking Home Run Ball From Young Boy.

The video went viral on social media, with over 10 million views.

Fans condemned the woman’s behavior. “Insane to me that an adult cares this much. Balls and pucks should always go to the nearest kid. This is the hill I will die on,” one X user said.

Sports journalist Jeff Drummond said on X: “Embarrassing. I’ve yet again failed to go 48 hours without saying “What’s wrong with people?” I feel like that’s a modest goal, but it keeps coming up short.”

Another sports journalist, Harrison Smajovits, wrote on X: “Pro tip for being a decent person: Don’t do this.”

Former Fox News journalist Adam Housley wrote on X: “What is wrong with people? The ball is the boys. Deal with it.”

Both teams later stepped in to make amends. A Marlins staffer gave the boy a bag of team merchandise and baseballs, telling him, “I saw what happened, it wasn’t right,” according to a video posted on X.

After the game, the Phillies arranged for him to receive a signed bat from Bader.

“Going home with a signed bat from Bader,” the Phillies wrote on X.

Did she stop in DC on her way to Miami?

In any case, you can take the Karen out of Philadelphia, but you can’t take the Philadelphia out of the Karen:

Related: Phillies and Marlins rally around young fan after woman confronts his father to get home run ball.

THE AMERICA THAT STILL WORKS: SpaceX completes 500th booster landing in Starlink mission.

TEN YEARS OF MIGRATION CRISIS: The Fracture that Changed Europe.

On September 5, 2015, after Angela Merkel uttered the now infamous words “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do it”) on August 31st, Germany’s borders were effectively opened to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Austria and Hungary. With that gesture, celebrated by left-wing media as a show of humanity, one of the most convulsive stages of contemporary Europe began: the era of mass immigration. Today, a decade later, the data, the social problems, and the political transformations prove that the decision marked a turning point in the continent’s history.

More than one million people arrived in the European Union that year, mainly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Germany received more than 440,000 asylum applications, Sweden 156,000, and Austria 88,000. Routes were saturated: Greece became the main entry point, Italy and Spain endured massive landings, and Hungary built fences to stop the flow—something harshly criticized at the time but now proven to be the only effective way to resist migratory suicide.

Thousands died—and continue to die—in the Mediterranean, yet the official narrative focused on “solidarity” and the promise that these newcomers would sustain the European welfare state. Today, those who once promoted open borders tell us that the system has failed and that massive cuts are needed, ‘discovering’ that the immigrants do not contribute to the sustaining of the welfare system but overwhelm it.

Fortunately, Europe has learned its lessons. No, sorry, just kidding of course: MP who backed boycott of Israel named Britain’s Home Secretary. “UK PM Keir Starmer appoints Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary. Known for pro-BDS activism, Mahmood once led a protest that shut down a supermarket over Israeli goods and has accused Israel of “collective punishment” in Gaza.”

UPDATE:

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood has become the UK Home Secretary. She is in charge of immigration, visas, and borders,

Here she is at a rally calling for a “globalize the intifada.”

RIP UK.

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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 6, 2025

ROGER KIMBALL IN THE LONDON TELEGRAPH: Trump’s 11 life-changing lessons are wiser than the Left will ever admit.

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is full of good advice and wise observations. So is the upbeat epitome of Donald Trump’s practical ethics, summarised in his new video “Eleven Life-Changing Lessons”.

Did you snicker when you saw the names “Aristotle” and “Donald Trump” juxtaposed? Aristotle is one of the greatest philosophers in history, and his Ethics, along with his Politics, may lay claim to be among the greatest repositories of practical wisdom in the Western tradition.

And Donald Trump? Well, he is a conspicuously successful businessman, a devoted father, and a celebrated media personality. He is also, for the second time, President of the United States of America.

Exit quote: “What do you think? Trump’s Eleven Life Lessons are not the Nicomachean Ethics. But they are plenty wise. They are a useful appendage to that great work. Added benefit: they are a lot shorter.”

THAT’S BECAUSE THEY TASTE TERRIBLE: Few people using salt substitutes, despite blood pressure benefits.

EVE BARLOW: “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

That was one of the most quoted jokes from The IT Crowd. A British series written by Graham Linehan, who is a comedian from the Republic of Ireland and was once considered a national treasure. He is still a national treasure, I imagine, to many people too afraid to say so. The IT Crowd is a show based around an IT department as the internet implemented itself in everyday working environments, and it first aired almost 20 years ago. In the show, the more committed geeks of the IT department were ignored in favor of Roy, played by Chris O’Dowd, who hated the job and would regularly offer: “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” Or “Is it definitely plugged in?” These running jokes summarize Linehan’s humor. He dryly mocks societal roles and stereotypes, in a way that challenges their core identity. Which in this day and age is dangerous, I guess. Because self-imposed identity has demanded serious treatment by non-serious people, to such an extent that there is no more poetic license to make jibes about people’s behavior without it being a crime.

