THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FRAUD ITSELF:  How to Secure Your Vote and Minimize the Impact of Zombie Voters.

THE LEFT’S OBSESSION WITH CALLING REPUBLICAN NAZIS CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD UNDER THE HEADING OF PROJECTION. THE PARTY THAT ENGAGES IN ANTI-SEMITISM AND HAS FAVORED RACES AND RACES THAT ARE BORN EVIL, AS WELL AS A VIOLENT WING GAMBOLING ON THE STREETS CLAIMS THE NAZIS ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE. SURE. WE’LL BELIEVE THAT. RIGHT AFTER WE BELIEVE THE MOON IS MADE OF CANDY CORN:  No, Leftists, Trump Is Not a ‘Nazi’.

NOT SO MUCH FAKE NEWS AS FOLDED, SPUN (AND MUTILATED) NEWS:  Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?

I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW STUPID ONE HAS TO BE TO BUY INTO MARGARET ATWOOD’S BIZARRE WORLD-BUILDING IN HANDMAID’S TALE WITH THIS SORT OF INTENSITY. SERIOUSLY. THE WOMAN SPENT SOMETIME IN NEW ENGLAND AND DECIDED THE US WAS ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING A THEOCRACY. IN NEW ENGLAND. THIS IS KNOWN AS “UNDERSTANDING NOTHING AND NOT KNOWING HOW REALITY WORKS.” I PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISED THE LEFT BUYS INTO IT, SINCE THEY ALSO CAN’T FIND REALITY WITH TWO HANDS AND A SEEING EYE DOG:  Josh Hawley Explains Religious Liberty.

WELL, THEY WORKED QUITE WELL TO TAKE DOWN WESTERN ECONOMIES, AND GIVE CHINA SOME ROOM TO CONTINUE SELLING TO US:  Lockdowns Don’t Work Says World Health Organization.

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A BLIZZARD OF LIES INDEED:  When Woke Puts You to Sleep.

When some years ago we had to pick our son up in Denver airport (his flight had been diverted there from Colorado Springs where we lived then) we drove to Denver at night in a blizzard so thick that we couldn’t even tell if we were on the road, or about to fall off the edge. Once or twice we had to correct at the last minute. All we could do was follow the lights ahead of us and hope the guy ahead of us was following someone who could see better.

This is exactly what 2020 feels like.  Just remember that what the left is proposing is nothing less than a hard-left regime and one-party rule, with the Green New Deal giving them power over what you do, what you eat, where you go.  And the various Social Justice initiatives trying to control what you think.  In other words, it’s lockdowns forever: Physical lockdowns and mental lockdowns.  And heck, they’ll also probably starve us to boot.

If that’s not what you want, vote.  Vote against the left like your life depends on it. It very well might.

And maybe, just like that blizzard had completely cleared out by the time we drove back with our son — leading him to believe we were making it up — maybe this blizzard of lies will clear up a week or so after the election.

WE ARE BEING GASLIGHTED:  Bingo!

SOUNDS LIKELY. AFTER ALL, BEARS POO IN THE WOODS. THOUGH I’M NOT TAKING ANY BETS ON THE RELIGION OF THE PRESENT POPE!  Ted Cruz said he expects Democrats to pull ‘shenanigans’ to disrupt SCOTUS hearing.

FOR SOME BALLET COMPANIES THE ANNUAL SHOWS PROVIDE AS MUCH AS 70% OF THEIR ANNUAL TICKET SALES:  Wave of ‘Nutcracker’ cancellations hits dance companies hard.

END THE LOCKDOWNS NOW: SAVE THE TA-TAS!  Experts worry patients delaying breast cancer screenings over COVID-19 fears.

4,700 AND COUNTING: My article on the importance of the Second Amendment right of armed self-defense in the context of widespread police “standdowns” during this Summer’s rioting has been download almost 5,000 times. But I’ve heard from some Instapundit readers that they have wanted to download the article, but not to create an SSRN account. Easy! After you click on “download this paper,” the next page has a link at the bottom right-hand corner, “download without registration.”

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Utah Hiker Stalked by Wild Cougar for 6 Min.

A firearm would be helpful in this situation.

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OPEN THREAD: How does this 2008 column hold up?

UFOS: Scientists call for serious study of ‘unidentified aerial phenomena.’

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?

But no doubt, “cultural appropriation” will be yet another reason for a restaurant to earn the Scarlet-R from Yelp.

SPACE: SpaceX rocket issue delays astronaut launch. “SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of the company’s upcoming astronaut mission to the first half of November to investigate a problem with gas generators in a Falcon 9 rocket’s engine. A NASA statement said only that SpaceX data from a recent launch attempt of another Falcon 9 rocket showed “off-nominal behavior” in the generators, and the delay would allow the company to complete tests and review more data.”

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Mark Cuban To Megyn Kelly: ‘I’m Okay Doing Business With China,’ ‘They Are A Customer.’

POLITICAL CENSORSHIP PRETENDING TO BE STANDARDS:

NYC GRAND CENTRAL OYSTER BAR CLOSES DAYS AFTER REOPENING DUE TO ‘LACK OF TRAFFIC’ CAUSED BY PANDEMIC: The restaurant had been closed for 7 months.

Built 107 years ago, it’s one of my favorite stops when visiting New York. I was very glad to have stopped in last year, before the current unpleasantness arrived.

Related exit question: Will NYC’s Restaurant Industry Survive Covid?

HISTORY: A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France: A rock structure, built deep underground, is one of the earliest hominin constructions ever found. “By measuring uranium levels on either side of the divide, the team could accurately tell when each stalagmite had been snapped off for construction. Their date? 176,500 years ago, give or take a few millennia.” Back when there wasn’t even any Hollywood.

“Outside Bruniquel Cave, the earliest, unambiguous human constructions are just 20,000 years old. Most of these are ruins—collapsed collections of mammoth bones and deer antlers. By comparison, the Bruniquel stalagmite rings are well-preserved and far more ancient.”

HEH: Trump is doing a full-scale rally right now. “He says he’s immune to Covid now so he wants to walk into the audience and KISS everyone — including ‘the beautiful women.'”

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CORN POP COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Biden Talked of Attending Black Church As a Teen, But Members Don’t Recall It.

Related: Biden Plagiarism Involved More Than the Words. “I don’t begrudge Mr. Biden his earnings, his beach house, his Ivy League professorship, or his chateau-country estate. But it’s a bit much for him to go around claiming, as he did October 10 in Erie, Pennsylvania, ‘The president can only see the world from Park Avenue. I see it from Scranton.’”