REINDUSTRIALIZATION:

The manufacturing recovery cont'd in Sep w/ industrial production up 0.7% M/M and 2.2% Y/Y, fastest annual increase in 4 yrs and closing in on record high; capacity utilization also cont'd marching higher, up 1.2 percentage points Y/Y: pic.twitter.com/sU9WXB07du

— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) October 16, 2026

WHY ARE SO MANY “RELIGIOUS” SCHOOLS WORSHIPING LEFTISM? Baylor accused of ‘mission drift’ after high-profile Christian apologetics event canceled.

ME ON SUBSTACK ON ELON’S FLYING CARS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM.

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They’re saying this is the most American sentence ever typed https://t.co/GG9WIZ3bv9

— Mary Tiles Texas (@MaryTilesTexas) October 16, 2026

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: A nightmare for pilgrims traveling to holy sites amid Houthi strikes. “Activist ‘Islamophobia’ articles and condemnations about Israel’s war on jihadists occupy more space and get more attention among the Western woke mainstream media, than: Muslim on Muslim violence, Palestinian violence on Jewish civilians, black-on-black violence, which is a massive problem everywhere (not just in American inner cities, but across the Caribbean and Africa as well), and the ever-ignored Christian persecution, including a genocide in Nigeria by Muslims.”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: HOSHANHO 5 Pieces Knife Set. #CommissionEarned

RULE OF LAW: NYU student group demands 20 percent black enrollment despite Supreme Court ruling. New York University’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter is pressing the school to raise Black enrollment and hire more Black faculty. Let’s not pay attention to SDS demands, m’kay?

ZACHARIAS: Here’s How White House Insiders Engineered Zacharia’s Exit.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

Also interesting is his bio on Wikipedia, which calls him a former litigator. Folks were very unhappy with our recently departed Press Secretary for purporting to be a General Counsel. Litigator seems as bad if not worse. It all seems likely to violate New York Jud. Law 478 pic.twitter.com/fZ5lqlOV3s

— Eric W. (@EWess92) October 17, 2026

And of course the woman didn’t get a pass — because she’s a Republican.

VULTURES: Oh Look, the Same People Making the Same Post-Shooting Anti-Gun Arguments and Raising as Much Cash as They Can.

JOE WON’T BE REMEMBERED, BUT TO BE FAIR, HE DOESN’T REMEMBER IT EITHER.

* Who was president 2021-2025? It remains a mystery. We know it wasn’t the massively corrupt career incompetent dementia case. We know the broad outlines, a cabal of Obama bros with an autopen, probably taking direction from Obama. Who still thinks he’s some kind of shadow…

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 17, 2026

OUT: BELIEVE ALL WOMEN. IN:

This should be just the beginning of the normalization. Let’s hope that someone else apologizes and helps restore some of what you lost.
Hope this also helps your alumni who were side victims of the mass hysteria.
Big hug.

— Cristina Muñoz Pinedo (@crismunozp) October 17, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: COWAY Air Purifier for Home. #CommissionEarned

ROGER KIMBALL: Jack Smith’s Plot Against the Republic.

Six hundred and thirty-nine thousand. Thanks to the indefatigable Chuck Grassley, we now know that that’s the number of individuals whose names Special Counsel Jack Smith hoovered up for Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice when Joe Biden occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (“Occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” it may almost go without saying, seems more accurate than saying “when Biden was president.”)

Senator Grassley has been terrier-like in pursuing evidence of wrongdoing by people like Jack Smith, Merrick Garland and their many confrères in the deep state, which is to say, the Democrat State. Grassley had earlier shown that nearly 5,000 GOP donor checks, mostly for piddly amounts, had been collected as “evidence” by Garland’s minions. “Evidence of what?” That’s a very good question. The answer, in brief is, “Evidence of sympathy for or making donations to Donald Trump.” Is that actionable? You betcha. At least, it was. . . .

Jack Smith and his not-so-merry band of anti-Trump zealots came within a hair’s breadth of destroying Donald Trump – and also shutting down the rights of those 639,000 individuals who donated to Trump’s campaign or ponied up for his merch. Had the Supreme Court not upheld Trump’s claim of immunity he would be in jail now. So many things had to go Trump’s way. All the important ones did. But, like the Battle of Waterloo according to the Duke of Wellington, it was “the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.”

Indeed. Now we need to administer sufficient pain to ensure that no one wants to risk trying it again. We’re nowhere close to that.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED BY THIS? The Left is angrier over Shane Gillis’s joke than illegal immigrant violence against women.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS HATE FRATERNITIES BECAUSE LEFTISTS HATE ALTERNATIVE POWER CENTERS:

Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, is calling for fraternities to be forced to admit women to change the culture. It is a call that is feeding a familiar mob forming over a case before any charges or evidence is established …

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 16, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

YES, PLEASE: SpaceX wants to launch Starship more than 450 times per year from South Texas.

ME ON SUBSTACK ON ELON’S FLYING CARS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM.

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They’re saying this is the most American sentence ever typed https://t.co/GG9WIZ3bv9

— Mary Tiles Texas (@MaryTilesTexas) October 16, 2026

INDEED:

Quote: “A flying car is what men do when they are free. A wealth tax is what politicians do to the men who built it. One of them needs the other to survive, and it isn't Musk.” https://t.co/jfNMmOSlZ7

— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 16, 2026

GOOD GOD, MAN GIVE THEM SOME PRIVACY: MIT Astronomers Catch a Star Slowly Eating Its Companion 300 Light-Years Away.. Have you no decency? No decency at all?

GREAT SOCKS: Swiftwick ASPIRE Zero No Show Performance Running Socks. #CommissionEarned

UNSURPRISING: Two-thirds of Americans want government help with surging health care costs — but ‘Medicare for All’ isn’t it.

CHANGE? Bajaria Out, Rice In: Netflix’s Content Chief Change Signals Back-to-Basics Shift for Film and TV | Analysis.

SAFETY: RIVIAN VS. TESLA. “Both brands represent the pinnacle of modern automotive safety, but they each have their respective pros and cons.”

WHEN YOU’RE A TAX HIKE AND YOU’VE LOST THE DENVER POST…: Denver Post editorial board endorses ‘no’ on Amendment 87. “The Denver Post’s editorial board has come out against Amendment 87, the proposed graduated income tax ballot measure. In an Oct. 11 editorial, the board argued that extracting $2.7 billion in a single year from the state’s largest businesses would ‘do more harm than good.'”

You don’t say.