Today the taxing power, rather than chattel slavery, is the instrument by which the parasitical element of the population subsists. And that element, which includes politicians, panics at the slightest reduction in the state’s power to plunder. Once you start liberating taxpayers, even a little tiny bit, nobody knows where it may end. —Joseph Sobran

Missouri High Court Smacks Down Redistricting Challenge – and Referendum End Run

We’ve got some big news out of the Show-Me State on Tuesday with Missouri’s Supreme Court ruling in not one, but two redistricting-related cases — in both instances issuing a decision that effectively locks in place the 7R-1D map (pursuant to HB 1, passed by the state legislature in September 2025) for the 2026 midterm elections, constituting a pickup of one seat for Republicans.

The court heard oral argument in both cases on Tuesday morning and issued unanimous decisions in both cases on Tuesday afternoon, making it clear that courts are not political map-drawing commissions — and that referendum activists don’t get to suspend laws merely by dropping boxes of signatures at the secretary of state’s office.

Here’s what was decided today:

First, in the consolidated cases of Healey v. Missouri and Wise v. Missouri, the challengers sought to have the 2025 map declared unconstitutional on the basis that it violated the compactness requirement of Article III, Section 45 of the state’s constitution. Specifically, they contended that the new configuration of the state’s 4th, 5th, and 6th Districts (in and around the Kansas City area) violates the requirement.

But as the court notes in its decision:

The map “is assumed to be constitutional and will not be held unconstitutional unless the plaintiff proves that it clearly and undoubtedly contravenes the constitution.”

 

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The Democrats have been screaming that Jim Crow is back! Just to test it out, I went outside to see if I now have less rights as a black man. I started humming a negro spiritual and set out on my way.

Got on a bus. Sat in front. No one said anything to me. Took it one stop and then did the walk of shame back to my truck.

Went to a restaurant. Sat at the counter. The nice man behind it asked me if I wanted a menu. I informed him this was just a test and he passed. The look of confusion on his face let me know the Democrats hadn’t informed him I can’t sit at restaurant counters.

Looked for separate bathrooms and water fountains. Couldn’t find a single one. Got immediate side eye from an older black woman when I asked her if she’d noticed any separate water fountains or bathrooms. Her answer wasn’t Christian.

Tried looking for a freedom march so I could join it and see if I’d get hosed or dogs turned on me. No marches. I did see someone with a Pomeranian dog, though, but it didn’t attack me.

So
 based on my evidence, Jim Crow is still dead. The Democrats lied.

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There will be no peace in Gaza or Israel until Hamas is no longer a factor.

This Is the Face of Evil: Sickening New October 7 Report Leaves No Doubt

Most people can’t really understand evil.

Evil is a word too many people toss around far too casually. Too many people use it to describe political opinions they disagree with, for instance, especially in today’s toxic political environment. But once in a while, we have real evil thrust into our faces, and we are required to look at it, to comprehend it, and to deal with it. One such event happened right here in the United States, on September 11th, 2001. And another took place in Israel, on October 7th, 2023.

Now, a new report has been released detailing the atrocities Hamas committed on October 7th, 2023, and we are once more forced to look at it, to understand what happened, to look into the face of evil, and to understand what must be done about it.

Warning: This report presents those atrocities in disturbing detail.

Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colourful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember.

Bright, beautiful, shiny, pink manicures glistening amid the pervasive ‘grey and green’ of death were often the only reminder of who these girls had been just hours earlier.

Because Hamas-led terrorists had not just executed these women. They had ‘deliberately and systematically’ defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.

The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.

Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.

Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.

There’s a great deal more in the Daily Mail’s coverage. While I will not reproduce the worst of it here, it’s important reading nonetheless. Have some antacid on hand before reading the entire piece; you’ll need it.

This image alone, this image of young people, mostly young women, fleeing a music festival, speaks volumes; the look of terror on the faces of young people who, moments before, were enjoying sunshine, music, the company of friends, young people who had nothing to do with Gaza, who had never raised a finger in anger against anyone in Gaza or anywhere else.

This is the result of evil. The atrocities committed on the day were evil. The people who committed them are evil, and in the acts described, they show that they have utterly abandoned their humanity. They attacked the innocent: Men, women, children, infants, the elderly, the unarmed and defenseless. They did this, they planned and conducted this attack targeting the innocent, because they are not only evil but cowards.

In the weeks following this attack, we saw the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) counterattacking in Gaza. It’s difficult for us to imagine the rage that must have filled the hearts of the young men of Israel who went into Gaza to hunt down the monsters of 10/7. It’s even more difficult to understand how the IDF showed the restraint they did, carefully evacuating non-combatants, using “roof knocker” explosives to warn anyone in a building that was about to be dropped. But Israel did this because they are not evil, protestations from useful idiots on the American left notwithstanding. Israel did this because they are a civilized people, and even when dealing with savages, they showed restraint.

Evil is real. It’s out there, every day. To fight it, we have to first strip away all of our illusions; we have to look at evil, bare, shocking, unmitigated, real, and see it for what it is. In Gaza, it’s called Hamas. This full report illustrates that evil with sickening clarity.

