October 25, 2026

24-YEAR-OLD COAST GUARD SWIMMER SAYS HE FOUGHT WAVES AND DARKNESS TO RESCUE 16 PEOPLE FROM OCEAN:

Strapped into a harness, Josh Law was lowered from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter into the rough Pacific Ocean in the pitch black night, far off the Mexican coast.

The force of the helicopter blades pummeled the water, whipping up spray and turbulence. The Coast Guard rescue swimmer couldn’t hear anything over the noise or see anything in the darkness. Waves of 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters) hit him.

All he could do was follow the searchlight from the helicopter with the hope it would lead him to the more than two dozen people flung into the cold waters some 140 miles (225 kilometers) off the coast of Mexico’s Baja peninsula. He would personally rescue 16 of them.

“I was experiencing exhaustion at that point,” Law, 24, told The Associated Press in his first interview since the rescue. “We had very little sleep. But what I was experiencing was nothing compared to what they were at that point … I just had to keep that in mind.”

The most righteous of the right stuff, as Tom Wolfe would say:

 

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

GREAT MOMENTS IN OIKOPHOBIA: Obama mocks Trump’s White House as looking like ‘Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory’ in brutal campaign trail swipe.

I’m not a big fan of Trump’s aesthetics, including all of the gold filigree he’s added to the Oval Office. But it certainly beats the hideous Death Star Flak Tower that Barry signed off on:

It’s also fun to see BHO having a raging case of TDS:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

FROM CHRISTOPHER DIGRAZIA:  Ten Thousand Midnights: A Theda Bara Mystery

 

Hollywood, 1922. Paramount Pictures director William Desmond Taylor lies dead in his apartment, a bullet in his back. Baffled by multiple suspects and blind alleys, the LAPD turn to silent star Theda Bara for help. With her loyal friend, makeup artist Toby Swanson, she delves into the dark corners of Tinseltown to uncover Taylor’s killer. Fellow stars Mabel Normand and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle hold pieces of the puzzle, but Paramount chief Adolph Zukor is determined to hide the secret of Taylor’s murder at any cost. . .even if it means silencing Bara forever.

From the author of The Director’s Cut and The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of comes the third entry in the mystery series that Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Robert J. Avrech praised as making Theda Bara ‘a living, breathing woman.’

I’m a fan of this series, and I’ve been waiting for this book such a long time!

 

 

 

Posted at 7:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

WHEN PICKING SIDES:  I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history. My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley.  Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky. My side of history is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.  Your side of history is Tories who fled to Canada, Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson, Bull Connor, George Wallace and Nancy Pelosi.

Posted at 4:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

IF YOU’RE CONSIDERING SITTING THE ELECTION OUT, REMEMBER HOW WE COULDN’T SPEAK OF THIS?  Hunter Biden threatened sex worker after 2020 election while embroiled in laptop scandal: new FBI emails.

I might disagree with the administration here and there, and yeah, things could be better (it could be raining chocolate!) but seriously, remember when the autopen administration tried to install a MinTrue? And stomped on social media till you couldn’t say boo? If it seems like a bad dream, be aware it wasn’t. And it could come back.

Posted at 4:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

AND THIS IS WHY I’M HAVING TROUBLE SLEEPING:  Only two weeks in, and the GA 2026 General can not be certified. Again, this is REAL TIME analysis. We have documented (so far): – felons dropped in for a vote that weren’t on the voter roll – swapped votes from a person’s primary Reg ID to their clone that resides in the secondary dark database – back dated Registrations that were not there in time to vote but were made to look they were there all along – deleted votes – voter suppression by “theft” of a Reg ID for a vote – double voting duplicate Reg IDs

Posted at 2:29 am by Sarah Hoyt

October 24, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Carry a cup in your hand.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FUNNY, THAT:

Leftism is about hate and revenge.

Posted at 9:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds