80 YEARS-WORTH OF CLIMATE APOCALYPSE PREDICTIONS: If you read the Harrisburg (Pa.) Sunday Courier in 1939, you were told “all of the glaciers in Eastern Greenland are rapidly melting.” That’s just one of dozens of such gloomy predictions from decades ago that never came true, according to The Epoch Times, reporting a Competitive Enterprise Institute analysis. But don’t worry, they come up with new ones about every decade.

HERE’S A GREAT QUESTION FOR DEMOCRATS ON TRUMP: Issues & Insights poses it this way: “Of course there is no evidence that Trump is a racist or white supremacist. If he is, why wasn’t this fact made known over his more than three decades as a public figure; when he was registered as a Democrat in the first decade of this century; when he was friends with the Clintons; and when he donated money to Hillary’s Senate campaign, several other Democrats, and the Clinton Foundation?”

Read the whole thing.

SOMETHING IN THE IOWA WATER? How else to explain why the state has produced anti-waste crusader Republicans like Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. H.R. Gross? Especially now that Sen. Joni Ernst is mounting a serious, multi-pronged legislative assault on strongholds of government waste and fraud.

LGBTQ BOYCOTT IS A BOON FOR CHIK-FIL-A: Sales data shows advocates for boycotting Chik-Fil-A because the Georgia-based fast food outlet’s president expressed support seven years ago for traditional marriage might want to re-think their strategy.

“Sales for the quick-service eatery totaled $4.6 billion in 2012, the same year CEO Dan Cathy voiced his support for the Biblical definition of marriage and family, comments that caused proponents of gay marriage to call for boycotts,” Faithwire reports. “In 2018, sales reached an astounding $10.46 billion, making Chick-fil-A the third-largest restaurant chain in the U.S., right behind McDonald’s and Starbucks.”

MASS HOCUS-POCUS IN THE MIDDLE EAST? There are new reports from devout Muslims living in the most repressive and intolerant corners of Islam of appearances of Jesus. These aren’t from people in “backwater fundamentalist, snake-handling freak shows,” either. And people are converting to Christianity, even when the penalty for doing so is death, according to Reuters, NPR, NBC, etc.

AIDE WHO CARRIED NUCLEAR FOOTBALL WARNS TRUMP ABOUT ‘CIVIL SERVANTS,’ ‘OBAMA HOLDOVERS: Former presidential military aide Buzz Patterson carried the bag with the big red button for President Bill Clinton for three years. He lived and worked in the White House throughout those years and when everybody else left for the day, he was the guy who screened incoming calls from all over the world.

Patterson told The Epoch Times’ Patrick Howley President Donald Trump should be especially wary of two classes of officials around him: “There are a lot of Obama holdovers who are still working in the State Department, White House, Pentagon. They’re not happy their team didn’t work. I was a commander for civil service people in 20 years.

“It is really hard to root out civil servants. Hard to root out people who are counter-productive. I think Trump has a lot of people still that don’t want him to last, or be successful in 2020. That’s how DC works,” Patterson said. As Glenn says, read the whole thing.

‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ JUST ANOTHER WAY TO SAY ‘SOCIALISM:’ The Issues & Insights crew digs deep into the darkest recesses of global warming alarmism and comes up with, among much else, Al Gore’s daughter explaining why capitalism must go if the environment is to be saved.

WOMAN-MAJORITY OMAHA CITY COUNCIL OUTLAWS ABORTION: That’s Omaha, Texas, not the slightly larger jurisdiction up north in Nebraska.

SAY NO IF SOMEBODY FROM QATAR OFFERS YOUR SCHOOL MILLIONS: Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller News Foundation explains the deadly strings that come with saying yes.

IF YOU’RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH LAWFARE: Sundance at the Last Refuge explains why you should be if you want to understand some key characteristics of the anti-Trump jihad, including why they just can’t give up on Kavanaugh’s destruction.

IS YOUR BRAIN IDENTICAL TO YOUR MIND? Something to cogitate about over the weekend, from NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace.

DECEASED INDIANA DOC DID ABORTIONS ON 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL: Dr. Ulrich Klopfer died September 3 and, following a call from his attorney, authorities shortly thereafter found more than 2,200 medically preserved parts of aborted babies in his home. The Epoch Times reports today he also performed abortions on girls as young as 10.

