October 9, 2026

HEGSETH: Fort Hood Terrorist’s Execution Will Be Public.

Not only is Secretary of War Pete Hegseth planning to have terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan executed at the very base where he committed mass murder, but the public will be able to watch the execution. And hell yes, I’m excited.

Executing Hasan is justice, even if it is coming more than a decade after the massacre. But filming the execution and having it occur on the spot at Fort Hood where Hasan slaughtered 13 innocent people in the name of Allah is poetic justice. Unlike so many military bureaucrats before him, Hegseth knows how to punish an Islamic jihadi and ensure that the whole world sees America is no longer run by namby-pamby, pro-Islamist, woke cowards. There have been multiple Islamic terrorist attacks in America this year, and it is important for our military to send a strong message.

Hegseth told Human Events’ Jack Posobiec that deciding the circumstances of the execution was a “no brainer. Execution by firing squad. An Army major betrays his country, [he’s a] radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course, we’re gonna do [the execution] at Fort Hood. Gonna do it on a Thursday, we’re gonna do it at 1:00, which is when he did it, and it’s gonna be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad.”

Naturally, because Orange Man Bad, this is surprisingly controversial, even in the age of “The Assassination Fan Base:”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

Posted at 12:26 pm by Stephen Green

THE POST’S FRONT-PAGE COVER GAME REMAINS UNDEFEATED:

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

IRON MIKE HAS LEFT THE STADIUM: Legendary coach, Hall of Fame TE Mike Ditka dies at age 86.

UPDATE: Forget the ’85 Bears; Ditka came close to upending the course of the entire 21st century:

Posted at 11:22 am by Ed Driscoll

WELL, THEY’RE IDIOTS: UK Plans to Welcome ‘Palestinian’ Migrants. “British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood intends to admit thousands of “Palestinian” refugees. British Jews, and not only Jews, are worried that these new migrants will increase the level of antisemitism in the country.”

They’ll likely bring a lot more with them than antisemitism — ask the Lebanese or the Jordanians what happens to countries that admit large numbers of Palestinians.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

NO NEED FOR THIS, TEHRAN — THE PRESS IS ALREADY ON YOUR SIDE:

Full report here.

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

GETTING SERIOUS: U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green card labor program in foreign worker crackdown.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Sonderling said the Labor Department won’t accept or process any new applications under the program for a host of companies, including Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL.

The secretary said Adobe and Microsoft were also suspended “due to multiple active federal investigations.”

“Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost 3 million foreign workers. They’ve received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That’s hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers,” Sonderling said.

Stay tuned, because given what I’ve read about H-1B practices, this could just be the DOJ getting started.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

SPOILER: PRICES WENT UP.

Posted at 9:24 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Don’t Get Too Excited About the AWOL Dem Candidates. “Democrats can weather horrible campaign optics because — DRUMROLL PLEASE — their flying monkeys in the mainstream media run interference for them. Aging, impressionable voters still watch the evening news and David Muir won’t be wondering what’s going on with any late-stage campaign weirdness. If Talarico says he has the 90-year flu then, by golly, he has the flu.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

GOD SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM RABBIS WHO CAN’T RECOGNIZE EVIL LITERALLY STARING THEM IN THE FACE:

Posted at 8:46 am by David Bernstein

FORTUNATELY, YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY UP FRONT: The American Dream Costs $5.3 Million — And It’s Getting Pricier.

The report from Investopedia analyzes eight major milestones — getting married, owning a home, buying new cars, raising two children and sending them to college, retirement, paying for healthcare, owning pets, and taking an annual vacation. The total costs associated with these milestones were $5,320,133 in 2026, a 4.1 percent increase from $5,111,632 in 2025, according to the same report, which reviewed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Looking at each individual milestone, the cost of homeownership increased by 7.7 percent. Similarly, the cost of raising two children and sending them to college increased by 8.9 percent, and the cost of retirement also increased by 2.2 percent, according to the report.

Interesting that the cost of retirement is the one item that went up less than the rate of inflation.

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll