Study suggests Covid rebound is far more common with Paxlovid than without (STAT)

COVID-19 Antivirals Can Trigger Viral Rebound, Study Finds (MedScape)

Virologic rebound observed in 20% of patients treated with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (MedicalXPress)

Paxlovid Lifesaving, Yet May Allow Viral Rebound Contagion (Mirage)

The Declaration That Wasn’t Supposed To Happen

Trump Jr. Just Uttered the Word That Could Trip Up His Family’s Entire Defense (The New Republic) They hope, they hope, they hope….

Trump calling opponents ‘vermin’ draws rebukes from White House, some in GOP (Washington Poop) But Hillary calling people ‘deplorables’ is fine, just fine.

‘The boss is not going to leave’: Proffer videos show ex-Trump lawyers telling Georgia prosecutors about efforts to overturn 2020 election (ABC News)

Trump Tests D.C. Gag Order, Blasts ‘Deranged’ Special Counsel

Trump Will File For Mistrial In NY Fraud Case ‘Soon,’ Attorney Says

Trump Campaign Officials Try to Play Down Contentious 2025 Plans (N.Y. Times) Said ‘plans’ existing only in the fever dreams of the proglodyte media.

Unmarried to the Mob (The Nation)

Trump Denies Report He Threatened to Leave GOP: ‘That’s Bulls–t’ (The Messenger) Don’t believe everything you read in an anti-Trump book. Just sayin’.

Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos (Washington Post)

Checks and Balances Are for Losers (N.Y. Times) The NYT steps up its anti-Trump witch-hunt in preparation for the coming election.

Johnson Said in 2015 Trump Was Unfit and Could Be ‘Dangerous’ as President (N.Y. Times) “When the facts change, sir, I change my opinions. What do you do?” — John Maynard Keynes

After Trump case video leak, Georgia prosecutor seeks emergency seal for evidence (Washington Poop)

House Speaker Mike Johnson endorses Trump, defends ‘stolen election’ claims (CNBC)

Arizona Poll: Trump Crushing GOP Field, Beating Biden

Trump to remain on Michigan ballot after judge rejects another 14th Amendment challenge (CNN)

“We Might Need To Let It Burn”: Firefighting In The EV Era Is A Whole New Game

BlackRock invests $550M in world’s largest direct air capture plant

Green Dreams Turn Into Nightmares: After US Withdrawal, Orsted Pulls Out Of Norway Wind Bidding

OPEC Oil Production Inches Up In October, Sees “Healthy” Demand In US And China

IEA Raises Oil Demand Outlook For 2023 And 2024  Time to buy oil stocks.

Prioritizing Justice in New York State Climate Policy

Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says

What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? (Washington Poop)

Newsom Says Homeless Camp Pallet Fire Was Caused By Climate Change (Babylon Bee)

Democrats get surprisingly good news from America’s Trumpiest court (Vox)

California middle-schooler banned from sports over ‘black face’ — but group says he was just wearing eye paint (N.Y. Post)

CPAC Board Member Wrote Brutal Letter Trashing Matt Schlapp (Daily Beast)

It’s Not the Gaffes. It’s the Plans. (The Bulwark) Charlie Sykes channels the hard-left fringe.

Mike Johnson’s Shady Finances Are Already Coming Back to Bite Him (Daily Beast) They must have mistaken him for a Democrat.

How Deep-State Bureaucrats Used a Middleman to Try to Censor Americans in 2020

New York’s Hunger Games Governor Is Now “Collecting Data” From “Surveillance Efforts” On Social Media To Monitor “Hate Speech”

Polish MEPs Facing Three Years in Prison Over Anti-Migrant Video

‘He’ll be out’: Santos’ GOP critics anxiously await report they hope will help boot him (Politico) With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Finnish Court Vindicates Politician Who Faced ‘Hate Speech’ Charges for Bible Verse Tweet

Dems prepare to save another GOP speaker from a shutdown

If Biden can’t run a normal campaign, he should step aside (Nate Silver)

Biden Taps Top Campaign Donor To Lead Powerful Treasury Department Commission  Money talks.

Biden Admin Thinks Israel Seeking Pretext For Wider War In Lebanon: Axios

First photos reveal the COCAINE found in the White House: Images of the baggy in cubby hole that sparked White House investigation – and the culprit has still not been found (UK Daily Mail)

Report: Border Crisis Costing US Nearly $500B

Senate Republicans Demand Biden DOD Rescind Abortion Policy That Inspired Tuberville’s Holds

Biden Has “Hurt The Economy A Lot” According To 33% Of Americans, While Only 14% Say They’re Better Off  Those 14% must be those that have gotten a piece of the trillions that the U.S. has gone into debt since Biden was elected.

Eight NEW Biden Family Scandals ABC, CBS, NBC Are Hiding

More Than 400 U.S. Officials Sign Letter Protesting Biden’s Israel Policy (N.Y.Times) The Deep State thinks he’s being too friendly to Israel.

Migrants’ Border Wall Falls Devastating — and Costly

Illegal Border Crossings Into US Drop in October After 3 Months of Increases

Migrant Encounters at the Southern Border Remain at Record Levels in October

Oy Vey, WashPost! Quit Treating Voters Like They’re Stupid for Recognizing Biden’s Economy Sucks

Rep. Greene Chides Mayorkas Impeachment Blockers  With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

8 Republicans Voted With All House Democrats to Block Mayorkas Impeachment (Hot Air) With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

While Hamas Planned Its Attack on Israel, Biden’s Intel Community Was Focused On Climate Change

U.S. Army sets aside convictions of 110 Black soldiers arrested over 1917 Houston riots (CBS News)

Victor Davis Hanson: The Damage Of The ‘White Privilege’ Smear

Daily Show Slimes Scott as a ‘Milk Dud-Looking Mother******’

Vox.

The rise of the no-homework movement during the Covid-19 pandemic tapped into long-running disagreements over homework’s impact on students. The purpose and effectiveness of homework have been disputed for well over a century. In 1901, for instance, California banned homework for students up to age 15, and limited it for older students, over concerns that it endangered children’s mental and physical health. The newest iteration of the anti-homework argument contends that the current practice punishes students who lack support and rewards those with more resources, reinforcing the “myth of meritocracy.”

But there is still no research consensus on homework’s effectiveness; no one can seem to agree on what the right metrics are. Much of the debate relies on anecdotes, intuition, or speculation.

Bearing in mind that Vox is a hard-left Narrative media site, nevertheless even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

Marginal Revolution.

In Washington-speak the “Inflation Reduction Act” requires HHS to “negotiate” drug prices for Medicare Part D and Part B to establish a maximum “fair” price. In reality there is no negotiation–firms who refuse to negotiate are hit with huge taxes. The “negotiation” if you want to call it that is “your money or your life” and fairness has little to do with it. The IRA also requires very costly inflation rebates, i.e. a price control/tax. In essence, the IRA is a taking; for drugs with a large Medicare market it is similar to abrogating patents to 9 years for small molecule drugs and 13 years for biologics. For the included drugs there will be a significant reduction in revenues. Moreover, we don’t yet know whether the plan will be extended to more and more drugs. There is significant uncertainty affecting the entire market. What will be situation in 10 years? Will the US be like Europe?

Read it.

A November 3 post on X (formerly Twitter) from J.K. Rowling caught my eye recently. It was her comment on the decision of an Australian court to mandate that the ‘preferred pronouns’ of people identifying as transgender be used as a “matter of respect” to ensure “public confidence in the proper administration of justice.” As Rowling noted: “Asking a woman to refer to her male rapist or violent assaulter as ‘she’ in court is a form of state-sanctioned abuse. Female victims of male violence are further traumatised by being forced to speak a lie.” Indeed, forcing a woman to refer to the man who abused and raped her as ‘she’ seems a particularly grotesque form of gaslighting.

Rowling’s comment gets to the heart of something that is not commented on often enough: the manifest cruelty of the transgender movement. I’m not referring here to the mobs of trans-identified men that so often threaten violence towards women who dare to speak out—or, as in the case of Posie Parker’s visit to New Zealand earlier this year, actually perpetrate it. Nor am I speaking of the torrent of vile threats of rape that women like Rowling face from these vicious men in dresses. I mean the cruelty of the practices and policies imposed by those in power on women and girls in the name of the transgender movement, which have swept virtually every Western country in under a decade.

Gaza hospitals caught on front line of Israel-Hamas war (BBC)

Israel calls on Hamas to surrender Shifa hospital base as US strikes Iran proxies in Syria (Fox News)

Israeli Forces Near a Struggling Hospital They Say Covers a Hamas Complex. (N .Y. Times)

Charts show a stark difference in the human cost of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts over the years (CNBC)

Drastically Different Narratives Emerge Centered On Shifa Hospital’s Mounting Deaths

More than 180,000 people across France march against soaring antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war (Associated Press)

Media Worst: Israel’s Enemies Get Away With Murder—And Human Shields and Genocide

Jewish families leaving synagogue ‘targeted’ by pro-Palestinian demonstrators (UK Telegraph)

Another Snapshot Of Kiev’s Military Collapse: But It Ain’t Over Yet

Anatomy Of A Paris Demo

This Progressive Dark Money Behemoth Could Face Criminal Charges Over Anti-Israel Protest (Washington Free Beacon)

These Mosques Pray for the Annihilation of Jews. They Also Receive Money From the Biden Administration.

US, South Korea Plan Against North Korean Nuke Threat  Funny  how North Korea wasn’t a problem with Trump as President.

US Launches 3rd Round Of Airstrikes On Eastern Syria, But ‘Deterrence’ Failing  Remind me why we have troops in Syria.

This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Anti-Semitism

German Tax Dollars to Pay For Mosques?

Why Didn’t MIT Expel Violent Students?

WEAPONS: Adaptations

SUBMARINES: Borei-class SSBN submarines

Antisemitism, Good and Evil (Depending on Who Does It): Fault Lines in French Politics

EU Condemns Hamas’ Use of Human Shields; Tells Israel to Exercise ‘Maximum Restraint’

The Collapse of Russia’s Navy: The Four Seas Problem

Ivy League Student Arrested for Stealing Israeli Flag

Broadcast Networks Used Hamas as a Source in 66% of Evening Newscasts

New York Times Touts ‘Human Rights Advocates’ ‘Scoff’ at Israel, Like They’re Unbiased?

Why the Left Hates Israel and America

We were interviewing a Palestinian farmer. Then the drone and soldiers appeared (NPR)

Let’s Stop Paying Beijing to Steal Our Gene Code

Arrests on Campus

New Chinese institute lures top U.S., Western scientists to obtain advanced American technology

Video roundup

The absolution of Hamas

AP unfamiliar with Hamas way of war

3-Year Old American Among US Hostages In Gaza, White House Confirms “The American toddler’s parents were killed by Hamas during the Oct.7 attacks.”

‘Where Are You?’: Israeli Hostage Families Call Out Women’s Rights Groups, Silent on Kidnappings

Authorities in DC Preparing to Ensure Safety, Security at ‘March for Israel’

Alumni to Harvard: Address Antisemitism or Lose Donations

CNN Refuses to Ask Al Shifa Hospital Doc About Hamas’s Base Underneath

Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when 3 people try to break into SUV (Associated Press) Crime in D.C. pretty bad when this happens in Georgetown.

Likely impeachment adds to feeble Joe Biden’s already brutal presidency (N.Y. Post)

Here’s How Biden Can Turn It Around (Politico)

NY Post’s Goodwin: Biden ‘Likely’ to Be Impeached

Why Are Americans In Such A Rotten Mood? Biden Blames The Media

Internal State Dept. memo blasts Biden, U.S. policy on Israel-Hamas war (Axios)

I Was Obama’s 2012 Campaign Manager. There’s No Need to Panic Over Biden. (Politico) As Stalin said, it doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes.

Report: Biden Losing Black Voter Support

Only 14% of US voters say Joe Biden has made them better off (Financial Times)

Secret Service Agent Protecting Biden Granddaughter Fires at Car Thieves as DC Crime Wave Surges

Biden Runs Against New York City

‘We Only Deal in Billions’: FOIA Documents Show Feds’ Indifference to Massive Jobless Benefits Overpayments

Biden Mulls Approval of Fresh $10 Billion for Iran

National Media Finally Notice DC Crime Wave After Biden Granddaughter Marginally Involved in 863rd Carjacking Incident of 2023

PBS Pushes SCOTUS ‘Ethics’ Reform Led By Democrats: ‘So What’s the Holdup?’

A wasteland: Political coverage ignores the threat to democracy (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Sinema left the Democratic party. Democratic donors left her too. (Politico)

Bishop Schneider: Strickland Part of ‘Purge’ of Traditionalists

UK Shakeup: Fmr PM Cameron Now Foreign Secretary; Conservative Sacked

House GOP proposes two-step plan to fund government, raising shutdown risk (Washington Poop) The D.C. Crust, of course, are aghast.

Could George Floyd Revelations Help Overturn Chauvin Conviction?

How Moms for Liberty and a notorious English teacher exploited a high school student (Popular Information)

Stephen Miller’s “America First Legal” is more dangerous than you think (Public Notice)

MAGA-dominated state Republican parties plagued by infighting, money woes (Washington Poop)

Dems Defund Arizona’s Independent Sen. Sinema

Pro-Hitler and Holocaust denier account: X has paid me $3,000 in ad revenue sharing (Media Matters for America)

Who Paid for Mike Johnson to Attend This Conservative Conference? (Daily Beast)

Ex-Fox News Reporter Claims Network Fired Him for Calling Out Jan. 6 Lies (Daily Beast) Translation: Fired him for repeating Democrat Jan. 6 lies.

Suella Braverman, Britain’s hardline home secretary, fired as ex-PM David Cameron makes surprise return to government (CNN)

Wolves have returned to California after nearly 150 years. They bring an unexpected problem (The Guardian)

Four L.A. Sheriff’s Department Employees Commit Suicide In A 24 Hour Period

High Stakes And A Simple Choice: “I’m 94 Years Old & Saddened By What I See Happening To America”

Disney+ Will Shut Down in December, Losing Hundreds of Millions

San Francisco Slammed for ‘Band-Aid’ Clean-up Ahead of APEC

Liberals Using Museums to Push ‘Woke’ Marxist Agenda

10 Of New York’s 72 Billionaires Have Left Due To Taxation Since 2019

Marvel-ous Bomb: Disney’s Latest Social Engineering Attempt Is Box Office Flop

Petition Slams Macy’s Parade for LGBTQ Agenda

EU May Force Fast Food Companies To Use Washable Dishes

Anti-Free Speech Google Spent Billions Hiding Feature from Users

Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America: Voting Will Not Save Us

Police, Protesters Clash at Atlanta Training Center

Britain: Land of Anarchy and Tyranny

Newsom Assures Homeless They Can Resume Pooping On Sidewalks Once His Boss Leaves (Babylon Bee)

