NUKE THE FBI: Former FBI Official Will Testify About White House Pressure to Inflate Domestic Extremism Numbers.

IT’S THOSE DANG GAS PRICES BIDEN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT ARE KILLING DEM CHANCES: Gasoline Prices Are Stubbornly High in Election Swing States. “Nevada and Arizona — swing states with competitive Senate races — are among those grappling with the highest gasoline prices in the country. More than 40% of competitive races rated by Cook Political Report are in states seeing the highest increases in pump prices compared with the 2020 election.”

More: “As we have noted too many times to remember, the problem is not a lack of crude oil but a lack of refining capacity… ‘U.S. policy pushing away from oil consumption has led to refinery transitions to renewables, or outright closures. This trend accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic,’ and then accelerated further upon Biden’s inauguration.”

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EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden’s Housing Market Bomb: Home Sales Plummet in Record September Drop.

JOE BIDEN’S AMERICA: Inflation is pushing half of Americans to consider second jobs. “The survey of more than 1,000 adults with full-time jobs found that 38% have looked for a second job, while another 14% plan to do so, the company said.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE? How to Avoid Getting Arrested for Breaking the Hijab Law in Iran While Giving Authorities the Finger.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ‘Election Deniers’ Are Destroying the Dems’ False Narrative Machine. “Translation: How dare the hoi polloi be more concerned about their finances than about the manufactured temper tantrum we told them is important!“

FAIL, BRITANNIA: Hospital Denied Operation To Female Sex Abuse Victim Who Requested Biologically Female Nurses.

The north London woman told the Daily Mail that having an all-biologically female nursing staff aligned with her personal beliefs. She did not fill out paperwork about her gender identity or pronouns and said she did not want to engage with “such manifestations of gender ideology.”

“I began to wonder if it was just a coincidence that this member of staff with a “gender identity” had made their presence felt to me in such an inappropriate way during my first visit,” she told the Mail. “I began to suspect that I had been targeted because my patient records showed that I refused to use pronouns and wanted single sex facilities, although I have no evidence of this.”

A survivor of sexual assault, the patient said she began to “panic” once the biologically male nurse entered her room due to the nature of the care she was receiving and the fact that she would be immobilized for an entire week after the procedure. After the incident, she complained to the hospital and made her request.

Princess Grace chief executive Maxine Estop Green replied to her email, telling her that the procedure was off and the hospital “did not share her beliefs.”

“Single payer” really means “single decider.”

SHE’S PAID HANDSOMELY NOT TO ENTERTAIN UNCOMFORTABLE THOUGHTS: Jen Psaki Can’t Believe That the Economy Trumps Blocking ‘Election Deniers’ in the Midterms.

ANOTHER LAUGHING WOLF PRIMER: Buying Your First Weapon. “After yesterday’s Preparedness On The Fly post (the series is aimed at those just getting into preparedness because of the nuclear threat) it seems there is some interest in my talking more about how to go about purchasing your first weapon. While a good bit of this will concentrate on pistols since that seems to be what most are interested in purchasing, we will cover some other areas as well.”

Pass this along to a friend or relative who’s been thinking of exercising their Second Amendment rights.

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Rick Moran: New Conservative Swedish Prime Minister Axes Environment Ministry, Demands End to ‘Feminist’ Foreign Policy. “We will not pursue a feminist foreign policy. That label has not served a good purpose. It has obscured the fact that Swedish foreign policy must be based on what Swedish interests and Swedish values are.”

Matt Margolis: I’m Starting to Feel Good About Herschel Walker’s Chances — Here’s Why. “If Hicks’ assessment is correct, and it’s hard to argue that a Democrat strategist would be biased in Walker’s favor, then Walker could ride Kemp’s coattails to victory in November.”

Yours Truly: Election Pre-Post Mortem: All the Democrats Had to Do Was Not Be F****** Crazy. “I think maybe it’s the cultural stuff, maybe even more than inflation and the economy, that has people asking, ‘Are these people f****** nuts?'”

BUT OF COURSE: There’s ANOTHER Problem With Fetterman’s Doctor’s Note.

BREAKING: CDC Advisory Committee Votes Unanimously to Add COVID-19 Vaccines to the Vaccines for Children List Children’s Schedule.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Top House Dems continue paying family members thousands of dollars using campaign funds.

SHE’S RIGHT: Tulsi Gabbard Says Democrats Have Become ‘Insane.’

GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Armed citizen shoots knife-wielding man threatening paramedics.

WHAT’S HE HIDING? Fetterman Finally Releases ‘Medical Record’ (But You Won’t Believe What It Really Is).

TEXAS: Three Republican House Candidates to Consider Backing.

