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THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK: No near neighbors: Closest technologically advanced aliens may be 33,000 light-years from Earth.

BREAKING: James Comey Indicted for Alleged Lying to Congress, Obstruction of Justice.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Scientists Blast Dinosaur Eggs With Lasers to Check Their Ancient ‘Atomic Clocks.’

NEUROLOGICAL PROCESSING POWER AT WORK: IQ Linked to How Well You Hear in a Crowd.

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HEH: Look What the Clever Bastards at Franklin Armory Did to the ATF.

Under US law, a short-barreled rifle is “a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length and any weapon made from a rifle (whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise) if such weapon, as modified, has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches”.

Ok, and what is a rifle? It is (emphasis added) “a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger”.

Last Thursday, the mad scientists at Franklin Armory launched the Antithesis. It is, as far as we can tell, a bog-standard AR-15 that comes in 7.5-12.5” barrel configurations.

One day later, Franklin Armory pulled the Antithesis off their site under threat from the ATF. Here’s what happened.

Franklin Armory noticed the bold section in the definition of “rifle” above. They built an Antithesis that, like well-known combination guns such as the Taurus Judge, fires both .45 Long Colt ammo and .410 shot shells. They argued that because the shot shells contain multiple projectiles, the Antithesis is not a rifle. Therefore it can’t be a short-barreled rifle and isn’t subject to NFA regulation. After lengthy litigation, the ATF issued a letter this August agreeing with Franklin Armory’s contention that the Antithesis isn’t an SBR.

Two weeks and change after that letter, Franklin Armory announced the Antithesis in 5.56mm, for sale immediately.

Full story at the link.

WELL, GOOD: Older adults can bounce back to thriving health, study finds.

CHANGE:

Historic. The New York Times finally challenges the “believe all women” mantra. A carefully reported story suggests that socialite Amy Griffin, an alleged sexual assault victim, is either a fabulist or a lunatic —or both. Wild story. Free link below.

— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers) September 25, 2025

And here’s that link.

YOU LIVE IN A ‘SUNSHINE’ OR A ‘SINKHOLE’ STATE? Truth-in-Accounting, the invaluable Chicago-based non-profit accounting watchdog, digs into the debt status of each of the 50 states and finds an even 25-25 split. And I’m betting you can guess which class of states are red and which are deep, deep blue.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL FASCISM SEASON:

Ammo Company Unveils New Giant Shell Casing With More Room For Left-Wing Terrorists To Write Out All Their Motives In Detail https://t.co/UODVtUKKac pic.twitter.com/JglLygtDOj

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 25, 2025

THERE ARE NO GOOD ONES: 5 Bad Proposals Currently Being Pushed By Anti-Gun Pennsylvania Lawmakers.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Dearborn mayor refuses to apologize for telling Christian minister he was ‘not welcome here.’ “We have a mayor in the United States who is sharing a platform with somebody, with [a] terrorist!?” Rife asked. “Where is your allegiance? Is your allegiance to the United States or is your allegiance to Hezbollah?”

QUESTION EMOJI HERE: Does CNN Have Blood on Its Hands in Anti-ICE Shooting?

UM…:

The Washington Post writes that the head of the Pentagon urgently convened hundreds of generals and admirals without naming the reason, which greatly alarmed the U.S. military leadership.

It is known that absolutely every general and flag officer is being withdrawn from the… pic.twitter.com/IFgje14jKu

— WarTranslated (@wartranslated) September 25, 2025

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: You Say You Want a Counterrevolution? “We are the revolutionaries.”

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TROLL LEVEL POTUS DJT: Biden’s Portrait in Trump’s New Presidential Walk of Fame is a Photo of an Autopen.

The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade

Wait for it… 🖊️👀 pic.twitter.com/ApWfdxfFQa

— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) September 24, 2025

I’M A FAN: The Case for Pocket Carry. As with cameras, the gun you have with you is better than the one in a drawer at home.

THAT’S A MAN, BABY:

Read this. This is what Arlington Public Schools policy allows, and when parents object, the school board thinks they are the problem. https://t.co/5A7NwBQwq6

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 25, 2025

Weaponizing predatory autogynephilia as a human right is maybe the most Democrat thing the Democrats have ever done.

ON JOHN BROWN, THEN AND NOW: The old abolitionist fanatic who raided the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 in hopes of inciting a slave rebellion across the South is enjoying something of a revival amid reports of the “John Brown Club” becoming active at Georgetown University and other campuses, according to The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson.

Davidson’s excellent essay provides a useful introduction to John Brown as analogy to the Tyler Robinsons, Jonathan Jahns and other contemporary Radical Leftists taking up arms against ICE, Trump, the police, and everything else associated with America.

What Davidson misses, though, is that the Brown analogy doesn’t end with merely taking up a bolt-action rifle and killing Charlie Kirk, or an illegal alien sitting in an ICE van in Dallas.

No, as I explained in detail a couple of years ago in this PJ Media column, Brown was a thorough-going revolutionary in search of dictatorial powers he viewed as required to carry out his fundamental remaking of American society.

Man, I wish I had finished that doctoral dissertation entitled “John Brown and Gnostic Millenarianism in the American Political Regime”!

WE DON’T JUST HAVE THE WORST MEDIA, WE HAVE THE WORST POSSIBLE MEDIA:

this is how NPR is characterizing a shooting at an ICE facility in which the terrorist responsible wrote “ANTI-ICE” on one of the casings pic.twitter.com/LhnFHtd4Ky

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) September 25, 2025

CORN, POPPED: New York Times Reports DOJ Is Investigating George Soros.

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