LEFT-WING REPUTATION ASSASSINS are targeting Sen. Fetterman and Elon Musk. Here’s why they’ll fail.

U.S. CENSUS: Older people outnumber younger people for the first time in recorded history.

So that's why the world has gone to shit?

PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS STATES TO RUN WELFARE PROGRAMS — says it would slash fraud by 75 percent.

Make it the states pay for it from their own tax dollars and I'll buy in....

READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE YOU CLICK ON THE LINK: Not all graduate degrees pay off.

I'm retired now, but the comments pretty well match my experience as a (now former) PhD. With respect to STEM-related degrees the BS is pretty much an entry point. I already had some prior technician experience before the BS degree; it helped during the initial job search. The MS degree is useful in pursuit of a particular specialty. Otherwise, no. Doctorate? A vanity degree, economically worthless. I did it just to prove I had the wherewithal to complete it, but economically it was a loss of tens of thousands over my working lifetime.

THEY'RE MOSTLY BLUE: States falling behind in literacy share a striking common thread.

YOUR LATEST MOMENT OF 'DUH' — When it comes to tipping, the bluest areas are the stingiest.

But they're very generous with other peoples' money.

THE END OF THE NFL? The opening game for this season was in Australia.

I seriously doubt that the NFL will ever be worldwide....

EVEN MENTAL HOSPITALS would have trouble with him/her/it. (Click on the embedded links.)

Now please go back into his/her/its bubble and leave the rest of us alone.

UPDATED NATIONAL FIREARMS SURVEY should terrify assault weapons ban fans.

It won't; they'll just double down on stupid.

COLLEGES HAVE BECOME WOKE DAY CARE CENTERS. Here's what George Mason University did after a minor traffic accident on campus.

CLAY TRAVIS (OUTKICK FOUNDER): Data shows Colin Kaepernick’s protest cost black lives.

STILL REMEMBERING: 9-11's 25th anniversary.

It's a beautiful September day outside, and yet a somewhat depressing day given the current state of American politics.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Unleash the Israelis on Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

TRUMPIAN PROGRESS: The lightest federal workforce in American history.

A good start. Now keep up the pressure.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

BUSTING ANOTHER MEDIA MYTH: Contrary to legacy media claims, political violence has always been a specialty of the Left, not the Right.

THE WHITE HOUSE responds to Dymocrats (spelling intentional).

1. Dymocrats refuse to condemn Socialism.
2. Every single Dymocrat voted against the largest tax cut in American history.
3. Extreme Liberal Dymocrats voted against holding Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, accountable.
4. Extreme Liberal Dymocrats voted against the Stop Insider Trading Act.
5. Dymocrats voted against healthcare price transparency.
6. Dymocrats have unanimously blocked commonsense election integrity measures like Voter ID.
7. Dymocrats voted against protecting girls in women’s sports.
8. Dymocrats voted against protecting children from taxpayer-funded transgender treatments.
9. Dymocrats voted against the Laken Riley Act.
10. Dymocrats forced two unprecedented government shutdowns.

Enough said....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Since the Democratic party and its progressive sycophants have shown a propensity to rename/create new names for normal well known/well understood things, I've decided to try renaming myself. From now on, on Shadow's World Democrats will be known as 'Dymocrats'; pronounced 'dim', which they are, and with the 'y' to acknowledge their allegiance to gender issues.

HOTAIR'S SUNDAY SMILES is a bit late this week. To get to the cartoons you'll have to scroll through an opinion piece on [Dr?] Abdul El-Sayed (but it might be worth skimming).

My favorite:

Now go see them all.

ONLY FOR TAXPAYERS: Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a trap.

GOV. GREG ABBOTT PUSHES TEXAS COLLEGES to offer three-year bachelor’s degrees.

Get rid of DEI and the 'feelz' courses and drop it to two years -- with perhaps an extra year allowed for (unfortunately) remedial high school.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Thanks to Democrats we are becoming (have become?) a lawless nation.

ABDUL EL-SAYED deleted this post.

You should read it.

HOW DO PEOPLE LIKE MAMDANI GET ELECTED?

Low voter turnout in primaries, generally in the 10% to 18% range.

Overeducated kids (many still supported by their parents), and municipal union members, who want free stuff from the government and think socialism is chic, come out in droves to the polls to vote for the most radical candidates.

Read it all.

WELCOME TO YOUR CHILDRENS' NEW WORLD: Progressive regression and the new medievalism.

THE BABYLON BEE IS REPORTING NEWS AGAIN: "State Of Massachusetts Declared Incompetent By Reason Of Insanity."

IS IT HYPE? Sam Altman's most serious warning about AI yet.

Hype, no. A warning to be careful of what you wish for, yes.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: Will the last business out of California please turn off the Greta-approved eco-lights?

JACK DUNPHY: There is none so blind as those who will not see.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Washington Post embarrasses itself trying to embarrass me.

1+1 = WHATEVER THEY NEED IT TO BE: Democrats can't do simple math.

501(c)(3)s NGOs NEED TO BE REINED IN SHARPLY, or just abolished. I prefer abolished; I doubt that anything that's been sucking the government teat for as long as they have can be effectively reined in.

FEMINISM: The mutation of womanhood.

JACK DUNPHY: The Keyboard Kops weigh in.

SMILES FROM AYN RAND: [Appointed] European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen tells EU citizens 'all your monies are belong to us'.

Hold on to your wallets, Europe, the EU is coming for you.

THE “MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS.” Wolf Blitzer’s Trump mail-in voting lie blows up in his face.

"Used To Be" should be inserted into CNN's tagline.

LIBERALS: You can't change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Oh? "Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”

HEH: The Socialist mayor of America's largest city is currently less popular than a foreign leader whom much of Mamdani's own political coalition routinely accuses of everything from genocide to war crimes.

CONGRATULATIONS, AND WELCOME TO A THINNING CROWD: Nobody applauds when you fix the garbage disposal.

NANCY PELOSI just threw Hakeem Jeffries under the bus.

Wrong headline; it should have been Hakeem joins Nancy under the bus.

THE SIEGE IS ON. All that's left is the waiting.

But the Left will never wait; their mantra is always "I want it now".

THEY DIDN'T LISTEN THEN: Six hundred forty-nine years ago, a prominent Muslim scholar warned us about Mayor Mamdani's ideas.

And the're still not listening....

WOKESTERS AND DEMOCRATS won't even talk to you.

They don't need to talk since they already know everything....

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures. There are many good ones this week without the extra advertising. Here's my favorite:

Fortunately PowerLine seems to have given up on its AI 'nudging' in the Week in Pictures so I'm leaving it on my blogroll for now. But unless it gives up 'nudging' entirely, it's goodbye....

TRUMP: Chicago 'will die' without federal intervention.

So let it die. The people of Illinois bought into Pritzker and Johnson; make them fix it.

DRONES WON’T WIN WARS, but they have changed warfare.

Unfortunately, only boots on the ground win wars.

TOO MANY ACADEMICS: Why Higher Education is likely doomed.

WHILE AMERICAN EDUCATION COLLAPSES, Randi Weingarten turns her teachers’ union [AFT - American Federation of Teachers] into a permanent political campaign.

Please explain to me what AFT has to do with teaching....

BEHIND THE SCENES: The Trump administration just found a pressure point that could disrupt Antifa's entire network.

INCOMPETENCE AND BIGOTRY at NASA and Lockheed Martin.

Mostly incompetence, I think. Luckily I retired and left before it really got underway. But then my choices post-Lockheen Martin were worse.

MAYBE: AI dinosaur extinction coming?

In my view the answer is 'probably'. And I'd welcome it.