THEY’RE STILL PROFITING FROM IT, AND THAT’S WHAT MATTERS:  The Paris climate agreement has utterly failed – why keep up the pretense?

THAT’S CRAZY TALK! IF IT WERE TRUE THAT WOULD MEAN WE’RE WRONG!  Maybe Trump actually knows what he’s doing . . .

CAR USE IN BRITAIN MUST BE DECREASED BECAUSE REASONS:   The dawn of M Zero.

IT’S GOING TO REQUIRE A LOT MORE SCALPS THAN ONE:   CBS News’ Bari Weiss Just Made Her First Termination as New Editor in Chief.

UH:  Scientists find that three normally incompatible substances can interact in the alien conditions on Titan.

WHAT SUBSTANCE THERE IS, IT’S ROTTEN:  Mamdani Is All Socialist Suit And No Substance At Debate. 

IT’S THE HOT NEW CIVIL RIGHT!  Gun Rights Group Sues New Hampshire School Over Alleged Violation of Student’s Civil Liberties.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Keith Ellison to speak at Communist event.

WHY THE LEFT RAGES:  Today’s Feel-Good Story.

SUCH WONDERFUL PEOPLE CAME THROUGH OUR OPEN BORDER:   ‘Louisiana Man’ Accused of Taking Part in October 7 Massacre.

AS WELL THEY SHOULD:  UK police face pressure to reverse ban on Israeli soccer fans at Birmingham match.

I NO LONGER ASK IF THEY WANT A CIVIL WAR:   Pritzker: ICE Agents Should be Charged for Breaking State, Local Laws.

I DON’T THINK THERE’S A CHANCE, BUT WHO KNOWS?  Dear Vladimir.

THE ANTI-GUN PEOPLE WANT THEIR CAPTIVE AUDIENCE TO SHOOT AGENTS OF THE LAW:   One of the hard Left’s most prominent media mouthpieces is now screaming that black and brown people need to get guns to shoot ICE agents with – exhorting them to remember the Second Amendment.

AND FOR: the x-communicated.

OPEN THREAD: Happy Friday!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Vast gearing up to launch its Haven-1 private space station in 2026. “In the past couple of weeks, the California-based startup has completed the final weld on the primary structure of Haven-1, followed by painting. Next steps include integrating the flight article’s hatch and a domed window as the company moves closer to realizing its vision of a private space station in low Earth orbit (LEO). Haven-1 is designed to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and, at around 31,000 pounds (14,000 kilograms), will be the largest spacecraft to lift off atop the rocket. The space station is planned to host up to four short-duration astronaut missions during its three-year lifespan, with crews of four people spending 10 days at a time aboard Haven-1.”

WELL, GOOD: A Common Pain Relief Drug May Have Anti-Cancer Properties.

MARK JUDGE: Let Taylor Swift Be In Love.

HELEN ANDREWS: The Great Feminization. “In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke” era could be extrapolated from that moment, from the details of how Summers was cancelled and, most of all, who did the cancelling: women.”

UPDATE:

I am persuaded that feminization is the most portentous trend in American culture, and this is an excellent explanation of why.
It is also wonderfully written. E.g., "Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace that feels like a fraternity house, but men can’t sue when… https://t.co/SK2FHhjNgz

— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) October 16, 2025

FIND YOUR PHONE: Apple AirTag 4 Pack. #CommissionEarned

HMM: GLP-1s May Throw Off Some Medical Scans — The latest quirk linked to GLP-1 receptor agonists is of more concern to doctors than patients. “According to new research, the latest quirk of GLP-1 receptor agonists is that they may influence the interpretation of oncological fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET-CT scans.”

SARAH’S SHOCKED FACE IS ON THE ROAD, BUT WE CAN FILL IN FOR IT: Hakeem Jeffries Makes Nasty Personal Attack Against Karoline Leavitt.

TWO OF CADILLAC’S BETTER OFFERINGS: Dead: Cadillac CT4 and CT5.

But a question for writer Tim Healey: Do you really think your readers consider ICE a “”controversial law enforcement agency tear-gassing cities for no reason?”

JOHN LOTT: What the Stats Really Say About Crime Surge.

During last year’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said violent crime was rising. ABC moderator David Muir immediately fact-checked him, claiming, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country…”

Nearly every major media outlet echoed that narrative. National Public Radio ran the headline, “Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don’t believe it.” The Wall Street Journal declared, “Violent Crime Rate Falls Sharply After Pandemic Surge.” Vox insisted, “Violent crime is plummeting.” Axios reported, “New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities.”

However, a new Bureau of Justice Statistics report, which includes data through 2024, shows that Trump was right during the debate when he said, “Crime here is up and through the roof.” The National Crime Victimization Survey shows violent crime surged 59%, with rape and sexual assault up 67%, robbery up 38%, and aggravated assault up 62%. That’s the largest four-year increase in the survey’s 52-year history.

Why, it’s almost as though Muir, NPR, WSJ, Vox, and all the other outlets were just pushing a narrative convenient to the Democrats, rather than reporting the news.

NO MORE CANCEL CULTURE: Pastor Luke Ash was fired earlier this year from his second job at the Baton Rouge Parish Library after he refused to use a transgendered co-worker’s “preferred pronouns.” It wasn’t that long ago that such an incident would be a one-day story and the world would move on, in part due to fear of the consequences of fighting back.

Pastor Ash is fighting back, with help from attorneys at the Florida-based Liberty Counsel civil liberties defense outfit, according to the Washington Stand’s S.A. McCarthy.

“Liberty Counsel charges that the library board and supervisors violated Ash’s First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religious liberty and Fourteenth Amendment rights, in addition to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Louisiana’s constitutional religious liberty protections, and the state’s Preservation of Religious Freedom Act,” McCarthy reports.

Ash’s attorneys informed the Louisiana parish authorities that the bottom line on their actions in firing the pastor “is this: there is no compelling government interest in requiring Mr. Ash (or other employees) to lie; or to affirmatively use false pronouns that do not accurately reflect biological sex, particularly outside the hearing of the person who dislikes accurate, sex-based pronouns. The Library has acted unlawfully in firing Mr. Ash.”

More to come on this case. Like Trump said, “fight! fight! fight!”