INSURRECTION: Brooklyn lawyers who made Molotovs plead guilty to one count each, face years in prison. “Gothamist reports that they will both be disbarred, which is the right outcome. No one who tried to literally burn down the system should be part of that system. The fact that both of them were adult attorneys who were part of the justice system they wanted to destroy only makes them more culpable.”

They got lots of media sympathy, while people who larped in the Capitol and set nothing on fire are treated as deadly insurrectionists.

BIDENFLATION: House Democrats and rising energy prices.

With great excitement, House Democrats on the Government Oversight and Reform committee recently announced they will conduct a hearing on October 28th focused on climate change. It will feature senior leaders from BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon, the American Petroleum Institute, and the Chamber of Commerce.

It’s not clear why the Democrats are excited about this hearing; the timing could not be worse.

Their intent is to haranguing oil companies and the Chamber about climate change, which no one outside of the Democratic donor ecosystem cares about. Moreover, multiple surveys have made it clear that approximately no one is willing to pay anything to address climate change.

Unfortunately for Democrats, however, the hearing is much more likely to wind up highlighting rising energy prices, which just about everyone – including Team Biden — cares about. Just last week, it was reported that senior officials in the Biden Administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and climate czar Gina McCarthy, have had conversations and meetings with oil and gas industry executives about how best to restrain price increases.

That seemed odd, given that the administration has spent its entire time in office trying to … increase the cost of energy.

Mission accomplished.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: The BBC, the passive voice, and the Protected Class.

ROGER KIMBALL: Anthony Fauci’s metaphysical get-out-of-jail-free card: It is long past time that the good doctor was called to account.

Anyone wishing to appreciate the nature of our two-tier society needs only to contrast the fate of St Anthony Fauci with that, say, of General Mike Flynn or any of the dozens of political prisoners who are, many of them, being held without charge in appalling conditions in a Washington, D.C. prison even as I write.

Fauci has been a carbuncle on the countenance of American life at least since he helped spread the myth of heterosexual transmission of AIDS in the 1980s. The new Chinese flu was custom made for his brand of panic-mongering and totalitarian posturing.

Just a few weeks ago, he was saying that it was “too early” to say whether we would be allowed to gather for Christmas. We’ve known for some time now that he was involved with, and paid with taxpayer money for, “gain of function” research at the Wuhan virology lab where the novel coronavirus that has caused such upheaval was developed.

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Yes, that’s right. Fauci was paid by your tax dollars to help weaponize a virus that he then went on to exploit as a means to enhance his lugubrious celebrity.

He lied, under oath, about his role in his testimony before Congress, most pointedly in his heated exchanges with Senator Rand Paul this last summer.

Now we have Dr Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, publicly challenging Fauci, charging that he is guilty of spreading “misinformation” about taxpayer funding of Fauci’s “gain of function” research at the Chinese virology laboratory.

Of course, “misinformation” in this case is just a polysyllabic synonym for lying — and besides wasn’t it Jen Psaki herself wanted people to be punished for spreading “misinformation”?

Well, some people.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Will McAuliffe Continue Being the Democratic Cockroach? “The current governor’s race in Virginia is particularly interesting for a few reasons. The first is that the Republican might actually win. The second is that Terry McAuliffe is still hanging around, fulfilling his duties as the unkillable cockroach of the Democratic party. The third is that issues that parents all over the country can relate to are being played out on a big stage.”

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Why Biden won’t tell you where the record number of illegal immigrants in the US are going.

MECHAZILLA: SpaceX Finally Installs ‘Robot Chopsticks’ to Catch Super Heavy Booster. “The chopsticks are actually a set of massive arms that will be used to recover the giant Super Heavy booster as it lands, catching it as it comes back down to Earth. While SpaceX founder Elon Musk initially announced the catch arms back in December 2020, it wasn’t until Tuesday that the company was able to assemble the chopsticks and place them on the launch assembly.”

Ten months to assemble something hardly anyone had even dreamed of before — the “finally” seems a bit presumptuous.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dems’ vaccine mandates for police are bound to backfire. “Many people are convinced that Democrats want to create a police state, and some Democratic rhetoric has supported that worry. But one of the first things you do when creating a police state is get in good with the police. After spending the last several years crapping all over law enforcement, the Democrats aren’t making any progress there. Good.”

