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So with three weeks to go, click here to learn how to get one of the two rooms left to join Glenn, Roger L. Simon, Steve Green, Ed Morrissey, Kevin D. Williamson, Dana Loesch, and Mark Rippetoe December 3rd through 6th in Texas:

THEY’RE NOT MAKING ENGLISHMEN LIKE THEY USED TO: British Women Twice As Likely To Be Childless As Their Mothers.

Mark Steyn, call your office.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

In the two hours of this debate, five people have died from drug-related deaths, $100 million has been added to our national debt, 200 babies have been killed by abortionists, and two veterans have taken their lives out of despair. Next, however, he pivoted to hope. We are not broken beyond repair. This is a narrative that we can change. Not we the Democrats, not we the Republicans, but we the people of America, because there is something special about this nation and we must embrace it and be proud of it and never give it away for the sake of political correctness.

—Dr. Ben Carson’s closing statement at last night’s GOP debate.

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CHANGE: Use of Long-Acting Birth Control Methods Surges Among U.S. Women.

THE VIEW FROM INSIDE THE DEBATE HALL: Whom Did the Crowd Seem to Like the Most?

Related: Great headline from Byron York: “Kasich uses debate as opportunity to irritate voters.”

BEHOLD THE POWER OF THIS FULLY WEAPONIZED SAFE SPACE! “BREAKING: SOURCE SAYS MIZZOU STUDENTS WEAPONIZE TO PROTECT ‘SAFE PLACE.’”

Here’s your how-to guide, fellas:

BUILDING THE 21st CENTURY MILITARY, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: We’ve all seen the Photoshop of the WWII soldier fresh off Omaha Beach or Iwo Jima next to footiepajamas ObamaCare ManBoy; but alas, the latter image sounds like it’s a goal, not a warning for John M. McHugh, then-Secretary of the Army:

This, by the way, is the last Secretary of the Army’s priority list for 2014:

1. Prevent Sexual Assault
2. Balance and Transition the Army
3. Champion Soldiers, Civilians and Families
4. Bolster Army activities in the Asia-Pacific region
5. Ensure personal accountability on and off the battlefield
6. Tell the Army Story
7. Implement Army Total Force policy
8. Prudently manage reset, modernization, research and development
9. Strengthen information assurance and cyber security
10. Develop effective energy solutions

Anything there about getting ready to win wars? Er, no.

2015’s priority list is essentially the same. As Mark Steyn wrote a decade ago at the start of “It’s the Demography Stupid,” the dry run for his book America Alone:

Americans sometimes don’t understand how far gone most of the rest of the developed world is down this path: In the Canadian and most Continental cabinets, the defense ministry is somewhere an ambitious politician passes through on his way up to important jobs like the health department. I don’t think Don Rumsfeld would regard it as a promotion if he were moved to Health and Human Services.

Betcha the Secretary of the Army in the Obama administration would.

FIGHT THE POWER! Oh Wait — Family of Mizzou Hunger Striker Protesting ‘White Privilege’ Worth $20 Million.

MIZZOU PROFESSOR RESIGNS FOLLOWING OUTRAGE OVER HIS REFUSAL TO CANCEL EXAM: As Ace adds, “So, the woman who called for ‘muscle’ to push around a reporter did not resign (she resigned her ‘courtesy appointment’ at the journalism school, but not her steady gig at the communications school), but this guy did:”

Dr. Dale Brigham, considered one of the most beloved professors at the University of Missouri, has been forced to resign after initially refusing to cancel an exam for students who claimed to feel “unsafe.”

“If you don’t feel safe coming to class, then don’t come to class,” Dr. Brigham told his students. “I will be there, and there will be an exam administered in our class,” he continued, imploring his students to stand up to the bullies on campus. “If you give into bullies, they win. The only way bullies are defeated is by standing up to them.”

Read the whole thing.

Update: “Where does the witch hunt end?”

THE KISS OF DEATH? Bob Dole endorses Jeb Bush.

Update: Meanwhile on the other side of the aisle, Cornel West to stump for Bernie Sanders in Iowa.

MIZZOU STUDENTS HALLUCINATE KKK ON CAMPUS: Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater, call your office!

Following the forced resignation of its president and an attack on student journalists attempting to cover protests, events at the University of Missouri (MU) have escalated even further in absurdity after hysterical students created a bogus rumor that the Ku Klux Klan was roaming campus.

Late Tuesday night, Twitter began to explode with students and others claiming that KKK members had been spotted walking around MU’s flagship Columbia campus. The rumors appear to have been given major life after MU’s student body president, Payton Head, made a Facebook post declaring that the KKK sighting had been confirmed and that he was actively working with police and even the National Guard on the matter.

Read the whole thing. Perhaps they’re looking for the campus Klan in the all the wrong places, though. (And not just in Berkeley.) That’s the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia:

Related: “Meet The Mizzou Student Responsible For Hyping The Poop Swastika.”

(H/T: Cuffy.)

IS IT A GOOD BUSINESS PLAN TO BE UNIVERSALLY HATED? WE’RE RUNNING THAT EXPERIMENT NOW. Leaked Comcast Docs Confirm What Everybody Knew: Broadband Usage Caps Are About Profit, Not Congestion.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: After Yale, Mizzou, raise the voting age — to 25.

SEVEN WAR MOVIES FOR VETERANS DAY: Trigger warning: many young cisgender males’ safe spaces are violated in these films.

EVEN WAPO ADMITS: Rand Paul is right: The most economically unequal states are Democratic. Does inequality arise from Democratic policies, or do Democratic policies arise from inequality? Yes.

DOES THIS EXPLAIN WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS BEEN HITTING AMAZON.COM SO HARD RECENTLY? Jeff Bezos Overtakes Times Owner Carlos Slim as World’s Fourth-Richest on Amazon Rally.

VIDEO: DID JEB BUSH COLD-SHOULDER RUBIO DURING A BREAK IN THE DEBATE?

Their relationship at the moment certainly appears just a tad chillier than this 2005 AP photo, which I found to illustrate Steve Green’s Drunkblog post last night:

LOOKING FOR A MOB: Ricochet’s latest GLoP Culture podcast with Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, and John Podhoretz is online. Love the Photoshop atop its post featuring Mizzou’s Melissa Click in her full Donald Sutherland in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers glory.

FASTER, PLEASE: $635 poop pills cure deadly gastrointestinal infection. “The $635 pill-based therapy, a type of fecal transplant, is highly effective against the difficult-to-treat gastrointestinal infection, according to results of a pilot study. A single dose, which includes a whopping 30 pills, cured 70 percent of patients. A second dose bumped the success rate up to 94 percent. The treatment, currently being sold only to doctors, may offer an easier alternative to other effective fecal transplant routes, namely colonoscopies, nasal tubes, and enemas.”

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Justice officials fear nation’s biggest wiretap operation may not be legal.

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21ST CENTURY WARFARE: DARPA to Start Testing a Robot Submarine-Hunting Drone that will be 50 times cheaper than a Destroyer.

REAPING WHAT PROGRESSIVISM HATH SOWN: Kevin Williamson on “Yale’s Idiot Children“:

On Friday, I was honored to be a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale, where I participated in a panel on freedom of speech with the wonderful writer Harry Stein and Professor Bradley A. Smith, a noted law scholar. The Yale kids did their screaming best to prevent us from having a conversation about free speech — the Yale kids are utterly immune to irony — but the event went much as planned. Coming and going, we were chanted at by idiot children screaming, “Genocide is not a joke!” . . .

If you’re wondering about the genocide thing, so were we.  . . . The idiot children were screaming about Lukianoff because he said they were overreacting to Christakis’s criticism that they tend to scream and overreact. Well played, idiot children.

Of course, these idiot children aren’t children. These are young adults who can serve in the military, get married, buy firearms, drink alcohol, etc. They are at the beginning years of adult life, but they are entirely unprepared for adult life. . . .

As for me, I think that they’re clowns, and worse than that, really: They’re bad citizens, and defective people from defective families. They aren’t motivated by good will, but by fear: of the dawning realization that they, as people, aren’t really all that important, despite having been told all their lives how important they are.

We’re all real sorry about your safe spaces and your pacifier and your stuffed puppy, Caitlyn. Really we are. Yet the perpetual revolution of configured stars continues in its indifference, and the lot of man is ceaseless labor, and though you may find the thought terrifying — and thinking itself terrifying — it may turn out to be the case that the screaming in the dark you do on campus is more or less the same screaming in the dark you did in the crib, the same howl for the same reason.

Christakis–the liberal Yale Professor who dared to question P.C. orthodoxy–has profusely apologized to the “offended” snowflakes who are now running the progressive asylums universities:

“I have disappointed you and I’m really sorry,” Nicholas Christakis told about 100 students gathered in his living room on Sunday for a meeting also attended by Jonathan Holloway, the dean of Yale College, and other university administrators. Christakis said his encounter on Thursday with students in the college’s courtyard, in which numerous black women upbraided him for being inattentive to them, broke his heart, according to a voice recording of the conversation provided to The Washington Post.

“I mean it just broke my heart,” Christakis said. “I thought that I had some credibility with you, you know? I care so much about the same issues you care about. I’ve spent my life taking care of these issues of injustice, of poverty, of racism. I have the same beliefs that you do … I’m genuinely sorry, and to have disappointed you. I’ve disappointed myself.”

James Taranto aptly noted the Orwellian tone of Christakis’s apology,  “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”