FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, THEY TOLD ME. TRUST THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, THEY SAID:
There is something deeply wrong with our scientific establishment.
Fraudulent Cancer Research Papers Increased 10x in Recent Years https://t.co/f79y0Te1Ys
— David Strom (@DavidStrom) September 9, 2026
KURT SCHLICHTER: Our Biggest Problems Have the Easiest Solutions. “While America under Donald Trump is inarguably doing better in many ways than it has in many years, we still have problems the smart set insists are insoluble. They are not insoluble. They are easy. That is why you are not allowed to talk about them honestly.”
THIS WEEK’S THURSDAY ESSAY IS OUT FROM BEHIND THE VIP PAYWALL: Let’s Talk 9/11, Then and Now.
ONLY MALE SEXUALITY IS CREEPY. FEMALE SEXUALITY AND OBJECTIFICATION ARE EMPOWERING. Objectification Is Only Wrong When Men Do It: You don’t get to condemn the male gaze and then celebrate the female one. “The internet broke after Carlos Alcaraz took off his shirt following Friday’s U.S. Open match win. SportsCenter posted the crowd’s response — women reached for their phones, and we discovered a remarkable new rule: the sexualization of a young athlete is only offensive when the athlete is female, and the audience is male.”
The policing of sexuality is all about power.
HOW INDEED: “How Did This Nigerian Chief Make Million From Medicaid?“
LITTLE-HEARD TRUTH ABOUT TOMORROW: Richard Pollock, ever-observant of realities the Mainstream Media either chooses to ignore or simply doesn’t recognize, reminds us that millions of Muslims around the world danced in the streets as thousands of Americans died on 9/11.
ANOTHER SIDE OF GLORIA STEINEM: I only recently learned that she was big on promoting the panic over “Satanic Ritual Abuse of Children.” Sigh.
Whenever I start thinking that the world has gone bonkers, I remind myself that it has always been bonkers. In the 1980s and ’90s, people really thought that day care centers run by grandmothers were full of kinky weirdos who were sexually molesting toddlers in some weird Satanic ritual–sometimes with a little cannibalism thrown in for extra spice.
WHAT’S IN A NAME: President Trump seems to be developing a fetish about renaming things after America: Gulf of America, Lake America, New America, etc. etc. The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold observes that Trump “is attempting to change the longstanding names of geographic entities by executive fiat. This is, at the very least, a very un-conservative thing to do. Conservatism values and seeks to conserve the goodness that human societies organically create over time.”
NOTHING NEW IN THIRD WAY: They call themselves “centrist” and “moderate,” but the latest edition of the Third Way appears incapable of fresh thinking about health care reform because Obamacare is sacrosanct.
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
IT’S ALL MEAN GIRLS ALL THE TIME:
Exactly what it looked like.
It was never “oh the facts are so complicated plus also the finer points of Massachusetts law…”
It was always a group of pre-decided nutters just bullying the others to acquit and one guy refused to give in. https://t.co/IyXCmOtcHE
— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 9, 2026
Related:
Sounds about right, judging from the news, the anecdotes, the testing data and personal experience.
Not the stuff of which nations, empires and civilizations are either made or maintained.
(I used to look around and think, how did we ever get here? To this incredible level… https://t.co/ZH6DX9A4aG
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 10, 2026
MY GRANDFATHER GOT THESE AND HAD A STROKE A DECADE OR SO LATER: A Warning Sign of Heart Attack And Stroke May Show Up on Your Face.
I BELIEVE THE WORD FOR THAT IS SOCIOPATH:
There is an idea of Gavin Newsom, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real him, only an entity, something illusory, and though he can hide his cold gaze and you can shake his hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense your lifestyles are probably… https://t.co/gkotyNbnyM
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 9, 2026
RUBIO HAS GROWN IN THE JOB: Mr. Rubio Goes to Colombia, Which Is Exactly Where We Need Him.
LIVEBLOG: GOP 2026 Midterm Convention, Night One.
Just in time for Mountain zone cocktail hour, too.
MOAR GAINZZZ! When it comes to strength training, how much is enough?
HE’S RIGHT, AND THE PHOTO FROM SCLAW IS JUST THE TOPPER:
Here's a photo of the 2025 graduating class from Harvard Medical School.
[Photo Credit: Steve Lipofsky for HMS] pic.twitter.com/4o7M1POxxv
— SCLaw (@_SCLaw_) September 9, 2026
THINGS ARE GETTING INTERESTING IN SPAIN TOO: WATCH: Spain’s Socialist PM Sánchez Gets a Blunt One-Word Message on Floor of Congress: ‘TRAITOR’.
THINGS ARE GETTING INTERESTING: Populism vs. the State.
The first article in the series (VIP): Populist Players in Europe — Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
AND YOU THOUGHT IT COULDN’T GET WORSE: After the Lindsay Clancy Verdict, Jurors Are Speaking Out — and Making Things Worse.
WHAT A MESS: Conflicting court rulings leave Missouri’s congressional map in limbo.
In one, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an order issued by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, left in place a Missouri Supreme Court ruling from last week that said the map could not be used while a ballot initiative that could lead to voters rejecting the newly drawn district lines moves forward. Kavanaugh handles emergency requests that arise from Missouri.
But soon after, a federal judge in Missouri ruled in favor of two GOP congressional candidates who argue that the new map, which was in place for the August primaries, must be used in November in order to avoid federal constitutional violations. That case could also quickly face U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny with time running out for the map to be finalized. The state’s deadline to finalize ballots was 5 p.m local time, and first ballots are set to go out Sept. 19.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, both Republicans, said on X Tuesday evening that the redrawn map would be used for the November election.
Or maybe not.
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