October 14, 2026

I’VE LOOKED AT LIFE FROM BOTH SIDES NOW: Sneering Leftist Mob Comes for Joni Mitchell After Her Proud American Moment.

Legendary folk singer Joni Mitchell is finding out the hard way that the Left has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to loving and appreciating the United States of America.

Mitchell proudly posted Tuesday that, after living in the U.S. for over six decades, she had finally become a citizen. She posted a short video of her name being called at what looked like a small ceremony at a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office. The singer also posted a photo of her happily carrying a small American flag while posing in front of larger American and DHS flags.

She was clearly thrilled to officially be a U.S. citizen at long last.

But, of course, the Left can’t stand anything good, true, or beautiful, so they immediately began responding to her happy news with hateful messages.

“Willingly applying for American citizenship at this moment in history…oh MAGA Mitchell,” one person sneered on X.

Yes, the legendarily MAGA-adjacent ultra-right wing Joni Mitchell:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

DRILL, BABY, DRILL (ARCTIC EDITION): Trump Announces “Massive” Greenland Oil Exploration Plans. “U.S. Greenland Energy Company has said it will fund 100% of the costs associated with up to two exploration wells in Greenland, designed to delineate the hydrocarbon potential of a project in the Jameson Land Basin.”

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS:

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

JONATHAN TURLEY: Harper’s Magazine to Honor NPR CEO Katherine Maher with First Amendment Award.

Harper’s Magazine appears to be competing with The Onion in satire this week. It is awarding its First Amendment prize to NPR CEO Katherine Maher. It is akin to awarding a Second Amendment prize to Gavin Newsom. Maher has long been the very symbol of advocacy journalism and bias. Ironically, she is being given an award after steering NPR into the rocks to keep her job and its ideological bias.

Many of us have written for years about NPR’s biased reporting. Not all of this criticism was made out of hostility toward the outlet — many honestly wanted NPR to reverse course and adopt more balanced coverage. That is why, when NPR was searching for a new CEO, I encouraged the board to hire a moderate figure without a history of political advocacy or controversy.

Instead, the board selected Katherine Maher, a former Wikipedia CEO widely criticized for her highly partisan and controversial public statements. She was the personification of advocacy journalism, even declaring that the First Amendment is the “number one challenge” that makes it “tricky” to censor or “modify” content as she would like.

Maher has supported “deplatforming” anyone she deems to be  a “fascist” and even suggested that she might support “punching Nazis.” She also declared that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”

As expected, NPR’s bias only got worse. The leadership even changed a longstanding rule barring journalists from joining political protests.

One editor had had enough. Uri Berliner had watched NPR become an echo chamber for the far left with a virtual purging of all conservatives and Republicans from the newsroom. Berliner noted that NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.

Maher and NPR remained dismissive of such complaints. Maher attacked the award-winning Berliner for causing an “affront to the individual journalists who work incredibly hard.”  She called his criticism “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”

Berliner resigned, after noting how Maher’s “divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR” that he had been pointing out.

Rather than trying to reverse the long slide in its audience, Maher doubled down. She ultimately made the best possible case for defunding NPR. She refused to resign, effectively killing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  Yet, Harper considers her a model of media.

Flashback: NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher on CNN: “As far as the accusations that we’re biased, I’d stand up and say, ‘Please show me a story that concerns you.’” Here you go.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

NIFTY: Powerus unveils fully autonomous drone interceptors.

According to analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. used roughly two-thirds of its inventory of certain missile-defense interceptors by Aug. 1 to stop drones like Iran’s Shahed. Because rebuilding the supply could take years and cost billions, the government has sought quicker and cheaper solutions like those used in Ukraine, but implementing them hasn’t been easy.

“When you go to Ukraine, most of the interceptors, believe it or not, are manually controlled,” he said, explaining that Ukrainian operators are highly skilled at finding and stopping one-way attack drones in the air. “And that’s great for Ukraine, where you could probably throw a rock and hit a drone pilot.”

The problem with the government’s initial thinking, according to Velicovich, was that Ukraine has a “proper drone army,” as the country has “entire brigades that are pilots. So those guys have extreme combat experience in knowing how to take a drone and send it into another drone. In other countries, they don’t.”

With that understanding, Velicovich explained how Powerus provided the U.S. with the Guardian 1 — modeled after manually controlled Ukrainian drone interceptors — to the semi-autonomous Guardian 2, which, when paired with a radar to detect threats, will launch the interceptor in the direction of a drone.

“It’ll know the speed and the telemetry. It’ll launch it in that direction, but you still have to do that final phase of manual kill,” he said.

Guardian 3 is fully autonomous, but no word yet on pricing.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

WHAT ENERGY CEASEFIRE?

As I wrote yesterday, “I don’t even pretend to know what’s going on with the energy ceasefire. And I don’t see why I should, given that none of the principal actors seem to know, either.”