As I said at the time and still say today: There will be no peace in Gaza or Israel until Hamas is no longer a factor.

Massachusetts Gun Laws No Match for Repeat, Violent Felon Who Targeted Boston-Area Drivers

It’s not easy to own a gun in Massachusetts, at least not legally. If you don’t mind breaking the law, though, it’s absurdly simple: steal a gun, buy a gun on the black market, have someone else buy a gun for you, or build your own, to name a few options.

Authorities still haven’t said how 46-year-old Tyler Brown got ahold of the gun he used to randomly fire at motorists on Cambridge’s busy Memorial Drive on Monday afternoon, but he did in clear violation of Massachusetts gun laws… and was aided by one of the state’s soft-on-crime judges.

Five years ago, Brown copped a plea deal after he engaged in a similar random shooting spree, firing more than a dozen rounds at responding officers. Brown was already on probation for a 2014 assault and batter with a dangerous weapon charge, and ended up pleading guilty to a number of charges for the 2020 shooting; including armed assault with intent to murder.

Despite his violent past and present, a judge sentenced Brown to just five-to-six years in prison. That’s about half the time prosecutors were asking for.

One of the officers involved in that 2020 attack wrote in a victim impact statement saying: “I am a firm believer that when Mr. Tyler Brown gets out, he will hurt, or worse, kill someone,” the officer said. “Probation apparently means nothing to Mr. Tyler Brown, nor does the value of life.”

Brown was still on probation when he opened fire at motorists on Monday, leading drivers to ditch their vehicles as they ran to find cover.

Gunman Tyler Brown allegedly fired 50 to 60 rounds indiscriminately from an assault-style rifle as he erratically walked down Memorial Drive in Cambridge around 1:20 p.m., Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said during a press conference.

At 1:06 p.m., Cambridge police received a 911 call from Boston police, who said an individual acting erratically and in possession of a rifle was in Cambridge, Ryan said.

Massachusetts State Police and Cambridge police arrived as Brown was actively firing down the road at stopped cars, authorities said.

According to Ryan, a Massachusetts State Police trooper was the first law enforcement officer to respond, and he was aided by an armed citizen; a yet-to-be-identified Marine who the D.A. says was licensed to carry a gun. The pair engaged Brown, who had already shot two people by that point, and were able to stop his attack with multiple shots of their own.

That’s right. None of the state’s draconian gun laws prevented this crime, but an armed citizen was able to stop it thanks to the fact that they were exercising their right to carry.

This should be a wakeup call to Massachusetts residents, if not the Democrat lawmakers who have complete control over the state legislature. Voters were promised that the state’s recent overhaul of its gun laws (which include brand new restrictions on “assault weapons,” new training mandates for would-be gun owners, and a host of restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms) would prevent incidents like this from ever taking place. Instead, we saw just how impotent those laws are when it comes to violent offenders… and the importance of being able to shoot back when a murderous madman is intent on gunning down innocent victims.

The Anti-gun movement’s goal is total civilian disarmament. They don’t care about your rights, they ignore the thousands to hundreds of thousands of people who use firearms to save their lives each year. 90% of “gun deaths” are suicide & gang violence that legislation won’t affect. – Tony Simon

A real WKRP radio comes to Cincinnati, decades after the sitcom about a fictional station.

CINCINNATI (AP) — WKRP isn’t dead — as of Monday, it’s living on the air in Cincinnati.

The call letters from the fictional radio station featured in a CBS sitcom were adopted by a trio of real “adult hits” stations in time for Monday’s morning drive, and co-owner Jeff Ziesmann described listeners as “stoked.”

“Our phones have been mobbed this morning, as I’m sure you can imagine,” Ziesmann said.

Three stations in Cincinnati, northern Kentucky and Dayton, Ohio, simulcast the station’s programming and listeners are now hearing them all identified as WKRP. They will continue to follow the format — music from the ‘60s to the ’80s, with an emphasis on the 1970s — they’ve had under “The Oasis” brand.

The owners obtained the call letters by making a donation to a North Carolina nonprofit whose low-power radio station had them since 2014. Ziesmann said a full-power station like his can use the same call letters because WKRP-LP in Raleigh is considered a separate class of station under federal regulations.

He said the nonprofit donation wasn’t a direct purchase of the call letters — it was a purchase of the right to apply to the Federal Communications Commission for the call letters with the North Carolina group’s cooperation.

The show “WKRP in Cincinnati” ran from 1978 to 1982 and starred Loni Anderson, Howard Hesseman, Tim Reid and Richard Sanders as bumbling newsman Les Nessman.

Sanders provided a very Nessman-like comment by email, with the actor saying: “I have spoken with Les Nessman regarding the resurrection of WKRP in Cincinnati. After the failure of his dream to replace Walter Cronkite on the CBS evening news, he is hopeful that he can resume his duties as the News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and Farm Report Director at WKRP.”

“I think we can all hope that WKRP will return to the airwaves with more music and Les Nessman,” Sanders said, echoing a running joke on the comedy series.

“The Duty of Self‑Defence”, preached in Philadelphia in 1747 by Rev. Jonathan Dickinson:

He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one that hath no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defence, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God hath enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend itself.