GOOD THING WE HAVE FRACKERS: Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes: Shutdown amounts to a loss of some five million barrels a day, roughly 5% of the world’s daily production of crude. “Coordinated drone strikes on the heart of the Saudi oil industry forced the kingdom to shut down half its crude production on Saturday, people familiar with the matter said, potentially roiling petroleum prices and demonstrating the power of Iran’s proxies. Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels claimed credit for the attack, saying they sent 10 drones to strike at important facilities in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province. The production shutdown amounts to a loss of about five million barrels a day, the people said, roughly 5% of the world’s daily production of crude oil. Officials said they hoped to restore production to its regular level of 9.8 million barrels a day by Monday.”

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? UVA abandons aggressive debt collection, suspends 12 lawsuits against patients.

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HEALTH: Sleep apnea, resistant hypertension poses highest risk for heart attack.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Washington Post stands by bogus report claiming North Carolina GOP held vote while Democrats were at 9/11 ceremony. “You may want to sit down for this one: A major newsroom published a bogus story this week casting Republicans as villains and Democrats as noble victims. Big, I know.”

ALIENS: Alien civilizations may have explored the galaxy and visited Earth already, a new study says. We just haven’t seen them recently.

IS YOUR BRAIN IDENTICAL TO YOUR MIND? Something to cogitate about over the weekend, from NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace.

ROCK IS DEAD THEY SAY? LONG LIVE ROCK: Don’t Bury Rock Just Yet: The Legacy Will Survive the Legends.

DECEASED INDIANA DOC DID ABORTIONS ON 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL: Dr. Ulrich Klopfer died September 3 and, following a call from his attorney, authorities shortly thereafter found more than 2,200 medically preserved parts of aborted babies in his home. The Epoch Times reports today he also performed abortions on girls as young as 10.

“Board members also said they were disturbed that Klopfer didn’t give pain medication to all women, only automatically to those under the age of 16 and then to adults who could pay him extra money. When he did give the medication to women, his staff weren’t qualified to follow best practices for the drugs,” The Epoch Times continued.

This case illustrates why at least some states are considering laws allowing abortions to be performed only in facilities that meet health standards equivalent to those applied to hospitals. A search of the Planned Parenthood media relations web site found no references to Klopfer.

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What could go wrong?

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WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: With the “1619 Project” the New York Times Has Abandoned Liberalism for Activism.

But the NYT chose a neo-Marxist rather than liberal path to make a very specific claim: that slavery is not one of many things that describe America’s founding and culture, it is the definitive one. Arguing that the “true founding” was the arrival of African slaves on the continent, period, is a bitter rebuke to the actual founders and Lincoln. America is not a messy, evolving, multicultural, religiously infused, Enlightenment-based, racist, liberating, wealth-generating kaleidoscope of a society. It’s white supremacy, which started in 1619, and that’s the key to understand all of it. America’s only virtue, in this telling, belongs to those who have attempted and still attempt to end this malign manifestation of white supremacy.

I don’t believe most African-Americans believe this, outside the elites. They’re much less doctrinaire than elite white leftists on a whole range of subjects. I don’t buy it either — alongside, I suspect, most immigrants, including most immigrants of color. Who would ever want to immigrate to such a vile and oppressive place? But it is extremely telling that this is not merely aired in the paper of record (as it should be), but that it is aggressively presented as objective reality. That’s propaganda, directed, as we now know, from the very top — and now being marched through the entire educational system to achieve a specific end. To present a truth as the truth is, in fact, a deception. And it is hard to trust a paper engaged in trying to deceive its readers in order for its radical reporters and weak editors to transform the world.

To be fair, it’s been “Gray Lady Down” for quite some time now.

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS BANNED BY THE GENEVA CONVENTION: University threatens to punish ‘the community’ for possible ‘bias-motivated discrimination.’

JOE BIDEN GETS THE LAST LAUGH: Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Miami Will Not Exist in a ‘Few Years.’

Florida Man hardest hit.

(Classical reference in headline.)

LAWS? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ LAWS: Bernie promises prosecutions of enemies of the people. Underlying violations of the law optional at best. Once a Bolshie always a Bolshie, I guess.

TO BE FAIR, FEMINISTS ARE ALWAYS UNHAPPY ABOUT SOMETHING, AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE: Feminist commentators have hissy fits when Dem candidates don’t mention their very favorite topic of conversation: abortion.

WAIT, THEY’RE PUTTING UP A BUILDING FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS? University dedicates space to ‘marginalized social identities.’

WHAT’S WRONG WITH SOUTH CAROLINA: University of South Carolina hosts anime writing course, but apparently lacks funds for state-required Constitution course.

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AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: Anti-vaccine protester attacks California legislature with menstrual blood (There was evidence).

OLYMPIA AT PEARL: The fast-attack submarine USS Olympia returns home to Pearl Harbor following a seven-month deployment.

WE CAN HOPE: Will McCabe Bring the FBI Down with Him?