STAY WARM: Columbia Men’s Standard Steens Mountain Vest. #CommissionEarned

THE CASE FOR BEER: Water is the biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, study says.

THANKS FOR HOLDING UP OUR ENTIRE MOON PROGRAM FOR A FEW MONTHS WITH YOUR FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT, JEFF: Bezos’ Blue Origin loses lawsuit against NASA over SpaceX lunar lander contract.

MAIN STEELE DOSSIER RESEARCHER ARRESTED IN DURHAM PROBE.

THERE’S UNCLE JOE, HE’S-A MOVIN’ KINDA SLOW: Biden is either lying, was never told or forgot about $450K migrant payouts: All possibilities are terrible.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Pentagon Evaluates Itself, Finds No Wrongdoing In Drone Strike That Murdered 10 Innocent Afghan Civilians, Including Seven Children.

DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY OF RICH URBANITES, SO THIS IS NO SURPRISE:

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Dear Leftists: Tuesday Wasn’t About Us, It Was About You. “Voters — across not only on the dark blue east, but the midwest and Texas too — resoundingly and decisively rejected what you’re selling at all levels of government. Tellingly, though, rather than taking some time for introspection to consider why you lost, we see you’re immediately doubling down on those very same failed policies”

Read the whole thing.

Related: Biden Can Kiss His Pass Goodbye. “Presidentish Joe Biden never held much sway with two semi-centrist senators — Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema — from two states unfriendly to leftist Democrats, West Virginia and Arizona. Still, Biden needs them both to pass his ambitious “Build Back Better” agenda through the 50/50 Senate. After Tuesday night’s drubbing, Biden can kiss his pass goodbye.”

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ANALYSIS: TRUE.

The question is why we allow those losers any power over society.

AP: Edward Durr, who campaigned on $153 in NJ, defeats Sweeney.

To be fair, it was money that was spent exceedingly wisely:

ACCORDING TO THE MEDIA, SHE DOESN’T EXIST: ‘You are looking at the American dream’: ex-Marine Winsome Sears’ Virginia victory speech.

PROF. CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Solar storm from ‘cannibal’ sun eruption may impact power grid and bring auroras as far south as Pennsylvania.

A LEGACY WRITTEN IN SAND — SOUND FAMILIAR? Republicans Warn Iran: Biden Nuclear Deal Will Be Trashed When GOP Retakes Power.

“LOST:” FBI Lost HD Rittenhouse Video, Never Told The Defense It Existed (Report).

KRUISER: Hallelujah—Conservatives Finally Discover School Board Elections. “I — along with many other conservative writers and activists — have long been preaching the need for people on our side to get involved with politics at the school board level. Many have now seen clearly just what happens when they don’t and have decided to take matters into their own hands.”

WILL IT COME TO THIS? The Vampire Economy: Doing Business under Fascism. #CommissionEarned

USEFUL IDIOT? FELLOW TRAVELER? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Al Gore Defends China’s Climate ‘Commitment’ to End Overseas Coal Financing.

Meanwhile: China expands coal production and imports to roll back coal prices.

WELL: Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst who worked with Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier of rumors and unproven assertions about Donald J. Trump, was taken into custody as part of the Durham investigation.

ROGER SIMON: Some Thoughts on the Governors’ Races: Round One to the Good Guys.

To lose the gubernatorial race in blue Virginia, even if it was a squeaker, and have even bluer New Jersey—of all places—be competitive and unresolved on the morning after the election was a clear disaster for the Democratic Party and an augury of an even greater disaster in 2022.

Campaign visits by Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and the president obviously didn’t help oily Clintonista Terry McAuliffe—and may actually have hurt him.

All seemed like last year’s news at best. Time for Obama to go back to one of his multimillion-dollar homes and complain about global warming.

Another big loser was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) (and, with her, the Democrats’ “progressive”—should always be in quotes—wing) who got shuffled off in Buffalo for supporting an ultra-leftie police hater who lost to a write-in candidate, again of all things.

Strangely enough, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) may emerge as the new leader of a reviving Democratic Party, if it can shirk its reactionary left wing that seems so ridiculously old-fashioned—without realizing it, of course—in their search for “progressivism.” (There’s nothing so old as the avant-garde, as the expression goes.)

The biggest “atta-girl” of the night goes to Virginia lieutenant governor winner and Marine veteran Winsome Sears who started “USA, USA” cheers during her victory speech. (Maybe this will actually wake up some of the Marine brass that have become so “woke” these days, you want to send them back down the halls of Montezuma, never to return.)

Man-of-the-hour Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin obviously also deserves an “atta-boy,” for coming out of nowhere and becoming our new “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” excuse me … Richmond.

Don’t get cocky, but: NY Times: Democrats face a grim future, ‘the red wave is coming.’

FIGHT THE POWER: UNLV students host rally against COVID vaccine mandate.

PARANOIA, BIG DESTROYER: The Democrats’ real Fox News problem.

Ask most Democrats, and they’ll tell you the big problem with Fox News is that it spreads disinformation, enabling Republicans to manipulate gullible voters into voting against their own economic interests.

After Tuesday’s crushing defeats in Virginia and Pennsylvania, longtime Democratic strategist Ruy Teixeira said the real danger posed to Democrats by Fox News is a little different. According to Teixeira, Democrats have become so dismissive of Fox News that they automatically dismiss any inconvenient issue the network covers, even ones that turn out to actually matter to real voters.

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Summing up his thoughts on how Democrats should address all three of these popular Fox News issues, Teixeira writes:

Democrats would be well-advised to focus instead on an inclusive nationalism that emphasizes what Americans have in common and their right not just to economic prosperity but to public safety, secure borders and a world-class but non-ideological education for their children. That’s much more likely to work than simply denying a lot of these issues are problems.

In addition to their obsession with a news channel typically watched by about 2.5 million Americans — great ratings for cable TV, but a small percentage of the American population — the ozone layer of the Democratic party is swayed by an even tinier minority: Journo Twitter runs the Biden administration.

YALE IS A MESS, CONT’D: More On The Yale Law School Email Controversy.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Facebook: ‘We’ll Quit Using Facial Recognition’ (Not Really!)

HIGHER EDUCATION AS AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRATIC MACHINE: Employees of these three VA colleges donated over $395K to Democrats, just $15k to Republicans.

AS ACCURATE AS ANY OF HIS OTHERS: Were Biden’s Claims at COP26 Climate Change Summit Accurate?