October 20, 2026

JAMES MADISON ON WHAT SHAPES U.S. FUTURE: James Madison was the chief author of the U.S. Constitution, thanks to his work at the convention and then subsequently in gaining its approval by the states, a task achieved in great part due to his contributions to “The Federalist Papers.” Oh right, he was also our fourth President.

And, as you can see with the “Faith of the Founders” post on HillFaith today, Madison did not beat around when it came to pointing out what the future of the nation he so crucially helped found and then survive growing pains and the War of 1812. Check it out here. 

The FOFT posts appear every Tuesday.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Mark Tapscott

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…: 1 person killed in shooting near Columbus, Ohio mosque, police say.

One person was killed in a shooting near a mosque in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday afternoon, but the shooting was not connected to the mosque or those who were inside, police said.

“We want to make it clear this was not an attack on the mosque,” said Sgt. James Fuqua.

The Columbus Division of Police said they received multiple calls of shots fired in the area shortly after 2 p.m.

“This incident occurred in the parking lot of an apartment complex adjacent to a mosque,” the police statement said. “While we are still in the preliminary stages of the investigation as to the details regarding this shooting, this was not a targeted attack on the mosque, nor did this incident occur at the mosque.”

So why put it in the headline, CBS?

Seriously, Bari Weiss has a lot of work left to do.

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green

CBS IS STILL DOING THE “MOSTLY PEACEFUL” MEME:

Bari Weiss needs to hurry up with that cleanup effort.

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green

YOU CAN ELIMINATE A THIRD OF MINNESOTA GANG ACTIVITY WITH THIS 1 WEIRD TRICK: 1 in 3 Minnesota Gang Members are Somali Muslims. “Somalis may only be between 1% and 2% of the state, but they’re between 30% to 15% of its gang members. That’s an overrepresentation of between 650% and 2,900%.”

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green

IT GOT WEIRD: Ohio Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Has Mommy Issues That You Won’t Believe. “The 1980 election was when 11-year-old me first got heavily into all things political, and I can tell you that in nearly five decades of political activism, political engagement, and writing about it as a career, I’ve never seen anything like Arthur’s video today.”

Posted at 10:08 am by Stephen Green

CYBERSECURITY: How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites.

Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm equipment maker Deere, home appliance ​company SharkNinja, and engine manufacturer Cummins.

Yet the hacker did almost none of the work.

The cybercriminal instead outsourced the hacking spree almost entirely to artificial intelligence, tasking AI agents ‌with spending hours autonomously probing and breaking into targeted sites, according to Snorre Fagerland, principal threat researcher at the cybersecurity company NorForge.

In a report provided to Reuters ahead of publication on Monday, opens new tab, Fagerland said the hacker was one of several he discovered while scanning the web for inadvertently exposed instances of Cairn, an open-source AI problem-solving platform popular with hackers.

Where are the counter-intrusion bots?

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

CORRECTION: BECAUSE SHE’S A FASCIST/COMMUNIST/CHOOSE-YOUR-IST WOMAN:

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green

REQUIRED READING: The Useful Idiot: A Natural History.

Read the whole thing, but this stands out:

The useful idiot is not exactly stupid. This is the first and most important thing to understand. Stupidity would be a defense. The more precise diagnosis is what we in Poland call pół-inteligent – the half-wit. Not the bottom of the intelligence distribution, which is too obviously lost to be useful. Not the genuine top, which tends to develop the inconvenient habit of following arguments wherever they actually lead. The sweet spot: smart enough to absorb a complex ideological framework, to deploy its vocabulary with confidence, to feel the social rewards of appearing sophisticated – but not quite sharp enough to interrogate the framework itself. Enough horsepower to run the program. Not enough to question who wrote it. The pół-inteligent is the useful idiot’s technical specification. And the specimen is typically convinced – this is crucial – that it is among the most independent thinkers in the room. The delusion is important. Remove it and the whole architecture collapses.

The problem, of course, is that removing the delusion is like extracting an impacted molar from someone whose jaw is wired shut.

Posted at 8:51 am by Stephen Green

JOANE JACOBS: The unabashed patriotism at the National World War II Museum is startling — and refreshing.

We also visited the National World War II Museum, which opened in 2000 as the D-Day Museum and kept on growing. There are lots of testimonies from men and women who served in the military or on the home front, lots of artifacts, fancy visuals and a “4-D” movie, focused on the American experience in World War II.

I was startled by the old-fashioned patriotism: The museum tells the stories of the “good war” in which we were the good guys and the Axis powers were the bad guys. There is no soul searching, no “interrogating” the narrative. Japanese-Americans were interned — but volunteered to fight and became heroes. Blacks were treated as second-class citizens — but worked in defense plants and served bravely. Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed a lot of civilians — but it ended the war without a bloody invasion. And so on.

Most Americans probably don’t know the role Andrew Jackson Higgins and New Orleans played in D-Day and the rest of the European theater, which is a real shame.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green