YOU GO, GIRL: More Than the ‘Assault Weapons’ SCOTUS Case, THIS is What Terrifies the Gun Control Industry Most of All.

“In recent years, women made up almost half of all new gun owners, a striking shift from the historical norm, when women accounted for about 24 percent of gun owners,” Rosanna Smart and Andrew R. Morral of the RAND Corporation recently wrote. “After more than a decade of stable gun ownership, women’s ownership rose starkly between 2018 and 2021, going from 10 percent of adult women owning guns in 2018 to 15 percent in 2021, then up again slightly to 16 percent by 2024.”

They add that the big surge in women’s gun ownership has occurred since 2018 and, almost without exception, is seen across the board without regard to race, age, income, party identification, or education. Men, too, have bought guns amidst record firearms sales boosted by the chaos of 2020, though not to the same transformative extent as women. As broad demand for the means of self-defense has put the lie to the already overstated argument that gun ownership was a passing fixation of rural white men, women have rushed to take advantage of the empowering technology.

Firearms are the great equalizer.

IF IT’S BEEN MODIFIED, WE MIGHT FIND OUT IN A NOT-SO-NICE WAY:

If it's been modified, it would be nice to know.

— Battle Beagle (@HarmlessYardDog) October 4, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It Feels Like It Should Be Easier to Defeat Abdul El-Sayed. “What the heck is going on here in Michigan? I’ve been here for over seven weeks this time, most of it spent in Ann Arbor, which is the off-the-deep-end leftist crazy zone in the state. I knew that Abdul El-Sayed fever would be strong here. Indeed, the place is polluted with ‘Sayed’ yard signs. I don’t know why they have dropped the ‘El’ for the signs. Just noticing that probably makes me Islamophobic or something.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation. One hopes they’re being dosed with Cipro, or better yet Levaquin. One fears that Putin has reopened Soviet biowar labs, and the strain in question was modified to be antibiotic-resistant.

A TRIAL LAWYER WEIGHS IN:

My new @Townhallcom column takes no prisoners…

“We don’t owe accusers anything except to treat the accusation seriously, to investigate both sides’ claims, and to test the admissible evidence against clear laws. But that’s not what the leftists and feminists want to do here.…

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 5, 2026

“But that’s not what the leftists and feminists want to do here. That’s not what New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wanted done by appointing New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. Hochul had already framed the young woman as a victim who was ‘literally gang raped,’ and said she deserves to have ‘justice pursued.’ Her catspaw James is supposed to run an objective criminal investigation? That’s a travesty. She has her marching orders, and she will march accordingly.”

It’s Kurt, so read the whole thing.

DELTA’S WIFI HAS ALWAYS SUCKED LIKE A BILGE PUMP, SO THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR AN EASY FIX: The Delta Airlines — Starlink Feud.

I normally don’t use airline wifi because I enjoy a break from the Internet. But when I need it, Delta isn’t there for me. It literally fails to connect half the time. And when it does connect it’s slow and sad.

Meanwhile, Elon is having fun.

Best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight – it will have no chance of accessing the Internet!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2026

THAT WON’T STOP THEM, FIRST OPPORTUNITY VOTERS ARE SILLY ENOUGH TO GIVE THEM: 6 In 10 Americans Oppose Democrats’ Plan To Pack The Supreme Court.

The new poll asked respondents: “Would you support or oppose an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Called ‘Keep Nine’ Which States: ‘The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices?’”

Amongst all respondents, nearly 64 percent supported the amendment while nearly 18 percent opposed it. When broken down among party lines, 46 percent of Democrats support the Keep Nine Amendment and 54 percent of independents support it.

Yet despite the public favoring keeping the court at nine justices by a more than 3-1 margin, Democrats are promising to expand the court should they take back power.

Vote as though your life, liberty, and property depend upon it.

THE DEVIL HATES TO BE MOCKED: Vibe Shift: Self-Awareness Triumphs at Columbia.

CHANGE?

Quebec on the cusp of electing separatist government promising referendum https://t.co/2Oghd4siSh

— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) October 4, 2026

ICYMI: USA TODAY BRINGS COMMON SENSE: The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care: What’s most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame. “The pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the internet. I think people are reporting this story inaccurately. I think they are reporting it unfairly. And while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought this court case.”

The important part is activating the Dems’ psychotic-women base between now and election day.

DON SURBER: Commies fear the Donroe Doctrine: The Orangeing of the hemisphere has begun and it is beautiful.

HMM: Are Republican Campaigns Forgetting About Their X Platform Advantage?

Long before Twitter went woke (and back again under Musk), it was the favorite virtual meeting place of the online Right. Many of the first Tea Parties were organized via Twitter DMs.

JONATHAN TURLEY: The blue-state model for education has failed, and the public has caught on. “New polling shows that K-12 education has now reached a record low in the number of people who are even “somewhat satisfied” with the state of education in the U.S. What is most troubling is that the near-total contempt for our school system does not make a bit of difference. Families and students have become largely irrelevant to an education cartel, a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating political alliance of unions and politicians.”

WHO KNEW HE WAS “FAR RIGHT” DECADES AGO?

I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese

He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. pic.twitter.com/xtubCcbRdi

— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026

DID HE NOT EVEN EVER WATCH HOGAN’S HEROES RERUNS?

