FROM OUR OWN SARAH HOYT: DOOM! DOOM! DOOM!

Look, I know that some of the regulars — and heaven help me, one or two times a year, me, myself — will fall into doomer mode at times.

Standing on the ramparts is tiring work, and not only are the slings and arrows painful, what hurts the most is the HOWLING incoherence of the opposition. For a certain type of odd, who seems to congregate here, to be honest, we prefer to be called bad names than to be screamed random slogans at. Because we don’t so much mind being hated, but we’d like it to MAKE SENSE.

Sometimes we all fall into doom.

But you have to realize, if you’ve read military history that when the enemy’s main tactic is yelling at you to shut up and give up, they’re losing.

They’re losing big.

To an extent the leftist/collectivist project always was losing. You can’t fight reality. She’s a stone cold b*tch.

But they controlled the mass media, and therefore their shouts made many people give up. Most people, really, including a lot of the “opposition” who became the loyal opposition in the hope of being killed last.

Well, Thank G-d Almighty that time is past.

Read the whole thing and remember that “Get’em skeered and keep the skeer on ’em” is a game both sides can play.

SAY ANYTHING: Pelosi Gets Religion, Uses It in Naked Attempt to Manipulate Conservatives.

MACKUBIN OWENS: The Very Model of the Modern Russian General.

The current U.S. doctrine originated in the 1970s and ’80s when American planners concluded that we lacked the conventional capability necessary to defeat a Soviet offensive against NATO and that our threat to escalate to the nuclear level rang hollow. Led by young Army officers at Fort Leavenworth and elsewhere, U.S. land and air forces developed a battle-winning operational doctrine that came to be known as AirLand Battle or AirLand Operations, which represented a true doctrinal revolution. The success of that doctrine was based on developing the tactical instrument, to include well-trained and educated officers and men, flexible command and control, and operational planning. It proved its worth in both Iraq wars.

Conversely, Russian operational doctrine relies on a brittle top-down approach to command, which means that when (not if) a plan encounters unexpected setbacks, subordinates lack the flexibility and initiative to adapt to the new circumstances. Without a professional non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps and subordinate commanders who are expected and trusted to adapt to changing circumstances, senior Russian commanders, fearful of being sacked, have been required to expose themselves to hostile fire to direct tactical details rather than focusing on strategic or operational concerns. But the progress of the war thus far suggests that Russian problems are systemic and cannot be corrected by even the presence of senior officers doing the job of colonels and majors.

The relief of Russian commanders, which set this entire sequence into motion, has led some to suggest that a U.S. shortcoming in recent years has been our failure to fire unsuccessful generals. In the words of one critic, “a private who loses his rifle is subject to greater punishment than a general who loses a war.”

Worse: We spent two decades trying to get our military to perform nation-building missions for which it, and the patience of the American people, are both ill-suited. All the Woke nonsense hurts, too.

Still, the results so far in Ukraine show that when it comes to the fundamental mission of breaking enemy formations, that the American model, even as adapted by Ukraine, remains formidable.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats’ Baby-Killing Bill Gets Aborted. “The Democrats wanted this to be a single issue that would throw votes their way in this year of desperation but one of them helped save the unborn.”

HOW (NOT) TO BEAT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING: Biden administration cancels oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico.

BIDEN’S BULLIES: FBI Whistleblowers Claim Agents Investigated Parents Accused of Threatening School Boards over Mask Policies.

The FBI’s counterterrorism bureau reportedly created an internal “threat tag” in fall 2021 to track alleged threats against school boards following an October 4 directive from Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland released his directive after the National School Boards Association called on the Biden administration on September 29 to investigate parents who allegedly threatened boards over policies on school masks and critical race theory, and to determine whether the parents had violated the Patriot Act or hate crimes laws. (The NSBA subsequently apologized for releasing the letter.)

The FBI labeled “dozens” of investigations with the threat tag “EDUOFFICIALS,” Representatives Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R., La.) claimed in their new letter on Wednesday, citing FBI whistleblowers. Jordan and Johnson wrote that the new revelations contradicted Garland’s congressional testimony denying that parents were intentionally targeted under counterterrorism procedures.

One investigation allegedly began after the FBI received a tip that a mom had told a local school board, “We are coming for you.” The complaint “alleged that the mom was a threat because she belonged to a ‘right wing mom’s group’ known as ‘Moms for Liberty,’ and because she is a ‘gun owner,’” the congressmen wrote. An FBI agent reportedly interviewed the the mom, who said she was upset about a school mask mandate and wanted to elect new board members.

