GEORGE WILL OFFERS AN AGENDA FOR THE NEW GOP CONGRESS.

It’s quite different from mine, but certainly not inconsistent with it.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN . . . OH, HELL, YOU KNOW. Deep-pocketed Dem donor on Obama’s nuke deal: Israel should ‘bomb the living daylights’ out of Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

WHY EVERYONE STILL HATES THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY, in one tweet.

ANTI-GAY SLURS AT DARTMOUTH: “I know you have been very strong on all foreign policy issues, including Somali pirates, but what is your stance on butt pirates?” Really? In 2014? Calling our gay friends “butt pirates?”

I hope this student will be crucified and subjected to the pear of anguish, or whatever they do to Ivy League students who utter anti-gay slurs in public these days. Meanwhile, I don’t know why anyone bothers to speak to these entitled twits. Or maybe they’re just showing the first signs of infection.

UPDATE: Actual photo of a Dartmouth prof. Well, possibly.

CHANGE: Why The Self-Serve American Junkyard Is Dying.

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WELL, THIS EXPLAINS A LOT: Virus That Makes Humans More Stupid Discovered. “The algae virus, never before observed in healthy people, was found to affect cognitive functions including visual processing and spatial awareness.”

MATH, SMARTS, AND BREEDING: The Neanderthal Correlation. Heh. “I don’t know how you’ll survive when our genes are gone.”

HEH: Guns and Pot: Which States Are Friendly to Both?

AND WASHINGTON, D.C. IS THE BIGGEST HIGH SCHOOL OF ALL: The Bigger Your High School, The More Likely It Has “Mean Girls” Cliques.

PRAGER UNIVERSITY: The World’s Most Persecuted Minority: Christians.

GOING TO SCHOOL IN STYLE: This is a 367-Mph Jet-Powered School Bus.

UM: Obama: Government Should Regulate Internet to Keep it Free. “So President Obama has announced that the Internet should be regulated as a public utility. He’s asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reclassify internet service providers (ISPs) from “information services” under Title I as telecommunications providers under Title II regulatory guidelines. This is all being done in the name of ‘Net Neutrality,’ keeping the Internet free and open, prohibiting ‘fast lanes’ for certain services and sites, making sure no legal content is blocked, and all other horribles that…have failed to materialize in the absence of increased federal regulation.”

It’s about control. Because everything he does is about control.

FASTER, PLEASE: Drug Unlocks Malleable, Fast-Learning, Child-Like State In Adult Brain.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Julia Lost: Perhaps American women aspire to more than receiving political patronage.

CHANGE: Republicans learning to compete for urban votes.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Six Bills The GOP Congress Should Pass.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 550. It’s a big one today.

SPACE: Now we need a plan for Spaceport America.

Virgin Galactic’s Halloween catastrophe in the Mojave Desert laid bare the vulnerability of Spaceport America’s reliance on a single anchor tenant for success.

The Oct. 31 crash of Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo rocket means the launch of space tourism flights from southern New Mexico won’t happen until at least 2016, even with the company’s determination to restart flight tests with a newly built vehicle in six months.

And the longer it takes for Virgin to launch commercial operations, the more pressure builds on the New Mexico Spaceport Authority to recruit more operators to generate the revenue needed to keep the Spaceport open and assure its long-term economic viability.

That’s the risk of having a single point of failure.

EVERYTHING OBAMA TOUCHES: “When Barack Obama took office, he was hailed as a liberal savior. His presidency, it was believed, would usher in a new era of progressive dominance not seen since Roosevelt. Instead, Republicans have been restored to a position of power across the country they had not known since Al Smith lost 40 states to Herbert Hoover. Far from revitalizing it, Obama has erased generations of the Democratic Party’s progress.”

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Six Bills The GOP Congress Should Pass.

So, Insta-Readers, how about sharing a copy with your representatives in Congress and the Senate?

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): “Adults under age 35—the so-called millennial generation—currently have a savings rate of negative 2%, meaning they are burning through their assets or going into debt, according to Moody’s Analytics.” “The turnabout in savings tendencies shows how the personal finances of millennials have become increasingly precarious despite five years of economic growth and sustained job creation. A lack of savings increases the vulnerability of young workers in the postrecession economy, leaving many without a financial cushion for unexpected expenses, raising the difficulty of job transitions and leaving them further away from goals like eventual homeownership—let alone retirement.”

Maybe the “five years of economic growth” hasn’t been as significant as advertised.

SO NOW THE NEW REPUBLIC IS WRITING THINGS THAT WE ONLY USED TO HEAR FROM THE “CRAZED FEVER SWAMPS OF THE RIGHT.” The Obama Whisperer: No one has understood Valerie Jarrett’s role, until now.

Even at this late date in the Obama presidency, there is no surer way to elicit paranoid whispers or armchair psychoanalysis from Democrats than to mention the name Valerie Jarrett. Party operatives, administration officials—they are shocked by her sheer longevity and marvel at her influence. When I asked a longtime source who left the Obama White House years ago for his impressions of Jarrett, he confessed that he was too fearful to speak with me, even off the record. . . .

Jarrett holds a key vote on Cabinet picks (she opposed Larry Summers at Treasury and was among the first Obama aides to come around on Hillary Clinton at State) and has an outsize say on ambassadorships and judgeships. She helps determine who gets invited to the First Lady’s Box for the State of the Union, who attends state dinners and bill-signing ceremonies, and who sits where at any of the above. She has placed friends and former employees in important positions across the administration—“you can be my person over there,” is a common refrain.

And Jarrett has been known to enjoy the perks of high office herself. When administration aides plan “bilats,” the term of art for meetings of two countries’ top officials, they realize that whatever size meeting they negotiate—nine by nine, eight by eight, etc.—our side will typically include one less foreign policy hand, because Jarrett has a standing seat at any table that includes the president. . . . According to a former high-level aide, there is no longer a daily meeting between the president and his top advisers. Under the old system, if the president waved off one adviser’s objection to his preferred plan of action, another could step in to vouch for the objection’s merit. The advice Obama gets now, though, comes more regularly through one-off interactions with the likes of Jarrett and Denis McDonough, who don’t have anyone else to back them up. In the second term, observes the former aide, “Maybe the president says, more often than in the past, ‘We’re doing it.’”

The result is that Obama has become even more persuaded of his righteousness as the years have gone on.

In the end, though — this is the Chris Hughes New Republic, after all — we learn that America has let Obama down, not the other way around.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, this bit of psychoanalysis: “She is Yoko to Obama’s John Lennon. The mother who won’t abandon him.”

Plus: “With so many Czars around there’s bound to be a Rasputin.”