October 9, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Would You Give This Man Your Passwords? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the absolute last person to call for tech support, the proper etiquette for being hauled drunk out of a canal, and more about Shrek than you ever wanted to know.”

Posted at 4:23 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

AMERICA’S NEWS SOURCE OF RECORD:

Posted at 4:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FASTER? PLEASE! B-21 Testing, Manufacturing Ramp Up: ‘We’re Moving Fast.’

“It’s more than construction,” Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink wrote in a social media post. “We’re moving fast to build B-21s!”

The Air Force Test Center has likewise been moving quickly to test the bomber ahead of its introduction into service next year. Brig. Gen. Mark Massaro, head of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up when asked about the program at an Oct. 6 event. The aircraft first flew in 2023, and two bombers are currently known to be undergoing testing at the base.

“I can’t give you many details about specifics on how it’s going, but I am very closely tied into that program and have been getting regular updates,” Massaro said during a discussion hosted by AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “We are actively testing right now.”

Less than 30 miles away, Northrop is already building B-21s at its Air Force Plant 42 facility in Palmdale, Calif., but the new construction will add 1 million square feet of production space. Meink said it will be the “final assembly line” for new bombers.

We get so few procurement wins on big-ticket items, that it’s nice to be able to point one out now and then.

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green

IS PARIS BURNING?

From the linked to tweet, “On the ground in Paris, the hammer and sickle flies alongside Palestinian flags. The French Communist Party’s national secretary poses with protesters. Far-left politicians from La France Insoumise pose for photos with students.”

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: California Sheriff Backs Down, Ends County’s Ban on 1911s, Red Dots, and Pistol Lights.

The Second Amendment Foundation has reached a settlement agreement with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office over policies that previously prohibited permit holders from carrying handguns equipped with red dot sights or flashlights and an outright ban on the carry of single action only 1911- and 2011-style pistols.

Under the agreement, the Sheriff’s Office will withdraw its prohibitions on red-dot sights, weapon-mounted lights and semiautomatic single-action 1911 and 2011 platform pistols carried under a county CCW license. The office will update its concealed-carry website within 10 days to reflect the change. SAF was joined in SAF v. Contra Costa County by private citizens Andrew Moore and James Treuel who were represented by John W. Dillon of the Dillon Law Group.

“A sheriff does not get to invent a shorter list of approved handguns and accessories than the Constitution allows,” said SAF Director of Legal Research and Education and attorney of record in the case Kostas Moros.

So flagrant that Sheriff David O. Livingston chose to settle rather than take it to court.

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE DAILY FAIL: “Choosin’ Texas” singer Ella Langley faces backlash after old hunting photos resurface: ‘She’s disgusting.’

Ella Langley has come under fire after her old hunting photos resurfaced online.

The Choosin’ Texas hitmaker, 27, has posted a series of images to her own social media accounts of her various kills over the years.

One, shared to Facebook in November 2018, showed Langley beaming toward the camera as she and her younger sister supported the head of a dead deer.

Another upload, dated February 2020, saw her posing with a fresh kill on the back of an ATV, posted alongside a caption that read: ‘Not my biggest buck, but a wild story we’ll remember forever.’

Several others were taken in her home state of Alabama.

One Instagram snapshot from December 2021 saw her decked out in a camo jacket and cap as she gripped the antlers of her fresh kill.

It was captioned: ‘Finally put one down this afternoon.’

But amid her recent chart-topping success, it appears that animal rights activists and pop music fans unaccustomed to country life have piled in to hit out at her former hobby.

Gosh, I may be out on a limb on this one, but somehow I don’t think either country music fans in general or most Texans specifically will lose much sleep over someone taking pride in their hunting skills.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

HUH:

Posted at 1:32 pm by Stephen Green

CHANGE: Once touted as a clean-energy blueprint, Nevada solar plant sells for cents on the dollar.

A twice-bankrupt solar power plant in Nevada that was backed by the federal government has been sold for a fraction of what it cost to build.

Sons of Liberty Construction purchased the Crescent Dunes solar energy plant near Tonopah for $7 million. The sale closed this summer, federal court records show.

Overall, it cost more than $1 billion to build the massive energy complex and place in service, according to a court filing from a project lender.

Crescent Dunes, located some 230 miles northwest of Las Vegas, landed a $737 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration. It was touted as a first-of-its-kind facility that, by heating molten salt and generating high-pressure steam, would produce enough electricity for tens of thousands of homes in Nevada.

All told, it was seen as a blueprint for helping countries “around the world use clean, affordable electricity,” the U.S. Department of Energy once declared.

I for one am totally shocked that a regime that thought nothing of bragging that “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket,” and “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” could fund a debacle this bad.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHY, IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH LEFTIES ONLY APPROVE OF KILLING THE INNOCENT:

Posted at 1:01 pm by Stephen Green