Tuesday Links - 15 September

Note: Your estimated taxes are due today, if you make those payments.

Doug Ross starts us off with A Prayer for 9/11

We Remember

Miguel Gonzalez - A bit of gunsmithing.

In lieu of commentary, a hasty meme.

The Gun Writer - Anti-gunners at Everytown now teaching ‘Gun Safety for Hunters’

Everytown for Gun Safety now offers what they call a “hunter’s course.” Its main goal is propaganda, not safety. They want to stop gun ownership before it starts by misleading their “students” with false data.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 10 September 2026: Stone Soup Without So Much Stone In It Edition

Google is investing $13 billion over two years to construct datacenters in Finland. (Notebook Check)
Cheap electricity and free cooling. It's as if Canada hadn't fallen to the commies.

Disaffected Newsletter - In the age of the gorgon, be Perseus

The cultural reaction to the Lindsay Clancy trial is beyond what even a cynic like me would have predicted. We are truly in the age of the gorgon ascendant.

Meep at STUMP - Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis, Domine

I like Requiems. So that’s what I’m posting today.

[Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis, Domine = Grant them eternal rest, O Lord]

John R. Lott Jr. at Real Clear Politics - CDC Undercounts Defensive Gun Uses

The Trump administration has already reversed some of the changes the Biden administration made to federal crime and gun data, including information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But politicization of data at the FBI and Justice Department still deserves attention.

Juliette Ochieng at Juliette's Newsletter - Gayle King Sits With It

The simple explanation is that it has probably been a long time since Gayle King has been around any real ni … um, real black men - the kind of guy who, after he makes a decision, will brook no more discussion and who will ignore you if you keep talking about it.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Weird: Kamala Harris Has Trespasser Removed From Gated, Fenced Malibu Home

That’s weird: why was she removed? Are the Dem Elites saying that it’s OK for illegals from around the world to come willy nilly into the U.S., but, it’s not OK for people to randomly go onto the property of Elites?

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Can’t Blame The Offense

In previous seasons, we’ve had good starting pitching, an okay bullpen, and terrible offense. This season, we have a good offense for once, a fine bullpen…and a miserable starting rotation.*

The Other McCain - Aspiring Rapper Update: The Utterly Unsurprising Death of ‘BloodHound Q50’

It’s not like Q50 was an innocent bystander. He had killed many times before, and would have killed again, if he hadn’t been killed himself. “Self-cleaning oven,” as the cops in Chicago call such a situation, and as long as it’s just gang-bangers killing other gang-bangers, does anyone really care?

First He Got Shot, Then He Was Sentenced

This looks like actual Justice in Chicago. Garbage collector shot 2 robbers outside Chicago school; the one who survived is now sentenced to 8 years - CWB Chicago

Chicago seems to be warming up to the idea of legal self-defense.

A garbage collector shot two men who tried to rob him outside a Chicago charter school last year, killing one and wounding the other. On Monday, the surviving robber, a Hammond, Indiana, man, received an eight-year sentence.

The intended victim is a concealed carry license holder. When two guys thought it would be good to rob him, he showed them the error of their ways.

If you click thru there is security camera video that captures the moment of the ambush attack, and the garbage collector defending himself. It comes with the usual, Life is messy trigger warning/discretion advised warning.

The new, or maybe not-so-new State's Attorney in Chicago (2 years, maybe 3 now) seems to have a much better attitude about actually punishing criminals than Kim Foxx ever did.

Tesla Recall for Door Handles in China

It is sad, but Chinese regulations around electric vehicles seem to be much better, when it comes to safety. To be fair, this isn't about EVs; it is about safety. Tesla’s Door Handles Lead to Its Biggest Recall Yet

So Tesla is recalling 2.9 million vehicles in China, and zero in the US.

Government regulators have spent the last year asking serious questions about Tesla’s electronic, retractable door handles, a cool-looking automotive design flourish that has since been imitated by plenty of competitors.

The handles have been blamed, in the US and in China, for making it difficult for passengers to quickly exit vehicles and for impeding rescue efforts. A handful of crash victims’ families have even filed lawsuits against Tesla, alleging the door handle designs played roles in their loved ones’ deaths.

There are manual releases inside the cars. They can be stuidly hard to find, even if you are not unconcious after a crash. There can be - and this not just a Tesla issue - no way for people outside the car to open the door after a crash. Which is why I always carry a glass breaker in my SUV. (Do you want to stand around a car fire, and not be able to do anything?)

Why only in China? This is the StacheD Training video Tesla Recalls 3 Million Cars in China: Why Not the US?

Wombat-socho Weighs in On Bond Sales

"This is either madness, or brilliance.^‡" Rule 5 Sunday: SecTreas Taking The Long Position?

