October 13, 2026

THAT’S THE SPIRIT: US unveils name for new mobile howitzer: ‘XM1776.’ “Speaking at a ceremony unveiling the weapon’s new name, Hanwha Defense USA President and Chief Operating Officer Michael Smith justified the name by harkening back to a decisive moment during the country’s founding, when the Continental Army rolled in mobile artillery batteries to overlook Boston Harbor in 1776, forcing the British fleet to withdraw. This marked the first strategic victory of what became U.S. forces, beginning a field artillery legacy that led to the XM1776’s unveiling 250 years later.”

Posted at 4:51 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S RACISM TO NOTICE THE FRAUDULENT ACTS OF THE ACTUAL RACIST:

But you knew that already.

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

THIS JUST FEELS WRONG:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD ONCE AGAIN DOING STRAIGHT UP REPORTAGE:

Posted at 2:56 pm by Ed Driscoll

AGING: Dementia cases are set to double by 2050 — as doctor calls it an ‘accelerating epidemic crisis.’

Researchers from UNSW Sydney’s Center for Healthy Brain Aging analyzed data from 22 studies and found that there were 11.4 million new dementia cases in 2023 — a number that’s projected to more than double to 24.7 million by 2050.

This means that every year, the equivalent of the population of Australia will develop dementia, according to geriatrician Dr. Liron Sinvani, the director of research and innovation for the Northwell Institute for Healthy Aging

“In terms of the scale, obviously, this number of new dementia cases is staggering,” Sinvani told The Post. “This is not a future problem. It’s an accelerating epidemic crisis that demands immediate attention.”

The new study focused on incidence — the rate at which people develop dementia or new cases per year — instead of prevalence, or the total number of people living with the condition at a given time.

The rapidly rising numbers are due to aging populations, with Sinvani noting that about 1 in 9 people have dementia after 65, “but after 85, it could be almost 1 in 3.”

Until there’s a treatment, we’ll need to invest heavily in android caretakers because there just won’t bet enough young people to go around.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Lorne Michaels Has Second Chance to Do the Right Thing.

Now is the time for Michaels to take a public stand for both [Shane] Gillis and comedy. Michaels’ cultural gravitas remains sky high. He’s won the Mark Twain Prize for American humor and is beloved within Hollywood circles. His tentacles are stretched across the industry, from feature films to TV beyond “SNL.”

Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers both became stars under his tutelage and are key players in the late-night landscape.

So will Michaels do the right thing? Remember how Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos stood up for Dave Chappelle when his controversial special, “The Closer,” nearly got him cancelled?

Michaels did no such thing.

Why does it matter? Woke 2.0 is revving up and ready to go. Just ask the arts worker fired for wearing cornrows at the Burning Man festival. Or the sports announcer canned for Tweets he posted when he was 15. Or the BBC cancelling classic comedy sketches for being “problematic.”

If no one stands up to the woke bullies, it’ll only get worse. Did we not learn anything from the last decade?

It matters. But will the second time be the charm for Michaels? The Vegas odds suggest otherwise.

Indeed. In their 1986 history of Saturday Night Live’s first decade, Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad wrote that when Chevy Chase began to head for the exits with the goal of making bank near the end of SNL’s blazing first season, Michaels used a sports analogy to try to convince him to stay onboard:

[Michaels’] theory was that it took three years’ exposure to make a superstar on TV. Saturday Night was a big hit in the industry, but the public hadn’t really caught on yet. He told Chevy he was like a great pitcher for a championship baseball team. If he left, the team would lose a few games, but they’d keep winning. “Think how rare it is to play with a championship team,” Lorne said. “You think it’s going to happen all the time, especially when you’re young, but it doesn’t happen that often.… Play another season, then decide.”

To use another sports analogy, Michaels at this point is the equivalent of an aging NFL coach with some enormous past successes, but the game is rapidly passing him by. Think Chuck Noll and Tom Landry in the 1980s or Don Shula in the 1990s. The minute Michaels retires from NBC, SNL’s terrible past quarter century will quickly be forgotten, and he will only be remembered for the show’s first five years, and its late ‘80s comeback when he somehow reassembled a funny cast with great chemistry. Why publicly stick his neck out now?

Posted at 2:36 pm by Ed Driscoll

BATTLESWARM: County-By-County Soros Invasion Plans. “Call me a stickler for due process, but I don’t think immigration policy should be taken from the federal government and given to random businesses.”

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green

WHEN THE CENSORSHIP STATE TURNS ON YOU: “Even if you can’t find any constitutional, ethical or moral reason to avoid building censorship regimes, your own self-interest should guide you away from it: it will be fun when you get to forcibly silence (or even imprison) your political enemies, but far less fun when that machine is controlled by those political enemies and, as is inevitable, then turned against you.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll