THE SINGULARITY APPROACHES: How IBM’s new five-qubit universal quantum computer works.

THE WAR ON COLLEGE MEN: Camille Paglia: ‘Masculinity Is Being Dissolved on Campus.’ “You have to have strong women in order to deal with masculine men. That is why masculinity is constantly being eroded, diminished, and dissolved on university campuses because it allows women to be weak.”

NIALL FERGUSON: The resurfacing of anti-Semitism in Britain.

Last week’s controversy is of course not really about the history of 1930s Germany, but about the much more recent history of the British Labour Party. Since the late 1960s — the era when both Ken Livingstone and the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joined the party — a significant element of the British left has aligned itself with the Palestine Liberation Organization and other groups hostile to the state of Israel. Close to half a century of anti-Zionist rhetoric lies behind Livingstone’s complaint that “there’s been a very well-orchestrated campaign by the Israel lobby to smear anybody who criticizes Israeli policy as anti-Semitic.”

Yet Livingstone and Corbyn are no longer the devious “entryists” of their early militant years. Rather, they have become the useful idiots of an entirely new generation of Labour infiltrators.

Remember: Livingstone’s comments were made in defense of two 2014 Facebook posts by Naseem (“Naz”) Shah, who became the Labour Party member of Parliament for the Bradford West constituency last year. One stated: “Solution for Israel-Palestine conflict — relocate Israel into United States. Problem solved.” The other explicitly equated “Apartheid Israel” with Hitler’s Germany.

Now, ask yourself why the MP for Bradford West was systematically using the Palestinian issue to mobilize voters.

It is not that Naz Shah is herself an Islamist. If she were, I doubt she would appear with her head uncovered in the House of Commons. It is just that bashing Israel appears to be an effective way of mobilizing Muslim voters, who account for roughly half the electorate in Bradford West.

Read the whole thing.

And try not to dwell on the fact that a place named “Bradford West” has a half-Islamic electorate.

MAKING SENSE OF THE JUNIOR ANTI-SEX LEAGUE, AIRSTRIP ONE DIVISION: The new curtain-twitchers: why feminists are so down on sex.

ONCE AN ANTI-WAR HERO, ALWAYS AN ANTI-WAR HERO? Hundreds of veterans of 1971’s May Day civil disobedience in Washington, D.C. returned to the scene earlier this week for a nostalgic review of an event that saw more than 12,000 arrests, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Richard Pollock. Among the highlights of the conference was a video presentation to the group by the Pentagon Papers’ Daniel Ellsberg.

It seems like a reasonable conjecture to think that former community organizer Barack Obama would have been among the May Day demonstrators had he been around, but now that he’s president and there is a war somewhere in the world involving U.S. troops, he’s an inviting target for anti-war heroes like Ellsberg, who warned that Obama will “furtively” escalate the Iraq conflict, just as Ike, JFK, LBJ and RMN did in Vietnam:

“’Right now, Marines are being furtively being sent into combat in Iraq in a hopeless operation as before,’ he said, adding that like the early days in Vietnam, there will be ‘gradually advisors calling in air support,’” Pollock reported. Somethings never change for the far Left. It’s always all about Vietnam and evil American presidents who can’t wait to send young Americans into combat.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1091.

FEDERAL REGULATIONS ADD $1.9 TRILLION TO THE COST OF GOVERNMENT EVERY YEAR: That’s the conclusion of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews in his annual update, “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State,” according to the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Ethan Barton.

AS ALWAYS, LIFE EVENTUALLY INITIATES MARSHALL MCLUHAN: Landmarking Is Turning New York City Into a Life-Sized Historical Diorama, Reason notes.

Marshall McLuhan called this change a half-century ago; in 1967, he told Tom Wolfe, ”Of course, a city like New York is obsolete. People will no longer concentrate in great urban centers for the purpose of work. New York will become a Disneyland, a pleasure dome…”

HOW PATHETIC IS EUROPE? This Pathetic:

German soldiers taking part in a four-week Nato exercise in Norway earlier this year had to leave after just 12 days because they had gone over their overtime limits, it has emerged.

Troops have complained to a parliamentary watchdog that they are being forced to spend entire days doing nothing under the new rules.

