Elon Musk, right-wing figures push misinformation about Pelosi attack (Washington Post) No mention, of course, of Narrative Media and tehir pushing left-wing misinformation.

January 6 committee obtains eight emails showing possible planning of post-election crime (CNN)

‘SNL’ takes on notable Republicans before the midterm elections (CNN) My, what a surprise.

Republicans blame ‘both sides’ for political violence after Paul Pelosi attack (Washington Post) They had to put the scare-quotes around ‘both sides’ so you would realize that it’s only one side, the Republicans, to blame.

Don’t blame ‘both sides.’ The right is driving political violence. (Washington Post) Max Boot makes the witch-hunt explicit.

Even The Goodwill Cancels Kanye West, Bans Yeezy Shoes From Stores  I guess even Goodwill has a limit.

Russians Used a US Firm to Funnel Funds to GOP in 2018. Dems Say the FEC Let Them Get Away With It. (Mother Jones) Dems say! That proves it!

Indian government creates body with power to order social media content takedowns

CBS’s Margaret Brennan Tries to Pin Political Violence on Republican Rep’s Tweet

Laxalt campaign paid thousands to political operative linked to Twitter account that denigrated Jews, women (Jewish Insider) Linked! And the witch-hunt continues.

Pelosi Attacker Was Progressive and Mentally Ill, Says Ex-Girlfriend

Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, tweets conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi (CNN) And the witch-hunt continues.

MSNBC Hosts Misleadingly Link Crime to GOP States (with Democrat Cities In Them)

Right-wing ‘zombie’ papers attack Illinois Democrats ahead of elections (NPR) According to the Law of Liberal Projection, this means that Democrats are planning to do this very thing.

In Pennsylvania, the Big Lie Is Spreading Its Roots (Bloomberg)

Election denier Mark Finchem’s sleeper campaign closes in on MAGA prize (Washington Post)

Dr. Oz’s Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers (Rolling Stone) These kinds of ‘stories’ are going to metastatize as the election grows nearer.

Morning Joe Blames Paul Pelosi Attack on ‘Republican Propaganda, Trump-Fueled Fascism’  If Joe says X, it’s usually safe to believe not-X.

Reuters Editor Freaks World ‘Worse Off’ with Musk Twitter Ownership

Republicans amplify misinformation, falsehoods about attack on Paul Pelosi (Washington Post) And the witch-hunt continues.

Prominent conservatives share online disinformation about Paul Pelosi assault (Politico) And the witch-hunt continues….

‘The Nation’: Musk Trying to Turn Twitter Into ‘Far Right Forum’  And the witch-hunt continues….

Twitter Bans Conservatives, Including Heritage Foundation Expert, One Week Before Midterm Elections

The right-wing ecosystem that created the Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory (Media Matrters) Mat Gertz continues the witch-hunt….

ABC, NBC Lash Out Over Supreme Court Hearing Affirmative Action Case

What Is J.D. Vance Doing? (Slate) The witch-hunt goes into high gear as the election approaches.

Company Backed by J.D. Vance Gives Platform for Russian Propaganda (N.Y. Times)

CBS or DNC? ’60 Minutes’ Helps Democrats With Late Hit Piece on Arizona ‘Election Deniers’

Republicans have made violence part of their brand (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is back from vacation and promptly loses her shit. (BLM is part of the Republican brand? Antifa is part of the Republican brand?)

Doctor Compares Crisis Pregnancy Centers to ‘Terrorists’ During Democrat-Led Hearing

Global anger at Sunak’s Cop27 snub that raises fears over UK’s climate crisis stance (The Guardian) Global anger! At least among the transnational bureaucrats….

Rishi Sunak could still attend COP27 climate summit (BBC)

Major Massachusetts offshore wind project no longer viable (New Bedford Light)

Busking Brit crosses Iraq on his way to COP27 without flying (Reuters)

Amnesty International Condemns Prosecution of Ambulance Blocking Climate Protestors

English sparkling wines challenge champagne, thanks to climate change

COP27 At Sharm El Sheikh: Africa’s Chance to Break from Climate Colonialism

Nature Geoscience: “Eastern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet HAS GROWN Over Last 20 Years”

Mandela Barnes: ‘Oil Is Destroying the World’

An innovative nasal vaccine strategy to combat COVID (News-Medical)

New Compound Discovered That Destroys the MRSA Superbug (SciTech Daily)

Researchers discover how hydroquinine inhibits major drug-resistant bacteria (News-Medical)

Flu season off to early start, CDC says (CBS)

What you need to know about covid boosters and the latest research (Washington Post)

Flu and RSV can fuse into a new kind of virus  Thus guaranteeing that we’ll have another PANIC!

All Stop on the mRNA Vaccines

‘Holy Crap’: Soros-Funded ProPublica Admits Validity of COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory

Politico Publishes ELEVEN Pelosi Home Break-In Stories at Top of Front Page

Vegan woman left ‘almost in tears’ after eating meat-based Burger King meal (Fox) Poor iddle baby.

