IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK:

She's right on programming. People don't trust neutrality as it doesn't really exist, but they do trust when you're honest about where you stand. It's authenticity and transparency that people trust. https://t.co/sKx7FRyYgU

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 9, 2026

In 2006, Walter Cronkite told PBS that, “I’m a liberal, but I’m not biased. Seriously. … [ellipses in original — Ed] A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we’re unbiased in our reporting. That’s one of the fundamentals of good journalism. We all have our likes and our dislikes. But … when we’re doing news — when we’re doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we’re doing the daily news, covering politics — it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.”

In 2019, long after RatherGate ended his career at CBS, Dan Rather was still muttering boilerplate such as, “As a lifetime journalist I can say I can only speak for myself: you do the best you can realizing you’re going to make your mistakes… that’s the test point of trying to stay objective and try to stay unbiased.”

Nobody believes old media claims about “objectivity.” Tell me your worldview so that I can take that into account when you’re presenting me a story.

LIGHTNING DEAL: BLACKDOG Military Dog Shock Collar. #CommissionEarned

DEMOCRATS AND THE VOTERS WHO ENABLE THEM. NEXT QUESTION? California Has the Nation’s Highest Gas Prices—Who’s to Blame?

ALEX BERENSON: Behind door #2, everyone dies: It is time to start taking the risks of AI much more seriously.

AI agents will redefine tasks they are assigned by humans in ways that humans don’t anticipate

AI agents will collude at scale to carry out those tasks

AI agents will lie to the humans who are monitoring what they’re doing

AI companies cannot (or will not) stop these coordinated attacks, even when they are supposed to be taking place under very tightly controlled conditions. . . .

Many people in the industry publicly put the chance that their models will escape human oversight and lead quickly to the extinction of humanity at 10 percent or more. Let’s say the chance is only 1 percent. Even so, we are currently tolerating research that on a probability-weighted basis is killing 80 million people — 1 percent of the current global population.

Actually it’s more than that, since it would be killing all future humans, too.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, THEY TOLD ME. TRUST THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, THEY SAID:

There is something deeply wrong with our scientific establishment.

Fraudulent Cancer Research Papers Increased 10x in Recent Years https://t.co/f79y0Te1Ys

— David Strom (@DavidStrom) September 9, 2026

KURT SCHLICHTER: Our Biggest Problems Have the Easiest Solutions. “While America under Donald Trump is inarguably doing better in many ways than it has in many years, we still have problems the smart set insists are insoluble. They are not insoluble. They are easy. That is why you are not allowed to talk about them honestly.”

THIS WEEK’S THURSDAY ESSAY IS OUT FROM BEHIND THE VIP PAYWALL: Let’s Talk 9/11, Then and Now.

ONLY MALE SEXUALITY IS CREEPY. FEMALE SEXUALITY AND OBJECTIFICATION ARE EMPOWERING. Objectification Is Only Wrong When Men Do It: You don’t get to condemn the male gaze and then celebrate the female one. “The internet broke after Carlos Alcaraz took off his shirt following Friday’s U.S. Open match win. SportsCenter posted the crowd’s response — women reached for their phones, and we discovered a remarkable new rule: the sexualization of a young athlete is only offensive when the athlete is female, and the audience is male.”

The policing of sexuality is all about power.

HOW INDEED:  “How Did This Nigerian Chief Make Million From Medicaid?“

LITTLE-HEARD TRUTH ABOUT TOMORROW: Richard Pollock, ever-observant of realities the Mainstream Media either chooses to ignore or simply doesn’t recognize, reminds us that millions of Muslims around the world danced in the streets as thousands of Americans died on 9/11.

ANOTHER SIDE OF GLORIA STEINEM:  I only recently learned that she was big on promoting the panic over “Satanic Ritual Abuse of Children.”  Sigh.

Whenever I start thinking that the world has gone bonkers, I remind myself that it has always been bonkers.  In the 1980s and ’90s, people really thought that day care centers run by grandmothers were full of kinky weirdos who were sexually molesting toddlers in some weird Satanic ritual–sometimes with a little cannibalism thrown in for extra spice.

WHAT’S IN A NAME: President Trump seems to be developing a fetish about renaming things after America: Gulf of America, Lake America, New America, etc. etc. The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold observes that Trump “is attempting to change the longstanding names of geographic entities by executive fiat. This is, at the very least, a very un-conservative thing to do. Conservatism values and seeks to conserve the goodness that human societies organically create over time.”

NOTHING NEW IN THIRD WAY: They call themselves “centrist” and “moderate,” but the latest edition of the Third Way appears incapable of fresh thinking about health care reform because Obamacare is sacrosanct.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

I BELIEVE SO: The Vela Incident: Did an American satellite detect a secret nuclear test in 1979?

IT’S ALL MEAN GIRLS ALL THE TIME:

Exactly what it looked like.

It was never “oh the facts are so complicated plus also the finer points of Massachusetts law…”

It was always a group of pre-decided nutters just bullying the others to acquit and one guy refused to give in. https://t.co/IyXCmOtcHE

— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 9, 2026

Related:

Sounds about right, judging from the news, the anecdotes, the testing data and personal experience.

Not the stuff of which nations, empires and civilizations are either made or maintained.

(I used to look around and think, how did we ever get here? To this incredible level… https://t.co/ZH6DX9A4aG

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 10, 2026

MY GRANDFATHER GOT THESE AND HAD A STROKE A DECADE OR SO LATER: A Warning Sign of Heart Attack And Stroke May Show Up on Your Face.

I BELIEVE THE WORD FOR THAT IS SOCIOPATH:

There is an idea of Gavin Newsom, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real him, only an entity, something illusory, and though he can hide his cold gaze and you can shake his hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense your lifestyles are probably… https://t.co/gkotyNbnyM

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 9, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Everything Apple just announced at its fall 2026 event: The folding iPhone Duo, iPhone 18, Apple Watch Series 12, and new AirPods.

RUBIO HAS GROWN IN THE JOB: Mr. Rubio Goes to Colombia, Which Is Exactly Where We Need Him.

LIVEBLOG: GOP 2026 Midterm Convention, Night One.

Just in time for Mountain zone cocktail hour, too.

WELL, GOOD: Cardiac Breakthrough Could Offer Lifesaving Treatment to More Patients.

MOAR GAINZZZ! When it comes to strength training, how much is enough?

HE’S RIGHT, AND THE PHOTO FROM SCLAW IS JUST THE TOPPER:

Here's a photo of the 2025 graduating class from Harvard Medical School.

[Photo Credit: Steve Lipofsky for HMS] pic.twitter.com/4o7M1POxxv

— SCLaw (@_SCLaw_) September 9, 2026

THINGS ARE GETTING INTERESTING IN SPAIN TOO: WATCH: Spain’s Socialist PM Sánchez Gets a Blunt One-Word Message on Floor of Congress: ‘TRAITOR’.