November 4, 2026

THE POSTMORTEMS WILL NECESSARILY BE BRUTAL…:

…but let’s get those over with quickly and refocus on what’s important.

Posted at 12:25 pm by Stephen Green

2026, MAN: It’s Almost Like American Gun Owners Knew What Was Coming. “The polls and the prediction markets in advance of the midterms were, for once, right. Beyond that, for those paying attention, the atmosphere during the run-up to Tuesday’s elections felt…ominous. Maybe that’s the reason that gun sales in October spiked the way they did.”

Posted at 12:13 pm by Stephen Green

ROGER SIMON: Welcome to Europe!

His biggest mistake was not the Iran war. It was not finishing the job when he could, after the first forty days. Benjamin Netanyahu, who has problems of his own, was right.

But that’s the past, and there’s no way of knowing if I’m right.

For now—welcome to Europe, and not the nostalgic one from our guidebooks, the Europe we see before us today, with riots engulfing cities across the continent from France to Albania, of all places.

Is that merely a prediction? Sure. But one anchored in reality. The European Union tried to shape a “just” society from above, only to be confronted with violence in its streets. What do you think will happen when the Democrats, with near-identical policies, start to enact theirs?

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT IS A GREAT COUNTRY:

Then again, the Dems seem less interested in accountability than in revenge.

Posted at 11:57 am by Stephen Green

SPACE: The two Escapade Mars orbiters are about to head to Mars, using a previously untried flight path.

On November 7, 2026 the two Escapade Mars orbiters that have been loitering in around Lagrange point 2 about a million miles from Earth since their launch in November 2025, will do the engine burn that will send them to Mars, but will follow a flight path never before used.

The graphic to the right, annotated to post here, shows the flight path the two orbiters have taken since launch. By flying out away from Earth and then coming back close, they multiply the effectiveness of that engine burn, allowing these relatively small and lightweight spacecraft to reach Mars.

Though NASA touts this mission as its own, all it really has done is pay for it. The spacecraft were built by Rocket Lab, they were launched by Blue Origin on New Glenn, and the mission is being operated by the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (UC-Berkeley), a perfect example of capitalism in space.

I love capitalism in space! More of it here on Earth wouldn’t hurt, though.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

REQUIRED READING FROM SALENA ZITO:

“When the House swings hard, it’s worth asking what the country is going through; the first place to look is what the Gilded Age voters were telling us then.”

Read the whole thing on Salena’s Substack.

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

THIS WILL FREE UP ISRAEL FROM AMERICAN BULLYING THE NEXT TIME WE’RE STUPID ENOUGH TO ELECT ANOTHER OBAMA OR BIDEN: Trump Says U.S. Will End $4 Billion in Direct Military Aid to Israel in Favor of a New Agreement. “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken in recent months about moving away from direct U.S. military aid. Democrats’ abandonment of a powerful and loyal ally made congressional authorization of any additional aid packages problematic.”

Posted at 11:11 am by Stephen Green

THE NEXT TWO-TO-SIX YEARS WILL BE THE DEMS TRYING TO UNDO THIS:

Posted at 10:55 am by Stephen Green

HE MIGHT HAVE TO WEAR THAT THING DOWN TO A NUB:

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

DON’T TAKE THE BLACK PILL:

Posted at 9:53 am by Stephen Green

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: CrowdStrike launches AI kill switch that it says can stop internal agents that go rogue. “The cybersecurity vendor on Tuesday launched an AI kill switch designed to let security teams stop internal AI agents that go rogue, block them from relaunching and cut off their enterprise network access. The tool is built into CrowdStrike’s Falcon Guardian platform, launched in September to secure AI agents. CrowdStrike also announced an integration with Anthropic’s Claude Cowork.”

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Quit Sniffing Glue. “Congressional Republicans have done nothing to inspire Republican voters, they certainly weren’t going to be winning any undecided, independent, or moderate Dem voters. The John Thune wing of the GOP hasn’t done much of anything to help President Trump with his agenda.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER:

Posted at 8:47 am by Glenn Reynolds

ADAM COLEMAN: It’s the Economy, Stupid: Why the Midterms Were Predictable. “When you’re glued into politics, reading blogs, scrolling through social media, you get inundated with niche issues and everyone is trying to convince you that this is the defining problem that will swing an election. . . . Right or wrong, the economic woes of the public will always be put at the feet of the president. If the stock market sucks, it’s the president’s fault. If you can’t afford DoorDash like you used to, it’s the president’s fault. The midterms are the way for the American public to punish the president in power. Yes, the typical political discussions matter, like quality of candidates etc. However, if people are angry and emotional, they don’t generally make rational decisions. If the reason for them voting is based on spite, do you really have a chance of changing their minds? You can’t fact your way out of shifting an emotional voter.”

Posted at 8:41 am by Glenn Reynolds

INDEED: Well, That Absolutely F***ing Sucked. “Call it Trump fatigue, inflation fatigue, anti-ICE animus or disapproval of the Iran War, but when every statewide race in Texas flips to the Democrats (as appears likely now), that’s a blue wave.”

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green