SAN FRANCISCO expands its travel ban to pro-life states. Personally, I suspect that there are 49 (maybe 50) states that have de facto travel bans to San Francisco.

FACT CHECK: Tom Steyer says 90% haven't had a raise for 40 years.

Hmm. I just went down to the basement and checked my 1978 tax return. Even in retirement (where my 'salary' is much lower), I'm making about 35% more than I did in 1978 - after adjusting for 40 years of inflation.

To be fair to Tom, however, I suppose it's much more difficult for a billionaire to get a raise....

ONLY SEVEN? The seven most ridiculous economic mistakes from the Democrat debate.

More proof - if any is needed - that Democrats are economically illiterate.

On second thought, strike 'economically'.

DON'T GIVE UP: How small cities and towns can right their ship.

Read the comments. Note that the naysayers are almost uniformly of the righteous "How dare they attempt to make a profit by doing good? Don't they know that only Government (or its authorized agents) are allowed to do good?"

RANDOM THOUGHT: The global elite have convinced themselves that they were born to rule forever. The rest of us - not so much. Now they're having a pearl-clutching hissy - how dare we choose not to accept their superior wisdom!

IMPRIMIS: Clarence Thomas and the lost Constitution.

Without free men, there is no freedom.

IT’S COLUMBUS DAY, not Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Read and enjoy the sounds of the 'woke' wailing, sobbing, and gnashing their teeth - the sounds of hypocrisy.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Impeachment is about putting down the peasants’ revolt.

Trump’s supporters aren’t as dumb as their “betters” clearly believe them to be. They know the Washington establishment is out to get the president in order to disfranchise the 63 million “deplorables” who voted him into office for the purpose of effecting genuine change in the way things are done inside the Beltway. Trump’s supporters know the Democrats hate him because, despite the incessant harassment to which he and his administration have been subjected, he has fulfilled most of his campaign promises. They know Trump’s impeachment is really an attempt to suppress what Beltway insiders regard as a peasants’ revolt against the proper order of things.

Yes.

ELECTRIC-CAR OWNERS shocked by California blackouts.

Weeks can be a long wait if you’re looking at a Model 3 in your garage with a drained battery, no electrical power to charge it, and the closest grocery store with power 80 miles away. But such is life in the Golden State, where forests and chaparral are all on hair triggers ready to ignite with slightest transformer malfunction or transmission line break.

So if you're a Californian who bought an electric car to save the environment, now you can't drive it because of the risk to the environment.

Heh. In the dark with no way to go....

STATES ARE CUTTING UNIVERSITY BUDGETS. Taxpayers aren’t interested in funding campus kooks.

About time.

THE DIPLOMAD 2.0: Politics of, by, and for the Seriously Disturbed.

ELIZABETH WARREN is a threat to the Constitution.

National Review's [14 Oct] dead-tree edition has an excellent series of articles ("She's got a wretched plan for that") on Warren's plans for payday loans, wealth taxes, child care, fracking ban, student-debt cancellation, corporate regulation, etc.

I can only hope they'll post the articles online soon.

CALIFORNIA RETURNS TO SOCIALISM: PG&E cuts power to millions to save California from wildfires.

Random thought - on the other hand, all those forest wildfires are efficiently clearing the land for the solar panels needed to fuel their Teslas.

Having your cake and eating it too isn't as good when the cake is fruitcake...

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, here's my favorite this week:

Now go see the rest.

WE CALL THEM DEMOCRATS: A startling number of Americans think they have an undiagnosed anxiety disorder.

IMPEACHMENT: the anonymous 'whistleblower' emerges.

Heh.

For those of you who are interested, the White House's letter can be found here.

SHOE:

But they already do; on the front page - above the fold.

HILLARY ENTERS 2020 RACE after entire Democrat field have surprise heart attacks.

Or accidents....

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE V: Here are today's pictures. First, the pond view, taken from the lot adjacent to our home. It has a pretty good view of the pond, especially since that 'retaining wall' is the remains of a large pine that fell (and cleared out a lot of underbrush) last month. Leaves are sparce, but mostly green as the prior week's winds pretty well cleared al the dead leaves from the foliage.

This second photo is from alongside the steep slope south of the house. The slope is densely treed and somewhat protedted from the winds, so it is one of the few areas where there is some color.

The last of today's photos is looking south from our road, across the highway and looking at the hills beyond. As with the rest of the photos in today's series, it's mostly still green, the dead leaves having been blown down in the winds.

Last week's photos are here.

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton announces she will seek reelection as President of the United States.

Yes, the Babylon Bee is ahead of the news cycle again....