October 11, 2026

SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER MUSSOLINI:

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

The unusually named candidate for the center-left Ahora Nación party won 34% of the vote. According to local media, the top three candidates were separated by just 42 votes.

Simeon’s candidate application form gives few details (and none about his name), apart from the fact that he manages the Simeon Sac Investment Group.

There have been other politicians called Hitler. In 2018, also in Peru, Hitler beat Lenin in another mayoral race for the district of Yúngar, when Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde.

No wonder Paddington was so eager to escape from Peru.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Millions face ‘winter storm battleground’ as new models predict heavy snow blasts in 19 US states.

Millions of Americans could see a harsh winter with multiple snowstorms and freezing temperatures that turn several states into an Arctic ‘battleground.’

A recent long-range forecast model from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed a massive shift in the bands of heavy precipitation between December 2026 and February 2027.

That map shows a growing chance that the entire US East Coast will see above-average precipitation this winter, from southern Maine to the tip of Florida and stretching across the country into Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas as well.

On the West Coast, California is also expected to see above-average precipitation this winter, which likely means feet of snow in the Sierra-Nevada mountains and other high-altitude areas out west.

While more precipitation than usual does not always guarantee snow, several independent forecasters have predicted that at least 19 states should be bracing for a potential blockbuster storm season.

Greta’s protests and Al Gore’s PowerPoint charts worked; the Green New Deal has been a smashing success, but ending global warming comes with unfortunate side effects.

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WELL, CRAP LET’S TRY IT AGAIN. SINCE WHEN HAS INSANITY BEEN DISQUALIFYING FOR A DEMOCRAT? Journalist Puts Talarico on the Clock, Threatens to Expose Where He Really Was.

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! Bombshell Audio CONFIRMS Talarico’s Stay at Mental Health Facility. Here Are the Details.

UPDATE (From Ed): Talarico Turns Up.

You can read about it here and draw your own conclusions. At the link, among other things, is the audio of a recorded conversation between an independent journalist and an employee at the Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio, in which the employee says that Talarico has been discharged.

Unless this reporting falls apart, as it might, Talarico’s mental health is likely to dominate the last weeks of the campaign.

Tranquility Base here, the Eagleton has landed.

Posted at 3:35 pm by Charlie Martin

ROGER KIMBALL: The West at a Crossroads: Excellence or Mediocrity?

Remember when, just a few years ago, our cultural commissars celebrated the career criminal George Floyd and The 1619 Project? The unhappy anti-American beneficiaries of America took to the streets to desecrate our monuments and defile our heritage. It was in this context, Rubio observed, that “‘nationalism’ became a dirty word. . . . [W]e taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process, we opened our borders and outsourced our industry and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.” At the same time, we began to outsource not only our industry but also our sovereignty, “transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach of our control.”

It is here that Rubio’s speech reaches its denouement. Both the United States and Europe are at a crossroads. Do we endeavor to recover the values we have inherited from the Greeks or do we go quietly into the not-so-good night of spiritual flaccidness? Rubio’s answer caused panic among the low-testosterone denizens of academia and the media. “Under President Trump,” he said, “the United States has made its choice.”

We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power: to take back control of our critical supply chains, to reindustrialize our economy, to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future.

We choose to reach for new frontiers: in advanced manufacturing and super intelligence; in drones, weapons, and warfare; in chips, minerals, cyber, and every other domain of human possibility. To unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories, to return our astronauts to the moon and launch a new age of exploration in space.

Much more like this please, it’s a polar opposite worldview to when then-President Obama cynically declared in 2009 that “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

THAT’S RACIST AND SOMETIMES VIOLENT MORONS:

Posted at 12:15 pm by Stephen Green

FEMINISM’S DREAM:

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Helen found this in her interviews with young men.

Posted at 12:11 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DOMINIC GREEN: France’s insane student protests are really about a growing radical Muslim population that wants to get rid of democracy.

The disorder is backed by the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party. Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is second in the polls for next year’s presidential elections.

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Long before Mayor Mamdani came to America and the DSA took out their student loans, the French saw the emergence of an Islamogauchiste (Islamo-leftist) alliance between the old radicals of the left and the angry youth of the banlieues, the peripheral housing estates.

The same strategy created the voter base of the ruling Labour Party in the UK. In September, the strategy swung Sweden’s national elections and Berlin’s mayoral elections to left-wing parties that cultivate ethnic bloc votes. It has reshaped the Democrats’ ground game in states such as New York and Michigan.

Mélenchon may be happy to see the schools burn, but he knows his electoral math. The Immigration and Demography Observatory, a French think tank, predicts that on current trends, French citizens with no immigrant parent or grandparent will become a minority around 2050.

Mélenchon, a 75-year-old ex-communist, is an old leftist but also a new immigrant. Born and raised in Morocco, he came to France in 1962, one among the millions who crossed the Mediterranean as Europe’s empires folded.

He calls French democracy a design for “white privilege” and “part of an already obsolete present.” He wants a “citizen’s revolution” to create a “new France.” He calls the right-winger Marine Le Pen, who leads the polls for 2027, a “fascist.”

Isn’t everyone, these days?

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll