Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 22 August

The Right Way is up first with Top of the News

Byron Donalds Will Face Dem David Jolly for Governorship After Florida Primary Wins - Briebart News
Florida Primaries - Evi. L Bloggerlady

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.19.26

Shark Tank: Florida GOP Highlights Dominant Tuesday Primary, Flips Page To November
The Political Hat: Neo-Integralism

EBL - Soylent Green Alternative Ending

Soylent Green
AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.20.26
Leigh Taylor-Young as Shirl

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 August 2026: Double-Stringed Balalaika Edition

Meta glasses aren't the problem. (The Verge) (archive site)
No matter how much The Verge wants to claim they are.
Assholes are the problem.

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

China Carney’s Canada: What’s wrong in Canada? Save Blackie’s relatives in Cuba. Carney’s Choo Choo train.
The Democrat Party’s America: Whines like a loser. VDH – Hating Israel. In Havana.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - FBI Raids Eric Swalwell's House, Office

Hat Hair's John Sexton, Will Iran Escalate As an October Surprise? It wouldn't be much of a surprise, but the media would fall for it, and might even conspire with Iran.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.21.26 (Afternoon Edition)

CDR Salamander: The Hidden, Slow, Wet & Deadliest of All Drones – MINES!
Don Surber: California regulates spare tires

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For August 21, 2026

“Socialists Now Say That Shoplifting Is A-OK.”
Funny how all those films of riot never show people stealing soap and toothpaste, just flat screen TVs and Nikes. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Political Hat - Quick Takes – College Classroom Craziness: Systems Of Oppression Class; Wonder Woman & The Queer Occult; Critical Race Conversations For Federal Work-Study

First-year classes this fall range from Wonder Woman to ‘queer’ art to the occult.
Even Federal work-study students get the woke pushed on them.

Vlad Tepes - A little about Vlad Tepes, the original, another jihadi planning a mass casualty event for Islamic reasons and more: Links 1 for Aug. 21, 2026

2. Yesterday in NY a women who converted to Islam, or “reverted” as the Muslims claim in their bizarre temporally inverted universe, was arrested for planing a Jihad attack against government targets.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/21/2026

9 Million Images Exposed by People Finder ClarityCheck
A reverse image search and people-finder service that promises users that their reverse image search is “private and secure” has been found to have left over 9 million image files exposed

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 08.21.26 (Evening Edition)

Victory Girls: Prince Harry And Meghan Markle: Once Upon A U-Turn, also, CNN: The Network Who Thinks Its Viewers are Drooling Morons
Watts Up With That: The 1970s Oil Crisis: Never Forget

Flopping Aces - Communists in America: Abolish The Police, Seize The Corporations, Erase The Borders

The government already spends almost $1 trillion on K-12 education and yet somehow across the country we have places where few, if any, kids can read or do math at grade level.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

Oh, please. Here’s a newsflash: everything ragebaits Democrats.
“It was all just a joke. Trust us.” And I’ve got some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you if you buy that bullshit.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday afternoon links

From brothels to Medicaid fraud
The White House Needs a Ballroom. The Left Just Hates Who’s Building It.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 19 /26

Child-to-staff requirements raise costs without delivering clear benefits.
Sweden Doesn’t Mandate Childcare Ratios. Why Does America?

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Why Smart People Keep Falling for Stupid Ideas

Why Smart People Keep Falling for Stupid Ideas Behind the Narrative 📣
Pacific Palisades, Twenty Months Later Chris Bray
United States debt hits $40 trillion for first time in history JTN

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 08/21/2026

Lindsay Clancy said a voice told her to kill her children; prosecutors focus on when. You will see this woman around the right twitter-sphere, because she killed her children, and lots of other women are supporting her

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4069 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Thursday’s Oh Gosh What a Week Meme Drop 7-20-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, and Friday night's gifs from Wirecutter.

Other Cases of Armed Self-Defense in July

Because the national media ignores these, as much as they can. Meet the Other Armed Civilians Who Saved Lives Before Jordan Salinas Made Headlines

We get a recap of the In-N-Out Burger shooting and the roll played by Mr. Salinas.

Many other incidents of armed self-defense by ordinary Americans flew under the radar in the weeks leading up to Salinas’ intervention. Here are just a handful of the other defensive gun use stories from around the country that occurred in July:

Click thru for those details. Here is one typical example; there are many more.

July 13, Tulsa, Okla. — Police say that a homeowner shot and wounded a man who came onto his property and threatened to kill him if he resisted the man’s attempt to steal his truck. The man then followed the homeowner into the residence when he tried to leave. The homeowner initially tried to defend himself with a baseball bat, but it proved unsuccessful and he was ultimately forced to fire his gun.

Read the whole thing.

I'm Shocked! Shocked I Tell You! ...

Who knew that college students do drugs? Shocking. Penn State frat brothers charged with running cocaine trafficking ring - CBS Pittsburgh

Two Penn State University fraternities are at the center of a cocaine trafficking ring bust, leading to charges against 14 people, authorities announced on Monday.

Is the DA up for reelection this year or something? Or was this just a slow news day? I guess it is news if they operation was large, but really this strikes me as a dog-bites-man sort of story.

Thirteen of the people charged were Penn State students at or around the time of the alleged drug trafficking ring, from around 2023 to 2024, prosecutors said. The 14th defendant, Thomas Robinson's father, is accused of trying to conceal evidence and obstruct the investigation.

The only thing that surprises me is that the authorities went after them.

Gives new meaning to the term "Higher education."

Stairway to Heaven

How did a love of Heavy Metal lead to some great acoustic guitar? Rodrigo y Gabriela are a pair of guitar players from Mexico City who met due to a common love of Heavy Metal. But the music they play, or what little I have heard, is definitely not Metal.

This is "Stairway to Heaven" by Rodrigo y Gabriela from their 2006 album, Rodrigo y Gabriela. It was, of course, originally written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, and recorded by Led Zeppelin on their 1971 untiled album, usually known as Led Zeppelin IV.

