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.

UNTIL SHE HAS TO COMPETE HERSELF: AOC says she backs men in women's sports because she is a 'girl's girl'.

THEY'RE DEMOCRATS: A foolproof test to confirm if elected leaders are unserious boobs.

MIDTERM SHOCKER: The polls are full of crap.

They were once upon a time honest preference polls; today they're push polls. Don't indulge -- or believe -- them.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY is the Mafia by another name.

BRING THE CHARGES, OREGON. I’ll bring the popcorn.

And I'll enjoy every minute of you getting your comeuppance....

FALLING LEAVES 2026 WEEK 4: This week strikes home as the true beginning of autumn/winter. Temperatures have dropped from highs in the low 70's to mid 50's/low 60's; lows now into the mid-to-high 30's, and winds are now primarily from the north-northwest with gusts into the high teens.

First up is a picture of the trees along the south face of our house. Last week it was all green, this week, not so much....

Suddenly there's lots of brownish yellow, and plenty of leaves have already fallen just this week. Last week you could see a couple of hundred feet or so downslope; this week, all the way to the bottom.

Now back to the usuals: pond and fire pit.

Neither of those views have changed that much. The trees are noticeably thinner, but not by that much, and the grass seems more brown, but that could simply be because of the additional leaf droppage.

Along the road, there are more leaves (I don't blow them off) and finally some reds among the smaller trees/bushes along the road. I will note that the bush in the foreground has turned mostly yellow -- last week it still had a lot of brown, but those leaves are now gone.

Finally, the bush alongside the carport has gone full yellow. The ones behind it are still green, but they are mostly protected from the wind. That 'wind sock' is actually a hanging banner more or less in front of the yellow bush -- it was windy (30 mph gusts) when I took the picture.

Until next week, then....

THERE'S HOPE YET: America’s expanding gun culture.

RULES FOR THEE... Lawlessness is the Democrats’ most coherent and consistent policy pitch.

IMPRIMIS: The rise of Democratic Socialism.

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'Democratic Socialism' is an oxymoron.

"I WILL NOT BE SILENCED." Omar responds after feds descend on her DC home amid immigration fraud investigation.

Fine. Speak as loudly as you want ... from your home in Somalia.