RANDOM THOUGHT: Virtue signaling is not virtuous; it's narcissistic bullying.

VIA INSTAPUNDIT: The ‘homicidal empathy’ of the Islamo-left. Follow the links.

TOLD YOU SO: The Deep State does exist.

Fair warning....

THE FEDS HAVE THAT DNA EVIDENCE ON ILHAN OMAR ,,, and it could totally wreck her.

I think what we're seeing here is that if you're brazen enough you can get away with damn near anything.

POWERLINE has gone full Gemini. Goodbye and good riddance.

THE WOKE LEFTISTS keep proving they are the worst people.

For today's left, tolerance is a slogan, and conformity is the actual creed. A movement that demands total agreement from its own relatives offers the rest of the country nothing but a political loyalty test.

Assuming that's not obvious to us normals....

WOKE II (not eleven) IS HERE, and it’s failing hilariously.

NIOH BERG: Iran update.

Linked from Instapundit here.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: The Splendor of Rural America.

If only the Green Acres crowd would just go away....

RANDOM THOUGHT: If we paid government employees what they're worth there would be no deficit.

FALLING LEAVES 2026, WEEK 5: Finally this week we have some autumn colors. We begin with the usuals, pond and fire pit.

In both cases, there is finally some color -- not as much as I had hoped, but given the leaf fall already more than I expected. Most of the colors are in the lower branches which haven't suffered as much from the wind.

Here are views north and south along our road, finally -- and suddenly -- showing some colors.

Across the road from our driveway it's now red trees, dead trees. The taller trees have already been stripped of leaves by the winds, but finally the ones lower down have gotten the message.

The forest that surrounds us is getting the message as well:

In the top picture the dogwood trees have finally turned yellow and are about to drop leaves. In the pictures beneath, our forest is finally beginning to clear and we'll be able to see our neighbors' homes.

Until next week, here's a view of our south yard on a clear crisp autumn day.

REMEMBER OBAMA'S 'CASH FOR CLUNKERS'? Used car buyers still suffer due to the Democrats' short-sightedness.

If my pre-'wokeness' pickup truck ever fails, I'm going to be in the market for a clunker -- even an expensive clunker.

COMMON SENSE. What might have saved Gaza?

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

FLYING CARS, and those who hate them.

Democrats, obviously. They hate anything they can't control.

THE ETHICS PAGE IN THEIR PLAYBOOK IS BLANK. Scott Jennings sets the record straight on Democrats and ethics.

UKRAINE KNOCKED OUT RUSSIA'S BIGGEST DATA CENTERS, and the internet got 17% better.

In my view, data centers are proving to be one of the leading suppliers of stupidity....

RANDOM THOUGHT on stupidity. I have a sticker on my truck that says "It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful". The truth is that stupidity is painful, just not to the stupid but to those of us affected by their stupidity.

CALIFORNIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE STEVE HILTON on LA's homeless hellscape and its enablers:

"The point about these nonprofits is that they're part of this philosophy, the ideology of harm reduction, all the things we've talked about, which means that they are not actually trying to solve the problem," Hilton said. "Because if they solve the problem, they don't get paid anymore. So they have an incentive to keep it going."

It's time to permanently exit NGO land.

OBAMA THE LIGHTBRINGER promised us the Land of Milk and Honey — and led us to the land of cow feces and bee stings.

THIS IS HOW the execution of Nidal Hasan should be carrried out.

This Fort Hood survivor will be there to see him die.

I don't favor livestreaming executions, but they should be prompt, public, recorded, available.