Never Underestimate Feminists' Capacity for the Absurd

The Other McCain has an update: The Lindsay Clancy Feminists

Lindsay Clancy is a mother on trial for the January 2023 deaths of her three children in Massachusetts. There is an entire cadre of feminists who refuse to recognize the amount of evidence that she did the deed.

Women are actually rallying outside the courtroom in support of this murderer. And, of course, blaming her husband for it.

The facts of the case are irrelevant to this; Lindsay’s supporters aren’t about facts, they’re about emotion. The core premise of their argument is very simple: No woman is ever responsible for anything.

Click thru for ... whatever this is. And there is plenty of irony, and absurdity.

I miss civilization.

RIP Star Trek

Star Trek premiered on 8 September 1966. 60 years ago this fall. I didn't watch it until it was on syndication, in the 1970s. (We had 1 TV in 1966, and my dad would not watch a SciFi show back then.)

When Nerdrotic says that the fans saved this franchise from the studio, he is right. The studio killed it, in part by starving the show for a budget that could sustain SciFi, and then cancelling it. It lived in syndication, through the 1973 animated series, and eventually through Star Trek fan conventions. The studio would eventually approve a movie. It was a disaster, because they didn't understand Trek. They wanted spectacle, and Trek was always about ideas. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, was more true to form.

Since the J.J. Abrams era started with the Reboot (reboot - because Hollywood has no creativity) things have gone to shit. Abrams admitted in at least one interview that he didn't like Star Trek, which probably explains why he tried to turn it into something else.

This is Nerdrotic's video Star Trek is DEAD, Jim - Why it Failed. The video is 23 minutes.

Friday Links - 21 August

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things off with Why Are Leftists Fighting For Hardcore Islam?

It’s something I and others have said for decades: Democrats are Useful Idiots. Especially when they decided they would quietly take the side of Islamic extremists because Bush 43 was president, due to BDS and because they were indoctrinated into this kind of idiocy.

The Other McCain - Florida Primaries: Vindman Loses, Jews Win, Very Bad Night for Hasan Piker

Controversial left-wing podcaster Hasan Piker endorsed [Democrat, Rep. Jared] Moskowitz’s primary opponent, DSA-backed Oliver Larkin — and got stomped.

Massad Ayoob - KNOW THE GUN LAWS OF THE STATE YOU’RE IN

I make my living teaching self-defense. Self-defense laws – when can you use force? – are pretty homogeneous nationwide. Gun laws are something else entirely –what can you have and where can you have it? – and no two states are exactly alike in that respect.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 19 August 2026: Triple-Baked Baklava Edition

A federal judge has ruled that a state judge who used AI to handle the entire decision in a case so she could spend the day playing Cookie Run Kingdom or something equally important cannot be sued. (Tom's Hardware)

The state judge's actions may not be reasonable, or even legal, and the decision can be appealed, but the judge cannot [be] sued.

The Silicon Graybeard - NASA and Katalyst end the Swift rescue mission

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced Wednesday they are giving up on the robotic mission to save the Swift gamma-ray telescope.

Again from William Teach - Your Fault: Cities Sinking Under Weight Of Buildings

Somehow this is all linked to ‘climate change’

Lone Star Parson - Lindsay Clancy

Have you followed the strange, demonic and awful story of Lindsay Clancy? Lindsay was a nurse with three young children, Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, all between 8 months to 5 years old.

Clayton Cramer - Forensic Astrology

Apparently, some of Clancy's defenders are relying on this. What is it?

Banana Pudding Delivery and Self-Defense

What is the deal with getting everything delivered? Banana pudding delivery led to fatal shooting during Miami Gardens robbery, cops say

Jabari Joshua Thomas, 19 and Demetrius Tromain Travis, 20, tried to rob a food-delivery person.

Thomas got into the backseat of the victim's car and at one point, allegedly put a gun to the driver's head, the warrant said.

The suspect were also trying to access the driver's CashApp when the driver pulled out his own gun and opened fire, the warrant said.

Travis was airlifted to a trauma center, but did not survive. Thomas was located in Miramar and arrested. The delivery driver was not charged, because Florida has not morphed into Massachusetts.

Miami Gardens, is in Dade County, Florida. It is just a bit north of Miami.

And another way that Florida is not like a Blue state, you are held responsible for the completely foreseeable consequences of your actions. Jabari Joshua Thomas is charged with 2nd degree murder in the death of Mr. Travis. Most of us non-lawyers call that Felony Murder, and it drives the Left bonkers. He was committing a felony, and as a result of that action, someone died; he will be held accountable.

Hat tip to Shooting News and Maggie's Farm.

Do Chicago Schools and the Teachers Union Serve Chicago?

There are two people from different parts of the country writing about Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union in one week.

Chicago Contrarian has the story I am most interested in. CPS Corruption Exposé Shows Why the CTU’s Reign of Terror Must End — Now

Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, govern. That has to stop. We have to stop it

Chicago didn’t wake up one morning and discover itself governed by incompetents.

This disaster was grown, nurtured, and weaponized inside the very institution that now consumes the largest share of your property taxes while delivering ever-worsening results: the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the demons who have possessed it, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), led by the Notorious SDG, Stacy Davis Gates.

Chicago Public Schools consumes an enormous amount of money. What do the students get? That is a good question.

Chicago now spends nearly $40,000 per pupil on a system with declining enrollment, a ballooning bureaucracy, and outcomes that would embarrass a developing country. Functional illiteracy is up. Discipline is down. Parents are fleeing, taking their children with them, continuing the systemic death spiral.

Click through for the details.

Meep at STUMP has a story about the CTU being upset, and then a compendium of stories from the past few years. CTU Making Friends and Influencing People By Suing the Illinois Policy Institute

The subtitle is to the point.

The IPI has been big ole meanies by pointing out the CTU has not been a positive contributor to Chicago education

Meep is an actuary, so her interest in Chicago Public Schools is usually directed at the state of the pensions. (They are not in a good state.) But occasionally she can't help but covering other issues.

So, I’ve been enjoying the hissy fit that the CTU (Chicago Teachers Union) has been having over the past couple of days by saying it’s filing a lawsuit against the Illinois Policy Institute.

She has a bit of information about the lawsuit. Click thru.

So You Hired a 3rd Party to Manage Your Data ...

Are you sure that it is as secure as you thought? PBS station loses 50 terabytes with 70 years of archival footage after data-storage company shuts down | Not the Bee

Maybe you should review the companies you are hiring. And maybe you should review what they are actually doing for you.

Yeah, maybe tossing all of the physical media and using the cloud to store your memories wasn't the best move?

Especially if you've got 70 years of archival footage that could disappear at the drop of a hat, as this St. Louis PBS station has learned.

They stored those 50 terabytes of data with a company that went out of business. Now they don't have the data.

There is a silver lining.

As it turns out, however, OSS used another data company, Iron Mountain, to host the archive.

Iron Mountain is still in business, but since its client was OSS, it is refusing to hand over the files.

The PBS station is now suing.

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just hire Iron Mountain in the first place? Maybe this other company, Open Source Storage (OSS), offered some extra services. Still it would be nice to review the financial health of companies you are trusting with important data.

The hat tip goes to Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog and “This Was PBS.”

You should backup your data. You should have multiple backups of your data. You should have multiple rotating or rolling backups of your data. You should have multiple rotating or rolling backups of your data saved to different types of backup media. Ideally, you should have multiple rolling or rotating backups of your data saved to different types of backup media including off-site backups.

Evidently, a PBS station didn’t follow any of these rules.

Did someone mention Louis Rossmann?

Is there a Louis Rossmann rant on the topic?

Yes. Yes there is.

PBS loses 70 yrs of data: my perspective as a privacy advocate, business owner, & data recovery tech. Louis R. is not generally safe for work, due to F-bombs. But Louis R. knows what he is doing, and you should pay attention to his recommendations.

Lanterns

Because the show runner, Damon Lindelof, thought Green was stupid or something.

Green Lanterns isn't my favorite comic of all time, but if you are going to hire someone to adapt a superhero comic for TV, maybe you should hire someone who doesn't hate superhero comics.

This is Critical Drinker's video Lanterns - A Superhero Show That Hates Superheroes

Instead of making a show about intergalactic space cops going on cosmic adventures and battling all manners of weird and wonderful alien threats, they instead decided to make a Temu version of True Detective, complete with bleak, cynical, and mostly unlikable characters who constantly have to swear to prove just how edgy they are. Patched together with all the tedious tropes of modern Hollywood writing and the usual laundry list of safe, predictable political targets like Republicans, smalltown America, and immigration policy. And holy fuck balls is it tedious.

The video is seven and a half minutes long, which is much shorter than watching the actual episode.

I love the videos from folks like The Critical Drinker, because they save me from wasting time on shows and movies I might have been tempted to watch.

Nerdrotic also chimed in, on X, and YT.

Hal Jordan was fridged in Lanterns.
IYKYK

— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) August 17, 2026

This is the Nerdrotic video Lanterns - Green Lantern GUNNED Down. This video is 24 minutes.

How Should a Woman Defend Herself?

I wish the gun-hating part of the Left would explain what else should have done. Coroner IDs man killed in Fairpoint Avenue shooting in Harrison Township

According to the Montgomery County Coroner's Office, James Cameron, 34, died on August 5 following a shooting on Fairpoint Avenue.

As of a press conference given by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office on August 5, Chief of Staff Jeremy Roy said information about the alleged shooter will not be released other than that she is a 33-year-old female with a concealed carry permit.

This was a burglary at 2:15 AM on 5 August. He broke in. She shot him. He did not survive.

Montgomery County, Ohio, is home to Dayton. Dayton is the county seat.

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department is treating this as justifiable self-defense, though any charges will be up to the DA.

Self-defense is a human right.

Is Connecticut Using Technology to Block the 2A?

From The Gun Writer we get a story from a blue state. Connecticut gun dealers forced to suffer yet another no-sales day

Connecticut doesn't let FFLs run NICS checks. They dealers have to use the Connecticut system, which would be fine if that system actually worked.

Saturday was supposed to be a big sales day for Lock N’ Load Firearms, which is located in Southington, Connecticut. The gun shop has two major sales each year, and Saturday was its “Customer Appreciation Day.” The store spent a lot on advertising the event and on party goods. Several vendors came out for the sale.

The fun ended around 11:40 a.m., when the state’s computer system went down, and it stayed down throughout most of the day.

An employee of another gun store said the outages are becoming a regular thing.

And outages are not the only problem.

Common names, he said, like “John Smith” have become a serious issue for the state’s computer systems, which lack the clarity of a NICS Unique Personal Identification Number or UPIN, which gun owners can apply for.

Which is insane.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has begun to ask if the whole thing is a deliberate attempt to stand in the way of the Second Amendment.

Click thru for details.

Northwestern University Ends African Studies

The Post Millennial brings us the update. Northwestern University to end African studies program

OK, it isn't ending. It is "transitioning," to something besides "an Office for Research university-wide research institute and center."

Northwestern University is reportedly planning to end its African studies program by the end of the month.

According to The Purple Wire, two sources at the university said administrators informed staff that the program would end at the end of August. One staff member said that staff was not given a reason for the closing.

Wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Left to ensue in 3, 2, 1, ...

“They told us that the center is closing, so all staff are being laid off because there will be no center to employ you,” a staffer said.

There is some question about if, or how, some other part of the university will absorb the program.

Northwestern University is located in Evanston, Illinois, directly north of the City of Chicago. It is bordered by Chicago to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 19 August

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Don Surber has highlights of the week.
Doug Ross has Larwyn’s Linx. And more Larwyn’s Linx.

Wombat-socho - In Th Mailbox: 08.18.26 (Afternoon Edition)

John C. Wright: Cliche, Archetype, Character
Stoic Observations: Bourgeois Fragility

EBL - Saturday Night Girls With Guns

EBL: The Liberty Tree
Saturday night is right for girls with guns...
Staten Island when the Hessians show up, 15 August 1776

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 18 August 2026: Lexx News Edition

Meta faces a $1.4 trillion fine in a case brought by multiple US stats over (checks notes) creating a product that people wanted to use. (Engadget)
May be time to pull some strings and drop space rocks on statehouses.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/18/2026

Iran Food Prices Soar 400% as U.S. Sanctions Bite Economy
Iranian citizens report food prices surging 400 percent under U.S. sanctions as annual inflation exceeds 80 percent and the rial collapses to 1.88 million against the dollar.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Destroying norms. Electoral integrity.
Brookfield Carney’s Canada: A car accident. Come to Canada and get free stuff.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.18.26 (Evening Edition)

Don Surber: The perfect Democrat candidate
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, But it’s not my fault, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy ** Updated! **, Killadelphia (2), and So, what would Andy Beshear do?

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Jason Arday Dead

RedState's Teri Christoph sees Biden’s Former Press Secretary Calls Karoline Leavitt a Liar—Then Gets Hit With a Brutal Fact Check. Insty, QUESTION ASKED: Who could replace White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt? "AND ANSWERED:" Not a bad choice

Political Hat - News of the Week (August 16th, 2026)

Disaster Averted
There have been lots of bizarre primary results around the country–mostly on the Democrat side, to be fair–but it looks like here in Minnesota, reason has prevailed.

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 3: The Last Refuge reported, “After Advocating for Illegal Alien Leniency and Amnesty, Mike Lindell Gets Crushed in Minnesota Primary.”
That put a pillow over his political aspirations.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Judge Rules TPS For Somalis Can Be Ended
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

The Glibertarians - Saturday Morning Batshit Crazy Links

I wish there were a comments section. I can only imagine…
When everything is racism, nothing is rac… wait… OK, it’s racism.
Can I hate everybody in this story?

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Here are further thoughts from Bob Graboyes on AI.
C. Jarrett Dieterle reports this unhappy news: “New Jersey revives the fight to reclassify gig workers as employees.”

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

Armed Good Guy Successful in Miami Gardens When 2 Street Entrepreneurs’ Business Plan Goes Badly
What Does It Take to Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 17 /26

Mass immigration can only work if immigrants are introduced to a common American culture and expected to assimilate.
America’s Stranger Problem

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: War

Is America Entering an Age of Unfreedom? - Zineb Riboua
Interactive Search Map for Flock Cameras Near You - CTH

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 08/18/2026

150 pages of FBI documents on Fang Fang and Swalwell document how she was laundering contributions to him in return for placing interns in his office.

I leave you with Bookworm Beat 8/15/26: The Apocalypse today meme edition from Bookworm Room, Saturday Memes …. from MaddMedic, Saturday’s First Day of the Weekend Meme Drop 8-15-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Sunday Funnies For 08-16-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, and Monday Memes from Granite Grok.

We All Need More Time at the Range

But it is my understanding that there are no shooting ranges in the City of Chicago. Chicago shooting: Shots fired between 3 suspects, CCL holder near CTA Blue Line station on N. Milwaukee Ave. in Jefferson Park - ABC7 Chicago

Three people approached a man on the northwest side. They keep saying "near a Blue Line station" of the El, but I'm not really sure why that is an issue.

There was an argument. As the man walked away, the three other people began shooting. The man returned fire, but no one was hit, CPD said.

The guy who was approached is a Concealed Carry Weapon license holder, which is becoming more common in Chicago.

The Chicago PD claims to be investigating, but I don't expect them to find anything. The closure rate by Chicago PD is very low.

Must Keep the Poor Folks from Exercising Their Rights

This was illegal when the racists wanted to keep poor blacks from voting. My guess is that it is illegal today. SoCal City Jacks Up Concealed Carry Application Fee by 1000 Percent

As one X user pointed out in response to Moros's post, Glendale was "only" charging $100 for a concealed carry license a year ago. That's still about twice what I pay for my carry license in Virginia, but it's also almost 1,000 percent less than the $1078 Glendale is now forcing residents to cough up before they can exercise a fundamental civil right.

Say that again. Glendale is now charging $1,078 for new permits, and they are charging $828 to renew those permits.

There's already a legal challenge underway to the sky-high fees imposed in Santa Clara County, California, but it may be necessary to go after Glendale as well. And the Justice Department, which just entered into a settlement with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department over the lengthy delays in processing carry applications, should be very interested in what Glendale, Santa Clara County, and other jurisdictions are charging residents to exercise a right.

They will do blatantly illegal stuff to "get their way." It is the municipal version of 2-year-old throwing a tantrum in the grocery store.

Send Me On My Way

Another song that comes to us by way of WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. WXRT (Chicago's Finest Rock) was revisiting 1994 on 1 August.

I like Saturday Morning Flashback, because I hear music I wouldn't hear anyplace else. Music I heard regularly on the radio, that dropped completely out of my life, when the radio and the market moved on. Music I liked, but not enough to have purchased the CD.

This song is "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root from their 1994 album When I Woke.

RIP Frank Beard - Drummer for ZZ Top

Frank Beard. 11 June 1949 to 17 August 2026

The Feral Irishman brings us bad news. R.I.P. Frank Beard

Click thru for one video that contains the songs "La Grange" from the 1973 album Tres Hombres, "Gimme All Your Lovin'" from the 1983 album Eliminator, "Sharp Dressed Man," also from Eliminator, "Tush" from Fandango (1975), and "Legs" from Eliminator. And a couple of great photos.

Rolling Stone, which I have mostly abandoned in recent years, has Frank Beard, ZZ Top’s Hard-Shuffling Drummer, Dead at 77

The tireless drummer anchored the Texas band on hits like “La Grange,” “Tush,” and “Cheap Sunglasses” during its five-decade run

And an interesting headline from Newsweek (by way of MSN). Frank Beard had the most ironic name in rock. Now ZZ Top's drummer is gone.

Frank Beard, the ZZ Top drummer whose name became one of rock’s enduring ironies as the band’s only member usually without a beard, has died at 77.