Mike Alfred, an investor, proposed using Sydney Sweeny to advertise Savings bonds.

In response, I proposed that they put Ms. Sweeney on the $100 Savings Bonds, resume printing said bonds on paper, and watch them sell out in a week.

‡ The quote that opens this post is from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Momentum

I have not featured Nita Strauss in some time. She is usually the lead guitarist with Alice Cooper's touring band. She took some time off a few years back to record a solo album. Well, she teamed up with various vocalists (including Alice Cooper on one track), but today's song is an instrumental.

This song is "Momentum" by Nita Strauss from her 2023 album The Call of the Void.

They Ran Like Rabbits

They may learn from this experience. Homeowner shoots, grazes suspect during reported Jefferson County break-in - WVTM

A Jefferson County man fired a shot during a confrontation with two men who allegedly broke into his home Monday, grazing one of the suspects before both left the scene, authorities said.

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded Sept. 7, 2026, to the 2400 block of 1st Place NW after a report of a person down. The victim told deputies that two men had entered his home and refused to leave when he confronted them.

They refused to leave before a firearm entered the conversation, then they left. One was apparently injured before they left.

Jefferson County, Alabama is home to Birmingham. It is about 130 miles west of Atlanta, Georgia, about 120 miles southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee, or about 70 miles northeast of Mobile, Alabama.

The two would-be, bad guys were arrested a short time later. Both were held on charges of second-degree burglary, and harassment. The guy driving the car was also charged with Driving Under the Influence.

Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0.

Professor Yamane on The Reload

This video came to me by way of Open Source Defense. And if you read this blog, you know that I like Professor Yamane's take on gun culture. I don't agree with him on everything, but I agree with him, more than I disagree with him, and I appreciate his perspective. And I think he has to be a cool professor, even if he tries to undercut that with the bow tie.

It is a podcast in video format, so you really need to listen, and not watch. That is important because the podcast is just over one hour long.

This is The Reload's video Teaching a College Course on Guns in America (Ft. Wake Forest's David Yamane)

Black Juror on the Clancy Trial Drives Left Crazy

Well, crazier than the Left already is. Black Man Causes Meme Explosion - by Juliette Ochieng

Woman kills her 3 kids, and pleads Not Guilty by reason of insanity. There is a trial.

The result: a mistrial. Eleven jurors - nine women and two men - considered her not guilty by reason of insanity, but there was one holdout, a man.

As it turns out, the man is black and the other jurors are white. And some of the white female jurors expressed their displeasure and exasperation with the man using … interesting language and tactics

Some of the memes are genius, some the thing the white liberals did were insane. Click thru.

He Suffered a Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

He broke into an occupied dwelling in Alabama. Did he not expect to find an armed homeowner? From USA Carry: Mobile Homeowner Shoots and Kills Man Who Broke In Through a Window at 9:15 at Night, Police Say - USA Carry

A man broke into a Calgary Drive home through a window around 9:15 at night and the homeowner shot and killed him, according to the Mobile Police Department.

There is a homicide investigation going on, as there always is, but no charges have been brought against the homeowner, because Alabama is not Massachusetts.

Police are working the death as a homicide investigation. That word alarms people, and it should not. Every death by gunfire gets that label at the front end, including the ones that end with no charges at all. It describes the category of investigation, not a conclusion about the person who fired.

There are "news articles" on this incident from the local press, but they seem to be jumping to conclusions (Professional Journalists™ do that) about the word "homicide."

Self-defense is a human right.

White Democrats Going After the Only Black Man on Clancy Jury

Miguel Gonzalez is not the first person to name this a Lynching in progress

But in less than 24 hours, the modern lynching party was working to its legal extremes.

They are going after this man hammer and tongs.

Click thru for the memes, if nothing else. (Here is one unrelated to that post.)

There Might Be Corruption in Baltimore City Government

Absolutely no one is shocked by this. Senior Baltimore employee under investigation sought to cut inspector general access, report shows

The tl;dr is as follows. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is investigating a "senior Baltimore employee," so far an unnamed employee. That employee demanded that the IT department cut the access of IG to the records in question.

The inspector general said this senior employee was the subject of two investigations.

One probe involved accusations that the employee wrote hundreds of emails that violated city policies.

Another investigation looked into allegations the senior employee created a hostile work environment.

This is a somewhat long-standing dispute, as there is one legal ruling from the middle of August, and possibly back to April, asking a judge to clarify the access that the OIG is supposed to have. Judge clears way for Baltimore inspector general to access city records

Baltimore City Solicitor Ebony Thompson asked the judge to clarify or reconsider her Aug. 14 ruling that the city must comply with subpoenas issued by the Inspector General's Office, as well as other issues dating back to April 10.

