CAN I MOUNT IT ON MY LEXUS? Mad Scientists Build Ludicrous 250-Pound DIY Railgun: It’s as impressive as it is wildly dangerous.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ISN’T ONLY FOR DEMS: Charles Hurt explains, “Jeb Bush, John Kasich seal their fates by pandering to illegal immigrants.”

Outside the debate hall, protesters beat drums and screamed for amnesty. One man with a bullhorn kept repeating over and over again that justice is not possible in America. And every third time or so he accused Mr. Trump of being a “racist” for vowing to enforce America’s immigration laws. No word on whether he was a plant, paid for by the Bush campaign.

On stage inside the debate hall, Mr. Trump stuck to his guns and said that immigration laws passed by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and approved by presidents from both parties should simply be enforced. That is all he is saying.

Yet Mr. Bush not only thinks these laws should be summarily dismissed, he said during the debate that even having a discussion about enforcing our immigration laws is a terrible thing. We should dismiss these laws and there should not even be a debate about it.

“They’re doing high-fives in the Clinton campaign right now when they hear this,” Mr. Bush said.

Wow. Truly astonishing. Not only does Mr. Bush not belong in the White House or the Republican Party, he should just be deported. Perhaps to Mexico, where he might be happier and find greater success in politics.

Astonishingly, Mr. Bush was not alone on the Republican stage. “Think about the families!” cried Ohio Gov. John Kasich. “C’mon, folks!”

These people really have no clue how desperately frustrated and estranged American voters in both parties are over this issue of rampant illegal immigration and Washington’s absolute refusal to take simple, common sense measures to fix the problem.

John Kasich should be deported right behind Jeb Bush.

Yep. When I heard Bush and Kasich make these remarks about (not)  enforcing existing immigration laws, I wondered if they realized how much damage they were doing to their quest to obtain the GOP nomination. While I’m sure both Bush and Kasich sincerely hold these beliefs, they are shockingly out of touch with GOP voters.

SOMETHING GOOD FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: White House Strikes a Blow for Advanced Nuclear Reactors. “The Gateway program, announced at the Summit on Nuclear Energy held last week at the White House, is the clearest signal to date of the Obama administration’s support for new nuclear technology.” Faster, please.

BOB ZUBRIN ON RUBIO’S ENERGY POLICY.

SPOILED: Mizzou Hunger Striker Claims He’s Oppressed, Rips ‘White Privilege’ – Comes From Family Worth $20 Million.

TOM MAGUIRE HAS QUESTIONS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES about Hillary’s “extensive” experience and resume. “As to whether Hillary’s resume is impressive, one might argue as to whether her failure to shepherd HillaryCare through a Democratic controlled Congress in 1993 was more impressive than her ‘reset’ of relations with Russia or her advocacy of beheading the Qadaffi regime in Libya with no plan to replace him. But of course, it is much harder to argue against the notion that Hillary’s resume is extensive. So this apparent error accidentally makes Republicans look cranky and unreasonable, but I am sure that is inadvertent. No, I’m not.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: Gay Versus Trans Bar Fight Breaks Out Over ‘Stonewall.’

WAPO: ‘ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH AT YALE’: Glenn has written a lot about what has been going on at Yale over the past week.

By wild coincidence, I was on the ground at Yale last week when the campus erupted— I even managed to stumble into my own free speech controversy. In today’s Washington Post, I talk about what I witnessed while on campus. What’s been going on at Yale can be wild and hard to even keep up with, but I wanted to leave readers with a reminder of the most important point:

[T]he focus should remain on defending Erika and Nicholas Christakis’s free speech rights. In today’s campus climate, when professors find themselves on the “wrong” side of the culture war, even those with tenure can find their jobs in jeopardy.

I have seen time and again university administrations press faculty to resign for their controversial expression. The university usually tries to make the resignation look like it was the professor’s own decision. If this were to happen at Yale, it would be a chilling warning to future faculty and students that if you even mildly question the prevailing orthodoxy on campus, you will have hell to pay.

Yale students, alumni, and members of the public must demand that the Christakises face no threat of punishment, and if either professor steps down now or in the coming months, it must be understood to represent Yale’s glaring failure to live up to its own glowing promises to protect and honor freedom of speech on campus.

You can read my full op-ed over at The Washington Post, as well as a summary of last Thursday’s events over at FIRE’s website.

FORTY YEARS AFTER ITS DEMISE, THE EDMUND FITZGERALD LIVES ON IN SONG AND MEMORY.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 916.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The ‘Yale snowflakes’: Who made these monsters? These little tyrants are the bastard offspring of older radicals.

CAESARISM GOES TO THE SUPREMES:

The Obama administration has suffered a series of stinging legal defeats over its unilateral program for granting partial amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Now, it looks like the this Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program is likely headed to the Supreme Court. . . .

We aren’t legal experts at Via Meadia, but the DAPA program has always struck us as deeply problematic—not only because we thought it was likely to further poison and polarize the immigration debate, but also because it set a dangerous precedent about the boundaries of executive power. As American Interest chairman Francis Fukuyama (who knows a thing or two about the workings of the administrative state) wrote last November, the president “is not simply exercising judgment in the implementation of a law passed by Congress” by implementing DAPA. Rather, “he is in effect making law unilaterally and flying in the face of the expressed will of the people.”

I guess this is good news for David Bernstein.

