It’s the Iran War, Stupid

Ann Coulter   

"Moreover, respondents rank immigration the third “most important issue facing the country today,” just after inflation and the economy. The Iran War comes in sixth. (Climate change is 614th.)"

"On a recent New York Times podcast, columnist E.J. Dionne claimed that the “key” to Trump’s “ victory in 2024 was his promise “to bring order to the southern border,” but instead — for some inexplicable reason — he “launched this massive campaign” to deport illegals.

"Great analysis, except Trump never promised to “bring order” to the border. That was Kamala.

Trump’s promises were slightly more grand. In particular, he said — repeatedly — that he would implement “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” His immigration plans were memorialized in panicked Times headlines like these:

"'Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans” (Nov. 11, 2023)

"'Trump Says He Would Try Again to Revoke Haitian Immigrants’ Protections” (Oct. 3, 2024)

"'What if Trump Deported Millions of Immigrants?” (Oct. 22, 2024)

"'Trump’s Deportation Vow Fuels Fear and a Potential Showdown in New York” (Nov. 9, 2024)

"For proposing an immigration crackdown that appalled the Times’ newsroom, he was rewarded on Election Day with a sweep of all seven battleground states, a majority of the popular vote and a newly Republican Senate.

"No Republicans proposed to bring “order” to the border. Under Biden, the border had plenty of “order,” in the sense that the 20 million foreigners sneaking into this country did so with a minimum of pushing and shoving.

"To avoid the mayhem of throngs of people rushing our border, the Biden administration gave third-worlders an app to schedule their illegal crossings, whereupon Border Patrol would dust them off and direct them to the nearest welfare office. True, this was a direct violation of federal law as well as traitorous, but the one thing you couldn’t say was that it lacked order.

"It was Democrats who ran on bringing yet more “order” to the border, meaning they wanted illegals to be admitted even faster." . . .  More.

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You Really Don’t Want Democrats To Win The Midterms

 J. Robert Smith

"The midterms are about more than Trump, Iran, and the price of gas. They reflect an ideological shift among Democrats that could permanently change America’s trajectory."

"So, you’re thinking about sitting out the midterms. Or you might just vote Democrat to protest. The Iran war has dragged on too long, you say. Months rather than weeks hardly make it Vietnam, though. Casualties are minor. Consider: Iran with nuclear weapons would be an uber-terror state. It would pose a 24/7 threat to U.S. security. Victor Davis Hanson is right: Breaking Iran is a gift, yet hard to appreciate now. Higher gas, diesel, and grocery prices are chewing up your budget. No argument. But relief is coming.

"The midterms are playing out in a broader context. They’re threshold elections for Democrats. They’re crossing over into socialism. When you appreciate how extreme their agenda is about to become, maybe it would be wise to temper your disgust with Trump and Republicans? For Democrats, there’s no turning back.

"Democrats aren’t merely jumping the shark. They’ve been moving left since Woodrow Wilson. Once venerated, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are thoroughly reviled by the rank and file. JFK was an outlier.

"Full-throttle socialism is Democrats’ logical destination. And not years from now. With socialism comes rigid top-down governance. “Collective” rights over individual rights. Less is more mantras. A potential climate “holocaust” -- unending kudos to grifter Al Gore -- makes draconian economic policies mandatory. Do you appreciate how “greens” have hobbled Germany’s economy?" . . .More.

J. Robert Smith can be found at X. His handle is @JRobertSmith1. At Gab, @JRobertSmith. Also at Truth Social, @JRobertSmith. He blogs occasionally at Flyover.

The truth got Gored

Silvio Canto, Jr.  

Remember all these lies the next time that some clown is slowing down traffic about climate change. 

Barack and Michelle Obama's beachfront home

"They used to lie with statistics, but now they write books or make alarmist predictions about climate change. I’m so happy that I didn’t sell everything and look for a cave 1,000 miles from the ocean. The oceans didn’t rise and turn the coastal cities into lakes, and the Earth was not grilled out of existence by overwhelming heat.

