National Days of Recognition

• Biden honors Christopher Columbus and Italian Americans in proclamation for Columbus Day (Washington Examiner)

• Columbus was probably Spanish and Jewish, study says (BBC)

Immigration

• Border Patrol union endorses Trump: In news that should surprise no one, the National Border Patrol Council, the official union representing the U.S. Border Patrol, on Sunday announced its endorsement of Donald Trump. During a campaign rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona, Trump informed the crowd, stating that he was “honored,” adding, “They said it was unanimous. Thousands of people.” He then invited on stage Council President Paul Perez, who said, “If we allow border czar Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country is going to go to hell. The untold millions of people unvetted, who she has allowed into this country [and] that are committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, and every other crime, will continue to put our country in peril.” He added, “Only one man can fix that. That is Donald J. Trump.” It appears that Kamala Harris’s brief border tour stunt a couple of weeks ago failed to convince those on the front lines that she would actually make any policy changes and enforce America’s border laws.

Crime

• Man arrested outside of Trump’s Southern California rally Contrary to initial media reports yesterday, Donald Trump didn’t just dodge a third attempt on his life. As it turns out, a man who was arrested at a checkpoint to get into Trump’s California rally on Saturday evening was actually a Trump supporter who tends to travel with his guns. The suspect, 49-year-old Vem Miller, was arrested but then quickly released on $5,000 bail. “I always travel around with my firearms in the back of my truck,” said Miller. “I’ve literally never even shot a gun in my life. I don’t know anything about guns. I am beyond a novice,” Miller added. In any case, “I’m 100% a Trump supporter.” To this point, no federal charges have been filed against him, and it’s perhaps understandable that the media would screw this up. After all, assassination attempts on Trump have practically been normalized by the Democrats and their Leftmedia fellow travelers.

• Iran plot against Trump, ex-officials far more dire than previously known (Daily Wire)

Elections & Politics

• And they say Trump is the existential threat to democracy: The key to understanding Democrats is that they tend to accuse their political opponents of doing exactly what they themselves are doing. A famous case in point would be Hillary Clinton having accused Donald Trump of Russian collusion during the 2016 election when it was Clinton herself who colluded with Russians on the dirty and discredited Steele dossier. Another example comes to us just recently as leading House Democrats have expressed, er, reluctance to certify a Trump victory in the November 5 election. As Axios reports: “House Democrats railed against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for hedging on whether a GOP-controlled House would certify a Kamala Harris victory. But some of their senior members are playing a similar game.” Leading the would-be election deniers is Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who in 2005 voted to object to George W. Bush electors and more recently said of Trump, “I don’t know what kind of shenanigans he is planning,” adding: “We would have to, in any election … make sure that all the rules have been followed.” Be forewarned. If the Democrats lose, they won’t lose with dignity.

• Youngkin blasts DOJ for election interference: If there were ever a doubt about which political party relies on cheating to win elections, the Biden-Harris Justice Department removed it by suing the Commonwealth of Virginia for its efforts to clean up state voter rolls. The state’s popular Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, expressed frustration with the DOJ’s lawsuit, which claims that Virginia’s voting integrity efforts violate the federal prohibition on systematic efforts to remove voters within 90 days of an election. Call us naïve, but it seems that ineligible voters should be removed right up until Election Day. As the Washington Examiner reports, “Youngkin signed an executive order requiring the commissioner of the Department of Elections to certify that the department was conducting ‘daily updates to the voter list’ to purge the voter rolls of people who are unable to verify that they are citizens to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.” Youngkin called the “unprecedented lawsuit” an “attack” and election interference, “with less than 30 days until the election,” no less. He noted that he’s only “enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.”