Here’s one of them:

Myra Flores, TX-34 (Donation Page). Technically this isn’t a “flip” opportunity, since Flores eked out a Special Election win against Dan Sanchez to fill out the remaining term of Democrat Filmon Vila Jr., who left office to work at Aiken Gump. But that election was a big upset, since Vila had defeated his Republican opponent in 2020 by 14 points. In November she faces Democrat Vicente Gonzalez (an incumbent for TX-15 who changed races because his own district was becoming too competitive), who says that Flores and Republicans stole the seat by out-raising Sanchez. This seat is a bellwether for Republican chances to flip Hispanic voters to the party. I donated to Flores.

If you’ve been looking for a campaign or two to give to, even just a little, you could do worse than Flores.

HE STILL ISN’T READY AFTER TWO YEARS OF HOLDING THAT OFFICE: Raphael Warnock’s Answer to the Question of Why Voters Should Choose Him Doesn’t Inspire Confidence.

REMINDER: Fauci Claims He Had ‘Nothing to Do’ With School Closures. His Own Statements Suggest Otherwise.

THE CDC SQUANDERED TOO MUCH PUBLIC TRUST TO MAKE THIS STICK, EVEN IF THE VACCINES WERE NECESSARY FOR KIDS: CDC Vaccine Advisory Group To Vote on Adding mRNA Vaccines to the Childhood Schedule.

NPR: You can run, but you can’t hide: Inflation is busting budgets, and killing joy too.

What was striking about the data was that a lot of the worst inflation is hitting us at home: rent was up 7.2%, electricity prices are up 15.5%, groceries are up 13%.

Seeing as how it’s spooky season, and the economy seems to be full of monsters, I thought it appropriate to invoke the classic horror film When a Stranger Calls (1979) –a terrifying tale of a woman babysitting a couple of kids, who keeps getting calls from a creepy stranger. She finally has the call traced (this was waaaay back in the days of landlines) and the operator calls back with the terrifying news: The calls are coming from inside the house!

Inflation, too, is coming from inside the house: lurking inside a carton of eggs (30.5% more expensive than last year), crouching in your closet (prices for women’s suits are up 10%, men’s suits are up 9.5%), or even hiding inside the walls (utility gas up 33.1%).

But unlike the killer in When a Stranger Calls, inflation doesn’t tend to get us with one deadly strike. Instead, it’s been hanging around for months, destroying our peace of mind and stealing some joy out of life. Because there’s no avoiding paying for shelter, food and health insurance (up 28.2%,the biggest jump on record) consumers have to find other places to cut back: everything from vacations to eating out to even giving up favorite activities or foods.

Did I mention this story was published by NPR? There’s zero traction for the Democrats trying to change the “national conversation” back to abortion, but Biden tried again on Tuesday, anyway, in a very weird speech.

SHE FIGHTS: Kari Lake Goes Savage on Reporter for Dubbing Her an ‘Election Denier.’ “It’s actually amazing that the media hasn’t learned to stop asking that question. But alas, they still think they’ve found the ultimate gotcha question. They simply don’t count on Lake having the receipts to prove that, when it comes to denying election results, Republicans can’t hold a candle to Democrats, who routinely question election results when they lose.”

HMM: Democrats lead fundraising in Colorado’s major congressional contests as 2022 election hits home stretch.

A dark-money group affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, is funding the more than $3 million in TV ads attacking Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea for his stance on abortion, according to a new federal campaign finance filing.

Majority Forward is the sole funder of 53 Peaks, a newly formed Democratic super PAC that began airing the ads in late September. Majority Forward is a political nonprofit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors, which is why The Colorado Sun refers to it as a dark-money group. It is the same group that funded ads in the 2020 Democratic U.S. Senate primary attacking former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, who lost to now-Sen. John Hickenlooper.

Majority Forward is also a primary backer of Senate Majority PAC, a political action committee aligned with Schumer that aired ads in this year’s Republican U.S. Senate primary backing O’Dea’s opponent, election denier state Rep. Ron Hanks.

The polls say Colorado is solidly blue again this year, but the money suggests otherwise.

Previously: Whispers That Colorado Senate Seat Could Go to GOP.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Kari Lake May Be the Greatest Thing to Happen to Republicans This Year. “Kari Lake showed up armed with insider information that she uses to lay traps that idiot reporters keep walking into.”

WELCOME TO RUSSIA. OBEY ORDERS: Putin declares martial law in annexed regions of Ukraine. “The upper house of Russia’s parliament was set to quickly seal Putin’s decision to impose martial law in the four regions. Draft legislation indicates it may involve restrictions on travel and public gatherings, tighter censorship and broader authority for law enforcement agencies.”