IGNORED HISTORY: Columbus Sought To End Islamic Tyranny.

MIGHT ACCEPTANCE OF THE MISMATCH THESIS COME SLOWLY?: Last week I wrote about the efforts to eradicate yellow fever and malaria during the Panama Canal construction. One thing that struck me as I was reading about the subject was how long it took many in the medical profession to accept the proof that mosquitos were the problem. It gives me hope that universities may yet take seriously the evidence that we would have more African Americans physicians, dentists, engineers, scientists, and college professors (and likely more African American lawyers) if race-neutral admissions policies were the norm.

I’ve written about this in Want to be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg up May Hurt Your Chances and in A “Dubious Expediency”: How Race-Preferential Admissions Policies on Campus Hurt Minority to Students. (Yes, I’ve posted these articles before. I figure I’ll keep posting them until I’m sure that everybody and his brother know about the evidence.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Workplace CCW: Tips for Personal Defense on the Job.

TYLER O’NEIL: Three Horrific Lies Taylor Swift Told About Marsha Blackburn.

UH-OH: Explosion and fire at Canada’s largest oil refinery.

Images posted on social media networks showed intermittent flames and a column of black smoke rising from the refinery, the country’s largest with a production capacity of 300,00 barrels of refined products a day.

Rob Beebe, who lives near the refinery, told Radio Canada he felt his house shake, followed by a blast.

The company that owns the refinery confirmed on Twitter that a “major incident” occurred there.

Just when I was hoping for some price relief at the pump.

THREE OF THE WEAKEST PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENTS YOU WILL HEAR, OVER AND OVER AND … With Justice Brett Kavanaugh now sworn-in as a member of the nation’s highest court, look for the pro-abortion side to turn up the heat on every front, especially if a case involving the issue gets on the schedule.

And when they do, argues Pastor Ryan Day  on LifeZette, here are three arguments that you are likely to hear repeated ad nauseam even though they are only slightly less weak than Sen. Cory Booker’s claim to deserve comparison to a certain Roman slave who had a bunch of loyal buddies with the same name.

REVIEW: 2019 Mazda Miata.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Did the Left just create the very kind of justice they fear most, by using every foul means to stop the elevation of a much less ideological justice?

IT GOES GREAT WITH BREAKFAST: IHOP Beer Is Now a Thing.

FLASHBACK: Sen. Chuck Schumer Calls Flight Attendant ‘B****.’ “And guess who defended ol’ Chucky? Yep, that would be another raging hypocrite, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.”

WINNING: The U.S. Coal Export Boom To Asia.

WANT TO GET RICH? BE A PROFESSIONAL LEFTIST PROTESTER! Like Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), the screeching girl who cornered Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in that Senate elevator last week.

You may already know that Archila makes a big salary, but did you know about the other seven CPD big-wigs who are making annual total compensation that is two and in at least one case more than three times the U.S. average median household income? Go here for more, much more, my friends.

FASTER, PLEASE: New Drug Cuts Time To Flu Recovery.

MICHAEL WALSH: About Merrick Garland’s ‘Stolen’ Seat… “Dems still sore after Garland nomination was tabled. They need to move on.”

About the only hot take I didn’t actually hear during the Left’s anti-Kavanaugh circus was that Garland should get two seats on the Court.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: There’s only one winner in Taylor Swift and Scott Kelly’s gutless surrender to the howling Twitter mob — President Trump.

Only half true — I think it was remarkably brave of Swift defy the mob and back a Kavanaugh-supporting politician yesterday.

Related: Kavanaugh effect? Marsha Blackburn now leads Democrat by eight points in Tennessee.

(Classical reference in headline.)

REEFER MADNESS: Number of Colorado Springs newborns exposed to pot exaggerated, but absent statewide data, true number isn’t known.

HIGH DENSITY: Big Cities Have Longer, More Vicious Flu Seasons.

DON’T BE EVIL: Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public. “Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data. It found no evidence of misuse.”

Hey, what you don’t know can’t hurt them.

But how bad was it, really? Google is “permanently shutting down all consumer functionality of Google+.”

“PICK THE TARGET, FREEZE IT, PERSONALIZE IT, AND POLARIZE IT.” AND GEORGE SOROS IS A HECK OF A TARGET: Trump goes full Alinsky in the midterm race.

Unexpectedly.

BRINGING US BACK TOGETHER: Americans United On One Thing: Dianne Feinstein BLEW IT!

THE DEEP SEVENS ARE UP TO SOMETHING: For Some Reason, Giant Slabs of Rock Are Getting Stuck on The Descent Into Earth’s Core.

Alternatively, it’s because of climate change.

NOT SATIRE: In His First Day On The Job, Kavanaugh Hired As Many Black Law Clerks As RBG Has In Her Entire Tenure.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh has hired a black law clerk for his new chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court, matching Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s record of African-American clerkship hiring during her tenure on the nation’s highest judicial tribunal.

With his first clerkship hires, Kavanaugh also set a gender composition record, an apparent attempt to buck the high court’s hiring patterns, which tend to favor white, male graduates of elite law schools.

Since joining the high court in 1993, Ginsburg has hired over 100 law clerks, just one of whom is black.

Where are the protestors?

UNHINGED, MUCH? No surprise to IP readers, but you have to wonder when will Democrats realize that they need to put a leash on some of their people. Avenatti is taking a little bit of flak, rightly IMHO, but this is way over the top.

(I’m opposed to doxxing, so I redacted the phone number).

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: 3 Horrible Things We Learned About Liberals From the Kavanaugh Hearings.