According to Chicago police, the 23-year-old man was walking in the 3100 block of West Cermak at approximately 10:25 a.m. when he was approached by two individuals.
An altercation was followed by the concealed carry license holder shooting one of the bad guys. Cops are speaking with a "person of interest," but the 2nd guy has not been arrested.
North Lawndale, is one of the 77 neighborhoods community areas in Chicago. It is located on the west side of the city.
HeyJackass! has 6 self-defense shootings listed for Chicago in 2026, through August. I am not sure how up-to-date that data is. (HeyJackass! announced they were stepping back from the daily grind, though the data does seem to be updated regularly. Or somewhat regularly.)
Self-defense is a human right, and the idea might be catching on in Chicago.
Binance was hacked by thieves who made off-ish with $6.3 billion. (Bleeping Computer)
I say "ish" for two reasons: First, half the funds were immediately frozen and cannot be transferred further; second, it's a bit like bank loans: When you lose $1000 in Bitcoin, you have a problem; when you lose $6.3 billion in Bitcoin the blockchain has a problem.
I'm old enough to remember when the Blockchain was going to solve all of our problems. No theft. No counterfeiting. No money laundering. Yeah, doesn't seem to be working out too well.
And as usual, the weakest link is the people.
The attack was bootstrapped through a compromised devops laptop. The developer themselves didn't have access to do this, but they had access inside the corporate firewall so more sophisticated attacks could be launched bypassing that level of security entirely.
I'll hang on to my cash if you don't mind. Maybe I need to buy some gold or something.
Canada - a much smaller country than the US - recorded more deaths by euthanasia in 2024 than the US did via gun violence.
And that is before this insanity.
Canadian leftists just slathered more grease on the slippery slope that is Medical Assistance in Dying. Soon authorities may not even have to inform you before they help you die.
Click thru for the details, that include not discussing ending a life with the person being ended.
I miss western civilization. (Hat tip to MaddMedic.)
This incident took place in September, but just got noticed by my news searches, thanks to USA Carry.
A property owner was inspecting a vacant property.
Following an investigation, deputies said the owner encountered a male suspect inside the residence. The suspect reportedly attempted to assault the owner. A fight followed. Shots were fired. The intruder was hit and ran from the scene.
Cops found the guy who got shot, took him to a local hospital, and then took him to the Elbert County, Georgia, lockup.
Bowman, Georgia, is about 80 mile east-northeast of Atlanta.
What deputies describe is a fight at contact distance, not a standoff across a room. The suspect came at the owner first, and the two were already fighting before any shot was fired. At that range there is no time to size up the other man, no way to know if he is armed, and no guarantee of coming out on top with your hands. The owner was in it whether he wanted to be or not, and the gun is what ended it.
Click thru for cautions about entering vacant property.
New York’s top elected attorneys were like deer in headlights when pressed about a congressional investigation claiming they’d directed staff to downgrade illegal immigrants’ charges to avoid deportation.
The attorneys — state AG Letitia James, and city District Attorneys Melinda Katz and Eric Gonzalez — stared blank-faced when asked by The Post about the damning report at a Thursday gun-safety press conference.
So much for the Rule of Law, Equal Before the Law, etc.
Click thru for the details.
tl;dr version - they didn't want to talk about it.
The people running California think college professors should teach remedial math to their students and shut up about the fact that high schools aren't teaching anything.
UCLA and Berkeley math professors should stop complaining about students who lack basic math skills, says Richard Barrera, a school board president who's running for state superintendent in California. "Part of your job that you get paid by the taxpayers to do is to teach our kids." That includes teaching fractions to university students, he told Conan Nolan of NBC Los Angeles.
I thought the job of elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools was to teach kids basic math. My mistake.
Of course some people recognize the issue.
"A child who can't do fractions at 18 was a child who couldn't do fractions at ten, and the system knew it," Tina Descovich, CEO and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, told Fox News Digital.
Speaking of Reddit but somehow worse the site will now require you to log in to read anything. (The Verge)
There has never been a better opportunity for Digg to return.
The Democratic Party’s Canada: Saving democracy. A shadow looms. White House decor.
China Carney’s Canada: An accusation. Our strategic partner. Apparently good enough for soldiers. Leniency for MP. Higher carbon taxes.
PJM's Stephen Kruiser, Clinton-Appointed Judge Lends a Hand to California Voter Fraud. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "Parallel vote tabulation (PVT) is a common tool in color revolutions."
“Days before midterms, ICE and DOJ announce new wave of noncitizen voting arrests With the midterms days away, federal officials are arresting and charging noncitizens accused of illegally registering and voting. DHS says it’s checking about 300,000 more cases
Transterrestrial Musings: Bloggus Interruptus, also, The West’s International Order
Victory Girls: Fired Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia Admitted To Leaking Classified Information
Does NFL Know About Super Bowl Artist’s Fatwa On George Zimmerman? - Jack Cashill
NYT Columnist Wants Democrats To ‘Drain’ Trump Allies’ Bank Accounts To Save ‘Democracy’ - Brianna Lyman
Police say a 32-year-old man was working as loss prevention at the store when he confronted Edgar Perez Lopez, 33, and Lopez’s girlfriend, who were reportedly smoking pills.
The employee told the couple to leave, leading to a confrontation between the three. Investigators believe Lopez reached for a firearm, and the employee shot him. Lopez was rushed to the hospital and later died.
The investigation is still going on, but the cops did find a firearm and drugs. And this didn't happen in New York City.
Your vocabulary word of the day: Ute. It is Australian for pickup truck. It isn't in the quote below, but is in the articles, and in the video linked below. (The British and the Americans - two people separated by a common language.)
