LIMITED TIME DEAL: HOSHANHO 6 Inch Kitchen Knife. #CommissionEarned

WELL, GOOD: EPA Extends Emergency Diesel Waiver For Texas As Fuel Supply Crisis Drags On.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended Texas’ emergency diesel waiver Tuesday, allowing certain older vehicles and equipment to use higher-sulfur fuel through Nov. 13. The 20-day extension follows an initial waiver granted October 5 at Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s request.

“EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is doing what he can to provide relief to American consumers, but emergency waivers cannot replace the refining capacity we’ve lost after decades of politicians pursuing so-called climate agendas,” Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “California has driven refineries out of business, while European countries pursuing Net Zero policies have watched their refining capacity decline.”

National distillate inventories were 11% below their five-year average as of Oct. 9, while refineries were operating at 93.5% capacity, according to the EPA’s Oct. 20 letter.

“It is EPA’s intention to issue new waivers effectively extending (renewing) these waivers until such time as the extreme and unusual fuel supply circumstances described in this action are no longer present,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin wrote.

The crisis looks like it’ll last a good, long while — maybe even time enough to get serious about increasing refining capacity.

WELL, GOOD: Accountability? Starmer to Be Dragged Before ‘Grooming Gang’ Inquiry.

TO BE FAIR…:

WOW: Asked about his message to undecided Jewish Democrats, Abdul looks at the report, rolls his eyes, and walks away. Absolutely shameful. pic.twitter.com/kXGrGA03Mh

— Democrats For Mike Rogers (@DemsForMike) October 22, 2026

…at least he didn’t promise to make Michigan judenfrei.

JONATHAN TOBIN: Christiane Amanpour leaves CNN, but a legacy of anti-Israel media bias remains.

Amanpour, who has spent her adult life hobnobbing with celebrities, and eventually becoming one herself, objects to Ellison. But this isn’t just the usual snobbery displayed by wealthy celebrities about even wealthier people they are forced to work for. David Ellison is the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, ranked by Forbes as the eighth-richest person on Earth with a net worth estimated at $182 billion.

Her problem stems from the fact that he thinks legacy outlets like CNN are a dying paradigm and out of touch with most viewers. One of the reasons for this is that it, like the vast majority of legacy media outlets, is hopelessly biased, tilting the news from a liberal point of view to the point where increasingly few who don’t share its political prejudices bother to watch it anymore.

That’s why Ellison, who acquired CBS last year, hired Bari Weiss to try and inject some balance into that network’s biased, liberal news programs. Predictably, the staff at CBS has been outraged at Weiss’s attempts to do just that, with some resigning and others, like “60 Minutes” anchor Scott Pelley, being fired because of his clashes with her.

Amanpour has publicly criticized Weiss for trying to change CBS and clearly wanted no part of what she feared was a similar effort at “ideological realignment” at CNN. In her statement about her departure from CNN, she urged those she’s leaving behind to face Ellison and Weiss to “be truthful, not neutral.”

A detailed description from Amanpour of what she believes CNN’s f0rthcoming “ideological realignment” will be like would be astonishing to read.

ICYMI: Hey, Gun Grabbers — Where’d All My Wild West Shoot-Outs Go?

YES. WE DO.

Counterpoint: Men choose between suboptimal options even if they don’t want to. https://t.co/DdpxiCZikx

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 22, 2026

REMEMBER: ANY CRITICISM OF SOROS IS ‘ANTISEMITIC’:   Soros-backed New Mexico AG behind $25B Meta lawsuit accused of seeking ‘tax on speech’.

WASN’T ANYBODY MINDING THE STORE?  Maryland Woman Indicted in Alleged $7.5M Pandemic Loan Fraud Scheme.

A WAY TO LOSE IN STYLE?  “Insurgent math”.

THIS IS NOT NEW:  Purdue is bringing in someone on an H-1B visa to teach…….. ENGLISH literature and writing to AMERICAN students? There are American English PhDs looking for work, but this position is being filled through a foreign-worker visa

PRECISELY:  It’s all fun and games until they screw with the Second Amendment. Here’s an underappreciated fact about the philosophical and legal theory behind the Constitution: the 10 Articles of the Bill of Rights are special. They do not grant rights that can be revoked, even by later amendments. Rather, they are considered to describe “natural” rights which are prior to the Constitution itself, and which no government may revoke without forfeiting its legitimacy.

