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September 12, 2025

LEFTISM IS ALL ABOUT THE LYING:

Posted at 8:12 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 12th, 2025

MAYBE BECAUSE PEOPLE KEEP THEIR APPENDICES NOW? A Forgotten Cancer Is Rising in Young People, And Experts Are Puzzled. “Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.”

Actually there seems to be more than that going on here. But I heard some students talking about tonsil stones recently and I realized I never used to hear about those, probably because most people in my generation had their tonsils out at like five years old.

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 12th, 2025

GEN Z ON THE WARPATH:

Posted at 7:08 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 12th, 2025

WHAT IF CHARLIE KIRK LIVED? Yes, Charlie Kirk was an amazing force in conservative politics, but what if he was still with us? Might he have become the next Billy Graham? Check out my latest PJMedia column.

Posted at 6:35 pm by Mark Tapscott on Sep 12th, 2025

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU HATE THE MEDIA, IT’S NOT ENOUGH:

Related:

Posted at 5:50 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 12th, 2025

LARRY CORREIA: “Not metaphorically. They want you to die. Some of us have known this for a long time because we pissed off the left somehow previously, but for the regular folks coming to that understanding is a life changing moment:”

Related: “Literally millions of peaceful, law-abiding conservatives who just want to be left alone have been woken up and suddenly realize that most Democrats would gladly see them dead:”

“And they’re getting bolder:”

It’s rather difficult to engage in “open dialog” with people want to see you dead:

UPDATE: Ace of Spades responds to Greenwald and writes:

No, Glenn, it’s not the same. We are not attacking the left for having differences of political opinion. We are not attacking them for having weird beliefs.

We are attacking them for celebrating assassination and murder. We are attacking them for calling for the next “pew pew” against the President Donald Trump.

If Trump goes down — we are at war.

You are right that most words are not violence. But some words are: Specifically those calling for someone to be killed, or praising an assassin for killing someone, with hopes that additional assassins will emerge.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 12th, 2025

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: The New Left-Wing Narrative: Tyler Robinson Was a White Supremacist Republican Trump Supporter.

Tyler Robinson was a normal kid from a good family who went off to college and got radicalized. It’s a pretty common story, and reminds us that colleges and universities are in desperate need of reform. Look at all the teachers and academics openly celebrating Kirk’s death.

People who go down this deep into a rabbit hole are being driven there by the gaslighting–and the gaslighters know exactly what they are doing.

In his Commentary newsletter, Abe Greenwald writes: How to Break a Generation. “To make a terrorist, you must first break the person. And that’s what we’ve done to so many in Gen Z:”

[T]heir personal discomfort was considered an intolerable condition. Every challenge was a threat. Even speech could harm them. They were ushered into therapy, diagnosed, and medicated. Some, it turned out, were discovered to have been born in the wrong bodies. This designation was to be celebrated while it turned their lives into a sci-fi nightmare.
But there were other competing nightmares to deal with. Climate change was forever on the verge of making the planet uninhabitable. Democracy was dying, while fascism waited in the wings.

Then came Covid, disruption of what normalcy they knew, complete social isolation, and years lived entirely online.

By the time Gen Z were delivered into the hands of the revolutionary professoriate, they had been sufficiently broken down and were ready to be remade. AI could cover their day-to-day responsibilities while they devoted themselves to the propaganda on their screens and in their classrooms. All that was left was for them to go out into the world and finally be something.

The writings left by some Gen Z killers read less like manifestos than dystopian personal diaries. And that’s probably what they should be understood as, reflections on the devastated life that made them who they are.

Meanwhile today, within the leftist enclaves of social media:

UPDATE: The Banality of Banality: “Robinson appears to be exactly the sort of product that the education establishment and the progressive left hope to produce by age 22. Call him the New Soviet Man for the 21st century. It is fortunate that they captured him alive as a specimen that can be studied in isolation.”

MORE:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 12th, 2025

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES: How carrying enough water to make return-trip propellant simplifies a Starship mission to Mars.

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 and 2000. Many were the product of NASA and industry study teams, while others were the work of committed individuals or private organizations. I compiled a history of human mission studies through 2023. Essentially all of these mission design concepts were deemed impractical but now, if the SpaceX Starship proves flightworthy, new possibilities could finally emerge as the constraints on space travel change.

All of these studies were carried out in the era of constrained mass. Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) to produce propellants for ascent from Mars and reliance on efficient recycling of gaseous and liquid wastes. Landing massive loads presented major challenges. The “initial mass in low Earth orbit” (IMLEO) was the dominant design parameter. None of these mission designs could be taken as practical and affordable, and a human mission to Mars remained a chimera of paper studies not going anywhere fast.

With the advent of reduced launch costs implemented by SpaceX, the rules of the game are changing. When the Starship becomes operational and can deliver 100 metric tons to Mars, we will have come full circle. The game is no longer to minimize mass, but rather to use large amounts of mass to reduce complexity and risk in moderate missions, and to pursue more ambitious missions than could previously be contemplated. The Starship will use chemical propulsion with a large amount of propellants. The political impediments of NTP are bypassed. It is claimed (but yet to be proven) SpaceX will be able to land huge loads on Mars.

Let’s get going on that next Starship flight test, please.

Posted at 4:54 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 12th, 2025

ALL OVER THE WORLD:

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:49 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 12th, 2025

HOW IT STARTED: In his 1980 non-fiction anthology In Our Time, Tom Wolfe wrote, “In the fifties there was the martini. In the sixties there was vodka on ice. In the early seventies there was the glass of white wine. In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants.”

How it’s going:

Earlier, from Roger Simon: Living Forever: Putin, Xi and Djokovic.

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 12th, 2025

YES:

Posted at 4:42 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 12th, 2025

YES: Thank God Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Was Captured ALIVE. “From Lee Harvey Oswald to Thomas Matthew Crooks, whenever the suspect in a high-profile assassination attempt is killed pre-trial, it provides an opening for crazed conspiratorial gobbledygook. Hell, we’re still debating JFK’s assassination — and that was more than 60 years ago — and it remains unclear how and why Crooks got within a whisker of murdering Donald Trump.”

Posted at 4:23 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 12th, 2025

MSNBC, SMDH:

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 12th, 2025
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