FIRST ANDRZEJEWSKI SCHOLARSHIP WINNER: How many college kids do you know these days who would recognize the suffocatingly liberal dominance of campuses across the country and decide it’s time to start an independent, conservative school paper that demands transparency and accountability?

Meet Ben Rothove, a senior at the University of Madison-Wisconsin who recognized as a freshman that liberal censorship had to be challenged and he was the man to rally friends and allies to found and run their own independent student newspaper. This ought to give all of us hope for the survival of genuine journalism.

NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN USE: Going back to the dentist after years away? A dentist explains what the first visit is like, and why it’s less scary than you think.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE HOPENCHANGE: Obama, Whose Own IRS Targeted the Right, Clutches Pearls Over Ilhan Omar Raid and Wow, That Was Dumb.

FLASHBACK: Obama’s IRS singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for heightened scrutiny based on their names and political positions, delayed tax-exempt applications for years and demanded unnecessary donor information.

The IRS ultimately admitted wrongdoing and… https://t.co/zXIX8uzW0z

— Will Ricciardella (@WillRicci) October 18, 2026

THEY AREN’T IGNORANT…:

Starting with the Coleman Report in 1966, continuing with studies of prison rehabilitation, job training programs, causes of poverty, race differences in IQ, and causes of sex differences in occupational preferences. To name a few. https://t.co/PXZ6Nt9QF1

— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) October 18, 2026

…it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so, the wise man once said.

SHOCKING NEWS: Colorful Sexual Enhancement Pills at Gas Stations May Contain Drugs Not Listed on Labels.

OUT ON A LIMB: Trump blames France violence on immigration.

Donald Trump said immigration had “shattered” France after protesters and looters ransacked Paris.

The US president blamed Saturday’s violence, which saw shops raided and government buildings set ablaze, on the country’s immigration policy.

In a Truth Social Post, Mr Trump said: “France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country.

“Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!”

Earlier, JD Vance, the US vice-president, wrote on X: “Western liberals imported the Third World into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility.”

Vance added he hopes that “Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.”

Meanwhile, the Israel War Room news aggregation account is having fun trolling les pouvoirs publics:

ME ON SUBSTACK ON ELON’S FLYING CARS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM.

Related:

They’re saying this is the most American sentence ever typed https://t.co/GG9WIZ3bv9

— Mary Tiles Texas (@MaryTilesTexas) October 16, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): Monty Python’s Flying Car Circus:

I love this app 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/WKY1Oh42HM pic.twitter.com/zM3mJgiTi7

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) October 18, 2026

IS PARIS SCUFFLING?

Or to paraphrase CNN in 2020, mostly peaceful but surprisingly fiery scuffles.

Bari Weiss needs to get CBS’s social media team under her control:

@bariweiss still not in control of this beast. https://t.co/bGTEnlecYE

— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) October 17, 2026

UPDATE: Sasha Stone: Riots in France — a Warning for America.

MORE: Hot Takes: Internet Rips CBS News for the Worst Tweet on French Riots Since ‘Mostly Peaceful.’

UPDATE (10/18/26): CBS News Deletes Social Media Post That Described Violent, Fiery French Riots As ‘Scuffles.’

Fortunately, it’s screenshotted above.

STAY WARM: Solo Stove Basecamp 24″ Fire Pit w/Stand. #CommissionEarned

FRANCE IS ONCE AGAIN PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: “They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners. In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t.”

French journalist Paul Amar:

“They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.

In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t” pic.twitter.com/zudahbmw7p

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 18, 2026

Related: Touching Themselves. “Given ongoing events, and lifted from the comments, a reminder, were one needed, that there are titillated creatures who want to see your homes burn.”

UPDATE:

“They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.”

Hmmm where have I heard that one before in Europe? https://t.co/pv7IUNVbIr

— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) October 18, 2026

RELIGION NEWS: Rutgers scholar opposes integrated churches because black people may vote Republican.

