THE NEW SPACE RACE:
As the prophecy foretold, Starship 42 will be the first tower catch https://t.co/0v2tfYPcUv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2026
“Don’t panic,” the wise man once wrote.
October 29, 2026
IT’S THE CHICAGO WAY:
Same guy https://t.co/JqhkoN9sKq pic.twitter.com/WFoeh5u91W
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 29, 2026
COMPARISON IS THE THIEF OF JOY: One social media habit linked to anxiety and depression in teens.
HOWARD HUSOCK: No More ‘Little Deuce Coupe.’
Reports based on Federal Highway Administration statistics show a dramatic drop in the number of teenagers choosing to get driver’s licenses—down nearly 50% among 16-year-olds since the 1980s. But no one who follows popular music should be surprised by the decline. The golden age of hit songs about cars is now firmly in the cultural rearview mirror.
The song widely considered to be the first rock’n’roll hit was about a car. “Rocket 88,” recorded by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats featuring Ike Turner in 1951, described a six-passenger Oldsmobile. “Step in my Rocket and don’t be late / We’re pullin’ out about half past 8,” crooned Brenston to an unnamed girlfriend, who likely cuddled up to him in the front seat, sans seatbelts.
The ’50s and ’60s would see a jam of similarly celebratory songs. Plenty of hits told stories of cars in fast-paced detail, notably Chuck Berry’s “No Money Down,” about a Cadillac with a “full Murphy bed in my back seat.” But even confining the list to songs with car names in the title leads to a hit parade.
Back in May of 2009, in a Wall Street Journal article titled, “The End of the Affair,” the late P.J. O’Rourke wrote an encomium to cars, which the Obama-Biden administration was then just beginning its war on (as part of its still-ongoing war with many other aspects of American life), that was also at times, an encomium to the suburbs:
But cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.
Eight years later, self-driving cars began to first emerge, and Charles Cooke warned of “The War on Driving to Come.” Or as Iowahawk warned right around the same time, America “needs a Second Amendment protecting the right to keep and bear cars.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: L.A. Real Estate Is Partying Like It’s 2008. “There was no global financial panic. No world war. No recession. No pandemic. Just Southern California stuck in a self-imposed rut from which there seems to be no escape.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: roborock Qrevo CurvX Robot Vacuum and Mop. #CommissionEarned
JESSICA, JESSICA, JESSICA: Gutfeld Destroys Jessica Tarlov for Defending the Democrats’ Fake Dan Sullivan Scheme.
KEEP AN EYE ON THIS:
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: European Parliament money helped fund a CLOSED-DOOR meeting on resistance to Trump and MAGA ahead of America’s midterms.
The keynote speaker? A University of Georgia professor who had publicly argued that Democratic victories could “make Trump a much weaker… pic.twitter.com/by77Lm88AY
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) October 29, 2026
THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: ‘Affordability’ Is A Trojan Horse For Democrats To Bring Back The Biden Years.
By “restore money that was improperly cut,” the Times means that Democrats will refuse to pass budget bills that don’t include funding for all the multibillion-dollar scam projects that help fund their cause, like USAID and every anti-American NGO. When they say “scientific research and disease prevention,” that’s what they’re referring to.
The editorial went on to encourage Democrats in power to heavily rely on “hearings, subpoenas and more” to “hold the president and his appointees responsible.” And why stop at government officials? There’s plenty of harassment to go around for Trump supporters! “Even if Mr. Trump and his aides illegally defy subpoenas,” the Times said, “the House can summon corporate executives and others who have enabled him.”
In the event Democrats secure the Senate, too, the Times suggested they block future political appointees and, of course, Supreme Court nominees. The editorial said only judges who “uphold the law” should be confirmed, which of course means judges who will reliably side with Democrats in their blood-thirsty crusades to imprison their political opponents.
None of this will lower the cost of gas and groceries.
Government and affordability go together like Scotch and Jolly Ranchers.
DID ISRAELI-ARAB PARTY STEAL THE ELECTION? Richard Pollock rounds up substantial evidence that funds channeled from Qatar to the Israeli-Arab party via Muslim terrorist channels turned Tuesday’s voting into a “stolen election.”
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION:
🇦🇲 An Armenian parliament session turned into a brawl between deputies
Lawmakers in Armenia engaged in an all-out brawl in the middle of a parliamentary session between representatives of the ruling party and the opposition.
MPs even threw a chair at each other. pic.twitter.com/qK96k3accn
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 29, 2026
Honestly, I might prefer this kind of thing to almost any bipartisan backroom deal.
CDR SALAMANDER: When Your Navy is too Small, the Bill Comes Due Bigly.
MADE IN THE USA:
This is true everywhere in the West.
Palmer Luckey just launched BlueChip with Qualcomm, a laptop designed and assembled in the United States. The "analysts" told us an American computer would cost $100,000. Luckey says it'll cost about 20% more than a high-end PC. The gap… https://t.co/ErjUj6cNb7
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) October 29, 2026
“The pattern is always the same. Manufacture scarcity through law, call it protection, and tell everyone there’s no other way.”
THE CAMPUS CENSORS HAVE CHANGED, BUT THE FAILURE OF UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP HASN’T. For years, administrators didn’t just tolerate censorship from the left; many actively encouraged it, and now university leaders are caving to pressure from the right.
HMM:
2020: the most secure election in history.
2026, five days out: Democrats warn Elon Musk and AI could rig the vote, so paper ballots are suddenly a great idea. These are the same paper ballots they fought for years.
This isn't election security. It's an excuse being built in…
— David Strom (@DavidStrom) October 29, 2026
READER FAVORITE: Walker’s Razor Slim Electronic Muff. #CommmissionEarned
MORE OF THAT MALE PRIVILEGE ON DISPLAY:
How can @MIT and President Kornbluth sit back and allow Kristin Knouse to remain on the MIT faculty when she has been found by a jury of her peers to have falsely accused him of rape, and intentionally destroyed his life and career with the help of co-conspirators in the MIT… https://t.co/Xq2T4zTPDZ
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 29, 2026
IT’S BIG: Cowboy Space unveils ‘Big Iron’ rocket to launch 20,000 AI data centers.
“It’s a fundamentally novel approach to rocketry in the modern era, in our opinion,” Bhatt said during the event. “The idea is that you have a two-stage rocket where the upper stage of the rocket itself transforms into the satellite.”
That rocket is called Big Iron, Bhatt told us on Monday night. And so is the data-center satellite, as both are considered to be part of the same system.
The stainless-steel rocket will be 282 feet (86 meters) tall and 15.4 feet (4.7 m) wide. It will be powered by Cowboy Space’s Clydesdale engines — nine in the first stage and one in the upper stage, the same configuration employed by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
The upper stage, meanwhile, will stay in orbit as a Big Iron satellite.
Novel approach — wish them luck.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: University of Chicago student files ethics complaint against Sen. Slotkin.
THIS IS A VARIATION ON THATCHER’S RATCHET EFFECT, BUT MORE LAWLESS:
Republicans are learning that the law is a door that only swings in one direction. Democrats can do illegal and unconstitutional things — like enacting DACA, or putting noncitizens on voting rolls — but when Republicans try to undo these things, judges prevent them from doing so.
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) October 29, 2026
DIRTY TRICKS: Democrat Campaign Recruited ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan to Run in Alaska. “Now The New York Times is reporting that, in fact, Peltola’s campaign is responsible for the second Dan Sullivan entering the race, claiming to be a Republican despite his previous voting record. A Peltola staffer in summer 2025 acted upon instructions from top campaign aides to search out as many Dan Sullivans in Alaska as possible, The Times reported. The staffer put together a list.”