LET’S GO, BRANDON! VOX: It’s time for Americans to buy less stuff: Thanks to the supply chain crisis, holiday shopping won’t be easy this year — even if you buy early. Also, thanks to the bread shortage losing weight will be easier, comrade!

IT SHOULD BE MORE THAN THAT: Backlash: 57% oppose FBI hounding parents at school board meetings.

LET’S GO BRANDON, the precursors.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S A TWISTED TRAIN WRECK OF A PRESIDENCY: Biden Mocks Freedom in Twisted Train Wreck of a Town Hall.

And the establishment — including much of the GOP establishment — knew Biden was unqualified and foisted him off on America anyway for its own corrupt, selfish reasons. In the name of “decency” and “normalcy,” both of which have been in notably short supply for the last nine months.

WHEN THEY FACT-CHECK A DEMOCRAT, YOU KNOW IT’S BAD: Biden: I made all the vaccinations happen. AP fact checker: No, you didn’t.

READINESS: New Report on U.S. Military Readiness Is Terrifying. “Billed as the ‘only non-governmental and only annual assessment’ of American military muscle and preparedness, this year’s report ought to send some chills up the spines of America’s military leadership, both uniformed and civilian. Then again, ‘spine’ assumes a fact not currently in evidence.”

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WE NEED SENSIBLE HOLLYWOOD PROP-GUN CONTROL: Alec Baldwin fires prop gun in ‘misfire’ that kills cinematographer, injures director. ‘No one has been arrested and no charges have been filed,’ the sheriff’s office said Thursday evening, according to Variety . Detectives are interviewing witnesses in an ‘active and open’ investigation,” the office added.”

IT’S ALL PART OF THE PLAN, IT’S NOT RANDOM: White House Knew About Letter That Compared Parents to Domestic Terrorists: National School Board Association collaborated with Biden administration, emails show.

We saw the same kind of collaboration between UVA and the Obama White House during the UVA fake-rape scandal.

THE NINTH CIRCUIT IS NO LONGER RELIABLY PROGRESSIVE: “Ninth Circuit Panel Rejects District Court’s Covid Takeover of Immigration Detention Facilities.”

(When the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights visited immigration detention facilities a few years back, my progressive colleagues were shocked to see that they were not the hell holes they had been led to believe. It was almost funny.)

LET’S GO BRANDON! Tides Turning? Boston Fans Chant ‘F**k Joe Biden’ At ALCS.

There are two things you can know for certain about Boston: the people there are incredibly passionate about almost everything, and it is a firmly liberal city. That’s why what happened after Game 4 of the ALCS between the hometown Red Sox and the Houston Astros might come as a surprise.

Between chants of “F— A-rod” (former New York Yankees third baseman and Fox Sports analyst Alex Rodriguez) and “F— (Astros second baseman Jose) Altuve,” impassioned and clear chants of “F— Joe Biden” could be heard just outside of Fenway Park.

Now we all aren’t surprised when college campuses in the South break out in these cheers during football games (since the South tends to be conservative anyway), but a place like Boston joining in on the fun goes to show just how much our president’s approval has dropped in just nine short months.

Short?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: More on MIT’s deplatforming of University of Chicago professor.

“I thought scientists would not get on board with the denial-of-free-speech movement,” said Jerry Coyne, an emeritus professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago. “I was absolutely wrong, 100 percent so.”

Every institution has been corrupted by the left.

WHEN YOU’VE LOST MSNBC…: Not Even MSNBC Believes Biden Whopper That $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill Will Cost ‘Zero.’

WHAT THEY’RE TEACHING OUR KIDS: If you doubt for one second the seriousness of the issues involved in who decides what children in public schools are taught, watch the uncensored version of the Virginia “textbook.” Barring a public rebellion, if it’s not already, this garbage will soon be in public schools across the country.

REALCLEARDEFENSE: Science Fiction and the Strategist 3.0.

AMERICA’S TWO COUNTER-CULTURES: The Washington Free Beacon’s Matthew Continetti sees America riven by the conflict between two counter-cultures, one on the Left and one on the Right, with what once was called “the Silent Majority” trapped between the combatants.

THE BUTCHER’S BILL WILL COME DUE AND IT WILL BE HORRIFIC:  Under New Critical Race Curriculum “White People, Historic Figures, All Look Like Buffoons or Aggressors” – Providence (RI) Teacher Ramona Bessinger.

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