"All we can do now is enjoy reading how Stephen Moore mocks the alarmists:

“It was 20 years ago that Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth" was published, and ... well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient -- for Al and his band of apocalyptics.

"Hang in there because Mr. Moore is only getting started:

 “Claim: Kilimanjaro's snow would disappear within a decade.

 Truth: The mountain still has ice/snow, although its glaciers have shrunk.

 Claim: Glacier National Park's glaciers will disappear by 2020 or so.

 Truth: No, they have not disappeared. Maybe his timing was just way off.

 Claim: Sea levels could rise by about 20 feet.”

"Pure trash is all you can say about that.

"As someone who loves the environment and doesn’t alarm people like former VP Gore did, let me say that I’m delighted that the predictions turned out to be false. We need convenient truths, not all this crazy stuff about polar bears that scared little children." . . .

Al Gore's Inconvenient Lies – HotAir    

"Given Gore's faulty forecasting record, I keep wondering whether he will be a stand-up guy and admit that his Chicken Little warnings were wrong. Probably not. Falsely predicting the end of the world is making too many people rich. And that really IS an inconvenient truth."

Gavin Newsom Pretends He Governs California, As He Cosplays at the UN Over Climate Change

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell 

"I feel stupider having had to listen to this gasbag of a speech. However, it will be useful as opposition research. The benefit: It is loaded full with fodder for anyone running against Newsom in 2028, with eight years of provably horrible governance and all the receipts to back it up." . . .

"California Governor Gavin Newsom is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly to make fake agreements with world leaders and pontificate about his favorite grift: climate change. 

"Newsom claims he won't run for president in 2028 if former VP and failed 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris chooses to. Yet another hedge by the king of hedges, because while he says one thing out of his mouth, his actions telegraph his true plans. So, what have been Newsom's actions this week? Cosplaying at being presidential while insulting the sitting one, photo ops with fellow communists and world leaders, and signing memorandums of understanding with those who are still all-in on the Green New Scam.

"Thus, climate change and a renewable future comprised much of Newsom's five-minute snooze address before the assembly. Newsom's moments were already filled with maligning President Donald Trump and pontificating about how much smarter California is. His speech continued in that vein of slander and criticism." . . .

. . . "But why let facts get in the way of a good yarn? The most personally offensive part of this yarn: The man who ended the livelihoods of thousands of independent professionals through Assembly Bill 5 claims that California's "entrepreneurial spirit" and "regulatory system" created Elon Musk and Tesla. How much was he smoking when he came up with that one? Particularly since Tesla and Elon Musk are no longer in California, in part thanks to California's regulatory system!"

Love It or Leave It: How to Make a Better America

 Intellectual Takeout  

"We’re witnessing even more people, a mob of left-wing socialists and Antifa rioters, who are open in their hatred not only for Trump, but for their country."

. . . "Skip forward 50 years to early September 2026 when 84-year-old Garfunkel announced that he might leave the United States because of his disgust with Donald Trump. He specifically attacked the president and his administration for their stance on climate change and on their intervention in Venezuela. “I’m not aboard, and I’m thinking of leaving the country, frankly,” he said.

"As soon as this headline popped up, Simon’s “50 Ways” popped into my head. Substitute the world “country” for “lover,” and the song offers perfect advice for Garfunkel.

"First, there’s that opening line, “The problem is all inside your head.” If you’re thinking of leaving the country on account of the president, you’re likely suffering a severe case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), which, by the way, some psychologists view as an illness.

"Then there’s the song’s advice about slipping out the back, hopping on a bus, and getting yourself free. Again, a perfect fit for Garfunkel. We might even add this line to the lyrics: “Pack your bags and depart, Art.”

"Garfunkel’s announcement also brought to my mind a long-ago conversation with a professor and friend at North Carolina’s Guilford College, Dr. Ed Burrows. Burrows was a conscientious objector during World War II who spent time in prison for his beliefs. In 1972, with the fighting in Vietnam ongoing, I asked what he thought of those Americans who had fled to Canada to avoid the draft. He was a kind and gentle man, and a liberal to the core, but he couldn’t quite hide his contempt for them." . . . More.