Washington state school district appoints board director who once labeled cops ‘pigs,’ encouraged riots (Fox)

Editorial: 5 reasons to reject the keep and bear arms amendment (Des Moines Register)

Obamacare premiums are rising 4 percent but more aid is still available (Washington Post)

Chris Cuomo demands new time slot at NewsNation as ratings tank: sources (N.Y. Post)

Gov. Hochul’s SUVs are cloaked from traffic cameras (N.Y. Post)

The Military-Industrial Media Complex Strikes Again

Shellenberger: Pelosi & Kavanaugh Murder-Plots Expose Media Double-Standard

“Textbook Marxism”: Amendment 1 Would Be A Dream Come True For Chicago Teachers Union To Make Its Most Radical Demands

Hate and hoaxes at Twitter headquarters as Musk takes over

Government Unions, Progressive Donors Finance Assault on Pennsylvania’s Charter Schools

Teachers Unions Pay To Send Falsehoods to Massachusetts Voters

Actress Elizabeth Banks on NPR: Abortion Is ‘Our Society’s Insurance Policy’ for Easy Sex  Sex good, babies bad.

Newly Hired Restaurant Hostess Receives Ceremonial Nose Ring  (Babylon Bee)

Hungary closing public facilities due to soaring cost of energy (EuroNews)

Russia Would Agree to Talks to End Ukraine War on These Conditions: Kremlin (Newsweek)

Will Putin Drop a Nuclear Bomb on Ukraine? Here’s What Americans Think (Newsweek)

US, NATO, EU Condemn Russia on Grain Deal

Finland Says Ukraine Arms Ending Up In Hands Of Criminal Gangs

US Plans to Deploy B-52 Bombers to Australia’s North: Source

“Let’s Get Out Of NATO”: Discontent Soars Across Europe As Russian Sanctions Backfire

Ukraine: Barrage of Russian Strikes on Key Infrastructure

Wheat Prices Jump After Russia Exits Grain Deal; UN Races To Save Agreement

Much Of Ukrainian Capital Without Power & Water After New Russian Airstrikes

Twitter fact-checks Biden claim on corporations making billions (Fox)

CEOs fixing Biden’s Saudi oil mess because he won’t (N.Y. Post)

U.S. Execs Jet Off to ‘Davos in the Desert’ Despite Biden’s Warning to Saudis (Daily Beast)

Biden admin accuses Arizona of trespassing by building barrier on U.S.-Mexico border (Fox)

US Financial And Political Leadership: An Embarrassing Shadow Of Its Former Self

GOP reaches deeper into Biden-land (Axios)

TRUTH COPS Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation

Weekend at Biden’s

Like Trump, Elon Musk reveals a vapid mind super-charged by wealth and ego (The Guardian) And yet he’s founded several successful companies, made billions of dollars, and you’re still just a scribbler nobody’s heard of for a left-wing newspaper in a country not your own. How do you account for that?

GOP Strategists: AG Garland to Indict Trump After Midterms

Trump Calls Attack on Paul Pelosi a ‘Terrible Thing’ as He Rails Against Crime  So much for the Narrative.

Deranged: The View Forces Little Kids to Dress in Mar-a-Lago Raid Costumes

Supreme Court considers Harvard and University of North Carolina’s use of affirmative action. Here’s what you need to know (CNN) Get yer fresh hot Narrative here!

Affirmative Action and Racial Prejudice

Meet the Left-Wing Health Group Citing the Boy Scouts of America To Justify Excluding Whites From a Prestigious Fellowship 

Historically diverse Supreme Court hears disproportionately from White lawyers ‘Disproportionate’ to what? Or to whom? How is legal talent ‘proportionate’ to anything?

Today’s Marxist Leftists Want to Keep Minorities Trapped in Permanent Victimhood

ESPN Millionaire Smith Whines He’s Underpaid Because He’s Black

This Dem Congressman Had a Years-Long Affair With an Intern. Now, His Ex-Wife Says He’s Threatening Her To Keep Quiet.

Read it.

A new city law going into effect on Tuesday will require companies with at least four employees to post salary ranges for openings, even if the jobs involve remote or hybrid work.

This could be entertaining. I wonder how much this will accelerate the moves to Florida.

Read it.

Jack Algiere has always been a tinkerer. As a child in the 1980s, he would repair and swap out engines in the broken equipment on his family’s farm, often figuring out exactly what he was building as he went along. “It’s just part of growing up on a farm,” he said. “We made it work, and we made it.”

Algiere grew up in an era when it was second nature for farmers to fix their equipment—before farm equipment manufacturers like John Deere and others started incorporating proprietary software, parts, and tools only accessible to authorized dealerships.

Now, amid a growing “right to repair” movement pushing farm equipment manufacturers to shift their practices, some have gone a step further by calling for a new, production model altogether, built on an open-source system. Under this model, farm equipment is designed to be easily modified and repaired by relying on accessible, universal parts, while sharing or licensing the design specifications and source code.

Read it.

Technology capable of collecting solar power in space and beaming it to Earth to provide a global supply of clean and affordable energy was once considered science fiction. Now it is moving closer to reality. Through the Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP), a team of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researchers is working to deploy a constellation of modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electricity, then wirelessly transmit that electricity wherever it is needed. They could even send it to places that currently have no access to reliable power.