Obama Portrays Himself as ‘First Amendment Absolutist…’ Then Issues Disclaimer

Iowa Leads Way on Education Freedom

EU Official Hopes X Will Face “Peer Pressure” to Hire More Censors

Migrant Says ‘American Dream Doesn’t Exist Anymore’

Boston’s plan to ban fossil fuels in new buildings goes up in smoke (Boston Globe)

Europe Taps Record-High Natural Gas Storage As Temperatures Drop

A Nuclear Renaissance Is The Best Path Forward

Climate Data Refutes Crisis NarrativeWatchdog Has Grim Winter Warning: There May Be Blackouts

A COVID-19 vaccine reckoning is coming for the DOJ over federal gov mandates (N.Y.Post)

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (MedPageToday)

Sen. Schmitt Wants Answers on COVID Learning Losses

The American Mind.

Radical ideology takes many forms: Marxist, Islamist, a combination of the two (termed the red-green alliance), anarchist, what was once called Third Worldist and is now rebranded “postcolonial theory,” intersectional and anti-TERF feminism, and so on. What too many variants share is a visceral attraction to fantasies of transformative, retributive violence.

In roughly psychoanalytic terms, they gravitate toward alibis for sadism, humiliation, and even outright murder of the hated, fantasized object or “other” standing in the way of their “progress.” They seek a “permission structure” to vent their spleen. According to René Girard, these befuddled victimizers of innocents—ironically enough, most convinced of their own moral purity in the very commission of their crime—hunger for sacrificial scapegoats, designated essentially arbitrarily as responsible for the ills of the world, and bond together as a solidaristic community of the (self-)righteous in the act of executing them together. And if they can’t actually be there for the event itself, they applaud as spectators from a distance.

Add to that the predominance of “woke” progressive ideology on the American college campus today—a wooly-minded mélange of every sort of anti-civilizational, anti-systemic “thought”—and what you get is the uninhibited cries of bloodlust, worthy of a proud troop of resentful Raskolnikovs on the loose, their shrieks echoing through the halls of academe. But will these pyromaniacs in expensive sneakers and fancy eyewear ever undergo Dostoevsky’s antihero’s redemptive acknowledgment of a guilty conscience? At present it seems doubtful.

Read it. (If you dare.)

Much has been said about the phenomenon of the ‘trophy wife’ but I haven’t seen much discussion of the corresponding ‘trophy husband’. Of the two, I suspect that the wife is getting the better deal.

Steve Sailer.

Remember the Education Reform juggernaut right before the Great Awokening? Various billionaires announced that to end racial inequality, All We Had to Do Is to Fix the Schools and that they’d just been to a conference in Aspen where they had a brainstorm about exactly how to do it, usually involving teaching public school students to think more like billionaires. Or something.

But that didn’t much work, although some Back to Basics efforts like KIPP seemed to do some good for some poor kids of good character. But then came the Great Awokening and it became racist to attribute racial gaps to anything other than Systemic Racism and to suggest any remedies other than jobs and cash handouts for blacks.

Read it.

Civilized nations have spent generations trying to convince themselves that the primary religious and national impulses of the Muslim world come down to more than conquest and mass murder.

The horrors of the past few years in Afghanistan and Israel both came down to the mistaken belief that you could negotiate and reach an agreement with Jihadist movements.

Both D.C. and Jerusalem had become enchanted with diplomatic initiatives to the Muslim world, from the Abraham Accords to two years of relative peace with Hamas, politicians, generals and diplomats were convinced that they had finally unlocked the secret of coexistence.

But there’s no perpetual motion machine, no diet that lets you eat what you want and no coexistence with an ideology that is built on conquering and destroying all outsiders.

Individually, contextually and circumstantially coexistence is possible. But not in the long run.

Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology under the guise of a religion with which no co-existence is possible. Non-Muslims in a Muslim state are treated like black people in the Jim Crow South.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Black Lives Matter era is over. The BLM organization turned out to be a fraud, and, worse, the anti-police movement caused a spike in crime that continues to this day. Voters have ejected Soros prosecutors, and even liberals are vowing to crack down on criminals.

The story of Marilyn Mosby illustrates the downfall of BLM. Mosby was the States Attorney in Baltimore when a man named Freddie Gray died while he was under arrest. She went on an anti-police campaign, over-charging the officers who were involved.

So she exemplified the zeitgeist, and, better yet, she was young and good-looking. So she was lionized by liberals, including those at Vogue magazine, who did a spread on her that I wrote about here. Vogue was hagiographic, mingling admiration for Mosby’s anti-police activism with appreciation of her style.

The Foundry.

Gov. Greg Abbott called the Texas legislature into a fourth special session on Tuesday with the aim of expanding K-12 options for families. Over the past few years, lawmakers from across the country have empowered families to find the best school for their children. Abbott, a Republican, seems resolved to create similar opportunities for Texas students.

Read it.