I'm accused to focusing too much on Chicago. Guilty. Chicago was home for a long time, and I miss the city that it used to be. Chicago corruption is infamous. Chicago Crime is running out of control. Chicago finances are a joke. But other Blue Cities have similar problems.

The Other McCain on Liberalism

From The Other McCain: The Permanent Problem of Liberalism

Every time I use the word liberalism — as it has been commonly used in the United States for decades, describing the belief system associated with the Democratic Party — some pedant will invariably show up in the comments to scold me with a lecture about “classical liberalism” as if I’m an ignorant schoolboy in need of their tutelage, which I am not. Nobody needs to teach me about John Locke, Adam Smith, et al., whose books have been on my shelves for 30 years. Nor am I ignorant of the fact that most young left-wingers nowadays make a point of scorning liberals, instead referring to themselves as progressives or socialists.

Click thru for Friedrich Hayek, William Buckley, Andrey Vyshinsky and Eleanor Roosevelt, and more on why Democrats cannot, under any circumstances, denounce Hamas and terrorism.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 12 September

The Right Way - Top of the News

Majority Leader Thune to Ride the Bench at Republican Gathering - IOTW Report
Another day, another fraud - The New Neo

Wombat-socho - Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.11.26

Don Surber: Baghdad NYT, Bitter Old Women Against MAGA, and Infanticide in Massachusetts
Glenn Reynolds: Another Burger Review

EBL - First Blood : Why the Sheriff Hated Rambo

First Blood
AoSHQ: Morning Report 09.09.26

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 11 September 2026: Sunken Scat Cat Edition

The Exploration Company has raised $450 million in series C funding in an attempt to show that Europe is not irrelevant. (Ars Technica)
And to explore space, maybe.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 09/11/2026 – Back to The Nation!

The Misremembered ’90s of The Backrooms
Good gravy, only The Radical Left can take a dark, cynical horror movie and interpret it as nostalgia.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Afternoon Edition)

The Abbey of Misrule: Come Walk With Me
Defending The Wood Perilous: Unexpected Success

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 9/9/2026

Anthropic Worker Estimates 10% Chance AI Could Kill Humans by 2036
(NewsNation) — Several Anthropic researchers have raised concerns about the potential for artificial intelligence to become uncontrollable

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For September 11, 2026

The Republican Party held their first ever Midterm Convention in Dallas.
On the AfD’s shocking election win in Germany.

The Glibertarians - Friday Morning Links

Trump set to honor 9/11 victims, first responders at Pentagon on 25th anniversary
Vance Casts Midterms as Fight Over American ‘Birthright’

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada: A Windsor council candidate. Another church fire. Corruption.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: The tattoo. Blasphemy laws. Global warming scam. A protest. Sign of solidarity.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Evening Edition)

Chicago Boyz: The Return of the Old Gods, 9/11+ 25 Years, Charlie Kirk One Year Later, The Rift Across Our World, and AfD and the “Brandmauer”
Dana Loesch: 25 Years Later

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Meanwhile, At College: Decolonial Orientations; Normalizing Tides Of Erasure; Racial Quotas

They are paying people to decolonize psychological oppression or something…
Woke melancholia? Williams College is going to teach about it!

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Introducing the 1960s: The Beatles
The Brain's Concept Of The World Versus The Real World
Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 9/ 11 /26

Robert Spencer: But as Yogi Berra said, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
25 Years Later, Yes, They’re Winning

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Left-Wing Violence Is Still An Existential Threat To The Republic

The "Both Sides" False Equivalency Died on 9/10/25 Yuri Bezmenov
Infanticide in Massachusetts Don Surber

I leave you with Midweek Memes from GraniteGrok!, Wednesday Memes .. from MaddMedic, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4150 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Friday's gifs from Wirecutter, and Bookworm Beat 9/11/26: The post-9/11 meme edition of madness from Bookworm Room.

Crime Is Down - Anti-Gun Activists Most Impacted

The Price of Liberty brings us the news. How desperate will the hoplophobes and hoploclasts become?

A hoplophobe is a person who fears guns (or at least claims to). A hoploclast is one who hates guns. At least guns in the possession of anyone except a government, badged employee or a on-duty, serving combat-related person serving in the military.

The news is presented in a graphic. Click thru. Murder and non-negligent homicide is down 18.1%, robbery is down 18.5%, and aggravated assault is down 7.2%. This is based on the FBI crime reports from 2024 and 2025. This is during an age when gun sales, if not record-setting, are measured in the millions, every year. There are approximately 20 million concealed carry license holders nationwide, and 29 states have adopted Constitutional Carry.