Tuesday Links - 18 August

Wendy Laubach at Chicago Boyz starts us off with The un-scholarships

In 2011 Peter Thiel started the Thiel Fellowship program to award several hundred thousand dollars apiece and mentorship access to extraordinary individuals willing to skip college or drop out by age 22.

Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb - The Softest Hands in Edgecombe County

You can learn a lot about a person by their reaction to being handed a “bear grease brownie.”

Matt E. at The Firearm Blog - Concealed Carry Corner: Realities of Self-Defense

This week, I wanted to look at some of the realities of self-defense and how it starts to change your behavior over time.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 15 August 2026: Twenty Essential Classical Elements Edition

Who are you and what have you done with France? France's Constitutional Council has found the French government's plan to block social media access to children under 15 unconstitutional for the burden it would place on everyone over the age of 15. (Reuters)

Cedar Sanderson - Competence Porn

Competence does not mean perfect. We should all like competent heroes. Take Miles Vorkosigan for instance. He was competent, but far from perfect.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Judge Rules TPS For Somalis Can Be Ended

I’m still not sure why this is so difficult, being that the 18 month renewal period had already ended, and the Supreme Court basically said that the Executive Branch has control, not the courts, but, whatever

Meep at STUMP - The Week in Meep: Capybaras, Falls, Liars, and Chocolate!

I was with my kids (all early 20s) and my parents (NOT early 20s) in the Poconos. I love being in the Appalachians, and these are very close to where I live. We always find something different to do each time we go there.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start

After a horrendous wipeout at Fenway, the Senators bounced back and took two out of three from the Royals at Metropolitan Stadium

Granite Grok - MACDONALD: Impotent Anti-ICE Protests in Keene

There have been weekly protests around the Monadnock region in opposition to ICE enforcing federal law, and no one seems to have asked them about “no one being above the law”?

How Do Prosecutors Ignore Evidence in a Murder Trial for Months?

Ignoring evidence for 21 or 22 months seems like malpractice, somehow. MOM WALKS FREE: Prosecutors dump murder charges against mom who shot husband after 5-hour tape backs self-defense

So in October of 2024, Latoya Crabbe killed her estranged husband Curtis Crabbe. There exists an audio recording that covers 5 hours of the day in question. Prosecutors ignored that evidence until August of 2026.

In a statement released this afternoon, the office said prosecutors and investigators from the Manassas City Police Department recently accessed a previously unexamined five-hour audio recording recovered from a digital device seized during the investigation. The recording captured conversations and events immediately leading up to the shooting.

“Following an exhaustive review of the audio and its transcript, the Commonwealth has concluded that the recording introduces significant evidence that a reasonable jury could interpret as supporting a claim of lawful self-defense,” the statement notes

At least she hasn't been in jail, awaiting trial the entire time. She has been free on bond.

So what causes prosecutors to ignore evidence for months? October 2024 until August 2026 is a long time. Because they hate the idea of self-defense, and are happy to ignore anything that might interfere with their case. Well, that is how it seems to me. I'm sure if you asked the Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, they would have a more reasonable excuse reason.

At least the Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office eventually got to the evidence, and admitted that self-defense is legal in Virginia.

20 Times The Government-Media Complex Lied to America

From Doug Ross: Top 20 Times “Misinformation” Was Actually the Truth

Trust the science. Trust the experts. Trust the media. How often were we told that during the lockdowns? And the media (and the experts) are still confused about why we don't believe them anymore.

Most of the items have to do with the Wuhan Flu, which is understandable given how hard Fauci and Company were defending their friends in Big Pharma. But not all.

2. Platform and institutional suppression of the Hunter Biden story: Labeled disinfo to limit reach pre-election; authenticity later confirmed by forensics, media, and federal trials. Fifty-one intelligence officials, media, and tech all singing the “Russian disinfo” chorus right before voters headed to the polls—sheer coincidence, I’m sure.

Click thru. There are gain-of-function research lies, Wuhan funding lies, more Hunter Biden info, and Biden's cognitive decay.

Academia and Jason Arday

From Richard Hanania's Newsletter: They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday

Jason Arday was a professor at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He was lauded as the “youngest black professor at Cambridge.” He had been guilty of excessive plagiarism, and when he had been called out, in a way that no one could dispute, he killed himself.

This reminds me of something an old professor told me when I was in graduate school. He was a historian who had grown disgusted with the direction in which academia had gone. In his class, we would dig deep into some of the work of prominent political scientists and expose the flaws in their papers and books. This was effective in puncturing the aura that surrounded high-status figures in academia, and we would wonder how they got away with producing such drivel. He told us that many academics saw their work “like a game.” You don’t care all that much if someone you know cheats in a board game. Who cares? Why start a conflict? We’ve all got a nice thing going here, and it’s better if we all just continue getting along.

I have seen several folks on the Left blaming the people who exposed the plagiarism for his death. As far as I'm concerned, that is just self-delusion. No one is to blame for his actions but himself. While you can make a case that the Left that celebrated him without bothering to validate any of his claims for some of the blame, in my estimation he is responsible for his own actions.

Still people are looking at academia over this issue. (Academia is under scrutiny for many reasons, but I'm just focusing on one thing.)

It’s become a cliché at this point to say that the Arday story is more interesting as an indictment of academia than of him as a person. The New York Times just ran a brutally frank article about how unqualified he was for his position, and how the committee that hired him at Cambridge had experts in autism who should have been aware that his story about being nonverbal until 11 and then becoming a scholar couldn’t have been true.

And this didn't happen at some 3rd rate college in the middle of nowhere. Cambridge University is one of the premiere universities in the UK, or Europe, or the world.

This may be the ultimate DEI fable.

Born Again

Beast in Black is a Power Metal band originally from Helsinki, Finland. Don't worry, they sing in English. And you also don't need to worry about the Death Metal, Death Growl. Yannis Papadopoulos, the lead singer, has an almost supernatural clarity in his singing, and despite the fact that he is Greek, I never have trouble understanding him. And anyway, today's video includes the lyrics.

