WHY CONSERVATIVES SHOULD SUPPORT REBUILDING NEW YORK’S PENN STATION:

American greatness in an urban train station? It sounds strange, even absurd. But reconstructing New York’s Penn Station in its original grandeur could be just the thing to reinvigorate conservatism in America’s cities and suburbs.

Restoring its beauty and traditional architecture would warm the hearts of commuters and travelers, and its magnificence could stand as a monument to American triumph past and present. A reborn Penn Station would be the centerpiece of much-needed infrastructure upgrades in New York, while showing urban and suburban conservatives that the Republican Party has not forgotten them.

Waaaaay ahead of you on that one.

IF YOUR HATRED FOR TRUMP EXCEEDS YOUR HATRED OF POINTLESS WARS: You have some serious problems. It’s about a week behind, but here’s a “must watch” clip of Tucker Carlson calmly, rationally, and factually praising Trump for not starting a war with Iran.

Look, I can’t bear the idea of an Islamic theocracy anymore than the next person (and a Jew at that) but this would not be like swooping in on Grenada. Anyone with a lick of military experience would tell you this would evolve into a debacle we’ve seen before, with horrific loss of blood and treasure.

Of course, the deepest sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome egging us into war are never the ones who pay with their lives on the line. To them, our soldiers are (to paraphrase John Kerry) expendable idiots who are not smart enough to marry rich condiment heiresses.

LIBERATED GRIFT: A third of women only date men because of the free food: study. “‘Foodie calls,’ can happen when money’s tight, the grocery store is out of a favorite frozen meal, or a must-try entree is just too extravagant to justify — when the tab comes out of your own bank account. . . . The researchers — Brian Collisson, Jennifer Howell, and Trista Harig of Azusa Pacific University and UC Merced — also noted that the woman who felt dating for food was socially acceptable were more likely to exhibit the ‘dark triad’ of personality traits. That’s ‘psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism’ for those without a PhD in psych.”

Related: Denmark Begs Men to Have Sex with its Feminists.

TODAY’S DEMOCRATS DO A LOT OF ANGER-PROVOKING THINGS: Rare C-SPAN anger flashed in first coverage ban in 40-year history. “How rare was the decision by the party to bar C-SPAN gavel-to-gavel coverage? Scully told the Washington Examiner, ‘This is the first time in C-SPAN’s 40-years history of covering ‘Road to the White House’ that we have been denied live coverage of a state party convention.'”

‘YOU LIE!’ HECKLER YELLS AS GOP LAWMAKER NOTES DEMOCRATS’ LINKS TO SLAVERY, JIM CROW LAWS.

ONLY IF THEY’RE WILLING TO LEARN: The Oberlin Case Gives College Leaders a Teachable Moment. “If they don’t rein in the political zealotry of their administrators, they might also face a suit like Oberlin’s.”

Related: Oberlin bakery owner speaks out.

OLD KNOWLEDGE REITERATED: “We tend to think of our looks as separate from who we are. But it turns out that physical traits like height or attractiveness may shape our personalities, behaviours, even politics.”

VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax ‘thinking very seriously’ about run for governor, says scandal has raised his public profile.

PETER GARRETSON: The first duty of a Space Force is to protect space commerce.

OF COURSE YOU DO: Bank of America CEO: ‘We want a cashless society.’ A cashless society means that bankers control transactions.

I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THERE WERE STILL ANTI-COMMUNIST DEMOCRATS: Communist Party, USA praises Democrats’ policy shifts ahead of centennial celebration.

QUESTION ASKED…AND NOT ENTIRELY ANSWERED: Why Does The Left Love Islam So Much?

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Clarence Thomas Benchslaps the Federal Government in a Property Rights Case. Quoth Thomas:

The United States…urges us not to enforce the Takings Clause as written. It worries that requiring payment to accompany a taking would allow courts to enjoin or invalidate broad regulatory programs “merely” because the program takes property without paying for it. According to the United States, “there is a ‘nearly infinite variety of ways in which government actions or regulations can affect property interests,’ and it ought to be good enough that the government “implicitly promises to pay compensation for any taking” if a property owner successfully sues the government in court. Government officials, the United States contends, should be able to implement regulatory programs “without fear” of injunction or invalidation under the Takings Clause, “even when” the program is so far reaching that the officials “cannot determine whether a taking will occur.”

The Constitution isn’t about making it easy and painless for government officials to do whatever they want.

Related: In Sharp Dissent, Neil Gorsuch Faults SCOTUS for Letting the Attorney General ‘Write His Own Criminal Code.’ Bring back the non-delegation doctrine.

GREAT AGAIN: As Shell cracker nears ‘peak construction’ point of 6,000 workers, promoter in D.C. pushes ‘petrochemical Appalachian Renaissance.’

MY EMPLOYER IS RE-NAMING THINGS: The University of San Diego, whose campus is graced with beautiful Spanish architecture and mission imagery, has resolved to “better recognize the rich history of the Kumeyaay Nation.” To that end, the University President announced in an email message a while ago that “Serra Hall,” previously named for St. Junipero Serra has been re-named “Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall.” According to the message, this is “meant to encourage continued dialogue on the important topic of colonialization, the spread of the Catholic faith and the impact both had on Native American populations.”

Tekakwitha, however, was a 17^th century Mohawk woman who spent her life in New York and Canada. It’s unlikely Tekakwitha and her fellow Mohawks had ever heard of the Kumeyaay Nation. Moreover, it’s worth noting that the Mohawks of her era were not known for respecting the autonomy of neighboring tribes, so it’s not clear why anyone should regard this as an effort to recognize the Kumeyaay.

History is messy.

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JORDAN PETERSON ON what women want.

OPEN THREAD: It’s Friday night.

WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW THAT THEY’LL BE APOLOGIZING FOR IN 50 YEARS? U.S. psychoanalysts apologize for labeling homosexuality an illness.

Related (From Ed): I’ll take “Headlines I wasn’t expecting this week in the Minneapolis Star Tribune for $500,” Alex: Pediatric gender clinics: We may look back and ask ‘what were we thinking?’

HMMMMM: Pentagon secretly struck back against Iranian cyberspies targeting U.S. ships.

I HAD MISSED THIS ON MONDAY: Jed Babbin: The CIA Is Running Scared — Barr’s bloodhounds are sniffing up Langley’s skirts.

STANDING UP TO COLONIALISM: Indigenous people level a crushing blow to U.S. funded anti-oil sands campaign.

Dozens of Indigenous groups are turning forcefully against the anti-pipeline agenda of Greenpeace and other U.S.-funded green and social justice groups. . . .

He’s fed up with American anti-oil influence. Some U.S. money has gone to Indigenous protest groups.

Wapass said he won’t allow for outside interests to keep his people impoverished. “We need money to create that hope within our kids and their kids,” he said. “We need money to look after our most vulnerable and we don’t have that.”

He’s determined to stand up against the U.S.-funded lobby. “The only card they could play is what they played, which is, ‘Let’s use the Indigenous people as a block to advance our personal interests here in the U.S. and let’s pump money into it.’ But we recognize that, we see that, and we’re saying, ‘No, no, no, no. Not on our watch.’ ”

Good.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: The FDA may soon give women more options for boosting their libidos.