Researchers at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center have located a “kill switch” that can trigger the death of cancer cells. They identified a protein on the CD95 receptor, which is part of a cell’s communication system, that can “program” cancer cells to die. This significant discovery was detailed in a study published in the journal “Cell Death & Differentiation.”

Receptors like CD95 are proteins that cells use to receive signals from outside. CD95 has earned the nickname “death receptor” because it can send a signal to a cancer cell, causing it to die. This process was hard to control in the past, but the new discovery of a specific part of the receptor to target may change that.

Dr. Jogender Tushir-Singh, an associate professor at UC Davis and the senior author of the study, said, “Previous efforts to target this receptor have been unsuccessful. But now that we’ve identified this epitope, there could be a therapeutic path forward to target Fas in tumors.”

Dems Suffer Flashbacks As 2016 ‘Spoiler’ Jill Stein Announces White House Run

The Globalist Vision: “15 Minute” Prison Cities And The End Of Private Property

EU Moves Forward With Digital ID Despite Security Concerns And Potential For Abuse

D.C. CVS Hiding Toilet Paper Amid Theft Wave

Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs. It Isn’t Working  Depends on what you mean by ‘working’–natural selection works every time.

San Francisco: Clean For Xi, Not For Thee

Los Angeles County Approves New ‘Office Of Food Equity’

Federal Judge Orders Trial for Ga.’s Dominion Voting Machines

Thousands of Greenland’s glaciers are rapidly shrinking. Before-and-after photos reveal decades of change (CNN)

After a Last-Minute Challenge to New Loss and Damage Deal, U.S. Joins Global Consensus Ahead of COP28 (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Claim: $5.9 Trillion Government Money Grab Required for Climate Action

L A Times Fails to Comprehend the Difference between “Average Temperature Anomaly” & “Absolute Maximum Temperature” Climate Data

Climate Fact Check: October 2023 Edition

West Antarctica Temperature FALLS 2°C in 20 Years

Sahara Expert Says Desert Shrinking, Calls Alarmist Tipping Points “Complete Nonsense”

“Absolute Torture”: Jan. 6 Inmates Put Renewed Spotlight On Use Of Solitary Confinement

Raided Pro-Life Activist Sues DOJ For ‘Malicious Prosecution,’ Emotional Distress

Should Joe Manchin Run for President? (N.Y. Times) Ross Douthat says the quiet part out loud.

UCLA faculty call on school to condemn protests, speech ‘crossing the line’ (The Hill)

European Parliament Lifts Immunity Of Conservative MEPs Facing Criminal Charges For Retweeting Criticism Of Illegal Immigration  What use is any ‘immunity’ that can so easily be lifted for witch-hunt purposes?

NBC Compares Criticism Of Hunter’s Influence Peddling To Haley’s Daughter’s TikTok Posts

Maher Rebukes Obama: ‘Enough With the Moral Equivalencies’

NPR, Nina Jankowicz Whine It’s ‘Open Season’ on Social-Media Censors In Runup to 2024

Moms for Liberty Sets the Record Straight on 7 ‘Harassment’ Claims

Pope Francis Fires Bishop For Being Too Catholic (Babylon Bee)

Trump’s Vow to World, N.H. Voters: ‘I Will Be Your Peacemaker’

Trump Jokes He’d Make UFC’s Dana White His ‘Offense Chief’

Is Abortion, Not Trump, The GOP’s Albatross?

Biden shifts into campaign mode with more attacks on Trump (NBC News)

Giggling Judge, Gloating AG—VDARE Mugger Letitia James’s Trump Show Trial

Raids, Detention Camps, Mass Deportations: Trump’s Immigration Plan For Second Term

In Veterans Day Speech, Trump Promises to ‘Root Out’ the Left (N.Y. Times) Speed the day.

“Covering him as a normal candidate”: Extremism scholars say TV news “normalizing” Trump’s threats (Salon) When ‘normal’ is Democrat totalitarianism, we need somebody un-normal.

Trump Compares Political Foes To ‘Vermin’ On Veterans Day—Echoing Nazi Propaganda (Forbes) Not to mention every Democrat speaking about Republicans.

It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk  (The New Republic) More accurately, straight-up Democrat talk.

Trump Lawyer Habba: Mistrial Filing Coming ‘Very Soon’

Trump defense at New York fraud trial set to counter state attorney general (CNN)

RNC Chair McDaniel: I Will Support Trump as Nominee  Very white of her.

Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings (Associated Press) They have no idea what Trump’s plans are, so they just make shit up.

First vaccine for chikungunya virus, an ’emerging global health threat,’ gets FDA approval (Fox News)

Certain COVID-19 Vaccines Linked To Elevated Risk Of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Israel says it’s ready to evacuate babies from Gaza hospital as fighting rages (Reuters)

‘Please stop this.’ Gaza’s hospitals are failing under the weight of war. US medical groups are scrambling to help (CNN) Tell Hamas. They started it.