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

DOG BITES MAN: Leaked Call Exposes Environmentalists Trying To Deceive Congress And Kill Pro-Energy Agreement.

“We really have to have a pretty clear agreement by all parties that this is an effort to stop this bill, not to make it better,” Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said during the call.

The call, organized in part by the Sierra Club, drew 89 participants as environmental organizations debated how to respond to the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026. The legislation, introduced on September 30, was negotiated by Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) alongside Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

The bill would overhaul federal environmental review and permitting procedures, establish deadlines for reviews and legal challenges, and provide greater certainty for projects that have already secured permits and financing. Its supporters argue that the changes would reduce delays, expand energy infrastructure, and help lower costs while retaining environmental and historic preservation safeguards.

Well, Sierra can’t have that.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

MAYBE THEY THINK BEIJING WILL HAVE A NEED FOR THESE:

Related:

For more than 30 years ITN sat on this footage?

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

WHEN THEY SHOW YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: NYC First Lady Painted Portrait of Her ‘Inspiration’: A Jew-Hating Artist Who Said ‘Anne Frank’ Is a Hoax, Posted Hitler’s Paintings, and Celebrated Oct 7.

Sliman Mansour, a Palestinian artist, was also pleased when a warlike reinterpretation of one of his paintings was used as a backdrop for an angry press conference by future Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, where he thanked Iran for funding Hamas.

Mansour died in August after spending decades propping up violent “resistance” movements against the State of Israel. Before that, Duwaji had animated a portrait of the painter and indicated he “inspired the work that I do.”

“Hi, I’m Rama, a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, and today I’m going to be animating a portrait of Sliman Mansour, who is a painter and sculptor that’s inspired the work that I do. Sliman is an artist of the Intifada,” said Houston-born Duwaji, the wife of Zohran Mamdani, in a video first posted online in April 2024.

Not quite three years ago? The press will dismiss this as youthful indiscretion, assuming the press acknowledges it at all.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY:

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Lawlessness Is the Dems’ Most Coherent and Consistent Policy Pitch. “In my four-plus decades of political activism, I have never seen a party that is supposed to steamroll an election be in the kind of disarray that the 2026 Democrats are in. Their candidate slate is a motley collection of communists and buffoons. They’re embroiled in a power struggle between the young, loud and proud commies, and the establishment, more subtle commies.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

HOW MANY GOVERNMENT-PUSHED TECHNOLOGIES ARE LIKE THIS? The old light bulbs are coming back. “LED light is altogether different, making light through a narrow electronic process that spikes strong in the blue part of the light spectrum, and emits almost no infrared at all. Even worse, it flickers rapidly, switching on and off hundreds of times per second. The flicker is too fast to register with our conscious eye, but it is not too fast to wreak havoc on our nervous system.”

I should say that the quality of the light doesn’t bother me, and I notice flickers — I can literally see the flicker in fluorescent lights even when they’re working properly — and I appreciate how long they last. The InstaWife, however, doesn’t much like any non-incandescent light.

Posted at 8:53 am by Glenn Reynolds

BEEGE WELBORN: And Bye, Bye to Miss Kimberly’s Big Greek Slice of Pie.

This has been a sordid, classless, just ICK on the ICKter scale couple of days for a woman who was once nestled in the bosom of Republican power.

Kimberly Guilfoyle (whose good judgment could have been questioned years ago when she was Mrs. Gavin Newsom, but never was), the flashy former San Francisco prosecutor turned Fox News TV personality, Republican activist, former Donald Trump Jr. fiancée, and, lately, U.S. ambassador to Greece was the subject of an in-depth Wall Street Journal expose five days ago that was so appalling in the breathtaking avarice reported, you could hear the clock start ticking even in an administration known for flashy characters.

And it wasn’t simply the WSJ telling tales. They had the texts showing that, among other outrageous expectations, Ambassador Guilfoyle leaned on an extremely well-heeled Trump donor and former candidate to pay her American Express bill before her confirmation hearing, but hush-hush, you know? All so her financials would look tidy.

Now, there was a quid pro quo – she was nice enough to promise favors of the business-interests sort in return.

Full (and sordid) details at the link.

I’d just add that overall, Trump 47’s personnel choices are head and shoulders above Trump 45. Just a much smoother-sailing ship.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

JUST THE NYT PLAYING NARRATIVE GAMES:

Posted at 8:20 am by Stephen Green

DAVID STROM: Does Reality Matter? Not in the ‘Mattress Girl’ Case, and Not in Cornell 7 Case Either. It’s all pre-election agitprop for lefty women. “What is striking about these cases, as with the case that Theo Jordan refers to (the hoax of residential school mass graves), is the willingness of the cultural elite institutions, and especially the media, to ignore the evidence and stick with a Narrative™ despite the complete lack of evidence to support it.” Truth-seeking isn’t their job, and they don’t see it as their job.

Posted at 8:07 am by Glenn Reynolds