Prior to The IT Crowd, Linehan was one half of the team that created Father Ted. The latter series, which aired in the mid-90s, was a beloved satire about the Catholic priesthood, and is often cited next to Fawlty Towers in the canon of British TV. Father Ted was full of impolite jokes. Father Jack repeatedly shouts “Feck! Arse! Drink! Girls!” at inappropriate moments. There were Nazi jokes, racist jokes, sexual innuendos surrounding the milk man, and not to mention The Lovely Girls Contest, which was a spoof on a beauty pageant, and intended to expose misogyny, not condone it. However, in doing so necessarily aired sexism. Breaking taboos in humor is necessary to make light of the hypocrisy of authority – of humans. Irreverent jokes bring the absurdity of our lives to the surface. That’s why making an example out of someone who is celebrated for writing comedy cuts to the soul of free speech issues.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury famously says:

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

The story of Graham Linehan is appalling. And it has had me asking earnestly for days: what are we doing to each other? Can we reset the system? Should we try turning it off and on again?

Read the whole thing.

THE SEISMIC SHIFT YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT: No, it’s not the move of young male voters to the Trump/Republican column, important as that certainly is in the political calculations of the days ahead.

But politics is downstream from culture and culture is downstream from you know what, and that’s where the most important — and totally unexpected — shift in the tectonic plate underlying the American experience is happening. Read all about it in my latest PJMedia column.

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FLORIDA BOY WALKED TO CHICK-FIL-A ALONE. Police Returned Him Home and Didn’t Arrest His Parents:

In July, Florida became the 11th state to pass a Reasonable Childhood Independence law with the help of my non-profit, Let Grow. It clarifies that “neglect” is when a parent or guardian “fails to supply the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or health care, although financially able to do so; however, the term does not include a caregiver allowing a child to engage in independent and unsupervised activities” unless they constitute “reckless conduct.”

I asked Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Christian Hancock if our law was the reason the cops did not arrest the parents. He said it was simpler than that. “These parents didn’t do anything wrong.” Hear, hear!

It’s only fair to celebrate the good, not just the bad. God knows I sound the alarm when law enforcement goes overboard on parents. When they act with common sense and kindness, it makes sense to share those stories, too.

Not to mention making for an absolutely adorable video that’s great PR for the cops and the restaurant:

Five year old Jacksonville, Florida boy wakes up before everyone else, walks to Chick fil A for breakfast without parents knowing. Cops are called. This is great: pic.twitter.com/I0WAsJUum3

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 2, 2025

HE TEACHES SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY, AND HE PERFORMED WELL: We spoke to professor who ‘canceled’ class because Taylor Swift got engaged.

He showed how to go viral.

OLD BLIGHTY’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

British Refugees Travel To North Korea In Search Of Freedom https://t.co/AJZavNMwDe pic.twitter.com/9MmumgkBQQ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 5, 2025

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“WESTERN.” Another Western university cuts ties with Israeli partners: The University of Galway has cut ties with Israeli researchers and institutions, becoming the third major school to do so following Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel.

IT’S GRIFT ALL THE WAY DOWN: “In Maryland, there were a reported 6,126 so-called ghost students in 2019. These are students who are registered but cannot be found. That year, the taxpayers paid $15,000 per ghost student. The school systems were getting $92.9 million for students who were not even in the classrooms.”

JIM BENNETT, A LONGTIME FRIEND and one of the founders of The American Rocket Company, possibly the first serious effort at a commercial launch company, is writing a history of the commercial launch industry, and is asking for donations.

He’s a super smart guy (also the coiner of the term “Anglosphere”) and his book will be well worth reading.

LOSS OF TRUST:

Another big piece of this is that the midwit class of experts always go back to the airplane pilot analogy and refuse to understand why some of the technical fields do still have some credibility – it is because they are the last remaining institutions with skin in the game. If…

— hidewatchlaugh (@hidewatchlaugh) September 5, 2025

AN ARMY OF LUIGIS: Colbert Shocked at Late-Night Monster He Created.

Colbert noted how the Left-wing fever swamp, although he didn’t use those words, went craz(ier) in recent days over a rumor that President Trump had died. 

“When I came back into the office, I was shocked to learn that, this weekend, the biggest story was frenzied social media rumors speculating whether Donald Trump had died. For the record, Donald Trump is very much alive.”

The “Late Show” audience erupted in boos.

“No. We like our presidents alive. Donald Trump is very much alive.”

Colbert had to instruct his sycophants that wishing for a U.S. president’s death isn’t morally sound. It’s unclear if said audience took the message to heart, but its implications couldn’t be clearer.

They want him dead, and they’re happy to share that sentiment in public.

Related: The Rise of Luigism.

A political movement is testing its power. Call it Luigism.

Invoking Luigi Mangione—the Ivy League–educated radical who allegedly assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December—Luigism is the idea that violence is a legitimate response to the perceived injustices of capitalism. If the victim represents wealth, whiteness, pro-Israel Judaism, or institutional power, the killing can be framed as justified, or even glamorous.

