October 12, 2026

THE GOOD NEWS, MR. POTENTIAL ASYLUM-SEEKER, IS THAT THE GAZA ARABS MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY BUILDINGS LEFT TALL ENOUGH TO BOTHER THROWING YOU OFF OF…:

…the bad news is they’ll find a way, regardless.

Posted at 4:34 pm by Stephen Green

ROGER SIMON: Ilhan Omar Investigated in Time for… My Book?

No, I have not been conspiring with Tom Homan.

That Homeland Security agents raided Ilhan Omar’s DC apartment at 6 AM this morning, hours after Bob Goldberg of The Zionist Times published his glowing review of my novel EMET (thank you, Bob), which contained the following parody of Omar being shipped out, is entirely coincidental:

“Bilan Ali, a Minneapolis congresswoman Golub [the novel’s rabbi protagonist] regards as anti-American and extraordinarily ungrateful to the country that took her in, is packed into a foam-lined box with energy bars and lemon Gatorade. The Golem ships her to Mogadishu on Emirates, because it is the safest and most luxurious carrier. She arrives healthy, in a beekeeper’s suit labeled ‘RETURNED TO SENDER,’ and flies home first class within hours.”

20 minutes into the future?

UPDATE: All This and World War Eleven:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa Records Ambush of ICE Officer in Biggest Self-Own Since the Last Time She Did It. “What a day of historic immigration firsts: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) releases 15,000 criminal illegal aliens into your neighborhood gen pop again after refusing to enforce Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, and suspected illegal alien Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) Washington, D.C. home is raided by the feds to track down the documents her family used to allegedly fraudulently get into the country. But something that’s not a first, and should be a last, are the crimes committed by an Oregon woman who has organized ambushes of ICE agents before and who has just done it again.”

Posted at 4:19 pm by Stephen Green

ED MORRISSEY: Too Weird to NOT Check First: Did Talarico Have a Mental Health Crisis?

Held: Things that appear too good to be true often are. Also held: Better to wait for confirmation before jumping to a conclusion.

At any rate, it seems that Talarico didn’t get checked into that Ohio psych ward for the last two weeks. It still doesn’t answer the question of where Talarico actually was during that two-week period. The explanation offered – a two-week bout of the flu that had him down so bad he couldn’t even do a Zoom call – is absolutely absurd, especially in the context of a general election campaign. If you or I took two weeks off without any contact with our employer and claimed we were too sick to call, we’d be forced to bring a doctor’s note to save our jobs.

It’s not a HIPAA violation to demand accountability from politicians who disappear in the middle of a job. Better to get that now than to wait until Talarico disappears for months while supposedly representing Texas.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Steve Hayward quips, “don’t be fooled about the news of James Talarico checking in to a mental hospital just weeks before the election. Call me a cynic, but in Texas this is clearly a gambit to capture the John Fetterman sympathy vote. Don’t get your hopes up that Talarico is trying to signal that, like Fetterman, a mental health crisis will cause him to move to the right so that Republicans would like him!”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

HEH:

Still, Hasan should be hung like a common criminal, and not shot like a soldier.

Posted at 4:03 pm by Stephen Green

HMM: The world’s hottest AI stock market has gone cold.

South Korea’s stock market has gone from the world’s hottest to its coldest in just a few months.

The Kospi, the world’s best-performing major stock benchmark in the first half of 2026, has since fallen about 24%, making it the worst-performing major market in the second half. It’s still more than 50% higher this year.

The AI trade isn’t losing its appeal. But investors are increasingly looking beyond South Korea’s memory-chip giants to companies with broader exposure to the AI hardware boom.

Every time a headline seems to say that, yes, there’s a bubble and it’s finally deflating, it turns out just to be another bump in the road.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

“Despite the discovery, the military continued using the cars due to a lack of alternatives.”

Europe, SMH.

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

HOWARD KURTZ: The blue wave looks real until you look a little closer.

It’s like watching some sci-fi game with players competing on 470 different fields. Which is your basic definition of crazytown. No human being, without mainlining AI into his or her arm, could possibly track so many contests, so we bounce from one race to the next, with buzzers and bells, like a pinball machine.