“It can’t be that we can’t fulfil our Nato obligations because of overtime,” Hans-Peter Bertels, the German parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.[..]

Under the latest reforms, in force since January, the military working week has been reduced to 41 hours and troops can no longer be paid for working overtime.

But wait, there’s more: “It sounds like the Germans have some work to do to get their defense affairs in order, no? And yet the government at the same time chose to release a grandiose white paper calling for the accelerated formation of a pan-EU army.”

IT’S OKAY, HONEY; THEY DIDN’T MEAN YOU: “‘Are you going to ruin it for all of us?’ one of my dog-fancying friends asked, when I told her that I was writing this article. I was surprised to learn how many of my acquaintances were the owners of so-called emotional-support animals….’People can’t ask about my disability,’ one friend told me. ‘But if I feel that I’m in a situation where I might have a struggle being let in somewhere with my dog, then I come up with a disorder that sounds like a nightmare. I like to be creative. I’ll say I lack a crucial neurotransmitter that prevents me from processing anxiety and that, without the dog, I’m likely to black out and urinate.’”

SO THERE’S HOPE FOR AMERICA: Vietnam, ruled by communists for 40 years, is now the No. 1 fan of capitalism on the planet.

I DUNNO, CAN WE SHRINK THE INFLUENCE OF POLITICS ON THE FCC? Could the FCC Shrink the Influence of Money in Politics?

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#SOCIALISMSUCKS: ‘We want out of this agony’: What it’s like to eat in a country that’s on the verge of collapse. Venezuela sure has suffered from a lot of bad luck.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. GLOVES ARE OFF: Donald Trump Says Hillary Clinton Will Be A “Very Poor” President. Just look at her record as Secretary of State.

IT EXPLAINS A LOT: Michael Walsh’s The Devil’s Pleasure Palace is $2.99 on Kindle today.

“IN WHICH THE CONSERVATIVE ORGAN NYTIMES ANOINTS TRANSGENDERISM WITH NAPALM.”

IS DONALD TRUMP THE INTELLECTUAL HEIR OF RON PAUL?

DNC’S NOVEMBER MESSAGE: TRUMP DIDN’T ‘HIJACK’ GOP, BUT IS THE GOP.

I BLAME REPUBLICANS: Abortion clinics closing in Blue States:

For all the criticism and outrage red states get for tightening restrictions on abortion leading to clinic closures, blue states are seeing their fair share of closures as well.

In California, where abortion laws are liberal, 12 clinics have closed since 2011. Three clinics have closed in Washington, along with several in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. In total, 162 abortion providers have shuttered their doors since 2011, while only have 21 opened, according to analysis from Bloomberg.

For every three abortion clinics associated with the Abortion Care Network that have closed in red states, two have closed in more liberal states in the past five years, according to ACN’s Executive Director Nikki Madsen.

Shauna Heckert, executive director of Women’s Health Specialists of California, told FiveThirtyEight that it’s not just anti-abortion legislation that has accounted for the drop in abortion facilities. It’s also a paucity of willing providers. “We are a dying breed,” Heckert said, adding that some of the closures are “because of economics.”

Hmm.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Navy Seal Killed by ISIS While Training Peshmerga.

WARFIGHTING: It’s Time To Go Back To Basics. “Most modern military doctrine should be scrapped. The Pentagon would be far better served if our military thinkers got back to the basics and taught the principles of war—and little more.”

In the words of Curtis LeMay, “I’ll tell you what war is about, you’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough they stop fighting.”

YOUR SCARY-ASS CHART OF THE DAY: Europe’s Ridiculously High Industrial Electricity Prices.

Flashback: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” Steven Chu to the Wall Street Journal, shortly before becoming Obama’s first “Energy” Secretary. And as Candidate Obama himself promised the San Francisco Chronicle in January of 2008, as though it was a feature, “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”

(Via SDA.)

YES, THAT CAN HAPPEN AFTER YOU’VE BEEN “FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED:” AP: Once a Clinton stronghold, Appalachia now Trump country.

Omitted from the article? Any reference to Obama’s pledge in 2008 to the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle that he would bankrupt the coal industry, or Hillary’s similar pledge if anything, delivered with even more gusto, during the Democrat debate this past March to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”