Assemblyman Warns the 'Free State of California' Is Laying Groundwork for Gas Appliance Ban

California Restaurant Association says Berkeley will halt ban on natural gas piping in new buildings | AP News

"The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to halt enforcement of a ban on natural gas piping in new homes and buildings that was successfully opposed in court by the California Restaurant Association, the organization said.

"The settlement follows the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal to reconsider a 2023 ruling that the ban violates federal law that gives the U.S. government the authority to set energy-efficiency standards for appliances, the association said in a statement last week.

"“While the Ninth Circuit’s ruling renders this particular ordinance unenforceable, Berkeley will continue to be a leader in climate action,” Berkeley City Attorney Farimah Faiz Brown said in an email to The Associated Press.

"The restaurant association said Berkeley agreed to settle the case by taking steps to repeal its ordinance, but because the process will take several months, the city will immediately stop enforcing the ban to comply with the court ruling.

"In 2019, Berkeley became the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on natural gas in new homes and buildings, starting a climate change-driven move in many other cities and counties that morphed into a culture war over the future of gas stoves..

"The California Restaurant Association filed suit in federal court to overturn Berkeley’s ban."  

More.

Assemblyman Warns the 'Free State of California' Is Laying Groundwork for Gas Appliance Ban

CA Democrats just passed SB 1359 as they advance their INSANE plan to BAN all natural gas appliances in every home! If the ban is imposed, experts warn it will cost the average homeowner $30K in retrofit costs to remove gas and convert to all-electric appliances.  WATCH: https://t.co/HYtFHYuxPe

— Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) September 14, 2026

"Not long ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom touted his state as "free" in a failed attempt to attack the Trump administration. California is anything but free, of course. Newsom has been handed multiple losses in courts over unconstitutional laws that violate Californians' right to free speech and guns, he's poised to sign more unconstitutional legislation that would unfairly punish federal ICE agents and bar them from state jobs, and Democrats in Sacramento want to limit what sort of tires you can buy for your car, which they're also imposing a mileage tax on.

"Free."

"Sure, Gavin.

"The state is also on the brink of banning all natural gas appliances in the state, in every single home. This will cost the average California homeowner tens of thousands of dollars to remove gas connections and install electric. On a grid that's notoriously unreliable anyway. Imagine not being able to cook during rolling brownouts.

"Carl DeMaio, a member of the state assembly, is sounding the alarm." . . .

Climate narrative ‘obliterated’: Satellite images reveal massive bedrock collapse beneath glacier in Nepal

"For all the usual suspects whining that "climate change" caused the flood in Tibet, it turns out that it was caused by a collapse of the bedrock, not by melting glaciers." Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach) / X

Climate narrative ‘obliterated’: Satellite images reveal massive bedrock collapse beneath glacier in Nepal – ‘Turns out that the avalanche was triggered by the collapse of bedrock…not the glacier collapsing itself’ – Climate Depot

. . . "Initial satellite images taken on Wednesday were obscured by clouds and debris, making it possible to determine only that a section of the glacier had broken away from Langtang Lirung peak, near Nepal’s border with Tibet. Images taken the following day provided a clearer picture, showing that the bedrock beneath the glacier had also collapsed.

“It looked like there was not only this glacier that had failed, but a much larger chunk of the bedrock of the mountainside itself that had given way,” Shugar said.

Cook, a geomorphologist at Université Grenoble Alpes in France, said the resulting debris buried villages as it slammed into the valley floor. The steep and narrow terrain allowed the debris to maintain its momentum, while melting ice added to the flow of water and mud." . . .

"What caused the floods?
"Scientists had initially pointed to a glacier burst caused by rapid ice melt as a major factor behind the disaster. The US Geological Survey (USGS), which initially faced reports linking the event to an earthquake, later clarified that it was caused by the “break-off of a glacier”." . . .

Just as with TV preachers; here comes the plea for money, or else.