And I can't call this is a Power Ballad. It's a love song, and parts of it are ballad like, but mostly it is just Heavy Metal.

This song is "Born Again" by Beast in Black from their 2017 album Berserker.

Texans Are Still Armed

And being armed for your own defense is not a cloak of invulnerability. 1 man killed, another injured in shooting at Fort Worth home, police say

Police say a male homeowner had returned home when he saw another man on his property. A verbal fight reportedly broke out between the two, which escalated to them exchanging gunfire.

The homeowner was shot, and taken to a local hospital. The intruder did not survive.

And this is apparently a domestic violence incident.

According to police, the man who was killed had an active protective order against someone who lived in the home.

Or was the order of protection against him?

Either way, this is very early in the investigation, as this happened Saturday afternoon.

Improvised Guns in South Australia

Impro guns has the details. Guns seized following vehicle stop in South Australia

A search conducted following a vehicle stop yesterday [August 12th] uncovered a jerry-rigged stapler and Aliexpress LifeCard®. Not a terrible effort I suppose. Get this man some more meth.

The stapler doesn't give me a good feeling, but the other efforts look good enough to inspire some confidence, including one that appears to have some 3D-printed parts.

South Australia is an Australian state in the south-central part of the continent. It contains some of the driest parts of the country, and it has a population of about 2 million.

Click thru for the photos, and follow the link for the statement from the police (and additional photos).

July Gun Sales Rebound

From The Firearm Blog: July's NICS Numbers Show We're Back In Business

After the election of 2024, gun sales showed a bit of a slump in 2025. Which is understandable. July of 2025 was the first time NICS checks has fallen below 1 million in 6 years. 2026 has shown a rebound.

The NSSF’s adjusted numbers show 1,061,883 relevant NICS queries in July of 2026. That’s a rise of 8.5 percent from last July, which was the first time in six years that NICS queries had dropped below a million.

With the tax cost for suppressors and SBRs falling to zero dollars, July also saw healthy NFA checks. Something that may or may not be possible to track going forward.

Click thru for details on how the numbers are checked, what the rise in concealed carry permits does to the statistics, and more info on NFA items.

'Coyote vs. Acme' Looks Like a Promising Film

Maybe Hollywood is healing. Probably not, but maybe. From DiscussingFilm: 'Coyote vs. Acme' Review - A Superbly Looney Comedy Worth Saving

Every animation fan has spent some amount of time wishing for another Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece remains the gold standard for live-action and animation hybrids; a seemingly impossible balancing act of technical wizardry, timeless comedy, and genuine cinematic magic. Plenty of films have tried to capture that same lightning in a bottle, with varying degrees of success. The Looney Tunes themselves have taken a few swings at it, from Space Jam (1996) and its 2021 sequel to Joe Dante’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). Now, after an unexpectedly rocky journey to the big screen, Coyote vs. Acme (2026) gets its chance.

Like The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Coyote vs. Acme was almost shelved as a write-off. Instead, both films were rescued by Ketchup Entertainment.

Wile E. Coyote is suing Acme for selling defective products. Seems like an interesting place to start.

This is the Official Trailer for Coyote vs. ACME. While it was shown at San Diego Comic-Con in July, it opens August 28th. And it is 103 minutes, which is a reasonable length for a movie.

Floridians Are Heavily Armed

This case also highlights the fact that people you know can be a threat. Man shot, killed inside Fort Pierce home after attacking homeowner; no charges filed

The gun-hating part of the Left (it isn't all of the Left) loves to go on at length about how if you own a gun, you are more likely to shoot someone you know, than a perfect stranger. The implication is that shooting someone you know is always bad, but it can be justified self-defense.

Also, relatives of dead people don't like self-defense.

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed after deputies say he entered a St. Lucie County home and attacked a 22-year-old man during a dispute.

These two guys knew each other, and had been in a "dispute" that involved both verbal and text-message exchanges.

Investigators say the suspect, who has yet to be identified, made several threats before showing up at the home.

Deputies say he knocked on the front door and was let inside before a brawl broke out.

The 22-year-old homeowner "disengaged" from the brawl, drew a weapon, and fired one shot.

The suspect was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

St. Lucie County, Florida is about 80 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, or about 40 miles north of Palm Beach, Florida.

As for the family...

"It's not fair, 'cause my son has no father now. He's five years old, and what am I gonna tell him? We didn't even get to say goodbye," said Naomi Pallarez, the girlfriend of the man who died.

The homeowner is cooperating with the investigation, and no charges have been filed. The ultimate decision on charges belongs to the State Attorney's Office for St. Lucie County.

Self-defense is a human right, and this didn't take place in Massachusetts.

Barking Moonbat Charged With Defacing WWII Memorial

A photo from a few years back is her with pink hair. The Other McCain bring us Crazy People Are Dangerous: Weirdo Charged With Defacing WWII Memorial

That’s a photo Melissa Farris posted to Facebook five years ago, when she was 36 years old. Farris is reportedly from Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

She was arrested this week on federal charges after she vandalized the World War II memorial in D.C., pouring soap bubbles in the fountain and spray painting “Clean Hands Dirty $” on a wall of the memorial.

The photo reminds me of an old term, Barking Moonbat.

She looked better 5 years ago.

As soon as I read the news report stating that Farris is 41 years old, my first thought was, “Man, that’s been a hard 41 years.”

Click thru for the details on her other charges, her lifestyle since COVID, and more insanity.

“Stand Your Ground” Laws and Academic Inquiry

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat has an interesting take on learning Do “Stand Your Ground” Laws Allow You to “Shoot First and Ask Questions Later”?

For most of us who went to college, were are used to "test questions." They one correct answer. They get asked on tests. Professor Yamane is interested in real questions.

Take the question for Module 8: Do “Stand Your Ground” Laws Allow You to “Shoot First and Ask Questions Later”? This is a test question in the sense that I already know the answer. As I wrote in The Hill a few years ago, “Stand Your Ground laws do not allow you to ‘shoot first and ask questions later.’”