Gaza hospital nearly at its breaking point as it operates without power (CBS)

Israel is bombing hospitals in Gaza with Israeli doctors’ approval (Al Jazeera)

WaPo Drops Bombshell On The Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage Narrative: A Ukrainian Colonel, Covert Ops, & The CIA’s Shadow

Reporters Demand Use of Terms Like ‘Genocide,’ ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ to Describe (Defame) Israel

Thousands to March in France Against Anti-Semitism

Germany Set to Double Its Ukraine Military Aid Under Scholz Plan

CBS Helpfully Repeats ‘Surge’ of Islamophobia’ Press Release from Radicals at CAIR

Salafist Agitators in Basel and Zurich

Remembering Remembrance Day

WARPLANES: Israel Again Updates AH-64s

CHINA: China Coping with Calamity

Scottish National Party leader criticised for holding wreath upside down and refusing to sing national anthem at Cenotaph

Two Scenes From Yesterday’s Protests

Israeli President Isaac Herzog: Arabic ‘Mein Kampf’ Exposes ‘Real War We Are Facing’

Russia Begins Evacuating Some 600 Citizens From Gaza Strip

Cain Calls For Ceasefire After Killing Abel (Babylon Bee)

Palestinians ‘Disappointed’ Hezbollah Hasn’t Escalated A Northern War On Israel

Hamas envisioned deeper attacks, aiming to provoke an Israeli war (Washington Poop)

“Antisemitism Has No Place Here” – Harvard President Condemns “From The River To The Sea” Phrase After 1600 Jewish Alum Pull Donations  Money talks.

Voters are worried about Biden’s age. He knows it. (Politico)

Sullivan: White House Wants to Resume Military Ties With China

Saving Private Biden+

Joe Biden wants to complete his goals on civil rights, taxes, and social services if he’s reelected (Associated Press) Look, the sock puppet talks!

Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order

The House ‘Concentrates The Mind’ Of Hunter Biden With A Game-Changing Subpoena

Defying Democratic pushback, Dean Phillips vows to invest millions in his primary challenge to Biden

Jonathan Martin: ‘Imperative’ Biden Talk 3rd Party Candidates Out of Running, ‘Stop Trump’

Thousands Already Lined Up For Black Friday After Grocery Store Offers Prices From When Trump Was President (Babylon Bee)

Feds zero in on texts suggesting Adams fast-tracked Turkish diplomatic headquarters

‘I have nothing to hide’: New York City mayor’s phones seized by FBI (CNN)

FBI agents seized Mayor Adams’ electronics days after searching campaign fundraiser’s home (CBS New York)

FBI seized phones, iPad from NYC Mayor in an escalation of fundraising investigation (WGRZ)

Voting group founded by Abrams, once led by Warnock, faces financial scrutiny (Politico)

Progressive Minnesota US Rep. Ilhan Omar Draws Prominent Primary Challenger

F.B.I. Examining Whether Adams Cleared Red Tape for Turkish Government (N.Y. Times) Wander off of the Democrat plantation, they’ll send the Feds to round you up.

FBI Probes Adams’ Texts for Potential Pay-for-Play Scheme

Stacey Abrams, Sen. Warnock-Tied Non-profit Under Scrutiny

Mayor Adams: DOJ Political Hit?

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

All things considered, Peggy Noonan must be the worst columnist in the United States. That is a rash judgment, I concede. She certainly has a lot of competition over at the New York Times. For the combination of fatuity and self-love, however, she must be in a class by herself.

Peggy Noonan has become a great disappointment.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write an essay with precisely the opposite title.

The year before, I had publicly condemned the terrorist attacks of the 19 men who had hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the twin towers in New York. They had done it in the name of my religion, Islam. I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that justified the attacks was religious, after all: the idea of Jihad or Holy War against the infidels. Was it possible for me, as for many members of the Muslim community, simply to distance myself from the action and its horrific results?

Gates of Vienna.

Pakistanis are currently crossing the southern border of the USA, along with innumerable additional “refugees” from China, Nigeria, Yemen, Bangladesh, and other wonderful multicultural paradises. Interestingly enough, Spain is also seeing a culture-enriching influx of Pakis. Must be something in the air…

WaPo’s Shipley Hand-Selected Hamas Cartoon He Pulled Amid Woke Blowback, Cartoonist Ramirez Says

Peter Thiel Is Taking A Break From Democracy (The Atlantic) George Soros, who isn’t mentioned, is of course actively trying to destroy it.

In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (Reuters)

Ohio Republicans Say It’s Their ‘God Given Right’ to Restrict Abortion Access (Rolling Stone)

Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution (Politico)

CENSORTRACK: Five Worst Times Big Tech Silenced Veteran Voices on Their Platforms

Ramaswamy now selling merch after Haley’s ‘scum’ comments (The Hill)

“Malpractice”: Ramaswamy Denies Claim By RNC Chair McDaniel That He Voted For Obama

Sen. Blackburn Seeks Epstein Flight Logs to Identify Perps  Epstein cooties are even more powerful than Trump cooties.