Caught Pushing An Apocalyptic Scenario They Knew Couldn’t Occur, Climate Scientists Are Now Claiming Their Policies Prevented It

"Clique of stealth activists, including the former head of the National Academies of Science, claimed a high-emissions future was possible long after it had been falsified"

Michael Shellenberger

Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist and IPCC lead author; Marcia McNutt, geophysicist and former
president of the National Academies of Science; Gavin Schmidt, climate scientist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies

"Climate policies saved the world from catastrophic warming, say leading climate scientists. On September 1, a consortium that produces analyses for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released new scenarios. They say the new worst-case scenario is just 3.3 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100 over pre-industrial temperatures. That’s down from 4.6 to 4.9 degrees of the last three generations of climate scenarios used by the IPCC. “Our business-as-usual projection of 3C of warming – rather than 4 or 5C – is a testament to the progress in global decarbonization over the last few decades,” wrote climate scientists Zeke Hausfather, Glen Peters, and Piers Forster back in May.

"Others agreed. Chris Smith, a modeler at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis who helped build the new scenarios, told Carbon Brief that “back in 2010, RCP8.5 wasn’t an implausible future, we’ve now made it an implausible future.” Gavin Schmidt, the longtime director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, argued that scenarios shifted “in light of what we (as a society) are doing,” so that “we have already done things and so ‘business’ is no longer ‘usual.’” Robert Vautard, cochair of the IPCC working group on physical science, said the old high scenarios “assumed no climate policies,” while “there ARE now many climate policies in many countries, developed in particular with the Paris Agreement signed in 2016.”

"But the high emissions scenarios were never plausible."  More.  

Watch: Fmr. Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon: ‘Plants Don’t Call CO2 a Pollutant — They Call It Dinner’  

"In this presentation from EIKE-17, Dr. Willie Soon challenges the characterization of carbon dioxide () as a harmful air pollutant. Instead, he presents a scientific case for as the “gas of life” and essential “dinner” for plants (0:02–2:56)."

Get Ready for the Democrats’ Season of Bloodthirst

 PJ Media

  . . . "Those are the forces the Republicans are up against, and they are legion. Regardless of how you feel about the price of gas or groceries, we are in a battle between good and evil. The very least you can do is make sure these people lose on Election Day and lose big."

"In order for the Democrats to take control of the culture and ultimately the government, people have to die. It’s just a fact. As much as the left likes to blame conservatives for killing people for not wearing masks, not getting vaccinated, and for ignoring the lies of climate change and transgenderism, the movement that is fully reliant on violence and death is the left, and more specifically the 2026 version of the Democrat Party.

"In the coming weeks, you’re going to be treated to unapologetic displays from the left, celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the radical Islamic attacks on America from 25 years ago on 9/11. For every sober and respectful commemoration event, it will feel like there are two or more disgusting displays from the left that can only appeal to the savage instincts of its base.

"This has already started. My colleague David Manney wrote about a recent Hasan Piker event, where he sang a song in celebration of the murder of Kirk, sparking the leftist crowd in attendance to cheer.

“'During a live performance of his Fear& podcast, Piker led a packed theater in a mocking rendition of ‘We Are Charlie Kirk,’ a tribute song that appeared after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University last Sept. 10.

"His co-hosts laughed, the audience cheered and sang along, and Piker later posted a photo from the show with the caption, ‘Carried the flame in.’” . . .   More...

Tim O’Brien is a veteran communications and crisis management consultant. He’s the author of The Essential Crisis Communications Plan: A crisis management process that fits your culture, available on Amazon. He’s the host of the Shaping Opinion podcast on Substack and all of the major video and audio podcast platforms.  

When Will The Climate Liars Stop Lying? – Issues & Insights

 Issues & Insights  

We’re supposed to believe that water from polar ice sheet and glacier melting caused by human-caused global warming flows into the oceans and spreads toward the equator, shifting “mass away from Earth’s poles,” slowing the rotation.

