HOW PROGS ‘THINK’ ABOUT MANDATES: Babylon Bee nails it.

WHAT UNIVERSE DO THESE PEOPLE INHABIT? This report from The Hill only begins to illustrate how far Establishment Washington D.C. is out-of-touch with reality

ABOUT THAT PANDEMIC MURDER MYTH: Writing on Liberty Unyielding, Hans Bader takes apart the claim that rising murder rates in the U.S. are a product of the Covid Pandemic.

“Murder rates actually fell in most countries that lost many people to the coronavirus. Peru had the world’s highest coronavirus death rate per million inhabitants. Yet Peru’s homicide rate fell by more than 2% in 2020,” Bader writes.

BIDEN ‘WEAPONIZING’ THE IRS AGAINST MIDDLE AMERICA: Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas is aghast. Go to the Washington Post web site and search this: “Biden to hire 87,000 new IRS agents.” Go to the New York Times web site and search this: “Biden to hire 87,000 new IRS agents.” Zilch on both. Why do you suppose the Post and the Times are ignoring this story?

SOMEBODY ORCHESTRATED THIS: This, as in the growing crisis on our Southern border. Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Joshua Trevino has a lengthy but incredibly revealing and disturbing report from the border. It is quite likely much worse than you imagined.

(Bumped, by Glenn).

THE ANSWER IS NO: Jeffrey Rendall at CHQ asks “Do Democrats Truly Understand What Their Problem is with the Budget?” As Rendall observes: “There haven’t been any reports of book throwing or intra-caucus knife fights, but it’s getting down to crunch time and the liberals aren’t close to finalizing their grand slush fund in its full form.”

CREATIVITY IN THE HELP-WANTED SECTION: Help Wanted signs are in every storefront window these days and employers are seeking out creative new ways of getting the word to the right people about the right job.

Now along comes direct-mail czar Richard Viguerie channeling Steve Jobs and asking if you’re tired of selling sugar water. Well, are you?

CAN THE FTC BE BOUGHT? A group of Facebook shareholders think the answer to that question is yes and they have filed suit in Delaware. Their key claim is that members of the Facebook board of directors paid fines totaling $5 billion with the understanding the FTC would then spare Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability for the Cambridge Analytic data debacle. This could be litigation to watch.

NO WONDER OUR KIDS ARE SCREWED UP: Our schools and media keep telling them we’re all doomed, thanks to Climate Change, and they believe it.

‘SCIENCE UPRISING’ AND THE ELITES: Just as there is a gathering revolt against the political elites in this country, so there are a growing number of smart folks with lots of PhDs on their walls who have had it with being blackballed, denied tenure, kicked out of research granting because they dissent from the current secular materialist orthodoxy.

The Discovery Institute’s latest episode of the “Science Uprising” provides an introductory summary of Intelligent Design evidence, but more importantly, it also makes clear that this debate isn’t going away any time soon. If anything, like the Flat Earthers of the past, the secular materialists could be in for some surprises. And don’t miss those ‘Chicken and Egg’ dilemmas, either.

IRON DOME FLAP PUTS DEMS’ ANTI-SEMITISM ON FRONT BURNER: Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has the full story on how and why it happened — in a word, bigotry — and why there remains hope that $1 billion in Iron Dome funding for Israel will yet be approved by Congress.

REMEMBER ‘WRONG-WAY FELDMAN?’ No, probably not, but the guys at Issues & Insights do and they suggest “Wrong-Way Biden” is now the appropriate title for the guy in the White House who appears to also be lost in the clouds.

10 REASONS TO REJECT VACCINE PASSPORTS: Australian authorities have taken a much more authoritarian approach in several respects than the U.S. to dealing with the Covid pandemic and the availability of vaccines. So perhaps it shouldn’t surprise that an Aussie blogger, Kurt Mahlburg of Cross and Culture, offers a convincing case against vaccine passports that applies here in the states, too.

PLANTS AS RECHARGEABLE LIGHTS: What will they think of next? I can hear the neighbors complaining about not being able to sleep at night because of the bright plants.

ON LOSING A BELOVED PET: Twister, RIP, and what it all means.

MAYBE JOE SHOULD JUST SHUT UP: His Fraudulency in his September 9 speech all but called people morons who have thus far declined to get the jab, according to Issues & Insights. But guess what, the vaccination rate went down, not up. Still, the good news is Covid infection rates are headed downward. So much for unity and leadership instead of mean tweets.

JUST WHEN YOU THINK HIS FRAUDULENCY HAS HIT BOTTOM: He finds another shovel. This one is funding a wall in Tajikistan to keep out Afghan refugees fleeing from the Taliban, even as he keeps the U.S. border with Mexico wide open to all comers.

INDIA’S BIGGEST STATE IS ALL BUT COVID-FREE: That’s the news from the Hindustan Times. As it happens, public health authorities in a state there that has as many people as the entire U.S. do not block use of Invermectin to treat Covid patients. Probably just coincidental, right?

ON DOOR-TO-DOOR SALESMEN, GOOGLE SEARCH AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS: They are strongly related (though not causative), as HillFaith explains this morning. And if you suddenly feel skepticism rising up in your chest, try a little willing suspension of disbelief, if only for a moment.

CALIFORNIA, YOU BLEW IT, AGAIN: That’s the assessment of Issues & Insights, which predicts Gavin Newsom will now double down on his particular brand of progressive authoritarianism:

“It wouldn’t be loco to think that Newsom is now going to seek revenge on those who voted to remove him. A likely place to start is to put California back under a tight and unforgiving pandemic lockdown regime even though it had never fully escaped Newsom’s iron fist over the summer.

“If not for the heat he felt from the recall polls, the life-has-been-handed-to-him governor would have surely reinstated the freedom-robbing policies he had ordered in 2020 after the Delta variant arrived in June.”

My prediction is the Golden State will be losing even more residents in the months ahead as more and more folks throw their hands up in disgust and despair, say to Hades with it, and head to Texas.

SUBSIDIZED JOURNALISTS, JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDS: Washington Free Beacon points to tax-credit provisions in Biden’s “Build Back Better” $3.5 trillion spending bonanza. How long before newsrooms are stuffed to the gills with ghost reporters? And public trust of the media goes from 21 percent to zero?

THE WATER NEARS THE BOILING POINT: Did you see that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) demanded that Amazon revise its algorithm to stop promoting books and other products with messages that contradict the official Covid narrative? Next, Fox, Newsmax, OAN required to pre-clear program transcripts with CDC?

WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR FREEDOM TO SURVIVE IN AMERICA: Bradley Prize winner Mollie Hemingway provides a bracing meditation on what must be done if we are to preserve this great Republic.

BLUNT TRUTH ABOUT WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS: The Federalist Chris Bedford and Conservative Partnership Institute’s Rachel Bovard confirm everything you ever feared explains why Republicans never achieve major reforms and Democrats always do.

ARIZONA SCHOOL SHOWS SHOT MANDATE ABOUT POWER, NOT THE KIDS: If it was about the kids, the building operations director wouldn’t have been demoted to being a (substitute) teacher in the classroom.