“Board members also said they were disturbed that Klopfer didn’t give pain medication to all women, only automatically to those under the age of 16 and then to adults who could pay him extra money. When he did give the medication to women, his staff weren’t qualified to follow best practices for the drugs,” The Epoch Times continued.

This case illustrates why at least some states are considering laws allowing abortions to be performed only in facilities that meet health standards equivalent to those applied to hospitals. A search of the Planned Parenthood media relations web site found no references to Klopfer.

BEEN A ROUGH WEEK? THIS WILL HELP: Check it out, Friday Poetry Fun from Recovering Know-It-All.

WE’RE GOING TO MISS T. BOONE: Whatever you may have thought of his corporate raids, or superego, or prairie populist orneriness, T. Boone Pickens was one of a kind, as this delightful Forbes profile by Christopher Helman makes clear.

Those of us who also graduated from Oklahoma State University have our own special reasons for admiring Pickens. He will be buried on the campus in Stillwater, so I wonder how long till reports circulate of his ghost being seen around the football stadium named after him and the geology  classrooms in which he first began learning where to look for black gold.

WHAT IF THIS GUY IS RIGHT THAT THE PENTAGON DOESN’T GET CHINA? David P. Goldman uses his Law & Liberty review of Bill Gertz’ latest book — “Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy” — to make the case that U.S. political and military leaders are disastrously wrong about what the Asian giant has accomplished and how we must respond. I advise you not to read Goldman’s analysis if you have a weak heart.

IT’S 9/11 AND YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS MAN: His name was simply Father Fonzie and Flight 93 crashed in his backyard. He did something about it.

HERE’S WHY COMPUTERS WILL NEVER BE AS SMART AS HUMANS: Imagining a world utterly dominated by computers makes for interesting movies, occasionally, but this Pomona College data wonk explains why we will always know things our little whirring boxes can never grasp. And guess who that points to! Still leaves a lot of room for smart folks to become fabulously wealthy with a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100.

“THE HOP’ IS THE $128M STREETCAR TO NOWHERE: Great video from the Badger Institute comparing the federally funded Milwaukee transportation boondoggle to the privately funded Joseph Project in which a group of churches pooled resources to get people to their jobs.

NO, THE FIRST CHRISTIANS WERE NOT SOCIALISTS: No matter what you were taught in college, or in (a liberal Protestant or liberationist Catholic) church, the claim the early believers were socialists simply doesn’t square with the facts, according to Sean McDowell. And while we’re at it, they didn’t borrow that resurrection stuff about Jesus from popular pagan myths of the day either, argues Mary Jo Sharp.

IDENTITY POLITICS IS WHAT WE GET WHEN WE ABANDON THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY: Now, that is a provocative suggestion, coming from author Mary Eberstadt, according to The Federalist’s Joy Pullman in a review of “Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics.”

Put most simply, the argument is stated thus by Pullman: “How many more generations must pay the emotional and financial price for our society’s refusal to require people to be fully responsible for what happens when they have sex?” It really is in the final analysis about the children.

A CASE FOR GETTING OUT OF AFGHANISTAN, FINALLY: Daniel DePetris, writing on The Federalist, addresses what he calls the disaster myths propagated by supporters of a continued U.S. presence in the no-man’s land of central Asia.

Not sure I agree with everything he says, but it’s well-worth reading and considering carefully, especially the point that the U.S. military quickly achieved our objective of driving out the Taliban regime that harbored al Qaeda and Osama bin-Laden, but then the politicians took over, thus beginning the “nation-building” phase now approaching 20 years in duration.

WHAT IF BEIJING KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU? Don’t laugh until you read this Hudson Institute briefing memo by William Schneider. The “Internet of things” made possible by 5G could be the crucial technology leap that China makes before the U.S., with horrendous consequences. “The United States is late to the game, and the time to catch up is short.”

NO, BRITAIN IS NOT IN BREXIT CRISIS AND YES, BORIS WILL WIN: Daniel Hannan explains it all in the Washington Examiner. Interesting how their elites are as out of touch with voters as ours are.

WHY YES, WHERE IS THE INFAMOUS ANTHONY WEINER/HUMA ABEDIN LAPTOP? Inquiring minds still want to know.

DOES ELIZABETH WARREN EVEN REMEMBER WRITING THIS BOOK? It was titled “The Two-Income Trap” and it argued, perhaps unknowingly, for the proposition that progressive taxes harm two-income families. Somebody should ask the candidate about this.