MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Librarian Encouraged Libraries to Have Books and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.

WE SHOULD MAKE “ACTIVISTS” PAY DAMAGES FOR THE GLOBAL C02 EMISSIONS DUE TO KILLING NUCLEAR POWER: Activists Want Energy Companies To Pay Climate Damages. That Could Imperil US National Security, Former Joint Chiefs Say.

The “activists” are never held responsible for the damage caused by their activism.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Confessions of a Former Rocket Boy.

YOU DON’T SAY: Iran Smuggles Arms to West Bank, Officials Say, to Foment Unrest With Israel.

Iran is operating a clandestine smuggling route across the Middle East, employing intelligence operatives, militants and criminal gangs, to deliver weapons to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to officials from the United States, Israel and Iran.

The goal, as described by three Iranian officials, is to foment unrest against Israel by flooding the enclave with as many weapons as it can.

The covert operation is now heightening concerns that Tehran is seeking to turn the West Bank into the next flashpoint in the long-simmering shadow war between Israel and Iran. That conflict has taken on new urgency this month, risking a broader conflict in the Middle East, as Iran vowed to retaliate for an Israeli strike on an embassy compound that killed seven Iranian armed forces commanders.

Many weapons smuggled to the West Bank largely travel along two paths from Iran through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, the officials said. As the arms cross borders, the officials added, they change hands among a multinational cast that can include members of organized criminal gangs, extremist militants, soldiers and intelligence operatives. A key group in the operation, the Iranian officials and analysts said, are Bedouin smugglers who carry the weapons across the border from Jordan into Israel.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the endless “humanitarian relief” supplies allowed directly into Gaza provide even more cover.

SO EXPEL THEM AND PROSECUTE THEM: Anti-Israel Agitators Derail Dinner at Home of UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Related: A Mostly Peaceful Castration: CNN Eulogizes a Terrorist.

Also: Berkeley Students Post Anti-Semitic Cartoons, Disrupt Dinner at Dean Chemerinsky’s Home: “I never thought I would see such blatant antisemitism.”

When you import and reward antisemitism, you get more of it.

Plus: Flashback: Welcome to the Party, Pal!

THE NAVY IS HAVING A BAD DECADE: US Navy warship commander mocked for holding rifle with scope mounted backward.

WELL, THAT’S PRETTY MUCH THEIR JOB: Univision Tosses a Softball Interview to Biden as he Panders to Hispanic Voters.

KAKISTOCRACY AT WORK (CONT’D): Trouble At The Fed: Investigation Into Lisa Cook’s Academic Record Raises Questions.

Lisa D. Cook is one of the world’s most powerful economists. She taught economics at Harvard University and Michigan State University and served on the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers before being appointed, in 2022, to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, which controls the interest rates and money supply of the United States.

Despite her pedigree, questions have long persisted about her academic record. Her publication history is remarkably thin for a tenured professor, and her published work largely focuses on race activism rather than on rigorous, quantitative economics. Her nomination to the Fed required Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-breaking vote; by contrast, her predecessor in the seat, Janet Yellen, now Treasury secretary, was confirmed unanimously. . . .

In a series of academic papers spanning more than a decade, Cook appears to have copied language from other scholars without proper quotation and duplicated her own work and that of coauthors in multiple academic journals without proper attribution. Both practices appear to violate Michigan State University’s own written academic standards.

We will review several examples which, taken together, establish a pattern of careless scholarship at best or, at worst, academic misconduct.

This keeps happening. I will note, though, that “plagiarism” comes from the Latin word for “kidnapping,” so one cannot (in my opinion) plagiarize oneself, anymore than one could kidnap oneself. More thoughts from me on plagiarism here.

INDEED: John Fetterman Continues to Defy Expectations.

A NEW LEFTY TALKING POINT IS THAT ELON KILLED TESLA, BUT ACTUALLY THE WHOLE EV INDUSTRY IS IN TROUBLE: Poll: Even More Americans Refuse to Consider EVs.

The truth is, even cool EVs are a niche product. Nothing wrong with a niche product, except that the Biden Administration and the media — but I repeat myself — have sold them as a panacea.

FROM DAVE FREER:  If I Wake Before I Die.

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The Hotel Miroir, with it’s mirrored halls and endless repeated patterns – not all quite the same. A place of fractal patterns where universes — might have been and could be collide. A place where Lark had once danced with the man she would always wait for.

“WHILE HIS PROPOSALS APPEAR ON THE SURFACE TO BE AIMED ONLY AT MINORS, IN REALITY, THEY WOULD IMPLICATE THE RIGHTS OF ADULTS, TOO.” Check out my review of my good friend & previous co-author Jon Haidt’s latest book in which I address some First Amendment concerns with some of his proposed solutions.

HE’LL STILL HAVE TO PAY PROPERTY TAX:  NYC landlord forced to spend $100K to boot squatters — as Dems Ron Kim, John Liu push for law changes.

THE DECISION-MAKER PRIVILEGE IS: THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES (NOT FOR THEM, ANY WAY):  Tragic wrong decisions, nobody punished. Where’s the justice in that?

DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT – THE AUTHORITIES HAVE DECLARED THE BORDER ‘SECURE’:  Boy, 14, fatally stabbed trying to protect girlfriend from two ski mask-clad teens in mall: authorities.

REPORTING FROM ISRAEL THE MSM WON’T DO:  100 Days after October 7.

16 MINUTE VIDEO

Is what we hear about Israel and Hamas the full story? On October 7, the world witnessed the devastating impact of terrorism on Israel. PragerU personality Xaviaer DuRousseau traveled to Israel 100 days after the horrific attacks to uncover the truth behind the headlines and explore the real effects of the conflict on its people. His journey reveals a narrative of resilience, sorrow, and the unyielding human spirit in the face of adversity.

WITH A SMILE AND A BOW:  How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown.

ALLOWING THE INVASION OF YOUR COUNTRY IS NOT A ‘POLICY DISAGREEMENT’:  On Mayorkas, Chuck Schumer Suddenly Doesn’t Like Impeachment Being Used for ‘Policy Disagreements’.

FIRST SLOW, THEN VERY FAST, AND THEN NOT AT ALL WHAT THEY EXPECT:  Greg Gutfeld on ‘Death to America’ Chant in Michigan: ‘We Are on a Slow Roll Toward Our Own Little Gazas’.