IT’S NOT JUST FOR BROS: Creatine helps over 45s build muscles and strength, study suggests.
October 1, 2026
IRAN MASSACRES, UP CLOSE: An estimated 40,000 Iranian civilians were murdered by the authorities during anti-government demonstrations in Tehran beginning in late December 2025 and continuing through mid-January of this year. But when was the last time you read a story in the New York Times about those atrocities or watched a news report on them on ABC?
Now you don’t have to depend on the Mainstream Media for actual video of those tragic events, thanks to a new documentary entitled “This Is Our Story – Voices From Iran’s January Protests,” which Richard Pollock describes as “explosive” and “deeply moving.” Being based on actual videos taken by participating protestors during and after the massacre, the documentary is also graphic.
“At its most gripping, This Is Our Story shows the deep emotional toll on a nation’s people when thousands of body bags were placed in local hospitals and mortuaries. Families had to painstakingly open each bag to find a husband, wife or child. It also shows the many funerals that became lightning rods for further dissent. Since the funerals, silence. But as the documentary shows, internally, Iran is a powder keg ready to explode,” Pollock writes
Mike Rowe offered a blunt way to describe America’s skilled-worker shortage: The country is losing tradespeople faster than it is replacing them.
“For every five tradespeople who retire this year, two replace them,” Rowe said during a Ford Pro Accelerate panel on workforce development. “Five out, two in. I don’t care how you vote. I don’t care what your politics are. Math doesn’t care either.”
The host of Dirty Jobs has made variations of that argument for years. But at Ford’s gathering, Rowe’s warning about welders, electricians, and other skilled workers became the opening to a more expansive conversation with Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Michael Duffey, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the U.S. Department of War, about what the country gets wrong when it treats college and career training as opposing paths.
The emerging argument was not merely that Americans need more people in the trades. It was that the language of “blue-collar” and “white-collar” may no longer describe the jobs employers need to fill—or the education workers need to navigate them. Try “purple,” Rowe said.
Speaking of rather skewed math: Almost 90% of jobs created since Trump’s reelection have gone to women — for one specific reason. “The American economy is increasingly geared toward services, such as healthcare, childcare, education and elder care. ‘This is a central story of what happens when a country gets richer, more productive, and yes — older,’ [economist Justin Wolfers] said. All of these jobs have historically been associated with women, the so-called ‘pink-collar economy,’ and still suffer from a lack of male interest, he argued.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A COMPLIMENTARY COCKTAIL: Netanyahu Confirms Hijacker Had ‘Islamist Radical Indoctrination.’
IT’S LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO LOSE: GOP budget chairman contenders put revenue raises on the table.
The two Republicans vying to take over from House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) are pushing hard for a bipartisan fiscal commission to close federal deficits, with both of them saying that all options, including revenue raisers, are on the table.
Their positioning represents a break with the stance of many Republicans in years past that tax hikes should not be considered.
The Washington Examiner interviewed Reps. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) and Blake Moore (R-UT) to discuss their visions for the committee if chosen to be either chairman, if Republicans retain control of the House in November, or the ranking member, if the GOP loses. Both congressmen vowed to pursue a fiscal commission tasked with addressing the rising federal debt should they get the gavel.
Say it with me now: Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem.
USA! USA! USA!
What a heartwarming story. More of this, please. https://t.co/hDYEykKNEz
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 1, 2026
And from the replies: “Even as a gay man, a pride flag is now a red flag.”
MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH:
Insane @FrannieBlock exclusive in @TheFP. It's on a man erroneously accused of being among the 'Cornell 7' — and being hounded by the online mob. https://t.co/a62QSbbCGF pic.twitter.com/pv0KJzSZ0Q
— Oliver Wiseman (@ollywiseman) October 1, 2026
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: Thwarted Hijacker Underwent ‘Islamist Radical Indoctrination,’ Netanyahu Says.
The pilot who was narrowly prevented from hijacking a passenger jet en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday underwent “Islamist radical indoctrination,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The FlyDubai pilot, an Omani national who has not yet been identified, stabbed his co-pilot and tried to seize control of the jet, which was filled with Israeli passengers.
“We know that he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News, citing information Israel has learned during its investigation. The prime minister did not reveal any additional details.
A fellow pilot told Israel’s Channel 16 journalist Yosef Yisrael the attacker was “someone characterized by very strange behavior, especially around religious observances that were out of step with his surroundings.”
“For instance, he used to pray a lot, and would not shake hands with women,” the pilot — who spoke to Yisrael on the condition of anonymity — said.
In 2012, Denzel Washington starred in Flight, about an airline pilot who heroically lands a crash-diving MD-80 full of passengers, but is later discovered to be an alcoholic. At what point does an airline notice that one of its captains is in the throws of Sudden Jihad Syndrome?
FIRST THE F-47, AND NOW THIS: US Navy selects Boeing to build next-generation F/A-XX fighter.
Inked at $20 billion for the full-scale development phase, the contract, according to a Pentagon release, “procures multiple test aircraft for ground, airworthiness, systems, and weapons integration testing.”
“The F/A-XX is a critical pillar in our commitment to maintaining peace through strength,” Michael P. Duffey, under secretary of defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, said in the release. “F/A-XX will dominate contested airspace, extend operational reach, and deliver a decisive combat advantage for the warfighter.”
