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HEH: White House Petition: Refund the fees to legal immigrants who have applied over the past six years.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: As New Troops Head To Afghanistan, Worries Remain.

R.I.P., Marion Barry.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Watch as CNN pushes Josh Earnest to explain Obama’s immigration ‘flip-flop.’

Cuomo, who is the brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, questioned this line of thought, pushing the White House press secretary to explain what appears to be a pretty obvious “flip-flop.”

“[T]he president promised not to do this,” he said. “He kept saying, ‘I won’t take executive action.’ Everybody keeps showing the tapes of him doing it … And they said if you care about working with us, don’t do this. And then he did it. What’s the calculation?”

Earnest’s response? Blame House Republicans.

Gee, who could have seen that coming?

BUT OF COURSE: Sharyl Attkisson: Documents: Adviser Tells Attorney General Holder How to Manipulate Press on Fast & Furious.

IT’S A HABIT THAT CAN BE UNLEARNED, THOUGH: MSNBC Shrill Is No Accident. It’s How Liberals Really Think. “Convinced that no intelligent, decent person could take conservatism seriously, liberals believe it is not necessary or even possible, when engaging conservative ideas, to go beyond diagnosing the psychological, moral or mental defects that cause people to espouse them.”

ED DRISCOLL: The Return of Original Sin: God and Manson at Gaia University. “Say what you will about Charles Manson, but he took the ‘warrior’ aspect of the phrase ‘Social Justice Warrior,’ not to mention the quasi-religious doomsday implications of that strange mindset, seriously.”

EVERYDAY HEROES: ‘If We Left, They Wouldn’t Have Nobody.’

When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go.

The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except for cook Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez, the janitor.

“There was about 16 residents left behind, and we had a conversation in the kitchen, ‘What are we going to do?’ ” Rowland says.

“If we left, they wouldn’t have nobody,” the 34-year-old Alvarez says.

How can an assisted-living facility close and just leave the patients behind?

IT’S COME TO THIS: Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell Brawl Backstage at The View.

MICKEY KAUS ON OBAMA AND IMMIGRATION: Tomorrow’s Conventional Wisdom, Today!

WILL MORE BRITISH POLITICOS DEFECT TO THE UKIP? “A number of Conservative MPs are considering defecting but have agreed with the UKIP leadership that they will only do so if they have a chance of winning in 2015.” Hmm.

HOW ARE WE GOING TO TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE IF THE CONSEQUENCES ARE SO SMALL? No Prison for Lesbian Teacher, 24, Accused of Raping 17-Year-Old Girl.

IOWAHAWK ON OBAMA’S IMMIGRATION MOVE: Somewhere a legal immigrant engineer in his 10th year of paperwork and lawyers is on Orbitz shopping for flights back home.

Which leads to an idea for the GOP: How about legislation to refund the fees to legal immigrants who have applied over the past six years? Dare Obama to veto that. . . .

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FERGUSON: Members of New Black Panther Party Arrested In Gun, Bomb Plot. “As initially reported by CBS News, the men were suspected of acquiring explosives for pipe bombs that they planned to set off during protests in Ferguson, according to the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the case.”

Let me guess — if that had happened, they would have blamed the Tea Party or something.

SMART DIPLOMACY: ‘Biden, get out’: Protesters heckle VP in Turkey. Hell, we don’t want him either.

DEROY MURDOCK: The Silence Of The Colored People.

Voters on Election Day chose Tim Scott as South Carolina’s U.S. senator. They also sent Utah’s Mia Love and Texas’ Will Hurd to the U.S. House of Representatives. Thus, the 114th Congress will include three black Republicans. This is a new high-water mark for black Americans.

Too bad the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People couldn’t care less. (America’s oldest civil-rights organization still plasters that retrograde expression all over its logo and website.)