That is a yes no question, and while the media tends to paint the answer in one way, the media isn't interested in the truth. They are interested in narratives. If you want to get at the truth, you need to ask different questions.

The assignment below asks the students to investigate what Stand Your Ground laws actually say. I have an idea of what they will find, but I am not certain. So, I approach their answers to the question with open-mindedness (I haven’t thought of everything) and humility (I may be wrong in my answer).

This is the kind of thing I remember from college, which I guess is not usual today. We read both Marx and Engles, and Adam Smith in the same term. Communism and Capitalism in one term. And I can tell, even all these years later, that most of the recent college graduates today, who are in love with Socialism and Communism, have never read Marx.

Click thru for more details.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 15 August

Wombat-socho starts things rolling with In The Mailbox: 08.12.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Don Surber: Call A Muslim a Muslim
Racket News: Cliché Alert – Return of the “Beer Test”

The Right Way - Top of the News

Democrat Socialist Francesca Hong Down to Wire with David Crowley in Wisconsin Dem Gov Primary - Briebart News

EBL - NYPD tells Mamdani NO on security detail to Syria and Lebanon

Instapundit: PJ Media: Mamdani is having a very bad week (and it is only Wednesday)
AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.12.26

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 13 August 2026: Trurl And Klapaucius Are Dead Edition

The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest risk to AI is students losing the desire learn. (Tech Spot)
Don't know how to tell you this, Fei-Fei...

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.12.26 (Evening Edition)

Transterrestrial Musings: Long March 7A Failure
Victory Girls: Mamdani Has A Bad Week Learning That People Don’t Like Him,

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 08/14/2026 – The Washington Post Continues to Die in Darkness!

Trump administration order would upend nation’s childhood vaccine schedule
Yep, if it’s designed to protect kids then The Radical Left is against it.

Vlad Tepes - Data points on Islamic and Leftist attacks on Western Civ, how to recognize them and how to get ahead of the tactics to see the strategy: Links 1 for August 14th, 2026

1. Muslims took a Viennese girl as a slave. This is the story, the justification and the reason it will get much much worse unless we the people decide to assert our own right to exist.
2. Comedian, Ben Bankas gets a critical theory attack by the CBC.

The Glibertarians - Friday Go To Meetin’ Links

I wish US elections were more like this.
So did his son Justin come down for the party?
The Grauniad’s obsessions often cross the line to sheer comedy.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Cedar Sanderson: Heat Lamp Thieves,
Postcards From Barsoom: Gay Race Communism vs. The Swarm

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For August 14, 2026

There seems to be just enough juice left in the Corrupt Wing of the Democrat Party to rise up and defeat the very worst candidates of the insane wing, as Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong lost.

A View from the beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Francesca Hong Out to Dry

Capt. Ed cites El-Sayed: Let Me Tell You Why July 4 Fireworks 'S**k'. At Twitchy, Scott Jennings Says Holiday Hatred Is Window Into Souls of Dem Party’s Anti-American Candidates “

Small Dead Animcals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Iran’s midterm strategy. Pearl clutching media. Third worldism. Woke Greens. Freeloaders.
Davos Carney’s Canada: A meme. No roads for you. China’s colony. The Indians are upset

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/12/2026

Cash-Strapped Americans Purge Costly Streaming Subscriptions
Americans are canceling subscriptions at record rates as living costs rise, with 52% dropping at least one service in six months

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Evening Edition)

BattleSwarm: Shapeshifting Talafreako Scrubs Radical Past, also, LinkSwarm For August 14
Behind The Black: Floating flakes on the flanks of Mount Sharp on Mars

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Peer-Reviewed WTF: Racialization of Episemology; “1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group”; Treacherous Waters And Queerdom

Apparently A.I. is so woke, it’ll out your plagiarism.
Cis-heteronormativity is like a storm and “pride” (grooming) clubs are a “safe” harbour… From the Abstract:

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

UK Wants People To Not Use Energy During Solar Eclipse
Flesh-Eating Screwworms Feast on Humans in Mexico

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 12 /26

A threat - potentially rivaling that of Iran.
Pakistan Invites Muslim Nations to Join the New ‘Islamic NATO’

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: SPLC CFO Arrested for Paying Hate Groups and Nazis: Wire Fraud, Conspiracy, etc.

real communism has never been imagined - el gato malo
Treasury Proposes Tax-Free Employer Contributions To Trump Accounts - ZH

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 08/13/2026

MI Voter Registration BOMBSHELL: Israeli Addresses Used to Register Multiple Permanent Absentee Voters from a Single Detroit Coffee Shop—Here’s What We Found.

I leave you with Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4042 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Friday's gifs from Wirecutter.

Self-Defense and Domestic Violence

Some people need to understand the phrase, "It's over." Leesburg fatal shooting investigation continues - WFTV

Investigators said the man arrived unannounced while his ex-girlfriend was visiting the home. He then became involved in a physical confrontation with the homeowner and allegedly attempted to force his way inside.

This was a bad move on his part, as the Florida homeowner was armed. One shot was fired. The ex-boyfriend didn't survive.

Leesburg, Florida, is a 45 mile drive northwest of Orlando.

What did he think was going to happen in Florida? Did he not know that homeowners in Florida are heavily armed?

The Lake County Sheriff's Office is early in its investigation, but this sounds like self-defense to me. And of course the decisions about charges are made by the District Attorney, not the Sheriff. I listed domestic violence in the title to this post, because it has all the hallmarks of the "How dare you live without me!" attitude. Are there other explanations? Not that make sense to me.

Self-defense is a human right.

Do People Not Know of Flesh-Eating Bacteria in Florida Waters?

It is known as Vibrio vulnificus. Fox 35 Orlando has the details, though the details are everywhere. Florida reports 2nd 'flesh-eating' bacteria death of 2026 as cases reach 14

People from the Northeast and the Midwest travel to Florida, and don't think about the fact that it might be different than where they live most of the year. The wildlife is different. The solar radiation is different (especially if you're on a boat). There are a lot of differences.

