October 20, 2026

JOANE JACOBS: The unabashed patriotism at the National World War II Museum is startling — and refreshing.

We also visited the National World War II Museum, which opened in 2000 as the D-Day Museum and kept on growing. There are lots of testimonies from men and women who served in the military or on the home front, lots of artifacts, fancy visuals and a “4-D” movie, focused on the American experience in World War II.

I was startled by the old-fashioned patriotism: The museum tells the stories of the “good war” in which we were the good guys and the Axis powers were the bad guys. There is no soul searching, no “interrogating” the narrative. Japanese-Americans were interned — but volunteered to fight and became heroes. Blacks were treated as second-class citizens — but worked in defense plants and served bravely. Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed a lot of civilians — but it ended the war without a bloody invasion. And so on.

Most Americans probably don’t know the role Andrew Jackson Higgins and New Orleans played in D-Day and the rest of the European theater, which is a real shame.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK:

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green

KURT SCHLICHTER: Woke 2 Is Here, and It’s Failing Hilariously. “Now there’s a reason that woke people are so often fat, ugly, and stupid. It’s because they’re the losers. Woke is the tool of the losers; they’ve got nothing else. Its efficacy exists only because of the grace of the winners, and if we stop giving them that grace, it stops being effective. And we give that grace in large part because we’ve been convinced, falsely, that those claiming oppression have some sort of moral edge over the rest of us. . . . We’re still at the endless nagging phase. Examples are all around us, including the Cornell 7 case, where they are demanding that the men who, as the evidence shows, simply acknowledged and affirmed the frisky young lady’s erotic empowerment are being held up as evidence of how the patriarchy is out of control.”

There’s no better argument for patriarchy than woke feminism.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

ABE GREENWALD: The Riot Coalition.

The term “omnicause” entered the lexicon only in 2023. But the blueprint for omnicause rioting was already operative 15 years ago. In fact, it was already supplanting realistic plans for left-leaning governance. As I wrote: “Without a viable leftist blueprint for actual political progress, you riot incoherently, collaboratively, and opportunistically. The abandoned orphans of the left are taking Britain by storm.”

It’s been a long storm, growing and intensifying all these years. Each new eruption contributes something to it, whether an additional grievance or a destructive tactic. And the new elements live on. In the years since 2011, the storm has been fueled by Black Lives Matter, Antifa, gender radicalism, anti-Israel mania, and jihad fandom. After the George Floyd summer, all rioters would forever wear masks. With the campus tentifada, they added keffiyehs, terrorist flags, and genocidal rhetoric. The riots in France will add something new, too. Perhaps American high schoolers will soon take to the streets pretending to demand better education, though I somehow doubt it.

Whether this will stop, or at least ebb, depends foremost on the education of Western leaders. Will they learn the “real cause” of all this violence and instability? They’ve had a decade and a half to figure it out. And the answer is this: Leftist governance has failed their countries while radical ideas have transformed their peoples into mobs.

Well, of course it failed –leftist governance is designed to fail:

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See the entire defund the police movement and homelessness nonprofits in California. Gavin Newsom promised to end homelessness and instead it ballooned on purpose.

This is why there was such enormous flip out over Trump renovating the reflecting pool or Spencer Pratt’s campaign.

Once people realize that things can be improved a lot of nonprofits and public union/money dries up. There is a reason why cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, and now Denver all look the same because they are all run by the same people running the exact same scam.

Why would “Progressives” in Europe govern any differently?

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS HEAVILY SEDATED: Don’t Look Now, But Yet Another Chicago ‘Violence Interrupter’ Has Committed Violent Felonies.

Angalwon Gilmore, 28, started his day at a Chicago CRED (Create Real Economic Destiny) office flashing gang signs at the anti-violence center’s own security cameras. Hours later he used a Lyft account registered as “Angawon CRED” to get a ride from that same building.

Did he misspell his own name? You make the call. Anyway, he climbed into the back of a 33-year-old woman’s 2013 Acura wearing a COVID mask…and then tried to carjack her. Thank heavens Lyft has a policy against their drivers carrying the proper tools for armed self-defense, right?

Angalwon yelled at her to change direction. When she did what he wanted to keep the situation from turning worse, he attacked from behind in the 6400 block of South Rhodes, wrapping his arm around her neck and trying to pull her out of the driver’s seat into the back. The struggle went on for several minutes. She fought hard, jamming a leg under the dash and steering wheel so he couldn’t pull her free. He eventually bailed with her keys. She called 911.

Gilmore is now detained on attempted vehicular hijacking, robbery, and aggravated battery. Phone data, Lyft records, the driver’s photo-lineup identification, and a police report that lists Chicago CRED as his employer tied him to the attack.

This is not some one-off fluke by a single “violence interruptor” gone bad.

I’d forgotten about the Violence Interruptor scheme, but what I do remember is stories like this one.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

NEVER. GIVE UP. YOUR GUNS:

Posted at 7:17 am by Stephen Green

CDR SALAMANDER: Yes, a gun on top of a gun, and more of them, is your solution. “Not that there is anything wrong with a good 30mm chain gun. Those will fit in places where 50 mm and larger guns just can’t squeeze in. We also love ‘ole Ma-Deuce. In the military version of a Turducken, what if we mounted a .50 cal on top of a 30mm?”

When the war starts, we always wind up adding guns to our ships that they should have had already. Especially antiaircraft guns. Which this time around will probably be antidrone guns.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE A DETERRENT?  ISIS terrorist who plotted NYC mass slaughter gets 50 more years for blinding prison guard.

Posted at 6:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

I’VE BEEN SLEEPING VERY BADLY, AND THAT HAS ME HEARING EARTHQUAKE BELLS:  A Pause Before The Fire.

Posted at 5:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

IT’S NOT SURPRISING, BUT IT’S STILL SHOCKING:  You’ve heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. What you not have heard is – there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become “foot soldiers” in constant clashes with the administration to cross a “red line” or invoke a “doomsday scenario” – meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027. Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a “young and brown” demographic.

Posted at 4:25 am by Sarah Hoyt