Teacher Fired for Using Gender-Neutral Honorific Title

Stelter Returns To CNN To Attack Fox, The ‘Beating Heart of the GOP’

Bill Maher and Ted Cruz Stage Unexpected Mutual Love Fest (Daily Beast)

Taibbi: According To Pundits, “Ignorance” Makes Americans Give “Wrong” Answers To Economic Confidence Poll+

Pastor Indicted With Trump in Georgia Asks Evangelical Supporters for Help (N.Y Times)

Good Samaritan Arrested After Stopping NYC Subway Assault By Firing Warning Shots

Trump Swing-State Lead Expected To Hold Until 3 A.M. On Election Night (Babylon Bee)

Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans (N.Y. Times) Democrats plan the same thing, except for white people.

Trump’s D.C. Trial Strategy: Do Everything to Delay Until After 2024 Election (The Messenger) Amazing how many people on the Left are convinced that they know what Trump plans to do. I wonder where they got that information–and whether they washed their hands afterwards.

Still Living Rent-Free in Their Heads

Stephen Miller: Trump will implement ‘spectacular migration crackdown’ (The Hill) God, I hope so.

‘Church Shouldn’t Be Political,’ Says Pastor With BLM, Pride Flags On Building (Babylon Bee)

“Have You Lost Count Yet Of The Number Of Things In Our Country That Are Broken?”

Alarmed by Off-Year Losses, Mainstream Republicans Balk at Abortion Curbs (N.Y. Times) Principle is all very well, but we can’t let it cost us power and money.

Gun Owners Score Major Legal Victories On Pistol Braces and Ghost Guns 

Regulating crypto might end it. And that’s just fine. (Washington Poop) After all, something that can’t be tracked and controlled by the government (that is, the Democrat Crust) can’t really be of any benefit. (Russia’s Finance Ministry Says (Again) That The Digital Ruble Will Replace Cash)

Bay Area Counseling Service Hosts Meet-Ups for Adults and Minors To Discuss Gender and Sexuality  At taxpayer expensed, natch.

Businesses Fleeing Crime-Ridden ‘Blue’ D.C.

Not Married, No Kids: The Rise Of China’s ‘Single’ Culture  Sounds like what the Wokerati have in mind for the U.S.

‘Facts Matter,’ Cruz Battles Maher on Left’s History of Election Denialism

Steve Fast: How Did Ronna McDaniel Become RNC Chair?

San Francisco Clears Homeless And Cleans Sh*t-Covered Streets For World Leaders Next Week  So: They can do it, they just don’t want to.

Adam Carolla: Gavin Newsom Is a ‘Sociopathic, Tyrannical Dictator’

Germany approves global minimum corporate tax  Corporations do not pay taxes. Their customers pay the taxes; corporations merely collect the taxes. Governments like ‘corporate taxes’ because it allows them to tax their people twice (or more) while pretending that they are Socking It To The Rich. Don’t be deceived.

Ruth Marcus and the Alarmed, Oblivious Washington Post

Bill Maher’s Pissed Off At ‘Progressive’ Pandering Using “Victims Or Victimizers” Reductivism

Only 15% of Californians can afford a home, new data shows

Moody’s cuts U.S. outlook to negative, citing deficits and political polarization (CNBC)

The House is most definitely not in order (Washington Poop) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

The Censorship “Switchboard”: A New Layer To The Biden Administration’s “Orwellian Ministry Of Truth”

White House tried, and failed, to persuade Manchin to make another Senate run

Taibbi: Big Brother Is Flagging You

Beto O’Rourke: Biden ‘Failing Us’ on Immigration  Hey, Joe, if you’ve lost Beto….

ATF Director Says Assault Weapons Ban Now On His “Wish List”

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 68)

How Joe Biden Got Paid

Bump Stock Case Could Nullify Other Biden Admin Gun Control Rules

Borrowers Got $127B in Student Loans Canceled  And taxpayers take it in the shorts.

Revelations From Special Counsel David Weiss’ Testimony On Hunter Biden Investigation

El Niño is now ‘strong’ but acting strange. What that means. (Washington P00p)

Climate change is pushing American farmers to confront what’s next (Washington Poop)

A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptoms (TODAY)

FBI Seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phones, iPad

Washington Post: College Presidents Shouldn’t Have Issued Proclamations About George Floyd

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The two decades of IRA (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) rule were made possible by $2.3 trillion dollars of American aid. Some of this money also went t0 Pakistan, which turned out to be a mistake. In 2019 Pakistan admitted that for the last fifteen years it had lied about the presence of over 30,000 armed men in Pakistan and Kashmir working for 40 Islamic terror groups. That deception was one of the reasons the U.S. cut off all aid to Pakistan. In addition to halting cash assistance of Afghanistan, the United States pulled the last of its troops in late 2021 and the U.S. backed IRA government collapsed, replaced by the IEA. If the IEA does allow groups based in Afghanistan to make attacks on the United States or American in other countries, the response will be sanctions and air strikes on Afghanistan. Untrustworthy Afghan governments are nothing new, and it is a tradition that is several centuries old. Outsiders are considered fair game for all manner of deceptions and costly mistakes while trying to do business in Afghanistan. The Americans proved to be the most lucrative victim and, after 20 years of persistent corruption, decided the situation was not going to change and left. The U.S. still supplies support for Afghanistan through its donations of UN food programs for Afghanistan.