“This is an extraordinary and unprecedented project,” says Harry Atwater, an SSPP researcher and Otis Booth Leadership Chair of Caltech’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science. “It exemplifies the boldness and ambition needed to address one of the most significant challenges of our time, providing clean and affordable energy to the world.”

Atwater, who is also the Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, leads the project jointly with two other researchers: Ali Hajimiri, Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and co-director of SSPP; and Sergio Pellegrino, Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, co-director of SSPP, and a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Jerry Pournelle pushed this idea for decades.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

This Washington Free Beacon editorial includes Nancy Pelosi’s fundraising appeal on the back of the attack on her husband. The Free Beacon editorial responds to the call for Republicans to “spend the final week of the campaign sitting one bench, reflecting, atoning” for the attack on Paul Pelosi. Minnesota 6h District Rep. and NRCC chairman Tom Emmer received the impassioned instruction of Margaret Brennan for Republicans to quit their lowdown ways and lay off Nancy Pelosi (video below). Brennan hosts CBS’s Deface the Nation, as Rush used to call it.

ZMan keeps you up to date.

Last week the people in charge of Penn State University decided to get in the way-back machine and relive the alt-right days. They invited onto campus a bogeyman so that the usual suspects could engage in performative protesting. They invited internet performers Gavin McInnis and Alex Stein to talk to a student group. A group of entitled children was then invited to throw a tantrum outside the event. Eventually, the school cancelled the event for security reasons.

The only people interested in any of it was the regime media that has yet to find a new set of bogeymen to replace those from the Trump years. McInnis went along with it because it is all he has at this point. His edgy right-wing guy act fell apart with the Proud Boys fiasco and dissidents have no interest in him. Alex Stein is trying to be the Matthew Lesko of ambush comedy, so this provided him with a chance to do his act in front of some purple faced coeds for the streaming audience.

The main takeaway from the event is that the white supremacist bogeyman act has run its course and the regime has found nothing to replace it. As a result, the usual suspects are resurrecting old villains like McInnes. The term “Proud Boys” is still something of a dog whistle for the crazies, even though the rest of the world lost interest in the whole thing years ago. It is sort of like how Nixon remained a villain for the crazies well into the 1980’s, after the world had moved onto Reagan.

Freeberg has some insight.

On this “fake it ’til you make it” thing…

It occurs to me that we could think of this as how humans are built. We settle ourselves into communities, and at the community level a decision is made somehow about whether we’ll put up with fakery. This is why certain people don’t fit into certain communities. If you’ve watched people for a very long time like I have, you’ll notice certain people don’t fit into certain places: Alice invites Bob to live in Aliceville, and when Bob makes the move, things don’t click. Like much of nature, this is a simple thing until you take the time to study it, at which point you discover layers of complexity. “Bob couldn’t make it because Bob is a jerk” makes perfect sense, until Bob relocates to Bobtown, where he gets along just fine. Then: “Alice can live in Aliceville but Bob is relegated to Bobtown because Aliceville has a higher standard…and Bob’s a jerk” makes perfect sense. Until the day Alice visits Bobtown and can barely stand it. Then, you could keep things simple by saying: “Alice is a giver, and the people of Aliceville make it tolerable for her because they’re not a bunch of manic takers like the inhabitants of Bobtown who just take take take, until she has nothing left to give.” Which, again, makes perfect sense. Until you find the citizens of Bobtown are kindly counseling Alice, on her way out of town, not to let the doorknob hit her in the ass.

Deductive reasoning makes it clear, therefore, there’s something deeper and more complicated happening here. Neither side has a monopoly on civil behavior, or mutually rewarding associations. There must be flavors of communities; unwritten codes of conduct.

…

All the people have the “but” in their “I’m a tolerant person, but.”

All the communities have the “but” in their “We’re an accepting and broad-minded community, but.”

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

…only contains a few plays. We saw one of them a couple of days ago with the attack on Paul Pelosi. Nothing says “MAGA” like a deranged gay nudist drug addict who lives in a hippie commune with Black Lives Matter signs, but when has logic ever gotten in the way of Democratic talking points? (As everyone with any sense anticipated, the Pelosi story continues to get weirder. More on that below.)

Most people don’t realize that only days before the Pelosi incident, someone burglarized one of Arizona governor candidate Katie Hobbs’s campaign offices. OMG! GOP nominee Kari Lake, who is crushing Hobbs in the polls, was obviously to blame. At least, that is what Hobbs and the Democratic Party claimed.

What the Supreme Court justices have said on affirmative action and race (Washington Post)

Supreme Court advancing ‘White supremacy’ if it rules against Harvard affirmative action policy: MSNBC guest (Fox)

Kanye West’s antisemitism did what his anti-Blackness did not. And some people have a problem with that (CNN)

Kanye West’s voice is just one in a rising chorus of antisemitism (The Guardian)

2020 Census Errors Affect Elections, Aid Blue States, Hurt Red States

For Chicago schools parking deal, Board of Ed turned to Lori Lightfoot fundraiser (Chicago Sun-Times)

After Roe, abortion’s underground railroad gains steam (Politico)

Radical Gender Ideology Invades Small-Town Schools

Bitter Clingers: How Mainstream Journalists Mourn the Loss of Cultural Supremacy

Why Do Easily Replaced Women Workers Have So Much Power at Media Companies?  Perhaps because their easy replacements will be just as bad, so what’s the point? If the peasants are revolting, there is little prospect of finding less revolting peasants.

