LEFTISM IS BAD FOR PEOPLE AND OTHER LIVING THINGS: America’s Bad Cities Are Costing You. “Does crime reduce the extent of agglomeration economies? To a major extent, yes, and we know it thanks to a suite of different disasters—bombings, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.—, to random events that displaced populations—the Mariel Boatlift, Japanese internment, close elections that appointed discriminatory mayors, etc.—, to the historical period known as the Great Migration—the mass movement of African Americans from the southeastern U.S. to the rest of the country’s urban areas. My replication package deals with all of these, and they produce convergent results, but for this article, I’ll just talk about the clearest example.”

Some fascinating stuff at the link.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer bashed America’s juries — and battered another pillar of justice.

NICE WORK — NOW GO FIND THE NEXT ONE:

🚨 BOOM! All the hospices are gone. Not a single hospice remains. No more luxury vehicles and no more of your dollars funding their fraudulent scheme. They were all frauds.

In this one location alone we saved America $30 million+.

END IT ALL. pic.twitter.com/AZd6ptatr7

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) September 7, 2026

Meanwhile: Critics say new ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ will make uncovering fraud more difficult.

“THE COUNTERREVOLUTION”: Victor Davis Hanson Surveys Trump’s Fall and Rise.

IT’S SEVEN IN THE MORNING. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR MARS ROVER IS UP TO?  What is going on with Perseverance?

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Carmakers Have A New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine.

EV sales remain depressed since the Trump administration removed a $7,500 incentive last year and rolled back regulations driving a more electric market.

Two primary concerns have kept Americans from buying EVs en masse: the higher cost of battery-powered cars, and concerns over range—specifically, the availability of charging. In theory, EREVs solve the range and charging problem, while offering other advantages for bigger vehicles like three-row SUVs. Those require large batteries that can struggle with long recharge times. The setup is popular in China’s high-tech auto market, where even Ford and General Motors offer EREV vehicles not sold in the U.S.

Most plug-in hybrids on the road today are essentially gasoline vehicles with a battery shoehorned in to provide a small amount of all-electric range. EREVs flip the concept. They are designed first as electric vehicles, and the engine solely acts as a generator for the battery, with no mechanical connection to the wheels.

The setup saves some battery costs compared with full EVs and eliminates the need for gas-car parts like a transmission. EREVs also drive like EVs, including instant acceleration even when the battery is drawing from the generator.

EVs need to offer the range independence of gas cars.

THEY’RE ONLY GOING TO REPORT ON POTENTIALLY EMBARRASSING HAPPENINGS:  Mainstream TV vague about airing first-ever GOP midterm convention — as NFL serves up big competition.

A GOOD MAN WITH A GUN ROLL OF DUCT TAPE:  NJ gun shop owner ID’d as hero who duct-taped unruly airline passenger — and his clapback to the lunatic was brilliant.

THERE ARE PRO EU MYTHS?  Iceland Shatters Every Pro EU Myth There Is. The Icelandic refusal to join the EU has implications far beyond its own sovereignty and should serve as a lesson to Britain’s establishment Brexit subversives.

NO. IT’S BAD SCIENCE FICTION. NEXT?  Is the New HIGH Climate Scenario Plausible?  Good news and bad news from a close look at the new CMIP7 scenarios.

NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE:  American Heroes of 9/11: Todd Beamer and the Passengers of Flight 93.

SO, ANOTHER DAY ENDING IN “Y”:  This Liberal Writer Got Slapped With a Brutal Community Note.

THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN:  Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense.

THAT’S WHO THE LEFT IS:  Very Clever, Washington Democrats! Screwing the Public Employee Unions who support your Income Tax!

They’re the “Hyenas eating people’s faces party.” You vote for them, sooner or later your face gets eaten.

SANDERS DANCES WITH THE ONES WHO BRUNG HIM, I.E. RUSSIA AND CHINA:  Sanders’ Bill Threatens US AI Developers With ‘Corporate Death Penalty,’ Prison Time.

ALL THE EUROPEAN POLITICIANS…  Who emits the most CO₂?

I’D READ STUDIES TO THE EFFECT IT MIGHT BE CHILDHOOD LACK OF EXPOSURE BEFORE:  On the Origins of Peanut Allergy. Before 1980, peanut allergy was so rare that the idea of someone dying from it was preposterous. So what changed?

I don’t believe it’s peanut butter, btw. Husband and his family are addicted to it, and none of the kids have peanut allergies. (Mind you, they seem to prefer natural, home blended. Uh.)

OH YES? NOT SINCE THE NINETIES, WHEN I CANCELLED MY SUBSCRIPTION FOR BLATANT LEFT-WING TILT:  Scientific American used to be a respected science publication.

A MESSY POST FOR A MESSY SUBJECT:  Labor.

AW, POOR WIDDLE GOVERNOR:  NY forced to fire Salvadoran, Haitian govt workers. Govno Hochul unhappy.

YEP:  Okay, this is the best way to explain why AI Slop is not what you think. By using AI Denzel Washington to explain it all. This is actually really good. Well written, directed and generated.

X-cancel.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

JONATHAN TURLEY: The Clancy Trial: When “Twelve Angry Men” Becomes One Angry Man.

“I hope that guy can sleep well at night.”

Those words from Kevin Reddington on the steps of the Plymouth, Massachusetts Courthouse were part of a diatribe against the “guy” who was reportedly the sole holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial. The scene was a fitting end to a visceral trial, but it added a vindictive element that should prompt Judge William Sullivan to call out the seasoned defense attorney.

After declaring that the 11-1 mistrial was “no time to gloat,” Reddington bragged repeatedly about “crushing” District Attorney Tim Cruz, whom he also attacked. He insisted that, in the trial, no one said a single negative thing about his client as a mother — ignoring that little matter of the three young children whom she had strangled to death, one by one.

But it was his attack on the holdout juror that was a breathtaking abandonment of restraint and decency. Reddington knows it is very likely that the name of this juror (he has already been identified as one of only three males on the jury) will eventually be uncovered by Internet sleuths. He effectively put a target on the back of a juror who committed the unpardonable sin of not being convinced by his arguments.

The fact that this is one of the three male jurors only ramped up the rage. This case prompted a striking gender divide between men and women, with many women expressing sympathy for Clancy and anger at the system for failing her.

Yes, I’m pretty sure the holdout juror is sleeping just fine at night: The Postmodern Defense of Lindsay Clancy. O.J. Simpson for middle-class white women.

CHANGE: SpaceX is back in the $2 trillion club after nearly two months.

THAT WAS THE DECADE THAT WAS: Conspiracies Everywhere; What to Do?

I keep coming back in my mind to all of the “conspiracy theories” that have come true since 2016.

I have told friends in the past: “The more you see, the more you see.”

It’s a delicate balance to be distrusting of most things without wandering into paranoia. I often believe the biggest damage that has been done to the country since 2016 is that anyone who is even slightly politically aware is now distrustful of everything, and I cannot say I blame them.

The problem is, not everything is a conspiracy. Some things are the result of mere incompetence. Other things actually are what they appear to be. Some other things are, in fact, deep, dark government conspiracies.

Having said that, I know that our nation’s recent history does warrant a sense of paranoia. Consider the things we now know to be true; below is a list of former “conspiracy theories” that we were right about all along:

Read the whole thing.