The American Mind.

On January 6, 2021, former Proud Boys’ Chairman Enrique Tarrio didn’t punch any Capitol police officers, he never “surged” forward to overwhelm Capitol defenses, he never smashed any Capitol windows or destroyed any Capitol fences, he never threw anything at Capitol police, and he never set foot in the Capitol. He never did any of those things because on January 6, 2021, Enrique Tarrio was in Baltimore, Maryland.

You might be surprised to learn this crucial fact considering that the Justice Department indicted Tarrio and several co-conspirators for seditious conspiracy, among other charges, claiming they “very nearly succeeded in provoking a constitutional crisis.” Two years later, following a four-month trial, a Washington D.C. jury convicted Tarrio and the Proud Boys of most of the counts. In August 2023, DOJ argued that Tarrio should be imprisoned for 33 years; the court sentenced him to only 22.

ThoughtCrime is apparently independent of location, or even action.

N.Y. Times.

Sarah Camino had been in a relationship for two years when she found out she was pregnant. The father, whom she met while they were both working at a restaurant in Times Square, was initially excited. But he had been using drugs lately, and had been fired from his last four jobs; when she ventured that she was scared she might wind up raising the child alone, he got defensive and walked out. She and her daughter now live in Florida with her parents, and he is not a part of their lives.

Sounds as if they’re better off for it.

Ms. Camino, a beautician and hospitality worker, checks all the boxes of the demographic that has been targeted for advice in recent months by an array of columnists and authors, who have argued for the promotion and prioritizing of marriage, sometimes for the sake of overall happiness, but more often for the sake of children’s well-being.

With the results as you see them.

She’s a 37-year-old single mother without a college degree. She cares deeply about her child’s happiness and about providing her with a good future.

But not enough, apparently, to get married first.

When I asked what she made of the advice to get married, though, she was skeptical. “I don’t think things are perfect like that,” she told me. She had planned to stay with the father, but that’s not how it happened. “I didn’t think he was gonna leave me like this,” she said.

Better yet, ask men whether they would want to marry a Modern Woman. I certainly wouldn’t.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

This is one of the many poems I memorized in my younger days. Back when this was still America, children were encouraged to read (and memorize) significant poetry (“The Highwayman”, “The Raven”, “Ulysses”, “Recessional”, etc.). Worrying about pronouns and ‘climate change’ doesn’t leave a lot of bandwidth for anything else, unfortunately.

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For most normal businesses or organizations, an employee expressing support for Adolf Hitler is a clear red line with no second chance. Not, however, for the New York Times, which has rehired a freelancer previously exposed by HonestReporting for his pro-Hitler, pro-terrorist social media posts.

In 2022, HonestReporting’s investigative work exposed several journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being virulent and unapologetic antisemites. As a result of our reporting, several mainstream media outlets decided to cut ties with them.

This included freelance filmmaker Soliman Hijjy (also spelled Sulaiman Hejji) who we uncovered as having praised Adolf Hitler on Facebook in 2012. “How great you are, Hitler,” Hijjy wrote on the social media site, sharing a meme featuring the Nazi mass murderer. Six years later, he doubled down: in a caption accompanying a picture of himself, Hijjy stated he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust.”

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We have the technology.

Glamour Magazine Names Transgender Model Among ‘Women of Year,’ Drawing Online Ridicule

Tuberville’s Effort to End Pentagon Abortion Policy Backed by Veterans on Heritage Foundation National Security Team

Oregon Trains Teachers to Promote ‘Equitable Math,’ Dismantle ‘Systemic Inequities’ in the Classroom

“Younger Voters Have Turned Against The Governor”: Berkeley Poll Reveals Record Number Of Californians Disapprove Of Newsom

ABC News FREAKS OUT Over Potential Manchin ‘No Labels’ POTUS Run

American Elections Are About Abortion Now (N.Y. Times) Certainly if Democrats have anything to say about it.

Speaker Mike Johnson to NYC: Dump ‘sanctuary’ policies to get migrant money (N.Y. Post) How about no money and don’t care about ‘sanctuary city’ policies–let them stew in their own proglodyte juice.

ECB Finally Admits Its “Temporary” Asset Purchases Are Really Permanent

Kimmel Hires Drag Queen To Speculate About Cruz’s Nipples To Children

Former Rep. Adam Kinszinger Says He Would Back Christie Over Other Republican White House Hopefuls  (The Messenger) RINOs of a feather flock together.

Princeton Professor Calls Sex with Animals “Thought-Provoking”

Trans Anomaly: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

TikToker Teaches ‘How To Practice Abortion as a Magical Ritual’

Brian Stelter Plugs Fox-Frying Book on MSNBC, No Talk of CNN’s Kisses from Hamas

DC Restaurant Chain Shuts Down Over Surge in Violent Crime, Costs

Miss Universe Owner Files for Bankruptcy After Accepting Transgender Contestants