Not a history, major I see https://t.co/eoVoEIv0PJ

— Charlie Martin 🇺🇸✡️🇮🇱 (@chasrmartin) October 4, 2026

IT’S REALLY LONG:  I’ve been reading through the Report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans.  It’s well over 1000 pages long (and printed in a way that makes it more like 2000 pages of an ordinary book).  I probably won’t be able to read every single line of it, but I will try to read as much as I can.  Somebody has to, and it’s up my alley, so I should be the one.

The report is already three years old.  I skimmed it when it came out, but at that point I didn’t have enough time to do more.  I was hoping that it wouldn’t be acted on and that I would never have to go back to it.  Alas, that has not been the case, so now that my own book is finished and a few other projects are under control, I’m trying to make the time to read and to some degree respond to the report.

I’ll be very surprised if the proposals for direct cash payments to the descendants of slaves get anywhere, but there are other aspects of the report that have already been enacted.  (And I’m often surprised at what the California Legislature does, so don’t assume I’m right that direct cash payments were dead on arrival.)

So far, the most notable success of the Task Force occurred in 2025 when Gavin Newsom approved a law creating a Bureau of Descendants of American Slavery.  Once a bureaucracy is established, it is nearly impossible to stop it from advancing its purposes in some way.  At the same time, Newsom also  signed a bill that allocated $6 Million to Cal State University to research methods for determining who is a descendant of an American slave and who isn’t. So things are moving ahead.

But he also vetoed several bills—including one that would have authorized the University of California to discriminate in favor of the descendants of slaves—in part because he understood that Prop 209 is a potential obstacle to such a scheme. Alas, that may explain why this year’s big push from reparations supporters was to authorize  another referendum to gut Proposition 209.  The new referendum will go on the ballot in 2028.

Meanwhile, another reparations success happened a couple days ago.  Newsom signed a bill that requires corporations to disclose past profits from slavery.  It’s obvious where that is intended to go.

Our Golden State legislators just can’t seem to stop themselves.  This stuff will never end.

I hope to report back a little on the reparations report when I get a further in.  But I already find myself occasionally taking a break to look for homes for sale in other, less crazy, states, so it may take a while.

I BELIEVE THE SOCIETAL/RELATIONAL DAMAGE IS ACTUALLY THE POINT:

The biggest issue raised by Jane Doe vs. the Cornell 7 isn't simply who is responsible. It is what the controversy could do to relations between men and women at a moment when American social life is already in trouble.
Young Americans are increasingly lonely and unhappy.…

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) October 4, 2026

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Related:

“It was so wrong when women’s husbands had control over their finances and freedoms.”

“Unrelated men should totally call the cops on a woman who wants to have sex.”

Pick one. https://t.co/AbjMUnL03T

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 4, 2026

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FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: ‘Phantom’ ObamaCare accounts spark new crackdown as Oz targets broker fraud.

Oz told Fox News Digital that the administration is encouraging health insurance companies to get involved in the anti-fraud push.

“From now on, we’re asking insurance companies to work with brokers who record the conversations,” Oz said.

“Why wouldn’t you?” he said. “What are you nervous about? What are you worried about? Why don’t you want me to hear what you discussed?”

The move would help create transparency among the recipients who are applying to receive aid through Obamacare, ideally showing that the customer authorizing the transaction is verifiable and actually qualifies for the program.

Oz is throwing sand into the gears of Obama’s well-oiled fraud machine.

Good.

SHE IS RIGHT. THIS TRANSPLANT NEEDS TO BE LOST:  The Alien Transplant to The US.

IT’S ALL POLITICS NOW:

Yes, many critical-social-justice dogmas can't withstand intellectual scrutiny, so their proponents try to protect them via intimidation and walling off the university commons. Civil discourse and viewpoint diversity are threats to this tactic. https://t.co/zlvJCBsTa2

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) October 3, 2026

NOT ENOUGH, PERHAPS:

How much did we learn from COVID about the right time to shut down travel from disease outbreak locations? https://t.co/ImkPJ2MrpW

— Mick Ryan, AM (@WarintheFuture) October 4, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The End of College as We Know It: AI is wreaking havoc in universities, but higher ed’s woes long predate ChatGPT.

What’s the matter with universities? Syracuse missed its 2026 enrollment target and may run a $30 million deficit. Minnesota is cutting its budget by $225 million over two years. Tulsa is slashing tuition by more than half. Colleges enroll 4.2% fewer undergraduates than last year. Cornell, Yale, Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis put out plans—not radical enough, if you ask me—to reimagine the university. Wossamotta U?

Colleges are known for left-leaning professors, speech suppression, bizarre courses—Occidental College taught “The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie”—and easy grading more than critical thinking, judgment and problem solving. It’s easy to blame artificial intelligence, but problems run deeper. . . .

According to Gallup, in 2013, 70% of Americans said college was very important. Today it’s only 31%. If universities don’t change, more than a few will implode, while others will wither away over decades. AI and alternative forms of learning are already rising. Something radical is needed to stop the decay of our once great universities. Who will step up?

Who indeed? The link above is supposed to be a free link, but in case it doesn’t work for you, you can read the whole article here, too. And you should.

WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T MENTION THE JIHAD: Basil Fawlty, Mad Bomber? John Cleese Reported to Counterterror Cops.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

Turns out the email has been doing very weird things, including at least one totally inappropriate automated response. I didn’t notice because we were doing a dance of houses (between houses, more like.) If you’ve sent something to the promo and been ignored, please send again.