ICYMI: Now out from Kurt Schlichter: A new Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red.

DONALD VANDERGRIFF: The Coming Storm: A 9/11 2.0 Threat and Why America’s Institutions Are Still Fighting Yesterday’s 2nd Generation War. “This article draws on research for Book 4 of the Reforging the Sword series. Titled *Shadows of Division*, the book depicts the outbreak of widespread 4th Generation Warfare in the US homeland.”

Estimates of committed fighters inside the CONUS range from 1,500 to nearly 10,000. Many received advanced training in Afghanistan on the very bases we built, taught by former Afghan commandos and special forces who were themselves trained by U.S. Green Berets and Marines. Their weapons (AKs, belt-fed machine guns, RPGs, grenades, explosives, sniper rifles, and possibly man-portable chemical munitions) were smuggled in with cartel assistance and are already pre-positioned.

The planned attack is a true Fourth-Generation Warfare (4GW) operation: complex, coordinated, synchronized, and nationwide. Ten to fifteen cities will be struck nearly simultaneously (adjusted for time zones) during morning rush hour on a Monday–Thursday early in the work week. Primary targets appear to be Tier-2 cities (population 100,000–500,000) that possess Level-1 trauma centers and large veteran or active-duty populations, payback for two decades of war in the Middle East.

Hospitals are expected to be physically occupied and turned into charnel houses, possibly with nerve agents. Shopping malls, churches, and schools are secondary or follow-on objectives. Commercial aviation remains vulnerable to new binary chemical IEDs that defeat most airport screening. There is persistent chatter about a symbolic siege of Washington, D.C. (White House, Capitol, Pentagon), though I remain skeptical of its feasibility at scale.

Supporting cells will ambush additional first responders, and vehicle-borne IEDs (VBIEDs) will block escape routes, creating the “fish in a barrel” conditions we saw in Mumbai (2008, Paris 2015, and Moscow 2024.

It’s fiction — for now, anyway, and already familiar to anyone who’s read Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack. Or to anyone who watched the news on 10/7/2023.

ALEX BERENSON: On the cesspool of elite journalism. “The memoir, American Canto, isn’t good, to say the least. It’s draggy, circuitious, hard to read. It’s received scathing reviews complaining Nuzzi is a bad writer. But Nuzzi isn’t a bad writer. The reason American Canto isn’t good is simpler and sadder: because Nuzzi is a bad person. Why should you care? Because Nuzzi is a bad person in the most elite way possible.”

Which makes her a worse person.

UNEXPECTEDLY!

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Dem Media Lapdogs Will Never Understand That the GOP Isn’t a Hive Mind. “Over here on the right side of the aisle, we like to mix it up a lot. If I ever run into a Republican who thinks that everything the party is doing is great, I immediately suggest that he or she find a doctor who is familiar with NFL concussion protocols. We’re still a family too, we’re just rowdier. We’re the clan that sees at least one blow-up every Thanksgiving, usually after Uncle Frank has had his fourth glass of dinner wine — before dinner.”

FROM TIMOTHY WITCHAZEL:  Noah and the Great Flood: A Poem in Alliterative Verse.

From author and poet Timothy V. Witchazel comes a retelling of the story of Noah and the Ark in the alliterative verse, the style of poetry used in Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and other Anglo-Saxon works.

MATT TAIBBI: Kudos to the New York Times: Credit where credit is due. “Jeffrey Epstein signed a non-prosecution agreement on September 24, 2007, pleading guilty to two charges. The first was for solicitation of a 19-year-old. The second, for “solicitation of minors to engage of prostitution,” involved a 17-year-old. He was never convicted of anything involving a 14-year-old. I wrote to reporter Debra Kamin, who helped restore my faith in journalism today by replying.”

The bar is low now.

PINCHES BRIDGE OF NOSE BETWEEN THUMB AND FOREFINGER. INCLINES HEAD: In what universe did these idiots think doing this was all right? What was it even supposed to symbolize? “Fraud, yay?” Guys I think at this point the lefty crazies aren’t even thinking. They’re just going on limbic activity. Faced with any stimulus, they choose the response that their deranged idea of the world tells them will upset the right. And never seem to realize what they’re doing is utterly stupid:  Vermont School District Faces Backlash After Raising Somali Flag.