A Marion County resident between the ages of 60 and 74 has died after contracting a severe infection from Vibrio—a rare, naturally occurring bacteria often referred to as "flesh-eating." The victim's death is the second death in 14 reported cases of Vibrio vulnificus across the state this year.

Vibrio bacteria thrive in warm, brackish, or salt water and typically enter the body through an open wound. While cases are relatively rare, they can escalate rapidly. The state reported 33 cases and 5 deaths linked to Vibrio infections last year.

Marion County, Florida is about 15 miles south of Gainsville, about 35 miles due east of Daytona Beach, and about 40 miles northeast of Orlando.

This put me in mind of an omgitswicks video on the topic. Florida flesh eating bacteria

Don't even get me started on the Brain-Eating Amoebas. We'll talk about that another time.

If you are in salt water there are sharks, and flesh-eating bactera. And a handful of other predators. If you are in extreme South Florida, you might run into an American crocodile.

If you're in fresh water there are likely alligators. As omgitswicks says, "If water is wet, it probably got a gator in it."

As for the brain-eating amoeba, or Naegleria fowleri, That is found in warm fresh water, and not just in Florida. There is 97% fatality rate.

That doesn't include the fire ants, the spectacled caiman, The green anaconda, or Eunectes murinus, which can grow to 30 feet long and 1 foot in diameter, or the Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus).

Specter

Bad Omens is listed as either alternative rock or alternative metal. I haven't heard a lot of songs by that band, but most of them don't scream Metal to me. I went back and forth on this song, as to whether it should be included Metal for Mondays, and finally decided that it sounds more like Rock to me.

This song came to me by way of the Tidal music streaming service. In particular, it was part of the Rock Hits playlist from Tidal, way back in 2025.

This song is "Specter" by Bad Omens. It was released as a single in August of 2025. There is apparently an album in the works, as several singles have been released, but I can't find any info on a release date.

Friday Links - 14 August

Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb is first with Basecamp Dispatch: My Quarter-Acre Piece of Dirt

Summer continues to hang out like a sticky house guest who’s overstayed his welcome, leaving sweat stains on all the good furniture.

The Gun Writer - California docs prefer deafness over civil rights

The California Medical Association, Dr. Wheeler says, is “stubbornly refusing” to endorse suppressors as a way to reduce hearing loss, even after the CDC report said they function extremely well.

Climate Depot - Can civilization survive?! Climate Journalism in Decline: ‘CBS lost its entire climate desk, the Wash Post cut 74% of its climate team, & NPR laid off its climate desk editor’

The public is tired of climate alarmism, now in its fifth decade. Regular weather news can report (and exaggerate), but climate scolds do not have the commercial interest anymore–in the US, at least.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - UK Wants People To Not Use Energy During Solar Eclipse

It’s shocking that solar energy doesn’t work when the sun is not out

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 12 August 2026: Viverrid Browser Edition

Gemini has reached a billion users. (Ars Technica)
Rather in the same way that Meta's Threads reached... Whatever user count they claim for that tumbleweed farm.

The Other McCain - The Feds Put the Cuffs on Heidi

Grudge, you say? Why would I have a grudge against Heidi Beirich, who did so much to make me famous as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist”? Probably the SPLC has removed her bylines from the various articles she wrote about me, decades ago, when her transparent purpose was to get me fired from The Washington Times.

Holly MathNerd - Promiscuity, Victimhood, and Double Standards

But here’s the fascinating part for my purposes: the double standard essentially disappeared when researchers simply asked people to report their beliefs on questionnaires. People’s stated principles were more egalitarian than the judgments they made when evaluating actual men and women.

Josh Slocum at Disaffected Newsletter - Sympathize with Lindsay Clancy, eh?

The number of people sympathizing with Lindsay Clancy has shocked and distressed me to a degree that I have not been distressed in a long time.

They have an excuse for everything. They will do and say anything at all to portray a maternal murderess as a victim (no, silly, the children aren’t victims. How could they be? They’re not women.).

The First Street Journal - You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!

As a good Catholic, I have been horrified by the revelations of sexual abuse of minors by priests, but these days, it seems that such sexual abuse of minors has become the province of public school teachers.

Patrick Dent at Chicago Contrarian - Chicago’s Wrongful Conviction Scandal Needs an Investigation, Not a Buy Now, Pay Later Plan

The City Council finally seems to realize something is terribly wrong with Chicago’s multi-million dollar settlement machine. Unfortunately, its proposed solution solves the wrong problem.

Woman Defends Herself from Home Invader

What does the anti-gun part of the Left (it isn't all of the Left) think she should have done? Woman shoots man who opened her window screen during overnight burglary attempt, CPD says - CWB Chicago

How would you respond to an intruder in your home, or breaking into your home, before five o'clock in the morning? How should a woman alone respond?

A concealed carry holder shot a man who opened the window screen of her South Shore home during a burglary attempt early Tuesday morning, Chicago police said.

South Shore, is one of the 77 neighborhoods in Chicago. It is about 7 miles south of the Loop, and as the name implies it is on the lake shore.

In addition to the victim, a neighbor called 911 to report seeing the man lying on the ground across the street from the woman’s home and screaming that he had been shot. But the suspect was gone when CPD arrived. Moments later, he walked into Jackson Park Hospital for treatment. CPD said he was in good condition. The woman was not injured.

One of the things I appreciate about CWB Chicago is that they know the difference between victims, and perpetrators.

I always wish the anti-gun part of the Left would do, is explain exactly how a woman should react to a home invader. I'm not expecting them to say anything aside from, "Wait for police." With the shortages of police in the blue cities (I haven't looked into the situation in Chicago in a number of years, but they were understaffed) waiting for police to arrive may be a long wait. You may wait the rest of your life.

Hat tip to USA Carry

Deadly force is justified only against an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm, and that is the same standard armed citizens across the country carry under every day. A stranger opening a window on an occupied home in the dark gives the person on the other side no way to know what comes through it next, and no time to find out.

The current Illinois State's Attorney for Cook County is a more reasonable person than her predesessor, so I expect the only charges to be filed against the guy who got shot.