"For nearly 40 years, the global warming cabal has spread fear and wasted resources on an emergency that doesn’t exist. While their influence has begun to wane, as their credibility has crashed and their lies have been exposed, the fabrications, exaggerations, and junk science continue. How much longer must we endure their campaign of rancid propaganda?

"The dawning moment of the global warming movement was NASA scientist James Hansen’s June 1988 testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

“'In my opinion,” he told lawmakers, “the greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now.”

There was evidence, he insisted, “that the Earth is warming by an amount which is too large to be a chance fluctuation and the similarity of the warming to that expected from the greenhouse effect represents a very strong case.”

"And yet 38 years later, there’s been no climate catastrophe.

"Reality hasn’t slowed the flood of lies, though. Let’s take a look at a few.

"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee reflexively blamed his state’s wildfires on climate change. Soon thereafter, a man was arrested in connection with one of the three fires burning through Spokane County and has been questioned in arson investigations into other fires. And as our friends at Power Line have noted, wildfire damage in terms of acres burned peaked nearly a century ago and, in fact, is down more than 80%.

"NPR wants Americans to believe “climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break,” which has become “increasingly dangerous through heat, wildfire smoke, floods, and storms.” Retired meteorologist Anthony Watts says “the premise is false, ridiculous even,” with NPR relying “almost entirely on anecdotes rather than evidence.”

“What has changed is not that summer suddenly became dangerous. What has changed is the media’s insistence on framing ordinary weather challenges as catastrophic symptoms of dangerous climate change.” . . . More...

Does Climate Change Cause Forest Fires? | Power Line    . . . "If “climate change” doesn’t cause forest fires, what does? Arsonists. The recent fires in Spain and France appear to have been deliberately set, and the same is true for the fire near Spokane that former Governor Jay Inslee blamed on “climate change.”. . . 

JAY INSLEE, MEET "CLIMATE CHANGE"
Yesterday, former Governor Jay Inslee blamed the devastating Spokane fires on "climate change" with no evidence.
Today, Aaron Farinacci was arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire. He was previously… pic.twitter.com/vRALtRshLc

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) August 4, 2026

Beyond Fraud: Citizen Journalists Unmask Crazy Government Waste

 Issues & Insights

"Nick Shirley, the young man who has been putting “professional” journalists to shame with his on-site reporting on rampant Medicaid fraud, released another video exposing schemes in New York, these involving senior centers for elderly Koreans and Chinese.

"One that he visited, an adult day care in Flushing, claims to have nearly 8,000 members, for which it bills Medicaid $1,600 each. But even an employee admits that the number is wildly inflated. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Shirley. 

“We uncovered over $190,000,000 in fraud,” Shirley says, “through adult and personal home care scams in NYC. Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give $ kickbacks to those who enroll.”

The mainstream media has pooh-poohed Shirley’s work (no doubt while lounging at their desks), but he continues to show them up with the kind of shoe-leather, public-service reporting that journalists used to do.

While Shirley’s work is important, he’s looking at only part of the problem. There is no question that outright fraud against federal entitlement programs is rampant. And we hope the fraudsters face swift and sure judgment and that laws are changed to stop fraud at the source. (See “The Fraud Industry Is Thriving, And Guess Who’s Happy About It.”)

But not all government fraud is illegal. In fact, we’d say that legal fraud is an even bigger scam than what Shirley is uncovering.

This fraud involves lawmakers opening the spending floodgates for projects that line the pockets of unions and politically connected businesses, while doing nothing to improve the lives of the taxpayers who foot the bill. And this is a decidedly bipartisan scam. And it needs just as much attention as the schemes Shirley is documenting.

For example, Bess Byers, a digital marketing specialist at Reason magazine, took viewers to a slab of sidewalk that taxpayers spent just under $1 million to repave — in the name of climate change." . . .

Meet James Talarico, Radical DEI Activist and 'Defund the Police' Promoter

 HotAir

"Time to start spending some money to define Talarico for exactly what he is: a progressive wolf in "centrist" sheep's clothing." 