ROBERT STACY MCCAIN: Michael Tracey: Hero for a Crazy Time.

Having flattered Tracey by comparing him to Christopher Hitchens, I’ll further flatter him with another comparison. Like Hunter S. Thompson, Tracey knows the value of using vivid language. In the very first sentence of this piece about Kristy Makuta, we find “the defamatory maelstrom of Epstein hysteria” — a decisive choice of words, an upfront declaration of authorial intent. Promoters of Epstein hysteria are responsible for “a tornado of unrelenting slime … noxious falsities … a tsunami of pure sleaze … loads of demented garbage,” Tracey declares in the space of a single paragraph. Further displaying his penchant for strong and colorful description, Tracey labels Makuta’s claim to Epstein victimhood ”one of the craziest cons in all of Epstein lore,” involving “brazenly faked” evidence in “a whirlwind of unvarnished lunacy.”

To back up these strong phrases, Tracey has the receipts. He knows how to obtain court records and utilize them to debunk the bogus victimhood claims by which these grifters have profited through litigation. You really need to read the whole thing to understand how the “Epstein files” has spiraled completely out of control, with clearly innocent people (including Democratic Party fundraiser Dana Chasin) being smeared as participants in child sex-trafficking. Decent people out to be outraged about these lies, and yet somehow Michael Tracey is the bad guy for telling the truth?

Read the whole thing.

ALLERGY RELIEF: PATADAY Once Daily Extra-Strength Relief Allergy Eye Drops. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: New Silicon Valley academy offers higher-ed alternative as fewer Americans see college as important.. “Its launch comes as Gallup finds only 31 percent of Americans now consider a college education ‘very important,’ down from 70 percent in 2013.”

IT ISN’T LIKE THEY WEREN’T WARNED:

The look of a leftist discovering reality – this is not how she imagined it – it is called a cognitive dissonance.

The French leftists are going to get a lot of that. https://t.co/K9GEpu5FRU pic.twitter.com/8SRaxw5EEk

— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) October 17, 2026

OUR MESSAGE TO CORNELL: BRINGING BACK CAMPUS KANGAROO COURTS IS NOT THE ANSWER. As Robert Shibley explains, abandoning due process won’t deliver justice, and we’ve already seen what happens when colleges try. See this week’s update for the full story.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTION: What Caliber For Giant Nocturnal Ten-Pound Crabs?

COMMIES HATE THIS:

And, it's actually distributed, since you can't get the profit without the sale. Instead of being used to force the behavior you want.

You just want stuff for free so you can sit around getting fat. pic.twitter.com/MWiE2WHIej

— D.L. Campanile (@DLCampanile) October 17, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Shark Clean & Empty Cordless Stick Vacuum.

IT’S COME TO THIS:

"Fraternities are raping us women repeatedly! Let us in!" https://t.co/qPEFDjpOh0

— Cadbury Cream James 🐣 (@James_PA10) October 16, 2026

FASCISM:

Sen. Slotkin just openly threatened to persecute anyone who worked for Trump, with the explicit goal of intimidating young conservatives. https://t.co/djptVKQYGP

— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) October 17, 2026

DAVID MASTIO: Harvard’s Faculty Lead Academia in Record Donations to Democrats in Key Senate Races. With large donations coming in at unprecedented levels, employees at colleges and universities under investigation by the Trump administration are focused on trying to turn the Senate blue.

JOHN LUCAS: The Constitution’s Red-Headed Stepchild — The Second Amendment.

PEEK AT IRANIAN DAILY LIFE: Actually, it would probably be more accurate to say Roger Simon’s latest Substack column is a peek into Iranian daily misery. Without fundamental regime change, the Iranian people, most of whom hate the oppressively cruel Mullahs and their protectors, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), will continue to suffer.

SIGH.

You have to have a heart of stone not to laugh https://t.co/CP5aar5fYv

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 17, 2026