This is all very good news. It is also difficult for people to believe, in a time when a news story about two or three people being gunned down by a madman is broadcast to all Fifty States within a half-hour (“Bottom of the hour” news alerts) or an hour (the next regular reading of the news).

We are left with the impression that violence, gun and other violence, is exploding at a phenomenal rate. We hear about these killings faster, more frequently, and often phrased in a way to push the hoploclastic agenda. But this is not the case, according to various government agencies.

And since this information is not likely to be told to anyone by the national media, I intend to spread it far and wide.

Don't Like AI? Anthropic Appears to Be Building an Enemies List

What could possibly go wrong? Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

How are they finding people? Why through the press, media, social media, etc. In effect, they are spying on everyone looking for people who disagree with their business model.

The article is long, but here is where they reference their "Pre-crime" division, as in the Tom Cruise movie.

This kind of pre-crime policing, encouraged without due process, is referenced as an explicit goal by Anthropic’s security program manager in the podcast reviewed by the Prospect. “The goal would be transforming operations from reactive information to gathering proactive and predictive and preventative threat engagement and management,” he said, adding, “That’s the kind of operational maturity that makes sense for protecting high-value targets in any industry.”

They are not going to wait for people to actually break the law, they are going to sick the cops on them based on what they say, which is seems they have already done. You will be silenced, if you disagree with them.

Hat tip to The Loyal Moses Video They're Using AI to Arrest You Before You Do Anything. (I haven't watched all of the video)

King of Coins

Lindsey Stirling is an artist whose music I have loved for a long time. (At least a decade.) ARKAI is an "electroacoustic duo." One plays the violin, the other plays the cello. They apparently went to Juilliard together.

The music fits together very well.

This song is "King of Coins" by ARKAI & Lindsey Stirling. It was released 9 September as a video on YouTube. This is just the audio. I find most "official videos" distracting, and this one is more distracting than usual. It is easy enough to find if you are interested.

A Government Program Ahead of Schedule

From Wombat-socho: Better Late than Never

This is the second government program I've seen this month, that is listed as ahead of schedule. The other program was also notably under budget. Surely this is a sign of End Times, or something.

Speaking of the Nevada Security Site Advisory Board, we’re going to be closing up shop at the end of fiscal year 2027 since the environmental management & remediation that we’re providing oversight for is almost done, a year ahead of schedule. I’m going to miss being on the NSSAB; it’s been very educational in quite a few ways.

At least some good news is coming out of government.

I Still Remember

I'm not in the mood for remembering, but I do remember. Do people remember, or has the country as a whole decided to forget?

Page down for a song. It is hard to believe the September 11th attacks were 25 years ago.

This song is "I Remember" by Deadmau5 and Kaskade from the 2008 album Random Album Title. Like most dance music, it takes about 30 seconds to get past the intro.

Friday Links - September 11th Edition

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony starts us off with Daily News Stuff 8 September 2026: No News Day Edition

There's no news today, almost as if everyone has been celebrating labour by not doing any.

Brave is prettier, smarter, and smells better than any other browser, says Brave. (Brave)
Okay, Brave's mom.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Weird: Deported Haitians Are Broke And Stranded

Wait, didn’t all the libs tell us Haiti was awesome?

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - The New York Times is Afraid of Guns

So, it’s really no wonder that an institution committed to promoting the culture of fear would highlight a book that centers the culture of fear.

The Silicon Graybeard - European space business. Is it dead?

Is the European space capability stuck with turn of (this) century technology? We know that European Space Agency (ESA) has a couple of launch platforms, but nothing is reusable. Nothing has landed and been flown again even as test.

Women's Outdoor News - Concealment vs. Cover: Teaching Kids the Safety Skill That Could Save Their Life

Most kids know to hide during an emergency. What they don’t know, and what could make all the difference to their safety, is that not everything you hide behind will actually protect you. There’s a word for hiding: concealment. There’s a different word for being genuinely protected: cover. They are not the same thing.

Again from William Teach - Bummer: Salvadorans May Lose TPS

I must say, CNN really should have considered whom they were going to use as a sob story in the article

THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL - Obligatory Lindsay Clancy post. (Click thru for the image of the jury.)

Let me make it perfectly clear: I believe that Mrs Clancy deserves to be found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Meep at STUMP - 2026 World Suicide Prevention Day

Hey guys… the warning is in the post title. This is not going to be a “fun” post.

The Abode of McThag - Prepare For War With Whom

UK calls up 95,000 veterans.
They say it's just a drill, but I've noticed a couple articles about the normal British citizenry being more effective about the incoming tide of immigrants.