NAACP has yet to congratulate, acknowledge, or even attack Scott, Love, and Hurd — now America’s three most powerful elected black Republicans. What you hear is the silence of the Colored People. Despite 10 separate requests for comment on this “advancement of colored people,” I could not squeeze a consonant out of NAACP’s Baltimore headquarters, its Washington, D.C. office, or even its Hollywood bureau. . . .

NAACP did issue a November 14 press release expressing its “strong support of the new Qualified Residential Mortgage rule” under the behemoth Dodd-Frank financial services law. The group praised the rejection of new down-payment rules for home loans. Who needs strong credit standards? What could go wrong?

NAACP has offered communiqués praising Obama’s new draconian carbon-dioxide regulations and even applauding LaJune Montgomery Tabron for becoming president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. As for three black Republicans getting elected to Congress? Crickets.

The NAACP is just a race-based arm of the Democratic Party. Since nothing it says about these winners can help the Democrats, it says nothing.

SO I HAD LUNCH AT SONNY’S BBQ TODAY, AND IT WAS SAD. Today was their last day in business, as they’ve lost their lease and the restaurant will be torn down to build something fancier and more expensive. I don’t eat there all that much — mostly just when I’m running errands out that way on a Saturday — but the food’s always good, and the people are always friendly. Many of the folks I spoke to today had worked there for years, and they were clearly sad to leave. I’m sure they’ll find other restaurant jobs, but it’s kind of sad. And Sonny’s was also gun-friendly before that became a fad.

YEAH, MOSTLY: “Almost every time I’ve talked to a reporter has gone this way: they had already decided the narrative beforehand.” I can think of some exceptions to this, but not a whole lot.

UPDATE: A reader’s comment about dealing with the press in Iraq reminds me of Toby Harnden’s reporting on the reporters.

Harnden, by the way, has a new book out, Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan. Worth a read, I think.

NOTES FOR 400 hours of Richard Feynman’s Hughes Lectures.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Game Developers’ Association Calls 10,000 Tweeters ‘Harassers’–Including Kentucky Fried Chicken.

In a sign of how frenzied, panicky and intolerant the games industry establishment has become over the legitimate concerns of ordinary gamers, the International Game Developers’ Association branded some 10,425 Twitter accounts, including those of journalists, as harassment “offenders” in a humiliatingly ill-conceived attempt to provide a “blocking tool” to its members.

The blocking tool, which has been widely mocked online for its lack of sophistication and “blanket ban” approach, was assembled by Randi Harper, a persistent online agitator. The tool prevents users from seeing not only the tweets of users Harper has decided are implicated in harassment, but also many accounts who simply follow those users, by blocking a list of thousands of users with the use of an automated “bot.”

So indiscriminately has the block list been compiled that the IGDA’s own staff appear on it. Roberto Rosario, chair of the IGDA in Puerto Rico, is named on the list. In an acutely embarrassing moment for the Association, Rosario, who is not a GamerGate supporter, publicly threatened to resign unless his name was removed or the bot was disavowed.

Good grief.

UPDATE: From the comments: “They took the concept of “guilt by association” and created a software algorithm to apply it automatically using social media. Congrats! You invented a McCarthyism robot.” Well, to be fair, Twitter already had one of those.

YOU’LL STILL NEED TO BE PRETTY STRONG TO GET FAR WITH THESE, THOUGH: Scale A Glass Wall With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive On Your Hands. “The Stanford project here uses octagonal hand grips, linked to a foot support below. This allowed a 154 pound human to climb several feet up a sheer glass wall in 90 seconds. If climbing walls sounds like something the military is interested in, that’s because it is. DARPA has climbing projects for both robots and humans. Because that research is of a military nature, it also means that all the details aren’t public like they would be in a published research paper.”

THIS DOESN’T SOUND PROMISING: Maryann Jones, Hired as Charleston Law School President Under Renewable 3-Month Contract, Resigns After 8 Days on the Job.

QUIETER, PLEASE: This Tiny Engine Could Make Leaf Blowers Sound Less Like Jets. It’s a rotary.