People are Taking the Robots’ Jobs

NYC Hates Its Middle-Class Homeowners

Lula Supporters Accuse Meta Of Fueling ‘Election Disinformation’ As Brazilians Head To Polls

Illegal immigration set records this year, but Democrats kept border funding flat (Fox)

With a possible surge of Haitian migrants ahead, the Biden admin is weighing holding them in a third country or Guantanamo (NBC) This appears to be the Deep State playbook: (1) Stick our nose into the business of some foreign country; (2) Act totally surprised when it goes badly wrong; (3) Open the borders to the hordes who immediately head for the U.S.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

Biden Claims There Are ’54 States’ In Latest Gaffe  Well, in addition to the normal fifty, he’s got Confusion, Denial, Dementia, and Corruption.

Russia’s Lavrov Needles Biden Over Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine

Fentanyl Strikes the West Coast, Killing Thousands

Greenpeace accused of greenwashing Egypt’s image ahead of Cop27 (The Guardian)

7 leaders share what’s needed now for climate action ahead of COP27 (World Economic Forum)

How anti-fatness crept into the environmental sustainability movement (The Guardian)

COP27: India can’t be expected to pay for climate sins of the West (Times of India)

How United Airlines expects electric planes to change the way passengers make travel decisions (CNBC)

How Climate Change Influences Temperatures in 1,000 Cities Around the World (Inside Climate News)

Study: 96% of humans have ‘felt’ global warming (Bangkok Post)

How big coal companies avoid cleaning up their messes (NPR)

‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm (The Guardian)

‘Our horses are ready’: Native Americans and white farmers form an unlikely alliance to oppose a pipeline in the Dakotas (NBC)

Climate crisis fuelling unseasonably warm October in UK and Europe, say experts (The Guardian)

How super-hot rocks miles under the earth’s surface could provide limitless clean energy (CNBC)

Natural gas ban threats spark fear for restaurants (The Hill)

Fuel company issues diesel shortage warning, says conditions ‘rapidly devolving’ (Fox)

Climate-Proof Towns Are Popping Up Across the U.S. But Not Everyone Can Afford To Live There (TIME)

Climate Change Weekly #451: Green Energy Revolution Hits Energy Reality Wall

Guardian: World Close to “Irreversible Climate Breakdown”  As it has been for the last fifty years, if you read the Narrative Media.

Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones

The World is Transitioning to Fossil Fuels

Some healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 show unexpectedly low responses to immunizations (News-Medical)

The CDC is now tracking a new immune-evasive Omicron variant spiking in Ukraine that’s evading treatment (Fortune)

Poliovirus that paralyzed unvaccinated NY man in July is still spreading (Ars Technica)

Italy to end ban on health workers not vaccinated against Covid (Reuters)

Put your masks back on, please (Washington P0st) I miss the PANIC!

NY Times ‘News’ Headline: ‘Democrats Say Racism Is the Real Messaging’ in GOP Crime Ads

Scandal-Plagued MAGA Candidate Has Even More Wild Secrets (Daily Beast)

Oil companies rake in huge profits amid consumer squeeze (The Hill)

White House rejects promoting general involved in Capitol riot response (Washington Post)

I visited Monaco, one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Here are the 12 most over-the-top examples of luxury I saw. (Insider)

Ousted Twitter top lawyer made calls to ban Trump, censor Hunter Biden laptop story (Fox)

How Samuel Alito’s hypocrisy is fueling the crisis at the Supreme Court (MSNBC)

Will plunging shares end big tech’s era of ‘pornographic’ profits? (The Guardian)

Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert (Denver Post) Not so much for Democrats as against Republicans.

Only the GOP Celebrates Political Violence (The Atlantic) David Frum obviously doesn’t read the news.

NPR-Affiliate Flunkies Make ‘Deranged’ Attempt to Tie Elise Stefanik to Paul Pelosi Attacker

‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens by RIPPING Republican Candidates as Morons and Menaces  My, what a surprise.

White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Re-Banned From Twitter (Daily Beast)

NBC’s Todd Worries Inflation Will Elect Republicans Like Kari Lake

Elon Musk, in a Tweet, Shares Link From Site Known to Publish False News (N.Y. Times) One could say the same for anyone tweeting a link to the New York Times–or the Washington Post.

Elon Musk, new owner of Twitter, tweets unfounded, anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack (NBC) The witch-hunt continues….

Elon Musk, right-wing figures push misinformation about Pelosi attack (Washinton Post) The witch-hunt continues….

Elon Musk tweet promotes baseless anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack (S.F. Chronicle)  The witch-hunt continues….

Why Trump Is Ramming Piles of Cash Through a Campaign Loophole (Daily Beast) And why our obsession with Trump leads us to ignore people like George Soros.

How Releasing Trump’s Tax Returns Could Save Our Democracy (Daily Beast) In the Narrative Media, ‘our democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Curioser and curioser.

Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — including the eyebrow-raising news that Pelosi referred to his assailant as a “friend” when calling police.

Here’s an updated account as it’s been reported by the Los Angeles Times and various other media outlets citing police sources — along with some perspective on popular speculation about the incident.

After reportedly breaking through a rear door in the very early hours of Friday morning, DePape entered the house and at some point confronted Pelosi.

If you look at the picture of the broken window, you’ll notice that a lot of broken glass appears to be on the outside, whereas if someone were breaking in it would be on the inside.

Read it.

The elephant in the room, of course, is the question: If they didn’t do it, who did?  A question that nobody at the New York Times appears interested in asking, much less answering.

Maybe the Slimes ought to hire an investigative reporter … if they can find one.

Read it.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked by a man with a hammer at the couple’s home in San Francisco early Friday morning. CNN has strung a series of reports on the attack here. CNN’s first report of the assault was posted at 11:08 a.m. on October 28. By 2:25 p.m. Gavin Newsom had attributed the attack to “divisive and hateful rhetoric.” By 7:25 p.m. President Biden had observed that assaulter’s query — “Where’s Nancy?” — was the same one used during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

Defamation dies in darkness. The Washington Post therefore assigned three reporters to the case. By 7:00 a.m. on October 29 the Post had nailed it down: “Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband follows years of GOP demonizing her.” The subhead was equally unsubtle: “A man with right-wing views who broke into the House speaker’s home yelled ‘Where is Nancy?’ before assaulting Paul Pelosi with a hammer, police say.” The Post must have capitalized “Where is Nancy” to indicate it’s part of the right-wing code.

Michael Shellenberger has taken note. Shellenberger is the long time Bay-area resident and author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (2021). Shellenberger finds the attacker — David DePape — to be more in the grip of a drug-induced psychosis than ideology-induced fanaticism.

The speculation I’ve seen on the web, granted among people who have even less respect for the Pelosis than I do (zer0), characterize it as a Grindr date gone wrong. This is usually followed by an assertion that the truth won’t come out until after the election because Democrat apparatchiks fear the truth’s effect on their electoral prospects.

I guess we’ll find out….

Read it.

Film writer Sonny Bunch once argued that radical environmentalists make great super-villains because they are unshakably convinced of the rightness of their cause, and just as unshakably determined to make everybody’s lives worse. If we take that observation and scale it down from Marvel movie to farce, we get the latest environmentalist protest trend, which feeds green fanatics’ sense of self-righteousness while alienating just about everyone else.

Read it.

(The Atlantic got something wrong? Sah it ain’t so!)

In September, the Atlantic published an article headlined “Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense.” In it, author Maggie Mertens bemoans the fact that “many people still view sports as a perfectly reasonable venue in which to enforce exclusion on the basis of sex” and seeks to explain why this is a misguided position.

Here we go again. The headline told me where things were headed. A strange trend had emerged on the left: many progressives were feverishly insisting that biological sex “isn’t real,” or is so complicated that it’s silly to say someone has a sex in a stable sense. These bizarre claims were being disseminated for one reason: to undercut arguments that trans women aren’t “real” women, or that trans men aren’t “real” men. The thinking goes that once people realize these claims are bigoted and empirically false, it will greatly accelerate society’s path toward trans acceptance.

This is a fundamentally confused position. Until very recently, everyone understood that sex (being male or female) and gender identity (feeling like one is male or female, if you believe in that sort of thing) are two very different concepts, and that arguments for trans rights don’t — can’t — rely on the idea of trans women, for example, literally being women. But the orthodoxy changed swiftly. These days, not only is the sentence I just wrote considered dangerously close to hate speech, uttering the term “biological sex” makes you a dinosaur. We’re supposed to say “sex assigned at birth,” as though delivery-room nurses are flipping coins.

Read it.

The subtitle is Why Insurance Markets Fail and What To Do About It, and the authors are the highly regarded Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Ray Fisman. The level is a bit above what could make this book a bestseller, but I consider that a good thing. The book in fact is a classic example of how to present economic research in readable, digestible form and should be regarded as such.

People don’t spend a lot of time thinking about insurance–nothing is more boring than an insurance salesman, per the conventional wisdom–but insurance is one of the pillars of modern civilization (in the same way that sewage removal is a necessary requirement of modern cities).

Read it.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

By universal consent, the most powerful force in Minnesota politics is the teachers’ union, Education Minnesota. In my opinion, Education Minnesota is the state’s number one source of evil. My organization, Center of the American Experiment, has been fighting for years to counter the teachers’ union’s malign influence.

We are the only effective challenge to their power. Among other things, we have exposed the fact that the union spends much more money on left-wing politics than on representing its members. We have also exposed the fact that, contrary to myth, Minnesota’s public schools can fairly be described as failing their students.

So Education Minnesota hates us. Yesterday, it sent out this missive to its members and, I suppose, friends and supporters.

Read it.

Once a term gets widely adopted by the press, and earns itself a space in dictionaries, it becomes challenging to argue that the thing the term stands for does not really exist.

A good example is ‘capitalism’, a term with a precise meaning (by Marx) that most people use as if it were a synonym for ‘industrialism’.

