Newsbusters.

It takes a lot of chutzpah for Planned Parenthood to state “everyone deserves a full life,” when their entire mission is to end the shortest of lives before they’re even out of the womb. But that’s exactly what they un-ironically wrote in a recent Instagram post, as if we’re all going to believe the sincerity of a business that put down over 430,000 babies within the span of a year.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 bills on Sept. 29 aimed at limiting federal immigration enforcement in the state, including a ban on officers using shock gloves and a new 25 percent tax on private detention centers.

“California is taking action to strengthen transparency, accountability, and oversight around immigration enforcement in our state,” Newsom said in a statement.

Put the border at the California state line and let them marinate in their own stupidity.

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Fact: In 2005, Israel closed down all civilian Jewish settlements in Gaza, and withdrew all military units. Israel continued to monitor the borders of Gaza in an effort to keep out weapons. While successful in keeping out tanks, the Israeli’s were not successful keeping out rifles and small rockets. With two million Palestinian inhabitants, Gaza became completely self governing.

Fact: Through a combination of ballots and bullets, Hamas acquired political and governing control of Gaza in 2006. Despite millions in annual aid from the outside world, Hamas did not make Palestinian prosperity a priority. Hamas had two priorities: Indoctrinate the children of Gaza to hate Jews and Israel, and the construction of miles and miles of tunnels for the purpose of hiding, storing, and transporting soldiers and weapons.

Fact: On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded sparsely populated portions of Israel with the intention of avoiding Israeli military units as much as possible. Their objective was to find and kill / rape / torture / kidnap as many civilian men, women, and children as they could find before running back to Gaza. They kidnapped 251. They murdered 1,195. They held the captives in secret scattered locations and dared the Israeli Army to come and rescue them.

Fact: in the recorded history of urban warfare, no army has successfully minimized civilian casualties as well as the IDF. Minimizing civilian casualties was an unquestioned high priority for the IDF. Hamas, on the other hand, systematically used Palestinian civilians as human shields to protect themselves as they fought.

Fact: Gaza has never been able to feed itself. It has always been dependent on a daily parade of trucks for most of its food. Throughout the 30 month hostage rescue mission, Israel never prevented any food from entering Gaza. Starvation was never a concern for the people of Gaza. Hamas, on the other hand, routinely commandeered food trucks so that they could demand civilian cooperation by the threat of withholding food.

Fact: During the 30 month hostage rescue mission. There were civilian casualties and deaths notwithstanding extraordinary Israeli efforts to minimize such consequences. Gaza was and is a community of over 2 million. Fact: During the 30 months of alleged Israeli genocide, more babies were born in Gaza than civilians killed. When the hostage-release agreement was finally signed, the population of Gaza was higher than it was on October 7.

The accusation that Israel engaged in genocide in Gaza routinely comes from the mouths of American academics, American entertainment celebrities, Arab-American activists, far-left activists, and occasionally, Democrat politicians. American journalists routinely report and disseminate such accusations uncritically.

Freeberg nails it.

I remember from my school assignments, or those intelligence tests, somewhere in those years there were sections of “Too much information.” This wasn’t a reference to things like “We were so happy my husband and I had sex for the first time in months.” Or, “I have trouble buying pants because my left nut hangs lower than my right one.” Not like that at all. They’d ask questions like: Roberto has twelve marbles. He lost five. The marbles are blue. How many marbles does he have left? You’d have to pick out which bit of information was irrelevant to answering the question.

I thought at the time the point was to assess reading comprehension. But in more recent years I realize there are people who can keep drama separated from their logical thinking, and then there are people who can’t. “Too much information” is a situation that doesn’t exist, for the latter, because everything has to have an effect on the outcome.

You don’t see it with marbles and math.

But you do see it with…”Lindsay Clancy was framed. Her husband Patrick is actually the one who murdered the children. His timeline doesn’t add up. And Lindsay didn’t get the help she needed because the system failed her.”

And…”Christa Pike has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The execution failed tonight. She is in agony.”

Twelve minus five is seven. It doesn’t matter what color the marbles are.

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In the past two months I’ve reported extensively on the massive migrant invasion that took place in Ceuta at the end of July. Ceuta is a Spanish enclave (and exclave) on the coast of North Africa bordered by Morocco on the southwest. It is sovereign Spanish territory, but the Moroccans have historically claimed it as part of Morocco.