Tesla has scrapped its Cybertruck plans for Australia and New Zealand, voiding reservations that in some cases date back to November 2019. Reservation holders began receiving emails on October 23 informing them their orders were cancelled and their deposits would be refunded.
Part of the problem is right-hand drive. The US is left-hand drive. We drive on the left side of the vehicle, and shift with the right hand. The UK, Australia, and (I think) New Zealand are right-hand drive. They drive on the left side of the road, but drive from the right-hand side of the vehicle. (Shifting with your left hand was often a problem on the UK's Top Gear for American guests.)
I think I used all of the Halloween-appropriate songs at one point or another. Does this fit? Maybe.
Poets of the Fall is a Finnish Alternative Rock band. (Don't worry; English lyrics) I can't remember how I found out about them. It may have been because they provided nine songs for the soundtrack to the video game Alan Wake.
I haven't really dived into their music, but I may have to. I hear them mostly when the Tidal streaming service offers up one of their songs.
Thanks to the Blogfather, Glenn Reynolds, I have received an avalanche of new subscribers and followers in the last few days. To that end, I decided to give you a taste of what you new folks are working with.
Chesterton, whom I greatly admire, scorned Kipling, but Chesterton, for all his greatness wasn't always right. That said, I'd argue Kipling was right in the X-Ring with this. Make of it what you will.
If this were you or me they’d throw the book at us, but, they go soft on illegals so that they hopefully do not show up on ICE’s radar. Also, then their pet media can say that the people are not bad criminals.
Even the Chicago Tribune has apparently had enough of the fiscal insanity at City Hall. In two remarkably sensible editorials published October 22 & 23, the Tribune editorial board took Mayor Brandon Johnson to task for presenting what amounts to a political campaign document masquerading as a municipal budget
A couple of months ago, while most of us were distracted by the death of Dolly Parton, Rolling Stone published a lengthy article about another show-business death — except this woman wasn’t a star. She was the ex-girlfriend of a star, but one of those smaller stars you’ve probably never heard of.
This is a story about how wind turbines are harming Australian rainforests. It starts with a description of how old growth forest was bulldozed for roads to the site in question.
Twenty-eight turbines stood over us, each 226 metres tall, 91 metres taller than the London Eye. Around their concrete footings lay dead bats and birds.
Steven crouched beside them. “They light the turbines up at night,” he told us. “The lights pull in the insects, and the insects pull in the bats. Nobody is really even counting.”
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, and pay no attention to the real cost of building and maintaining these things.
Data ignored by the FBI show the importance of defensive gun use in bringing down active shooters.
I'm shocked that government employees would let their personal biases color the work they do. Or maybe not.
The problem persists. From 2014 through 2025, the FBI identified 408 active-shooter incidents but credited armed citizens with stopping only 16 — just 3.9 percent.
The CPRC, however, has identified numerous additional cases and maintains an updated list. Our research tells a dramatically different story. We identified 615 active-shooter incidents from 2014 through 2025 and found that armed citizens stopped 225 of them.
Click thru for the details.
I guess you don't have to be good at math to work for the FBI. (Hat tip to Breitbart.)
It seems like we have lost most of a generation of actors this year.
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Two guys broke into a home last November. One of them was shot and killed by the 77-year-old homeowner. A shotgun will ruin your day that way. The other would-be, bad guy was arrested.
Under Missouri law, a person can be charged with felony murder if a death occurs during the commission of certain felony crimes, even if the defendant did not directly fire the fatal shot. Prosecutors originally levied the second-degree murder charge against Geringer under that statutory provision.
The plea agreement drops the Second Degree Murder charge, in favor of not risking court.
He will receive credit for the 11 months he served waiting for trial.
West Plains, Missouri, is about 150 miles southwest of St. Louis.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police conducted a search at Lion Electric's headquarters in Saint-Jérôme on Wednesday.
The search is part of an investment fraud probe that started more than a year ago, according to RCMP Sgt. Erique Gasse.
For more info, see the video embedded below. During the height of the EV mania, Quebec, and few US states, mandated that all new school buses had to be electric. The Quebec government invested more than $100 million Canadian in the company. It was sold later for $6 million, and the province dropped its all-electric mandate. Not sure if the US states did likewise. The company filed for the Canadian version of bankruptcy in early 2025.
As part of the bankruptcy they went through, they voided all warranties outside of Quebec. US school districts that own Lion Electric buses are mostly not able to drive them because they cannot get parts anywhere. This doesn't even deal with the issues the buses had in cold weather.
Why should you care? The US government gave Lion Electric about $150 million US, through grants to school districts to buy electric buses. A lot of which were never delivered, and bunch of the ones delivered do not work. That is a horrible record, and why the company was accused of deceiving investors about the health of the company.
Here is a post from September noting that a lot of money disappeared in the form of buses paid for but not delivered. Fewer than 4 in 10 were delivered, though they were not all Lion Electric buses. The Mystery of the Disappearing EV Grants.
I've covered Lion Electric a number of times on this channel. Bus fires, quality problems, and recalls. Lion actually sent me a cease and desist back in January 2025.
Highway I-880 is in the western part of the San Francisco Bay Area (Hayward). It was closed for 10 hours for a Tesla Semi fire.
Nothing mentions how the fire got started, if anyone even knows. Was it the battery that started the fire, or was a tire, or the breaks that started things, and then the battery got involved? We will probably never find out, even if Tesla has some insight into the issue.
The battery in this truck is massive. Depending on the version, it's either a 548 or 822kWh battery. Essentially, three battery packs. The rough equivalency is 7 to 8 Tesla Model Y's.
All burning at the same time. Pat talks about the difference between a diesel semi fire, and this fire in the video. The video is four and a half minutes.
