October 6, 2026

SOON ISN’T SOON ENOUGH…:

…but it would do.

Posted at 9:52 am by Stephen Green

CDR SALAMANDER: We Need to Talk About RAF Fairford and the B-1B FLAPEX: How many wakeup calls will we get? “It is as if no one really did a good Red Hat from a force protection point of view and assumed we’d be as safe ‘over there’ as we are ‘here.’ Complacent, comfortable, and … well … its England … how much safer can it be? That is an assumption best left to the past. FY2027’s Jolly Old England is not your grandfather’s Jolly Old England.”

We’re not as safe here as we think, either.

Posted at 9:42 am by Glenn Reynolds

GET OFF OF MY CHURCH’S LAWN: Anti-Gun Orgs Urge Clergy to Use Red Flag Laws to Grab Their Congregants’ Guns.

In September, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions published a tract titled “Extreme Risk Protection Orders: A Clergy Resource Guide” (extreme risk protection orders are the gun control advocates’ preferred term for red flag gun confiscation orders). The document was authored alongside groups including Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence, and Jewish Women International.

Another author was the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness, which the document described as “the public policy information and advocacy office for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).” The “progressive” PCUSA currently hosts the guide on its website. Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, who has put his version of religion at the forefront of his campaign, trained at a PCUSA seminary.

Astute gun rights supporters will know that the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health bears the name of billionaire gun control financier Michael Bloomberg. For his part, Bloomberg appears to believe he can dictate terms to the divine.

Trying to convince clergy to question the fitness or even then mental health of their own parishioners is… well, crazy.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

MONSIEUR, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE CHARLES MARTEL AGAIN:

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Curse on the House of Every Vile Member of the Biden Stasi. “Last week, there were more revelations about the execrable Jack Smith, the special counsel who shouldn’t have had a job in the first place. We already knew he was a dirtbag, but — as with all things related to Biden and his chief henchman Merrick Garland — the more we find out, the worse he gets.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

YEAH, THIS IS WHAT IT’S ABOUT:

Related:

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:51 am by Glenn Reynolds

JUST DO IT: President Trump Approves Execution of Fort Hood Mass Murderer Nidal Hassan. “Hasan — who laughably acted as his own attorney — was tried and found guilty in 2013 and sentenced to death. Now, finally, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has requested permission and President Trump has approved the execution of the useless oxygen theif who’s been needlessly living at taxpayer expense for the last 17 years.”

Posted at 8:50 am by Stephen Green

HMM: Five Hormuz Incidents Reported Monday as Tanker Attacks Mount.

UK Maritime Trade Operations reported five separate incidents involving commercial shipping in or near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, including four tanker attacks and an incident in which Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened another vessel with attack.

Three of the four attack notices were time-late reports covering incidents from October 3 and 4, while the latest strike occurred Monday afternoon. The concentration of reports underscores both the intensity of the recent violence and the difficulty of establishing what is happening in the Strait in real time.

The latest incident, UKMTO 156-26, occurred at 1637 UTC Monday when the master of a tanker reported being struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The strike caused a fire in the vessel’s engine room, which the crew was fighting when UKMTO issued its warning. No casualties or environmental impact had been reported.

The attack followed four other Hormuz-related notices issued earlier Monday.

Last gasp of a dying regime or something else?

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

PROGRESS:

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

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Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: US colleges slash tuition by tens of thousands as families balk at sky-high sticker prices.

The Post identified at least a dozen colleges and universities that have cut or announced cuts to tuition or required program fees this year, with several private schools chopping published undergraduate prices by roughly 40% to more than 50%.

Emory & Henry University in Virginia cut tuition roughly in half to $19,990 this fall, while Arizona’s Prescott College lowered on-campus undergraduate tuition 55.8%, from $33,960 to $15,000.

The University of Tulsa plans to cut undergraduate tuition and university fees from $54,000 to $25,000 in fall 2027 — a $29,000, or 53.7%, reduction.

Coe College in Iowa will drop tuition from $58,780 to $31,850 for 2027-28, while Montana’s Carroll College will cut tuition and general undergraduate fees from $44,712 to $26,800.

Just a preview of things to come as foretold by the prophet.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

OUT: MILE-HIGH CLUB. IN: MILE-HIGH RUB: Intoxicated woman allegedly masturbates on American Airlines flight.

But it’s equal-opportunity misbehavior: “A week before Inzer’s alleged mile-high rub, a United Airlines passenger claimed she was forced to sit next to a masturbating man on an early morning flight from Rochester to Newark, only to be offered a $100 credit, according to NBC News.”

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

INCENTIVES:

Posted at 7:17 am by Stephen Green

WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS, TO THE PANDEMIC* THAT NEVER ENDS: The Russian Plague.

Some observers scoff at the broken test tube narrative. Given that the incident occurred at a Russian laboratory, no one trusts official assurances. Other employees at the Institute are being quarantined, and countries bordering the Irkutsk region have tried to seal their borders.

Many have noted the obvious parallels to the covid epidemic of a few years ago.

Referring to the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, Nezygar, an influential Russian Telegram channel, wrote: “The situation in Shelekhov, Irkutsk region, where a plague quarantine has been declared, resembles the Wuhan case.”

Except that the plague is orders of magnitude worse than covid, a coronavirus that by now has become one of several strains of the common cold:

Pneumonic plague, the strain that Shipilova is suspected to have died from, is transmitted through respiratory droplets. It has a fatality rate of 41 per cent, making it many times deadlier than coronavirus, which has an estimated fatality rate of under 0.01 per cent for healthy middle-aged adults in Britain.

One can only imagine the hysteria that will reign if pneumonic plague really does begin to spread. The disease is easily treated with antibiotics, but only if it is diagnosed immediately, which may not happen as it resembles milder diseases like influenza in its early stages.

* Or is it?

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll