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WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Chronic Pain Sufferers Beg the DEA to Reconsider Prescription Opioid Cuts.

FASTER, PLEASE: The Navy’s Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Wild. Huge if it pans out.

ALL TICKS SHOULD DIE: NIH sets five-year plan for tickborne disease research.

FROM WOKE TO JOKE: Russell Simmons tells Americans to stop ‘Forcing Our Political Ideologies On The 1.4 Billion People Of China.’

WEEKEND WISDOM: If you’re looking for a break from the political wars, The Three Blind Spots of Politics makes for good weekend reading. Russ Roberts’ 2017 essay explains the blinds spots that afflict liberals and conservatives — and, yes, even libertarians.

HEH:

This is from the new Margolis and Cox site, with political cartoons by Matt Margolis and John Cox (formerly of Cox and Forkum).

DID NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR JUST ARRIVE A LITTLE LATE?: Kursat Pekgoz and James Moore argue that the Ministry of Love is alive and well.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Rise Of Jordan Peterson Pushes Past Partisan Bickering.

Peterson is a gifted but surprisingly naive intellect. He lobs culture war smart bombs in interviews, only to be taken aback when they blow up in his face.

Take his comments about women who wear makeup and high heels in the office. You can sense his contrarian take, a willingness to challenge our preconceptions. Yet he’s shocked when the observations take on a life of their own.

What did he expect, especially since the Left has a virtual APB out on him?

Peterson deserves a documentary willing to capture his family, his flaws and his hunger to help his growing flock. “Rise” delivers on all of the above.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Jordan Peterson enters rehab after wife’s cancer diagnosis.

QUESTION ASKED: An open letter to Patagonia, Lush Cosmetics, and Ben & Jerry’s – your climate activism/lifestyle marketing/bipolar worldview begs the question: why do you exist?

(Via Small Dead Animals.) 

NEWS YOU CAN USE: A Gentile’s Guide To Sukkot: The Holiday With Prayers For Jews AND Non-Jews.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Calizuela Edition.

ROGER SIMON: Trump Makes Real Progress with China while Dems Play Impeachment.

It’s incumbent on us to find the better, more moderate parts of the regime and subtly encourage them (forming economic ties that work is one way) while still making sure that as Americans we see and sympathize with the cause of the democracy demonstrators. Thus far, Trump has done a rather accomplished job of this for a “diplomatic amateur,” letting his sharp criticism of the brainless, pandering comments of NBA managers Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich–their absurd and stunningly ignorant claims of human rights equivalency between the USA and Communist China–make clear his feelings about the protestors in Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, the president publicly praises depots like Xi and Kim, much to the consternation of the CNNs of the world. It’s a strategy, obviously. It’s not clear the extent to which it will work. But if it does even some of the time, it’s miles ahead of what his predecessors ever did.

Read the whole thing.

SURVEY FINDS MORE PEOPLE WOULD SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT IF THEY KNEW WHAT CRIME TRUMP WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE COMMITTED.

I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still a satiric Website, before morphing into America’s Newspaper of Record.

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Hit Man Convicted Of First-Degree Murder Of Dan Markel; State To Retry Magbanua After Jury Deadlocks; Magbanua Fingers Charlie Adelson.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University program teaches faculty and staff how they ‘support racism and white supremacy.’

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