At least this is the case with the “techlash.” A term which is everywhere, even as the thing that it names can be a bit trickier to pin down.

Read it.

Germany’s social welfare bureaucracy is currently overwhelmed due the huge numbers of migrants — from Ukraine and elsewhere — burdening the system. Who could have foreseen that a situation such as this might ever arise?

Read it.

So is Hillary once again an election denier, this time preemptively? What on God’s green Earth is she talking about? She refers to a case that comes before the Supreme Court this term, Moore v. Harper, which is actually intensely interesting.

Read it.

A politicized Department of Justice is hunting down enemies of the state in the form of pro-life activists, parents concerned about the sexualization of their children at public schools, and supporters of his presidential opponent. All are now labeled “domestic terrorists.”

The government is colluding with big tech to silence views contrary to the official government positions; preventing them from being voiced on social media platforms. Dissent from “accepted” positions on public health, transgender issues, vote fraud, and the mental acuity of the President are censored by social media with the collusion of the government. Gun control is a priority of this government as is increased taxation.

Yet all is not lost. The censors are being challenged in the courts, with people fired or canceled for unpopular views being restored to their jobs. Yesterday, Elon Musk took over Twitter, firing its chief censor. He is opening the platform to all opinions. Most importantly, a week from this upcoming Tuesday, voters get their opportunity to weigh in. They can replace their elected representatives, sending the ones favoring silencing political opponents with ones favoring free debate of the issues.

Read it.

The assault on Paul Pelosi is bringing out all the armchair detectives and grifters that are trying to use the attack to satisfy and reinforce their own political narratives. The attacker alone and no one else is responsible for his behavior.

As a former police officer, I found that the majority of mentally ill individuals I dealt with were receiving auditory messages rather than hallucinations. Drug users might be an exception depending upon the drug they were ingesting. Not all auditory input is disembodied voices. The internet provides any number of theories that can reinforce the delusions of the mentally ill.

Read it.

Read it.

We have the technology.

Omicron subvariants resistant to key antibody treatments are increasing every week in the U.S. (CNBC) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

So far, this flu season is more severe than it has been in 13 years (Washington Post) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Flu season in the US hasn’t been this bad this early in more than a decade. Now is the time to get a flu shot (CNN) But first you need to PANIC!

‘Scrabble variants’ now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US (CNN) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

‘Nightmare’ and ‘Scrabble’: How Worried Should You Be About New COVID Variants? (NBC)

Why our third COVID winter could be a ‘variant soup’ — but also less severe (Seattle Times)

FDA says two studies showing omicron boosters weren’t much better than old Covid shots were too small to come to any conclusions (CNBC)

New Covid Booster Shots Don’t Work As Well As ‘Experts’ Claimed (Outkick)

Greenland’s Melting Ice Could Reveal Riches Beyond Imagination (Newsweek)

CDC: Early Flu Bug Leads to Record-High Hospitalizations for October

A Closer Look At The COVID Mortality Rate

Arizona’s governor is stacking shipping containers along the border and defying a federal request to remove them (CNN)

Chicago has received more than 3,000 migrants from Texas border (Fox) Gee, Texas border towns get that every day.

The Sordid Politics Of Inflation

White House Sticks to ‘Voter Suppression’ Claim in Georgia Despite Soaring Early-Vote Turnout

Biden Admin Probed Over ‘Illegal Efforts to Undermine Israeli Sovereignty Over Jerusalem’

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 17

Leaked FBI Pamphlet Lists ‘Misinformation’ And ‘Disinformation’ As ‘Election Crimes’

US Looking For Other Country To Lead Military Intervention In Haiti  I have an idea–maybe we could just, you know, leave them alone for once.

MSNBC Portrays Midterms As Democracy Versus Fascism

John Fetterman’s ‘Trump-Voting Republican’ Parents Are Card-Carrying Democrats  Imagine that.

American Jews start to think the unthinkable (Washington Post) Dana Milbank’s desperate search for Republican anti-semitism.

The War Over ‘Transgender’ Kids: A Pre-Election Battlefield Update

Gabbard Stumps for Laxalt in Nevada: Democratic Party Hates Freedom

Democrats Race To Save A Blue State Gone Purple

GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover (CNBC)

Including Noncitizens in Census Devalues Votes of Citizens, Unjustly Alters House Representation

The Supreme Court Could Overturn Another Major Precedent. This Time, Americans Might Agree. (FiveThirtyEight)

Race in college admissions is back in front of the Supreme Court. Here’s what to know (NPR)

Russian lawmakers give early approval for ban on LGBTQ ‘propaganda’ for all adults (EuroNews)

America is now a tyranny of the minority (Washington Post) Fareed Zakaria must have been asleep since his undergraduate years.