Look! Charlie Cook is moving 18 House races in the Democrats’ favor! This is o-vah! The blue wave is getting stronger. Put a cork in this one, it’s done!

But wait a minute. The Republicans have a huge cash advantage. Big-time Democratic donors, for whatever reason, are sitting on their checkbooks. Don’t they realize the stakes? Are they all blinded by the sun on their private islands?

No cockiness, please.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green

THAT’S A LOT TO UNPACK IN ONE HEADLINE: DHS Issues Statement After ICE Arrests Illegal Alien from Nigeria Who Exposed Himself in Public While Working for Congressional Campaign in Pennsylvania. “According to local reporting, Igbojekwe was working as a canvasser for Janelle Stelson, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district, at the time of the incident. He was arrested after he was caught in public with his pants off, fully exposing himself, in a residential neighborhood near a park with residents, including children, in the area.”

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green

HMM…:

Posted at 1:28 pm by Stephen Green

WHY THE WORLD MUST SEE ‘BEARING WITNESS:’ For those not familiar with it, “Bearing Witness” is the 47-minute documentary compiled by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

To date, only selected public officials, including diplomats and legislators, and a few journalists have been allowed to view it. Their reactions are telling, as reported by Richard Pollock in his Substack column on the issue (Note especially the Blinken and Schumer responses):

“After viewing the film, former Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on November 3, 2023, ‘It remains almost beyond human capacity to process, to digest…It is shocking that the brutality of the slaughter has receded so quickly in the memories of so many.’

“About 40 U.S. Senators viewed the film in late November 2023 in a special Capitol Hill private screening. Marc Rod, a senior congressional correspondent for the Jewish Insider chronicled some of their reactions after seeing the film.

“Then Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida told reporters, ‘I think it’s really important not to sanitize this. Over time these horrifying incidents sort of lose their impact,’ he told reporters. ‘The one thing that struck me is how proud and gleeful these people were [about] what they were doing to civilians, unarmed children, people sitting around at home having breakfast, kids out at a rave party. It gives you insight into what human beings are capable of.’

“Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican Senator from Texas said after seeing it: ‘It’s the face of evil.’ Rod reported that ‘the usually voluble Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, clearly struggling with what he’d seen.’

“Cruz added, ‘There is a level of evil and hate and depravity that defies words. And it is astonishing that there are still some in America and across the globe who deny these atrocities occurred. This was not combat. This was the slaughter of innocent civilians. And the joy and celebration among those terrorists as they were murdering children — it simply defies words.’

“Senator Chuck Schumer, who then was the Senate Majority Leader said after seeing the film, ‘It was jarring and harrowing. It shook all of us up in the room. I had to go sit in my office for a half hour alone after seeing it.’”

Pollock’s report is for the purpose of encouraging the public release of the full documentary. Yes, it is horribly graphic, but so were the many films made of the German Holocaust and released to the public within days of the liberation by the Allies of the concentration camps.

I absolutely agree with Pollock. What do you think?

Posted at 1:17 pm by Mark Tapscott

IRAN ISN’T VIETNAM, YET: A new national survey — the Issues & Insights/TIPP Poll — found there are still significant numbers of Americans who support military action against Iran to ensure it never has a nuclear weapon.

“The first question the October poll asked was a straightforward one: ‘Do you support or oppose U.S. military action against Iran?’ Overall, 44% say they support the action (with 23% saying they strongly support it), while 42% oppose (28% strongly). Fourteen percent say they’re ‘not sure.’

“Not surprisingly, there’s a strong partisan split, with support solid among self-identified Republicans (71%), much weaker among independents (30%), and weakest among Democrats (26%),” I&I reports.

Posted at 1:02 pm by Mark Tapscott

AUTOMATION: Waymo’s driverless rides debut in Denver. “Before Waymo could carry a single paying passenger in Denver, two Colorado taxi companies asked the Public Utilities Commission to block part of its permit. Their complaint? That Waymo would get to compete without the regulatory burdens placed on large taxi companies. The PUC ultimately approved Waymo’s license, but the episode is a preview of the fights ahead.”

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green