Equipped with an extended range to provide power projection from U.S. carriers, Boeing has promised that the F/A-XX will, crucially, be interoperable with both manned and unmanned platforms such as Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
Starliner is still a bit of a mess, but Boeing’s more recent efforts seem to have the company on a roll.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Ask a liberal college student if he or she would become a registered Republican if they became convinced the conservative, limited government perspective is the most productive of a free and prosperous society. Think they would say yes?
What if instead the question is addressed to a young student who professes to be a Buddhist and the question is whether he would become a Christian if he were convinced that it is the true faith? The young man initially said “No,” but then changed his mind. Find out why here on HillFaith.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
This is a sentence that should literally never be written.
Fairfax County taxpayers are paying someone more than 3x the national median household income to run and office whose sole purpose is to racially discriminate against students.
If that doesn’t radicalize you, I’m not… pic.twitter.com/tgHoXavakd
— ROOZ (@ROOZVA) September 30, 2026
“If that doesn’t radicalize you, I’m not sure what will.”
TO BE FAIR, BECERRA WAS ALWAYS MOCKABLE: Hilton Mocks Becerra for Saying Tax Breaks for Those Earning Under $150K Benefit ‘the Wealthiest.’
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SHE MIGHT JUST BE THE SHARPEST OPERATOR IN HOLLYWOOD RIGHT NOW: Sydney Sweeney’s racy ads help sports betting platform quadruple valuation to $2B. “Novig had built a small audience from its podcast and clinched a partnership with the New York Mets, but the platform took off after the “Euphoria” actress signed on as an equity investor and posed in her birthday suit for the company’s ads, which went viral online.”
Equity investor, you say?
Sharp, indeed.
THE RAPE CULTURE MYTH:
Let’s take a moment, in light of the Cornell “rape case” hysteria, to savor the dilemmas facing the activists and academics who promote the idea of “rape culture.” If there is indeed a “culture of rape” at elite institutions, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently reaffirmed, why do…
— Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI) October 1, 2026
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If there is indeed a “culture of rape” at elite institutions, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently reaffirmed, why do female students flock into them? Cornell’s student body went from a little under 50 percent female in 2005 to nearly 54 percent female in 2025. The hoary (no pun intended) statistic bandied about relentlessly during the height of 2010’s campus rape frenzy—that one in four female undergraduates would be sexually assaulted during her college years—signifies a level of criminal sexual violence unheard of even during African tribal wars.
Yet instead of demanding a massive expansion of single-sex schools where they could study safely, females keep trooping in to co-ed colleges and, even more inexplicably in light of the received feminist wisdom, into the frat parties that are allegedly hot beds of rape. Either females are too stupid to take the most basic of precautions or there is no rape crisis and they know it. The same goes for their status-hungry mothers: why are they sending their daughters into such a maelstrom of violence? Answer: that violence does not exist.
Of course it doesn’t. “Rape culture” was never anything more than a cudgel for browbeating men.
But out of an abundance of caution, have you considered pursuing an online degree?
IT’S EARLY YET, BUT ROBERT SPENCER ALREADY HAS MY FAVORITE HEADLINE OF THE DAY: A Connecticut Jihadi in an Obama Judge’s Court.
RED CHINA, RIP (MAYBE MUCH SOONER THAN YOU THINK): Nobody knows with certainty how many Chinese men and women have died as a result of Mao Tse Sung’s defeat of Nationalist Chang Kai Shek in 1949 and the subsequent Hell-on-Earth known as the Communist Revolution in Beijing. Credible estimates are of 80 million deaths, but there may well be more.
China has become the Superpower rival of the United States following America winning the Cold War against the Soviet Union. But, terrible irony of all ironies, China was greatly assisted in that emergence by … us. And today, the dying goes on as the Underground Christian church faces deadly persecution, and the Muslim Uyghurs subsist amid concentration camps, unwilling organ donation and forced labor.
But, as Rod Martin makes clear in his column today on Substack on China 77 years later, the Asian giant’s future is anything but good news for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
THE REAL QUESTION IS WHY THIS GUY WORKS AT A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: How A Creepy Academic Shows What’s Wrong With American Religious Colleges. “There are many such chairs at American universities, paid for by Saudis, Qataris and Omanis. Although these nations have a scornful view of democracy and Western civilization, this might be justifiable at a state university. How though is it defensible at a Catholic one?”
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DEFINITELY DON’T GET DEPRESSED: CNN’s Data Guru Just Dropped Brutal Numbers for the Democrats’ Midterm Dreams.
GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD: Larry Kudlow said it first, but Rod Martin’s column of the same name points to what is likely the biggest puzzle of the 2026 election season — the Trump economy is soaring, but Trump and GOP popularity are not. Thus, “experts” are beginning to talk about a Democratic wave in November.
But, as Martin points out, the counter to such Blue optimism and GOP apathy may be as simple as four votes per precinct in a low-turnout contest, which mid-terms typically are. Republicans are thus well-advised to drop the dour looks, get off your tuffs and get to work because things are actually much better than either they or the “experts” are telling us.
