October 1, 2026

THE RAPE CULTURE MYTH:

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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?

Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

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).

Posted at 10:07 am by Mark Tapscott

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?”

Posted at 10:04 am by Glenn Reynolds

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.

Posted at 9:50 am by Mark Tapscott

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX set to launch Google AI chips into orbit in push toward space-based data centers.

The launch is scheduled for 11:15 am PT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California’s Santa Barbara County.

SpaceX has promoted supercomputers in space as the next frontier in artificial intelligence infrastructure, touting “infinite real estate” in orbit as a means of escaping the data center backlash on the ground. During the uncrewed Transporter-18 mission, SpaceX will carry Planet Labs satellites, including a solar-powered prototype equipped with Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs).

It marks the first in-orbit test for Alphabet’s Project Suncatcher, a “moonshot” initiative Google first revealed in November 2025. The company aims to develop reliable, solar-powered AI computing infrastructure that can operate continuously in space.

Maybe not “infinite real estate,” but lots of it — and with far fewer complaints from the locals.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green

NOTHING IS MORE PATHETIC THAN WATCHING A POLITICIAN DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE BECAUSE IT’S IN HER POLITICAL INTEREST TO DO SO:

Posted at 9:19 am by David Bernstein

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Friend of My Enemy — Iran Wants Americans to Vote for Dems. “There isn’t anything to read between the lines here. The people who refer to the United States as the ‘Great Satan’ and have vowed to destroy us would feel more comfortable with Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries in charge of Congress. We don’t have many dots to connect in this one.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

CAMILLE PAGLIA WEIGHS IN:

Posted at 9:04 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE WNBA THESE DAYS LOOKS LIKE IT WAS PURPOSELY DESIGNED TO SERVE AS RIGHT-WING AGITPROP:

Posted at 8:40 am by Glenn Reynolds

HMM: Google Grapples With Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model. “While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks the industry uses to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort. The model struggles to handle certain coding tasks, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.”

If true, I can’t say I’m surprised. I’m happy to use Grok, GPT, and Claude for their various strengths, but could never find a reason to use Gemini.

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

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“The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch.”

“So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It’s all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year.”

“We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars.”

Bravo.

Posted at 8:21 am by Stephen Green

NBC-DFW BURIES THE LEDE: Man released on bond, accused in plot to attack Texas Capitol building, DPS says.

Unless they made it to seven paragraphs into the article, readers wouldn’t have spotted this detail:

Arrest documents further state that [40-year-old Benny Caldera] told his friend that he was angry at AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and that “these people have to be exterminated.”

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Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

HEY, BIG SPENDER: South Korea to invest up to $200B in Alaska LNG pipeline, US power plants, Trump announces.

The investment also includes a natural gas plant in Texas and eight new nuclear power plants across the country, Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office.

Trump said the deal came as part of a trade agreement between South Korea and the U.S. in which the U.S. would lower the Asian country’s tariff rate to 15 percent in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.

Trump particularly touted the Alaska pipeline investment, known as Alaska LNG because it would transport liquefied natural gas, as allowing the U.S. to export more gas.

“The United States is already the largest natural gas producer and exporter in the world, and this pipeline will help us expand those exports even further,” he said.

Energy dominance, indeed.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green