Mangione has yet to stand trial, but he’s already been canonized. Social media is awash in fan art. Influencers praise his good looks. Merch with the slogan “Mama, I’m in Love with a Criminal” is available for purchase. A “Free Luigi” community has tens of thousands of members. More than $1 million has been crowdsourced for his legal defense, and according to polling, more than 40 percent of voters under 30 say Thompson’s killing was “acceptable.”

What makes Luigism dangerous is its memeified brutality. Innocence doesn’t matter. Context doesn’t matter. What matters is what the victim represents, and whether their death can be hash-tagged as justice. It is a worldview built on scapegoats and sacrifices.

Colbert routinely compares Trump to Hitler; how can he feign surprise and disappointment when his audience boos his continued existence?

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Feds: Eight metro Detroit men charged in sophisticated vehicle theft, smuggling operation.

Eight metro Detroit men are accused in a sophisticated theft and international smuggling operation that targeted higher-end vehicles and spanned two years, according to federal prosecutors in Detroit.

An indictment against the Wayne County men was unsealed Sept. 4 in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

The types of stolen vehicles mentioned in the indictment included BMW X5, Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Bronco, Range Rover, Dodge Ram, Ford Mustang, Ford F-150 and Dodge Durango. Stolen vehicles were transported from Michigan to New Jersey*, according to the indictment.

The Detroit Free Press takes its time getting to the important details — the number of cars stolen, and the names of the suspects:

Matthew Stentz, acting special agent in charge of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations in Detroit, said more than 350 stolen vehicles were recovered.**

“This case hits even closer to home in a state like Michigan, where auto theft doesn’t just hurt our wallets, but our culture,” Stentz said in the release. “Our HSI special agents and law enforcement partners will continue to do the work necessary to take down these operations that harm everyday Americans.”

Federal prosecutors said Dearborn police initiated the investigation, which also involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations with help from Customs and Border Protection, the FBI and other local, regional and federal law enforcement agencies.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit identified those charged as Haydar Al Haydari, 41, of Garden City; David Roshinsky Williams, 32, of Harper Woods; Abbas Al Othman, 42, and Moustapha Al Fetlawi, 46, both of Dearborn Heights, and Karar Alnakash, 43; Mohammed Al Hilo, 36; Terrill Davis, 33, and Mohammed Al Abboodi, 35, all of Detroit.

* They didn’t stay in New Jersey, as this sentence buried 12 paragraphs in notes: “The smugglers’ goal, it indicated, was to ship and sell the stolen vehicles overseas, often to customers in the Middle East.”

** Quite a bit more than 350, according to Fox’s Detroit affiliate: “‘We are looking at right now at least 400 vehicles that have been seized involved in this incident alone, with a value of over $400 million,’ said Dearborn Police Corporal Dan Bartok. Many were sent overseas to countries like Iraq and Dubai were some of the destinations. Even Jordan and Ghana were involved, with forged paperwork used to get the vehicles out of town. In one case, shipping containers full of high-end SUVs were disguised as antifreeze.”

As one wag joked on Twitter/X, “What’s news is that there are car theft rings not run by Albanians:”

LEFTIST POLITICIANS ARE GARBAGE (CONT’D):

Little girls are not ‘poor white trash”
Little girls are not ‘child prostitutes’.
Little girls are not ‘white slags’ or ‘paki shaggers’.

They are children.

Despite what Labour politicians say, grooming gangs survivors were never at fault for the abuse they suffered. pic.twitter.com/rmuqeauDbt

— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) September 5, 2025

NOT AS BAD AS HE DESERVES: Keir Starmer Had a Bad Week.

TRUMP TO RENAME PENTAGON, RESTORING HISTORIC ‘DEPARTMENT OF WAR’ IN LATEST MILITARY MOVE:

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday to alter the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, reverting to the agency’s former namesake, Fox News Digital has learned.

Both Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have recently indicated they want to change the name of the agency. It is one of several initiatives the Trump administration has spearheaded as part of its “warrior ethos” campaign within the Pentagon.

A White House official confirmed to Fox News Digital Thursday that Trump would roll out the name change Friday. The executive order calls for using the Department of War as a secondary title for the Department of Defense, along with phrases like “secretary of war” for Hegseth, according to a White House fact sheet.

The order also instructs Hegseth to propose both legislative and executive actions to make the name permanently U.S. Department of War.

Naturally, the usual suspects on the left are in stampy-feet mode over this decision. This headline at the Condé Nast zombie version of Wired tut-tuts: “Defense Department Scrambles to Pretend It’s Called the War Department.”

But there is some logic to the back-to-the-future rebranding effort:

YEAH, THINGS HAVE BASICALLY COME TO THIS:

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#JOURNALISM:

The issue with this guy is not the "whiteface."

The issue is that while wearing it, he spit at genuine black men and called them "boy."

See, he thought if he went to a NASCAR race he would find a whole bunch of white racists, and finding none, he had to invent one himself.… https://t.co/ObLXmkFPqf

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 5, 2025

Or whatever you call this racist mean-spirited wannabe-Borat schtick.