‘Raise the challenge’: Eastman exhorts poll watchers to build a record (Politico)

The $2 million encampment: How a California yacht town became a homeless battleground (S.F. Chronicle)

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman praised Philly DA Krasner for eliminating cash bail in 2018 (Fox)

Berkeley law school fails at education, let’s free-speech opponents embrace leftist anti-Semitism (Fox)

MTA’s private security guards watch and do nothing as fare-beaters stream past turnstiles (N.Y. Post)

NYC mayor’s office claims less than 2% of Big Apple streets are filthy, prompting disbelief (Fox)

Arizona AG Agrees Not to Enforce Near Total Ban on Abortion Until at Least 2023

UH OH: CNN Boss Set to Enact LAYOFFS, Slash Costs to Save Struggling Network

Meacham Tells MSNBC Midterms ‘The Gravest Test’ Since The Civil War

Record-High 56% in U.S. Perceive Local Crime Has Increased (Gallup)

San Francisco Crime Wave Reaches Pelosi Household

Virginia Public Library Dropped $40K on Speech From 1619 Project Creator

Soros Gave Another $32 Million to 28 Groups in Coalition Calling for Censorship Before Midterms

Dear Media: Who Are the Real ‘Extremists’ on Abortion?

‘Save Our Democracy’ Is the New ‘Russia Collusion’

Meet The Consortium Imposing The Growing Censorship Regime

Democrats Already Blaming Voters for Midterm Loss

Soros Tops The List Of Midterm Election Mega-Donors

Judge Rejects Motion to Bar Group From Monitoring Arizona Ballot Drop Boxes

NYT Terrified by Tiny Changes in Twitter Follower Counts

Meta fined record-breaking $24.6m for deliberately ignoring political ad law

30 Years Ago: The Media’s Shameless Coverage of the ’92 Campaign

Nearly 20% Of Seattle Shootings Happened Near Homeless Encampments

Nearly 250K Ballots Sent to Pa. Voters With Unverified IDs

Florida Officials Looking Into Allegations Of Widespread Ballot Harvesting Operation In Black Neighborhoods

Ballot harvesting in Florida

I Am Shocked, SHOCKED to Find That the Jamaican National Track Coach Thinks Blacks Tend to be Faster Runners.

UN COP27 Blueprint: More Government, More Debt, More Taxes

Emperor Penguins Join Polar Bears on ESA List of Threatened Species Based on Flawed Climate Models

Somalia Says Drought Is Due to Climate Change, As They Demand Billions

‘Zero Emissions’ From Electric Vehicles? Here’s Why That Claim Has Zero Basis

This Amazon road led to vast deforestation. Brazil’s president wants it paved (NPR)

The Guardian view on the climate crisis: no end in sight (The Guardian) Certainly no end in sight to The Guardian’s climate change alarmism.

Mexico moves closer to a devastating policy for US agricultural exports (The Hill)

Mexico to proceed with GMO corn ban, seeks international grain deals (Reuters)

Climate crisis study finds heatwaves have cost global economy $16tn (The Guardian)

Climate change-fueled heat waves have cost the world’s economy trillions: study (The Hill)

America’s only new nuclear plant inches closer to a long-delayed start (Fox)

Goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C ‘more fragile’ than ever, says Cop27 chair (The Guardian)

As Nations Prepare for COP27, Climate Science Is Stronger Than Ever (Time)

Eat mushrooms, cut down on meat and use the microwave: the best diet for you and the planet (The Guardian)

18 foods to boost your health – and the planet’s (The Guardian)

At UN climate summit, India to flex its negotiating muscles (Associated Press)

Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world? (The Guardian)

There was a record-breaking increase in methane in Earth’s atmosphere last year (The Verge)

Broad Implications – Harvard Scientists Have Discovered the First Ever Sea Level Fingerprint (SciTech Daily)

Oil and gas firms are still making a killing – and No 10 is letting them (The Guardian)

EU on track to break pledge to cut methane emissions by 30%, warns report (The Guardian)

Warming oceans could drive lobsters out of Gulf of Maine (WMUR)

EU approves effective ban on new fossil fuel cars from 2035 (Reuters) Get a horse!

An influential energy group sees reason for climate optimis (NPR)

The Myth About Global Warming Killing Off Ocean Life

‘Avatar’ Sequel Ramps Up Pro-Environmental Messaging (Already!)  There’s never a bad time to push the Narrative.

What Is Going on With the Glaciers at Glacier National Park?

Top national security prosecutor joins Trump Mar-a-Lago investigation (Washington P0st)

Trump lawyers, DOJ met in sealed court hearing related to Mar-a-Lago investigation (CNN)

Former Trump Attorney Remarks Hint At Post-Election Efforts To Overturn Votes (MSNBC)

Justice Dept. warns ruling in Trump ally’s suit could endanger U.S. diplomats (Politico)

Outspoken Trump ally Kash Patel goes mum as Mar-a-Lago probe progresses (ABC) Highly suspicious!

Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband follows years of GOP demonizing her  Or, alternatively, follows years of her being an egregious totalitarian proglodyte butthole. Your choice.

Man Accused of Attacking Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Left Trail of Far-Right Hate (Vice) Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Actually, of course, the guy was just crazy; the alleged ‘far-right hate’ is just the usual proglodyte talking points. (How long before they pin it on Trump?)

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Blocks GOP Rep Mayra Flores’ Request To Join  Guess she’s not Hispanic enough; apparently being born Mexican doesn’t count.