On July 30 and 31, an estimated 72,000 migrants, most of them not Moroccans, crossed the border from Morocco to Ceuta by breaking through the fence or swimming around the sea barriers. Most of the invaders reportedly returned to Morocco after about a week, but thousands of them — nobody is sure exactly how many — remain in Spanish territory, camping on the beach or in public parks.

In the days following the initial wave of migration, observers who asserted that the Moroccan authorities played a role in the invasion were dismissed as paranoid conspiracy theorists. Now a report by Spanish intelligence has confirmed that the conspiracy existed, and that both Moroccan intelligence and the Moroccan military were involved.

Right up until the release of the Spanish intelligence report, the government of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez vigorously insisted that the Moroccan government had nothing to do with the migrant invasion of Ceuta. The only question that remains is: Was the Spanish government simply ignorant and incompetent, or did it connive with the Moroccan government in importing the invaders?

Only time will tell.

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Oregon State University researchers have developed a new family of advanced materials that convert water into energy-producing hydrogen using only sunlight, offering a potential clean-energy alternative to solar panels and concentrated solar energy solutions.

The OSU College of Science team said their new approach, which enables high-speed, high-efficiency hydrogen production, could provide a solar-powered source of hydrogen for automotive fuel cells and other chemical manufacturing processes.

Al Jezeera, a Voice of Woke Jihad.

Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a classmate three decades ago, has survived Tennessee’s effort to execute her ?by means of lethal injection, prison officials said.

Her lawyers said late on Wednesday that she had been taken away from the prison in an ambulance and was being treated at a hospital, but they said they had not been told about her condition.

Hanging works pretty much every time. Guillotine is guaranteed. Or they could send her to Canada, which seems to be on top of killing people.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Netherlands has dumped plans to tax unrealised gains on shares, bonds and cryptocurrency after warnings it could prompt an investor exodus.

Rob Jetten, the prime minister, a liberal who took office in February, will instead introduce a more conventional capital gains tax (CGT) on actual profits at a rate of 36pc.

The switch will cost the government €15bn (£13bn) over the next eight years. But Mr Jetten hopes to claw that back by cutting the tax-free allowance for capital gains, bringing more small-time investors into the net.

I guess not spending more than you’re taking in wasn’t an option. Of course, with government,  it never it.

The Telegraph (UK).

A domestic abuse victim is to flee to “the other side of the world” to escape her ex-husband because she has lost faith in the state to protect her and her two children when he is released early from prison.

Sounds like something Democrats would do.

Seven hundred prisoners, including violent offenders and domestic abusers, are the first to be released across the country this morning under Andy Burnham’s plans to ease overcrowding.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour’s “one in, one out” deal with France is to end because too few Channel migrants have been deported under it, the Home Office has announced.

Saw that coming. France has been a bad-faith actor throughout the migrant crisis, just as Mexico has been with the U.S. illegal immigration problem. Britain ought to drag these ‘migrant’ boats back to France, sink them in the surf, and let the French deal with them as they ought to have done in the first place.

The War Zone.

For aerospace aficionados, it’s like we have entered into an alternate dream reality. The idea that we are seriously talking about the possibility of bringing back the SR-71 Blackbird to flight status is hard to comprehend, but amazingly this is where we are at. The biggest question I am getting about all this is why? We touched on the likely primary answer to that in our original reporting — high-speed is back in tactical vogue, and the Blackbird can sustain it in a realm of great interest, between Mach 3 and 4, and do it over and over again. It can also carry very large things and even launch them off its back at those extreme speeds. But those are not the only potential reasons for taking on such a gargantuan, high-profile, and costly technical challenge. Learning from the journey itself could be just as valuable as the actual flight test data a revived SR-71 produces.

The Blackbird was as close to alien tech as it gets over 60 years ago, and even today, we have nothing like it in known operation. Yet it has been dormant for nearly three decades. Much of the expertise that built, supported, and operated it is sadly gone. But the exercises of reverse engineering and leveraging breakthroughs in additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping, as well as injecting new material sciences, avionics, propulsion and other technologies where applicable, and above all else, building the digital toolkit to make it all happen as fast and efficiently as it can be done, are all of extreme learning value.

I would not be surprised if a ‘digital twin’ is being created right now of the SR-71 using NASA’s SR-71 tail number 844 — the jet in question that has mysteriously disappeared from its display pad. Once such a model exists, breakthroughs in digital engineering can be brought to bear to see how fast the program can be accelerated, both in terms of development and flight testing. This could include not only getting the SR-71 back in the air, but improving its performance and reliability, possibly substantially, using all the new technologies we have today. It’s even possible a clone of sorts leveraging all these advances could be built using digital engineering tools.