YES, BUT THEN AGAIN, THEY TRY THIS EVERY TWENTY YEARS:   America is currently in the midst of a color revolution designed to overthrow our Constitutional form of government. The only way to stop it is awareness. (This is going to be a lengthy article, but please bear with me because I believe we all need to understand what is happening in the shadows.)

Sometimes they’re better at hiding it.

ANOTHER THING THEY NEED EXPLAINED: LET PEOPLE HAVE FUN WITH WRITING AND READING:  Apparently Scott Greer – and numerous other conservative “influencers,” “podcasters” and other assorted fauna – need this explained to them: fanfiction is the garden in which potential writers first cultivate their talents.

NO. EVEN IF WE LOSE THE MIDTERMS WE SHOULD NOT GIVE UP. TO GIVE UP IS TO DIE:  Elon Hasn’t Given Up Yet. You Shouldn’t Either.  Tesla’s new flying Roadster may currently be an overpriced piece of novelty tech, but its spectacular demonstration proved something- Elon has not given up on life, America nor the future.

IT’S DOWN TO THE WIRE EVERYWHERE. WHY DO YOU THINK I CAN’T SLEEP?  It’s Down to the Wire Time in Washington State.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

AI DESTABILIZES STOCK PHOTO INDUSTRY: Getty Images files for US bankruptcy, advances restructuring plan. “Getty Images (GETY.PK) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, formalizing restructuring plans unveiled more than ​a week ago as part of its ‌move to go private. Last week, Getty announced plans to file for bankruptcy, marking a major reset after its planned ​merger with rival Shutterstock (SSTK.N) collapsed under the ​weight of heavy debt and growing competition ⁠from AI-generated imagery.”

The DALL-E image generator in ChatGPT is capable of producing photo-realistic images, and other AI image generation platforms can produce material good enough to illustrate online ads and Websites, and for much cheaper costs than maintaining an account at Getty or Shutterstock.  Not to mention, the platforms merely have to be prompted to produce their results, rather than the labor-intensive efforts that Photoshop used to require to assemble a collage of stock photos into a satiric image, as I used to do every night for PJM, back in the day. At worst, Photoshop can be used to tweak an AI image, rather than the drudgery of starting from scratch.

HMM: Could a $200K bond for satellites paid before launch prevent a space junk disaster in orbit? Here’s why some scientists think so. Scientists aren’t exactly experts at regulatory matters. This isn’t promising:

“Low Earth orbit looks like lots of other resources that we have trashed as economic actors,” Daniel Kaffine, a professor of environmental and resource economics at University of Colorado Boulder, told Space.com.

(1) Resources are generally more trashed by governmental actors. Most space debris created in recent years has come from Chinese and Russian military posturing. For that matter, the environmental record of governments in general is much worse than that of “economic actors.” See, e.g., the Aral Sea, the Gold King Mine/Animas River EPA spill, etc.

(2) I question the value of space regulatory advice from a “professor of environmental and resource economics.” Nor is such a person a “scientist.”

(3) That said, the bond idea isn’t a bad one except that (a) there’s nobody empowered to impose the requirement; and (b) there’s nobody empowered to administer it.

I recommend space salvage. The Outer Space Treaty is a barrier, but we could probably end run it via the Artemis Accords.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Ilhan Omar Says She Didn't Know She'd Married Her Brother As They Were Separated At Birth And Hidden From Their Father, Darth Vader https://t.co/LioPMYHOiG

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 22, 2026

HMM: Scientists Found a Bizarre Pattern in Over 1,000 Cases of Alleged Human Reincarnation.

SO FAR: Far From Killing Us, AI Is Saving Lives.

THERE WAS NO PRELAPSARIAN GOLDEN AGE: 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Skeleton Reveals a Mysterious Spear Wound Aimed at the Heart. Life was nasty, brutish, and short.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH THE FRENCH POLICE ARE A VOICE OF SANITY: French Police Identify Antifa as the “Ideologically Distinct Group” Behind the Riots Despite Democratic Denials.

WELL, THAT’S DISAPPOINTING. There is no magic diet.