Kanye West mural painted over in rapper’s hometown of Chicago (N.Y. Post)

Ye mural in Chicago, where he grew up, covered after antisemitic comments (NBC)

Musk says he had no role in bringing Kanye West back on Twitter (Reuters)

Watch: Ilhan Omar Calls Anti-War Protesters “Dangerous Propagandists” For Disrupting Town Hall

Dem Hernandez Calls for GOP Nunez’s ‘Latina Card’ to Be Revoked

Liz Cheney launches TV ad targeting Arizona election deniers  Cheney goes full Democrat.

Nearly half of Americans say they want a ‘Christian nation’ (Washington Post) WaPo thinks this is a bad idea, of course. (Ever notice how Democrats only like democracy when they win?)

Republicans’ Secret Swing-Seat Weapon? Dozens of Rich Nominees. (The American Prospect) Rich candidates (like Nancy Pelosi) are only good if they’re Democrats.

The View Decries Twitter Free Speech, Demands Feds CRACK DOWN

The hidden danger lurking behind Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover (Washington P0st) Greg Sargent loses his shit. (Jennifer Rubin must still be on vacation.)

‘Like the Gates of Hell’: Leftist Media Meltdown About Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

People are pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ (The Verge)

Pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees trick media outlets: ‘Rahul Ligma’ (N.Y. Post)

CBS Sobs: ‘Our Democracy’ Is in Peril after Elon Musk’s Successful Twitter Takeover

Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance  (TechDirt) In the Narrative Media, censorship is “strong free speech stance”.

U.S. faces “environment of fascism” ahead of 2022 midterms, AOC says (Axios) With Democrats controlling the government, we already have an environment of fascism. Read the news about what the FBI is doing lately.

MSNBC Warns Musk’s Idea Of Free Speech Threatens Free Speech

I’m sorry I said nice things about Glenn Youngkin (Washington Post) Karen Tumulty returns to the reservation.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Left hungers for racism–of the approved sort–but it is hard to find. Trevor Noah, the host of the Daily Show, went looking for racism in the ascension of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Noah purported to see a “backlash” against Sunak, for which there is zero evidence. To be fair, though, when has a total lack of evidence ever stopped a liberal comedian–isn’t the Daily Show supposed to be comedy?–or newsman?

Noah’s racism-hunting safari did not go over well in Great Britain.

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The guide, featuring Muslim women in hijabs in front of skyscrapers, informs us that Muslims are “making an indelible mark on the City” and boasts of the “over 275 mosques spread across all five boroughs—more than any other metro area in the US”. That’s almost one mosque for every 9 people murdered in and around the World Trade Center by Islamic terrorists.

Read it.

A Vermont middle school soccer coach and his daughter were suspended allegedly for complaining about a trans female in the girls’ locker room.

Reading the story is very confusing, as the reader has to continually do mental gymnastics to keep in mind what the writer means by “trans female.”* The reader would have a much easier time understanding the story and its background controversy if the writers had just used clear, concise language: “A Vermont middle school soccer coach and his daughter were suspended allegedly for complaining about a boy in the girls’ locker room.”

The article writer could then explain that the school thinks the boy should be allowed in the girls’ locker room because the boy thinks he’s a girl; that the school believes the boy deserves for everyone to agree with his thinking that he’s a girl; and that the girl and her father need to be punished for their bigotry in objecting to allowing the boy who thinks he’s a girl to enter the girls’ locker room. Simple. Clear. The writer later summarizes the father soccer coach pointing out that the person coming into the girls’ locker room to change clothes is male, but until then a reader who is not up on the latest trendy lingo is left in confusion about why there’s a problem.

Read it.

An examination of the “gatekeeping” that has taken place in the American conservative movement will bring me sooner or later to the subject of purges. This theme has engaged my interest as an historian of the conservative movement because it is key for understanding the vicissitudes of American conservatism. Purging unwanted dissenters has often been presented as the movement’s sensible reaction to extremism. It has supposedly allowed conservatism to become respectable—or at least so it seemed before the American media ceased to recognize anything as being respectable that was not recognizably part of the Left.

As late as October 27, 2005, on the fiftieth anniversary of National Review, Jonah Goldberg praised his magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr., for “throwing friends and allies off the bus from time to time.” Further: “The Randians, the Rothbardian anarchists and isolationists, the Birchers, the anti-Semites, the me-too-Republicans: all of these groups in various combinations were purged from the movement and masthead, sometimes painfully, sometimes easily, but always with the ideal of keeping the cause honest and pointed north to the ideal in his compass.”

Curiously, Goldberg’s praise was echoed in the New York Times and elsewhere in the national press, which depicted the by-then venerated WFB as a high-minded conservative who had dealt heroically with right-wing extremism among conservatives. Only a handful of commentators, either libertarians or on the far Left, bothered to notice that Buckley’s targets in the 1950s and 1960s were hardly neo-Nazis. Most of them were Jewish isolationists who differed with his view of foreign policy.

As ZMan never tires of pointing out, Buckley and his merry men were chiefly engaged in a desperate attempt to prove to the Liberal Establishment that they were Highly Respectable–conservatives, yes, but of the Nicer Sort, not in any way a threat to progressive cultural hegemony, just a sort of Loyal Opposition. (Trump has, of course, thoroughly upset their applecart.)