• Arizona will allow over 200,000 people with unconfirmed citizenship to vote (Townhall)

• Tim Walz’s desperate, pathetic, no-good pheasant-hunting trip (Daily Wire)

• Doug Emhoff does not deny he struck ex-girlfriend while brushing off report as a ‘distraction’ in response to allegations (New York Post)

• Trump to appear on Rogan’s podcast: A clear sign that the rise of new media is sizable and holds a growing sway over public opinion has been the number of podcast interviews both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have engaged in throughout this election season. Well, Trump will soon appear on the biggest podcast out there, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Last week, he was on the “Full Send” podcast, his second time on the show, and he was asked by host Kyle Forgeard, “You’re doing a lot of podcasts recently. One that I would love to see you on — I think Joe Rogan has to have you on. Would you do that?” Trump answered, “I think I’m doing it, actually.” Forgeard responded, “Joe Rogan’s the best in the game for sure. He’s an honest guy, too.” Trump agreed, “He is. Good guy. He’s got a good voice; that’s important.” Rogan has not confirmed that he will interview Trump. However, on X, he certainly hinted at it with the following message: “Do you want to see [Donald Trump] on the podcast?”

• Desperate Kamala’s blasphemous “Detroit” ad: We’re not sure what’s in the water up in Michigan, but it’s making Democrats sick. In the head. How else to explain the offensive and utterly tasteless video posted to Instagram last week in which Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is seen feeding a Doritos chip, communion style, to feminist author Liz Plank, who is suggestively positioned on her knees? Whitmer has since been forced to apologize, but folks of faith won’t soon forget. Nor will they forget the Kamala Harris ad that’s been airing in the Detroit area, where the black vote will likely determine who gets the state’s 15 electoral votes. In a distinctly black male voice, the ad’s narrator talks about the Motor City as if it’s an urban paradise rather than one of the nation’s most dangerous cities. The ad finishes with the narrator saying, “As to … when [Donald Trump] says, ‘Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president’ … he should be so G*d damn lucky.” As if to leave no doubt as to who’s to blame for the blasphemy, we hear a familiar voice immediately afterward: “I’m Kamala Harris, and I approve this message.”

• Gretchen Whitmer apologizes for sexually suggestive video she made with abortion advocate (Daily Wire)

Guns & Crime

• Private property anti-2A NY law struck down: A federal judge in New York has struck down the state’s recent anti-Second Amendment law as an unconstitutional infringement on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The law in question banned licensed firearm owners from carrying a gun on private property unless the owner of the property had explicitly expressed permission to do so via a sign. U.S. District Judge John Sinatra wrote, “At least as to private property open to the public (the subject of this motion), New York’s restriction is unconstitutional. Regulation in this area is permissible only if the government demonstrates that the new enactment is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of sufficiently analogous regulations. New York fails that test here.” Sinatra reasoned that private property owners have the right to exclude firearms from their property, “But the state may not unilaterally exercise that right and, thereby, interfere with the long-established Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens who seek to carry for self-defense on private property open to the public.”

• One dead, nine injured in Nashville shooting near Tennessee State University (Daily Wire)

Misc.

• Hunter Biden’s “art” has suddenly lost value: Well, look at that. Hunter Biden’s “art,” paintings he had sold for as high as $500,000, aren’t going for much these days. In fact, almost nobody is interested in buying them anymore. Since Hunter’s congressional contempt back in January, he’s had no sales. Interestingly, a year prior to that, just 10 people had bought his paintings, though for the ridiculous combined sum of roughly $1.5 million. So, what has changed? The fact that Joe Biden will no longer be in office seems to be the biggest and only factor, even given Hunter’s criminal convictions. As it has been with Hunter his whole professional career, it has been selling access to his father. As art valuation and advisor Charlie Horne observes, “His father is no longer relevant in the maelstrom that is politics. And I think that will hurt the son’s art more than the convictions.” In other words, Hunter’s commodity is now worthless.

• Johnson rejects notion that Congress needs to come back to pass more hurricane relief (Washington Times)

• FEMA webinar says agency moving toward LGBTQIA+ “disaster equity” over helping most people (Daily Wire)

• Pink-haired DEI trainer slams Oregon forestry bosses “for hiring on basis of merit not gender or identity” (UK Daily Mail)

• Biden sends antimissile system and 100 troops to Israel, deepening U.S. role (Washington Post)

• CA denies launching rights to SpaceX because state Dem leaders hate Musk (Hot Air)

• Humor: Nine things Trump could do to guarantee victory in November (Babylon Bee)

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