. . . "Democrats have tried to package the state legislator as a centrist who can connect with Texans in the suburbs, exurbs, and rural precincts of the Lone Star State. They hope especially to push his time in a Presbyterian seminary as a way to connect to Christian voters, particularly with the controversial Ken Paxton as his Republican opponent. As the Free Beacon reported yesterday, however, Talarico has spent his political career advancing a radical-progressive agenda aimed particularly at public schools, and joined forces with a group seeking to "defund the police" in Austin: . . ."

James Talarico trained at seminary that teaches social justice-based preaching: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

. . . "The school’s public theology focus area also offers several biblical interpretation classes that analyze gospel text through a liberal lens, such as “Bi.315: Womanist and Feminist Readings of the New Testament,” “Bi.240: Activism and Old Testament Scriptures,” and “Bi.195: Immigration and the Old Testament.”

"Other course options within the public theology discipline include “TH.206: Environmental Ethics,” which covers climate change and “environmental racism,” and “TH.310: Social Justice,” an introductory class to social justice theory.

"The seminary mandates that students in the Master of Divinity program wishing to concentrate in public theology take three elective courses of their choosing from a list largely consisting of similarly styled classes structured around social justice discussions." . . .

Explaining James Talarico’s theology   . . . "Talarico has stated that “Jesus never said anything” about abortion, transgenderism, or gay marriage. In his view, Mary’s agreement to become the mother of the Messiah means that “creation has to be done with consent,” affirming what abortion activists call “reproductive rights” for women. Speaking against a bill restricting transgender student athletes, he stated that “God is nonbinary

"In an interview with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, Talarico said he believes “Christianity points to the truth,” but “other religions of love point to the same truth.” He views Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism as “circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos. And that truth is inherently a mystery.” Because he is a student at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the media often characterizes him as a “Bible scholar.”

"Talarico’s positions are consistent with a stream of theology often called “liberalism.” Where does it come from? How are we to understand its core beliefs in light of biblical truth?" . . .

Rising Texas Dem Talarico faces backlash for 'creepy' remark about trans kids

  . . . "In the same speech, Talarico also said that "God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary."

"At the end of his speech, Talarico shared a message to children directly, saying, "To the trans kids watching at home, I just want to say, I love you and so do a lot of people in this room, and so do a lot of people around this big state. I know it may not seem like it tonight, but you are loved beyond measure."

3 Ways To Escape the Doom-And-Gloomers

Intellectual Takeout 

 "Of these three weapons against our age of negativity, gratitude is the most powerful. Sadly, though gratitude is called the “parent of all virtues,” it’s amazing how few people practice it."

"For most of the 21st century, a mob of Grinches has controlled American culture and politics.

"These are the Chicken Littles who have wailed that “climate change” would doom the planet. They are the sorcerers who declare that men can become women and vice-versa, who despite the blood-stained evidence of a hundred years proclaim the virtues of communism, who reinstituted racism through DEI initiatives. They are the iconoclasts who tore down statues and mocked the Constitution, the educators who have graduated legions of young people who can barely read or cipher and know almost nothing of history, the politicians who pontificate about problems without having the spine to tackle them.

"The results? An embarrassing number of Americans now lay claim to some sort of victimhood. A record number suffer from emotional and mental illnesses. Irrationality in public affairs now seems the norm. The country has become so divided that even the sexes have gone to war with each other.

"Perhaps worst of all, optimism, that can-do attitude that was once a hallmark of the American spirit, seems as dead as our knowledge of the past. In his 1902 book “As a Man Thinketh,” James Allen writes of men and women, “As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”

"The idea is old, but how often do we keep it in mind? If we’re daily surrounded by mostly negative thoughts and fail to keep them at bay, then we’ll become those thoughts, just as Allen says. Imagine the state of America today had our ancestors been so drenched by these downpours of negative thinking.

"So, what are some ways we can intentionally channel our thinking out of this swamp and into the brighter waters of a living stream? How can we reorient ourselves toward realistic optimism?" . . .More...