AND THEY HAVE MEMORY OF TEN SECONDS:  Democrat Voters are Among the Most Gullible People on Earth.

LET’S GO BRANDON!  DeSantis Calls Out The “Brandon” Administration.

IMAGINE THAT!  Hair On Fire: Dems Furious “CRT is Fake” Claim Failed.

Americans chose to believe their lying eyes….

STRAWMEN ARE EASY TO FIGHT:  ‘Whiteness Remains Undefeated’: Liberal Media Doubles Down on Racism Claims After Virginia Upset.

And then you don’t have to admit your statist philosophy is not only not the way of the future, but it’s one in a long series of horrors fit only for the ash heap of history.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Crime Stricken Seattle Chooses Republican Ann Davison for City Attorney Over Progressive Challenger.

CIVIL RIGHTS ADVANCE APACE:  New York Concealed Carry Restrictions Seem Likely To Fall As Important 2nd Amendment Case Argued In Supreme Court.

THANK YOU! To everyone who contributed to my Go Fund Me.  I only put it up, because my fans yelled at me, after I told them the bind we were in, under “We’re so scr*wed because it took me so long to finish remodeling.” I thought it would maybe half-fund in two weeks.  Now I’m sitting here feeling dazed at having money to cover the bills and a bit on the side, in case the house takes a couple of months to sell.  I’ll leave it up over the weekend because people asked (!) me too. I don’t understand it. I’m just grateful and feeling incredibly blessed.

I LIKE THE CUT OF HER JIB:

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— Team Winsome Sears (@WinWithWinsome) November 3, 2021

MICKEY KAUS ON THE IMPACT OF THE VIRGINIA LOSS: Klain in Vain. “It’s always been almost inconceivable that the Democrats would screw things up so badly they’d end up passing nothing. But this achievement is now within reach, and if it happens, it looks like there will be an obvious fall guy: Ron Klain, President Biden’s chief of staff.”

KEEP THEM ON THE RUN: Anti-CRT Parents Win School Board Victories Throughout America.

YEP:

HEH:

HAHA: Teacher forced out after January 6 photo wins seat on school board in Massachusetts.

UPDATE: At least 8 Republicans who attended Jan. 6 rally elected into office.

In less than a decade, people who weren’t there will be claiming that they were.

OPEN THREAD: I guess we just couldn’t stand the weather.

FLASHBACK: The left is playing dumb on the ubiquity of its radical ideology in our schools.

Two contradictory falsehoods about Critical Race Theory (CRT) pop up again and again: that it’s just teaching about racism, and that it’s not even in our schools. CRT defenders from MSNBC host Joy Reid to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar insist it’s just an esoteric theory discussed in law schools, and that conservatives are complaining about a phantom. If only we would read the real critical race theorists, they say, instead of listening to right-wing ideologues, then we’d understand what CRT really is, and the preposterousness of imagining that it’s become an essential part of public school curricula.

Harvard professor Jarvis Givens contends that CRT is  just “about teaching the history of racial inequality and the history of racism.” Similarly, Anne Applebaum at The Atlantic argues that the recent slate of CRT bans point to a “consensus in a segment of the Republican Party” that “schoolchildren should not be taught the history of racism in America.”

In reality, these contentions are demonstrably false. Critical Race Theory is radical in its outlook and fully present in American schools.

The mythical Republican who wants to ban teaching about slavery or Jim Crow doesn’t exist. No one objects to an accurate portrayal of American history and its many sins. In my own classroom—with its conservative teacher opposed to CRT—we read Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance with the intention of learning about the history of racial oppression in all its harsh reality.

How did that play out? Glenn Youngkin Defeated Terry McAuliffe Because Democrats Betrayed Parents.

GREAT MOMENTS IN TROLLING: Not A Joke: Taliban Asks for International Aid to Help It Fight…Climate Change.

Kyle Shideler, the Director/Senior Analyst for Homeland Security & Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, said it best: “They may have a 7th-century law code, but they grift with the best of the 21st century.” The Taliban does indeed appear to have caught on to one of the most lucrative gravy trains of the first part of the 21st century and are eager to get in on the loot; the jihad terror group has issued a call for aid from international organizations to help it fight the scourge of climate change.

Apparently, the Taliban would have us believe that in between executing allies of the United States, confiscating guns, setting women on fire and making sure they don’t work or go to school, and persecuting Shi’ite Hazaras, their jihadis just really want to spend some time working on clean energy programs and making Afghanistan green.

Showing a fine grasp of how the game is played, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen explained: “Afghanistan has a fragile climate. There is need for tremendous work.” Accordingly, “some climate change projects which have already been approved and were funded by Green Climate Fund, UNDP, Afghan Aid, should fully resume work.”

Would environmentalists be safe working in Afghanistan? Why, sure! The Taliban, said Shaheen, would make sure of that: “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is committed to providing security and a safe environment for the work of NGOs and charity organizations.”

Of course. This is the group, mind you, that abducted and murdered five aid workers from Save the Children in April 2015. In May 2019, Taliban jihadis murdered five aid workers from the American organization Counterpart International because, they said, Counterpart was promoting women being in the proximity of men in public. Then in June 2020, the UN accused the Taliban of “deliberate attacks” against health care workers.

Earlier: As Brendan O’Neill of Spiked wrote in August, the Taliban are keen consumers of Western media:

This was always the West’s problem in Afghanistan: it lacked faith in the very values it claimed to be delivering to that benighted country. We will liberate women from life under the burqa, Western officials said. But isn’t it ‘Islamophobic’ to criticise the burqa, or any other Islamic practice for that matter? Our elites have insisted for years that it is. We will replace your intolerant Islamist system with a civil society fashioned by clever professors, the West promised. But isn’t it judgemental and possibly a tad racist – certainly an offence against the ideology of multiculturalism – to imply that Western democracy is superior to Islamist theocracy? As one British think-tank says, in its definition of the term ‘Islamophobia’, it is wrong to suggest that Islam is in any way ‘inferior to the West’. The West’s post-9/11 bluster was continually undermined by the West’s broader descent into moral relativism. How can you assert the civilisational authority of Western values when your entire educational and university system is devoted to questioning and demeaning Western civilisation? You cannot partake in a clash of civilisations if you loathe your own civilisation.

Anyone who thinks the Taliban did not pick up on all of this, on the Potemkin nature not only of the Afghan government but also of Western civilisation itself, is kidding themselves.

The trolling will continue until morale improves — in both nations.

WELL: Cuban exile told sons he trained Oswald, JFK’s accused assassin, at a secret CIA camp.

The claims made by Ricardo Morales Jr. during a show on Miami’s Actualidad Radio 1040 AM, add to one of the long-held theories about the JFK assassination — that Cuban exiles working for the CIA had been involved. But the claims also point the finger at the CIA, which some observers believe could help explain why President Joe Biden backed off last week on declassifying the remaining documents in the case. . . .

The CIA did not immediately reply to an email requesting comments about the new allegations. Whatever happened, Biden’s decision to postpone the declassification of the remaining 15,000 documents linked to the case is once again giving life to the conspiracy theories. Morales’ son believes the documents might never be made public. After advocating for the documents’ release, President Biden ordered the postponement last week citing the impact of the COVID pandemic on the declassifying efforts and the need to protect “against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.” “If Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer, acting on his own, why not release the documents?” said Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi, who has extensively researched Kennedy’s assassination. . . .

Peter Kornbluh, a Cuba analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., called on the Biden administration to release the remaining JFK assassination records and end “the speculation, conjecture and conspiracy theories that have flourished because of the secrecy surrounding these documents.”

If you don’t want people to think you’re hiding something, it’s best not to act as if you’re hiding something.

ABOUT TIME: Space solar power’s time may finally be coming.

OLD MEDIA HATES COMPETING VIEWPOINTS: Washington Post Wants Facebook to Shut Down PJ Media and Others for ‘Climate Denial.’

As William F. Buckley famously said, “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

EVEN SEATTLE VOTERS HAVE LIMITS TO THE CRAZINESS THEY WILL TOLERATE: One Year After ‘CHAZ’, Republican Ann Davison Wins Seattle City Attorney.

The same goes for Minneapolis voters: Minneapolis voters overwhelmingly reject proposal to abolish city’s police department.

IT’S COME TO THIS: To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations.

THE INTERCEPT PUBLISHES ERROR-RIDDLED PIECE ON DEMOCRAT TIKI TORCH HOAX, FAILS TO ISSUE CORRECTIONS:

It is nonsense, and details of the piece have been picked apart by other journalists who dispute claims made by The Intercept.

While some of the original article has been updated to reflect disputes to the claims made by its author, Ryan Grim, the article maintains that the Lincoln Project always intended to have the Democrat operatives who were dressed up as members of the so-called “alt-right” to identify themselves honestly as working for the Lincoln Project if asked by journalists.

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? An Asteroid Barely Skimmed Earth Last Week, And We Completely Missed It. “It was a close call (from a cosmic perspective); the space rock’s trajectory on October 24 carried it over Antarctica within 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) of Earth – closer than some satellites – making it the third-closest asteroid to approach the planet without actually hitting it, CNET reported. Scientists were unaware of the object, dubbed Asteroid 2021 UA1, because it approached Earth’s daytime side from the direction of the Sun, so the comparatively dim and small visitor went undetected until about four hours after passing by at its closest point, according to CNET.”

It wasn’t a very big one, but it indicates a gap in our detection systems.

MARK JUDGE: Sorry Not Sorry: Alyssa Milano’s Bonkers New Book.