I BLAME JOYCE CAROL OATES: Emails show DOD analysts told to ‘cut it out’ on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands.

While the Obama administration has a lengthy history of ignoring or downplaying intelligence that doesn’t fit its own preconceived Middle East narratives, as Allahpundit notes, “Who sent the e-mails, though? Story doesn’t say.”

‘LACK OF ENTHUSIASM’ MAY DOOM DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHAPPAQUA’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: As Michael Walsh spots, even her cheerleaders at the New York Times are forced to grit their teeth and write:

But Mrs. Clinton has a striking problem with young voters. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed that a solid plurality of young voters has a negative view of Mrs. Clinton. She did even worse in a Bloomberg Politics national poll. Here is a result to unnerve her Brooklyn campaign headquarters: Both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton get a 60 percent favorable rating with 18-to-29-year-olds. She gets 35 percent approval and 57 percent unfavorable.

Betsy Newmark spots the Times adding this black mark against Hillary as well:

Though she criticizes the American economy as being “rigged” for the rich*, Mrs. Clinton has lost some support recently from party members who think she would go easy on Wall Street excess if elected.

President Goldman Sachs going easy on Wall Street? Heaven forefend!

* To be fair, Hillary may have stumbled onto something here, but not in the way she thinks.

DARTMOUTH REFUSES TO STOP RESTRICTING SPEECH, LOSES ‘GREEN LIGHT’ SPEECH CODE RATING: I am sad to report that after failing to heed FIRE’s warnings that its “Bias Incident Reporting” protocol impermissibly threatens free speech on campus, Dartmouth College has lost the “green light” speech code policy rating it has held since 2005. For those of you who are unfamiliar with FIRE’s policy rating system (a “green light” is our highest rating), check out our website.

As FIRE’s Samantha Harris said today in The Torch:

Examples of bias incidents, according to Dartmouth’s Office of Pluralism and Leadership, include “telling jokes” and “stereotyping.” This policy is inconsistent with Dartmouth’s claim to be an institution that “prizes and defends the right of free speech.” If every joke or provocative remark about politics, religion, or culture is potentially subject to a formal investigation, Dartmouth students are not truly free to speak their minds.

You can read more about why Dartmouth has been downgraded over at FIRE’s website, and if you want to share your thoughts on this with Dartmouth directly, you can reach out to the school on Twitter, Facebook, or via email.

ISIS IN EGYPT: THE OTHER BIG THREAT TO THE WEST:

Even the Obama administration—which had punished el-Sisi for overthrowing, with massive popular support, Mohamed Morsi’s short-lived Muslim Brotherhood regime, which the administration, appallingly, supported—had fully restored arms sale to Egypt by early this year.

The objection to el-Sisi has centered on the harshness of his crackdown on the Brotherhood and other Islamists, which indeed has seen the killing of hundreds and the jailing of thousands, and hardly meets Western judicial standards.

But as Israel has long realized, in the Middle East one doesn’t get to choose between good and bad, but—sometimes—between not-so-good and much, much worse.

Read the whole thing.

AND FOR ‘WASHINGTON,’ READ: ‘OBAMA AND HILLARY.’ Panetta: Leon Washington Bears ‘Some Responsibility’ in Rise of ISIS.

Related: “Obama can call GOP meanies, but the Syrian refugee crisis is all on him.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Prof Sues Dean, Law School For Access To Admissions Data. “The man helping to write a book on the state Freedom of Information Act says the dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock law school is not complying with the open-records law in a lawsuit filed against the university Tuesday.”

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Obama’s Syrian Refugee Debacle. To be fair, Hillary helped.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SEEMS TO BE GETTING A LOT MORE ASSERTIVE ALL OF A SUDDEN: Archbishop Cranmer: Nissar Hussain battered with a pickaxe in Bradford for converting from Islam to Christianity.

orefathers. Some are brave enough to convert to Christianity and make a public profession of their new faith in Jesus, but most commit quietly and incrementally (and often unconsciously) to morph to the secular-non-theistic attitudes of society. It’s no big fuss: they just prefer texting girls to reading the Qur’an, and watching Gogglebox instead of listening to some tedious imam drone on about dīn and duʿā. Not many would call themselves atheists, but there are very many thousands of young British ex-Muslim agnostics. They daren’t go any further for fear of..

Well, the grainy picture above is of Nissar Hussain being bludgeoned not-quite-to-death with a pickaxe. He and his entire family converted from Islam to Christianity in 1996, and life in Bradford has been hellish ever since. . . .

There’s a lot in here to chew over, but there is one fundamental dichotomous tension: “The Muslim community are largely decent people but because of the taboo of converting to Christianity we are classed by them as scum and second-class citizens.”

No “decent people” classify converts to Christianity as “scum and second-class citizens”. All decent people will respect the fundamental freedom of religion and the inviolable human right (and ‘British value’) to manifest whatever faith one chooses and to abandon that faith if one wishes and do so with impunity.

So, Archbishop, what are you saying about the Muslim community in Bradford? And, more significantly, what are you doing about it?

JAMES O’KEEFE STRIKES AGAIN: O’Keefe Releases Undercover Video Of Huma Abedin Discussing Syrian Refugees.