THE ATLANTIC: Campus Activists Weaponize ‘Safe Space:’ A journalist at the University of Missouri is mobbed by a crowd insisting he is the aggressor. “In the video of Tim Tai trying to carry out his ESPN assignment, I see the most vivid example yet of activists twisting the concept of ‘safe space’ in a most confounding way. They have one lone student surrounded. They’re forcibly preventing him from exercising a civil right. At various points, they intimidate him. Ultimately, they physically push him. But all the while, they are operating on the premise, or carrying on the pretense, that he is making them unsafe.”

To these Cry-Bullies, anything less than abject compliance is “aggression.” They need to be made to feel actually unsafe in their actions. When behaving horribly is rewarded, and risk-free, you get more of it.

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WALL STREET JOURNAL: Bonfire Of The Academy: As liberal adults abdicate, the kids take charge on campus.

Behind the headlines was also a festering dispute between the school administration and graduate students over cutbacks to their health-care coverage. Student Jonathan Butler listed among the reasons for his hunger strike that “graduate students [were] being robbed of their health insurance.”

Less noted in the news coverage is that an August posting on the website of the university’s division of graduate studies explains in detail that the health-insurance cutbacks are the explicit result of the Affordable Care Act. ObamaCare’s regulations forbid employers, such as universities, from paying for their grad students’ health insurance. Another case of progressives eating their own.

So now the University of Missouri and its 35,000 students are leaderless. We can assume that the students who brought Missouri to this pass do not have a clue what comes next—unless one of them would like to step into the presidency and give it a fling. It would serve the faculty right, though not the tens of thousands of other students who want an education.

What was evident at the University of Missouri, and in last weekend’s confrontation over free speech at Yale, is that political dialogue on universities is disintegrating to the level of 1968, when many schools became places of physical and intellectual chaos.

The Missouri legislature — and, more generally, state legislatures, alumni, and trustees of all higher-education institutions — needs to take firm control to ensure that higher education institutions are tightly focused on administration. They can start by slashing administrative budgets, since “student life” administrators are usually involved in these debacles and serve no useful purpose for the most part anyway.

THIS WILL LIKELY END WELL: Hamtramck, MI, Becomes First U.S. City with Muslim-Majority Council.

MISSOURI USED TO BE CALLED THE “SHOW ME” STATE FOR ITS INHABITANTS’ HARD-HEADED SKEPTICISM, BUT THAT WAS BEFORE IT HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF MODERN HIGHER EDUCATION: Was The Poop Swastika Incident At Mizzou A Giant Hoax? “Did the incident happen as reported, or did two university administrators resign over protests that were sparked by a hoax? And if the incident did happen as reported, a proposition for which no publicly available evidence currently exists, how did university administrators and law enforcement authorities confirm that the vandalism was driven by racial animosity, as opposed to being promulgated as a public relations stunt meant to tar the university for failing to provide an environment free of racist invective? It would not be the first time a public university fell victim to a high profile PR stunt that was later revealed to be a fabrication.”

Related: #Mizzou student body prez retracts statements about confirmed Klan sighting.

Jesus, you people are pathetic. Get a grip.

UPDATE: Hey, Mizzou: Where’s The Poop? “At this point … we have nothing.”

ON THE WARPATH: Warren Lashes Out at GOP Debate Ad Showing Her as ‘Commie Dictator.’

VIDEO: WATCH BERNIE SANDERS SUPPORTERS STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN SOCIALISM.

I suppose it would be enharshening their mellow, violating their safe space and thus would result in many down twinkles if they were handed Kevin D. Williamson’s recent article on Bernie’s politics and their unique fusion of socialism and err, nationalism. What could go wrong?

IS BARACK OBAMA PRO OR ANTI-OIL? YES!

Anything you put in that teleprompter, President Burgundy is going to read!

ROGER SIMON ON WHAT HE LEARNED AT TUESDAY’S DEBATE: “If John Kasich is elected president, I will sell my television set.  I’ve already seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame at least a dozen times.” Read the whole thing.

While the revolution still won’t be televised, I doubt Roger is in too much danger of selling his TV. So what was your take on yesterday’s debate? Let us know in the comments.

STATEMENT: ACLU of Missouri on the University of Missouri police asking for calls about “hurtful speech.” “Racial epithets addressed to a specific person in a threatening or intimidating manner can be illegal, and may require action by police and/or university administrators. But, no governmental entity has the authority to broadly prohibit ‘hurtful’ speech — or even undefined ‘hateful’ speech, or to discipline against it.”

ON VETERANS’ DAY: 10 Myths Of World War I Debunked. “For the soldiers who fought it was in some ways better than previous conflicts, and in some ways worse. By setting it apart as uniquely awful we are blinding ourselves to the reality of not just WW1 but war in general. We are also in danger of belittling the experience of soldiers and civilians caught up in countless other appalling conflicts throughout history and the present day.” Here’s one:

4. The upper class got off lightly

Although the great majority of casualties in WW1 were from the working class, the social and political elite were hit disproportionately hard by WW1. Their sons provided the junior officers whose job it was to lead the way over the top and expose themselves to the greatest danger as an example to their men.

Some 12% of the British army’s ordinary soldiers were killed during the war, compared with 17% of its officers. Eton alone lost more than 1,000 former pupils – 20% of those who served. UK wartime Prime Minister Herbert Asquith lost a son, while future Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law lost two. Anthony Eden lost two brothers, another brother of his was terribly wounded, and an uncle was captured.

Actually, the high level of upper-class participation, and casualties, probably explains why it is remembered as uniquely bad.

SURGE IN ROBBERIES FROM CAPITOL HILL HAS CAUSED THE REST OF US TO ALTER OUR LIVES AS WELL: Surge in robberies on Capitol Hill alters residents’ routines, lifestyles.