JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Why (lots) more nuclear power might make economic sense. Might?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Buying Your First Suppressor: What You Need to Know.

TRUE: Nostalgia Shouldn’t Drive Your Carry Gun Choice.

A GOOD FRIEND IS DONATING TO THIS GROUP, WHICH IS FLYING RELIEF SUPPLIES INTO THE HURRICANE AREA: Wings of Hope. I’ve donated.

Please put any other suggestions for useful charities in the comments. (Bumped).

UPDATE: It’s helping. From Wings of Hope: “We were just able to get a second helicopter for two days, gas bill funded. There are two of us now. It’s huge, will post more about the impact and what’s going on tomorrow, but this is a really really big deal and saving a lot of people’s lives. So many dead, they are not talking about it, is sad to see. Like a war zone.”

WELL, GOOD: Ultrasound test detects 96% of ovarian cancers in postmenopausal women.

THAT WAS A GREAT CAR: The Audi RS7—they won’t make them like this much longer.

I test drove an Audi RS7 a while back.

NUTRITION: Study supports value of intermittent fasting combined with nutritional counseling.

TIME FOR A CHANGE: Canada’s New Young Conservatives: While Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government self-destructs with radical identity politics, the Conservatives are winning over young voters with a pragmatic economic agenda.

WHILE JOE VACATIONED AND KAMALA FUNDRAISED WITH CELEBRITIES: Heartbreaking final photo shows NC grandparents trapped on roof before they were swept away by floodwaters along with grandson.

“THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE” WAS NOT MEANT TO BE A HOW-TO MANUAL: Efforts growing to ‘braid Indigenous knowledge’ into science, UChicago biologist warns.

CHANGE: UNCW dismantles DEI positions, redirects almost $1.5 million to help students.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: A historic strike is underway at U.S. ports — and the impact on global supply chains could be huge.

PUSHBACK WORKS: Florida City Gun Sales Ban Was ‘Mistakenly’ Ordered, Not Enforced After National Blowback.

SERIOUSLY, WHAT DOES SHE BRING TO THE TABLE? ‘The Worst Democratic Performance in a Generation’: CNN Sounds Alarm on Harris’s Waning Support Among Union Voters.

PETTY POLITICS ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN THIS ADMINISTRATION: Harris/Biden Denied Starlink to Hundreds of Thousands; Now They Rely On It. “Donald Trump is public enemy #1 for the Democrats, and Elon Musk comes in a quick second place. They hate him so much that hundreds of thousands of people are being denied broadband, and North Carolina is 19,500 Starlink terminals short of where it would be if the original FCC contract had been honored.”

Hate is their main motivator. Well, and greed.

Plus: “Donald Trump and Elon Musk will have done more to restore communications to stricken regions than Biden and Harris. They have done more already, actually.”

WHY DO DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FAKE UP THEIR BIOS? Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong During the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He Was Home in Nebraska. “Walz’s claims in 2014 congressional hearing are a tall tale, video and local news reports show.”

WELL, TO BE FAIR, SHE HAS NO EXECUTIVE SKILLS: Kamala: Walz was a mistake.. “Nobody visits China 30 times. Nobody. I’ve never been anywhere 30 times in my life. Let alone a foreign nation. Just imagine the dirt China has on Walz.”

AT LEAST IT’S NOT A PEARL NECKLACE: ‘Border czar’ Kamala Harris panned for wearing reported $62K necklace to southern border: ‘You look ridiculous.’

SALENA ZITO: Appalachia: A ballad of the unseen.

Think East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailed in 2021. The media were slow to show up, and the White House took weeks to acknowledge it. President Joe Biden famously went to Ukraine at the height of the Ohio crisis, and he took a year to show up in the Columbiana County village forever changed by the incident and subsequent controlled burn of toxic chemicals that left still-unknown effects on communal health.

There are a handful of “large” cities in Appalachia, with Pittsburgh being the largest. Others are Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Erie, Pennsylvania; Youngstown, Ohio; and Asheville, North Carolina.

The region also is home to state-recognized Native American tribal communities in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New York, and North Carolina. . . .

In the days since Hurricane Helene hit the heart of Appalachian Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, it has been remarkable to see, once again, the news media barely mentioning the devastating impact that has destroyed a large chunk of the region. As of Monday, there were 116 confirmed deaths as a result of the storm. The hardest hit county was Buncombe, North Carolina, which includes Asheville, where at least 35 people died.

The number of people missing as of publication in one county in North Carolina alone has reached 600. The people have been cut off from the world more than they usually are. Cell service, which has always been well below national averages, is almost nonexistent, and entire communities have been physically cut off because of downed bridges and washed-out roadways. Power is out, access to water and food supply is also cut off, and entire blocks of homes and business districts are now memories.

The images of cars, homes, and bridges being swept away, along with people desperate for water, food, and shelter, have been hard to consume. We are looking at our fellow citizens, our neighbors, and our families, and not understanding where the help is. We also don’t understand where the national news has been, as the story of Helene has earned scant coverage from NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Only Fox, which has a lot of local affiliates spread out across the region, was on top of the story.

So why is that? Well, in part, this region has no center of power among U.S. cultural curators; no Hollywood studios, only a few corporate headquarters compared to those located in places such as New York and Washington; and no big centers of wealth. . . .

Nonetheless, despite the lack of political power, the people of Appalachia are more likely to be the first to sign up to serve their country, and they place value in faith, place, and community.

In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast and affected New York and New Jersey, the national media covered the devastation that came with it nonstop, and the White House was quick to respond. Conversely, when Oliver Anthony sang his haunting ballad “Rich Men North of Richmond” last year, it was the people of Appalachia of all races, who sang along.

When reports started flickering through X over the weekend about Helene’s devastation, both David Axelrod and Brandon Friedman, former Obama administration officials, immediately pointed to climate change, an issue elites often blame on the very working class who work in the industries they disapprove of.

Read the whole thing.

UNEXPECTEDLY:

The German family who hosted fake Muslim asylum seeker wants to send him away but he doesn't want to leave and takes a knife: "It's my home now!" pic.twitter.com/ufY2TyLHvp

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) September 29, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches reusable Shijian-19 satellite for space breeding and technology tests.

DOING THE JOBS AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WON’T DO: Gov. DeSantis launches ‘Operation Blue Ridge’ to help rescue Floridians trapped in North Carolina. “He said that thousands of rescue missions were successfully completed across the state, and now that those are behind us, Florida crews will head north to rescue Floridians trapped in western North Carolina in ‘Operation Blue Ridge’. ‘Operation Blue Ridge’ puts people from the State Guard, the National Guard, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on the ground in western North Carolina, which was devastated by flooding from Hurricane Helene.”

Flashback: Ron DeSantis has emerged as America’s awesome ‘shadow president.’

WOW: Boil water notice in effect for Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Virginia Tech and Montgomery County.

WELL, YES:

It’s been 2 months since the media conceded Biden was mentally gone, party donors crowned Kamala, and for all practical purposes Kamala became acting President.

Kamala’s failed response—or lack thereof—to Hurricane Helene proves in the most tragic way she’s unfit to be POTUS.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) September 30, 2024