RON FOURNIER: Leaderless: I once asked, “What if Obama can’t lead?” The answer after Paris is painful. “On IS­IS, Obama breaks every rule. He min­im­izes the threat and dis­misses our fears, which raises doubts about his candor and cap­ab­il­ity. An over­whelm­ing ma­jor­ity of Amer­ic­ans dis­ap­prove of his hand­ling of IS­IS, a new poll shows, and 81 per­cent think IS­IS will strike the United States.”

Related: Mistrusting Obama on ISIS—and Refugees.

WHY IS THE WASHINGTON POST SO RACIST? Tom Maguire disassembles their “fact check” of Ben Carson.

There’s no lie they won’t tell to keep a black man down.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD HARDEST HIT: States Lead Effort to Let Pharmacists Prescribe Birth Control.

THIS SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY OBVIOUS APPLICATION: Utilities see potential in drones to inspect lines, towers.

PRINCETON’S SNOWFLAKE FASCISTS GET A SCALP: “Woodrow Wilson goes down in New Jersey,” Jonathan Last writes at the Weekly Standard:

We have yet to find a term for the student protests going on across the country that beats Mona Charen’s “snowflake fascists” and last week the precious little Maoists at Princeton got the biggest scalp since Tim Wolfe: They brought down Woodrow Wilson himself.

“Care to guess how long this group of fifteen students had to protest before the school’s current president agreed to do his best to disappear Wilson? Twenty hours,” Last adds. Read the whole thing.

“First They Came for Andrew Jackson, Now They’ve Come for Woodrow Wilson, So Who’s Next?”, Aaron Goldstein asks at the American Spectator:

This isn’t to say Jackson and Wilson are above criticism. Far from it. There ought to be a robust discussion about their presidencies both good and bad. But The Left doesn’t want a robust discussion on anything. It simply seeks to delegitimize the people who shaped American history. When we delegitimize those who shaped the history of America, we delegitimize America.

Related: “It never looks like hysteria when you are in the middle of it.”

I THINK THERE’S A LOT TO BE LEARNED HERE: Parasites Found To Influence Fertility In Women.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “If you read Vox on how to survive Thanksgiving, you are the person your family is trying to survive.”

Update: Great URL on a Washington Free Beacon article titled “How to DESTROY Your Crazy Relatives Who Think Bad Thoughts at Thanksgiving:” “Arguing about politics at Thanksgiving should be punished by catapult.”

Endorsed. (Barring that, as John Podhoretz suggests, “If anyone brings up politics at Thanksgiving, everybody else, no matter their views, should shriek ‘SAFE SPACE! SAFE SPACE!'”)

NARRATIVEFAIL: More millennials are moving out of cities than into them. Plus: “Well, lets jump ahead 10-15 years and assume fully autonomous vehicles are widely available and working well. What will that do to willingness to commute longer distances? Will knowledge workers let the car do the driving and work on their software, spreadsheets, presentations, and sales calls while they commute to outer suburbs? Or will they still live as close to work as possible, at least on week nights, and only go to second homes further away on weekends? Also, will video conferencing and virtual reality ever reduce how often people work from the office? So far it is amazing how much people stay anchored to physical offices. Is that ever going to change?”

Why, I was writing about this a decade ago.

THE CYCLE OF LIFE, BRAVE NEW WORLD EDITION:

● “One in four men ‘suffer MAN PERIODS’: Time of the month triggers cramps, irritability, cravings and erratic emotions.”
—Headline, London Daily Mail, November 19th, 2015.

● “It’s a man-ternity shoot! Dad-to-be shows off his beer-belly in hilarious ‘pregnancy’ photos to entertain expecting wife.”
—Headline, London Daily Mail, August 2nd, 2014.

● “Uterine Transplants May Allow Men to Give Birth.”
—Headline, PJ Media, November 21st, 2015.

To paraphrase British scientist J. B. S. Haldane, not only is the 21st century stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

FIRE CAN’T MELT STEEL: Who Needs Bolt Cutters When You Can Burn Through Locks At 5,000 Degrees?

LIBERAL STUDENTS, FACULTY MOST LIKELY TO SILENCE SPEAKERS: A Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education of efforts to dis-invite speakers on U.S. college campuses between 2000 and 2014 comes up with a surprise. One hundred and sixty student and faculty groups from the Left sought to silence somebody. That’s not a surprise. What is unexpected is the fact 96 such groups from the Right did the same thing. Whoa!

“Conservative students and faculty were most likely to protest invited speakers with criminal histories and those with contrary views on abortion and Israeli-Palestinian confrontation, while liberals were most likely to protest speakers’ views on sexual orientation, immigration and Islam,” the DCNF’s Kathryn Watson reported.

Previously, Watson reported that among the Ivy League schools, only the University of Pennsylvania gets a green rating from FIRE. Yale and Dartmouth got yellow, while Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia and Cornell just stomped all over the First Amendment.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 928.

SLOUCHING TOWARD BIDENHEM: Fox Poll: Six Republicans Would Beat Hillary Clinton. “Six GOP presidential candidates would beat Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head matchup, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) would do best against Clinton, 50 to 42 percent, pollsters found. Billionaire Donald Trump, retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would also win hypothetical elections, according to the new poll, taken after more than 100 people were killed and more than 300 others injured in a wave of terrorist attacks in Paris. Clinton and former businesswoman Carly Fiorina would tie with 42 percent each.”

VIA PROFESSOR JACOBSON: Denounce Hate and Bigotry at UT-Austin. Why are our colleges and universities such hotbeds of hatred and intolerance?