It sure looks like the FBI is engaged in a conspiracy to deny Americans their civil rights to speak, vote, and run for office.

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Matt Margolis: Content Warnings for ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Content’ in Children’s Shows? Yes Please. “It’s hard to believe that, as a parent, I have to be concerned about the content available on Disney’s platform, but sadly that’s where we are.”

Cameron Arcand: Look No Further Than Nashville’s ‘Suicide Squad’ to See How Bad the Border Crisis Is. “Recent news from the Justice Department should help people understand that the message sent by a seemingly open border has emboldened wannabe drug smugglers throughout the United States.”

Yours Truly: The iPod Is Gone but Not Forgotten, Still in My Car’s Center Console. “Just don’t ask what I sing along to in the car, alone and with the windows rolled up tight.”

STAY ACTIVE: New Balance Men’s 608 V5 Casual Comfort Cross Trainer. #CommissionEarned

SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED: If you get the impression that Jeff Dunetz of The Lid has had it to here with screeching liberals and the Alito draft opinion, you would be right on target.

His basic point: If you are going to bash the draft opinion, at least read it before opening your mouth and demonstrating, yet again, how right Lincoln was about not confirming your foolishness.

VLAD DID THAT: Finland to apply to NATO ‘without delay,’ as Sweden mulls stance.

DINOSAURS, WOOLLY MAMMOTHS AND ID, OH NO! Yes, there is a positive case for Intelligent Design (ID) in the field of paleontology. The Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskins explains in part four of the series on HillFaith.

If you missed part three on investigating the evidence for ID in biochemistry, go here. And it’s probably a good idea to do so before you read today’s number, as it’s starting to get a little technical for us laypersons.

DEFINITELY THE TREMORS BEFORE THE CASCADE, AT LEAST:  Geary County teacher Pamela Ricard wins partial victory in pronoun lawsuit.

THE LEFT ASTROTURFS, ALWAYS: Who Is Funding Pro-Abortion Protests at the Homes of Supreme Court Justices?

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE HOUSE DEMS’ POISON PILL? The Senate passed a one-page bill increasing security for Supreme Court justices and the building in which they work. The bill was a bipartisan effort to protect the justices from the pro-abortion mobs.

But then the bill went over to the House and guess what? Democratic leaders in the lower chamber won’t say when they will take action, but when they do, it will be with a poison pill amendment. Find out more here.

YES, ‘SAFE SMOKING’ KITS DO INCLUDE CRACK PIPES: Washington Free Beacon’s Patrick Hauf knows because he received them from five cities. Your tax dollars at work.

THE PREFERENCE SEEMS TO BE CASCADING:  Anguished parents of trans kids fight back against ‘gender cult’ trying to silence them.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT:  On this day in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act into law.  Under it, farmers could be paid subsides for not cultivating their land.  The Supreme Court found part of the scheme unconstitutional in 1936, but the Act was cleaned up and repromulgated in 1938 with most of the same features.

My Uncle Paul was an expert in pineapple cultivation and spent his professional career in Hawaii, the Philippines, and Kenya putting that knowledge to good use, before retiring to his native Maine (which is not exactly pineapple country).  When I practiced law in Washington, he used to tease me that I needed to get him a sweet deal with the Department of Agriculture under which he would agree not to grow pineapples in Maine in return for a nifty bundle of cash.  We laughed.  But, upon reflection, I can’t state with certainty that he would not have been entitled to it.

CHINA IS A**HOLE:  China slams WHO chief as ‘irresponsible’ for saying zero-COVID policy ‘not sustainable’.

THE UTTER RIDICULOUSNESS OF THE TIMES WE LIVE IN:  Parents stressed over baby formula shortage and limits: ‘It’s insane’.

THE INDIVIDUAL DECIDES:  Who decides?

If there’s anything that 2020 and 2020 Won have shown us, it’s that we can’t trust the government with anything, really. And certainly not to decide what’s true. Besides the Tsarina of Disinformation has already proved herself, biased, untrustworthy, and profoundly stupid in her coy disingenuous insanity, to boot.

AREN’T 95 YEARS ENOUGH?   Sen. Josh Hawley wants to strip Disney of copyright to Mickey Mouse.

GOOD. BRAVE NEW WORLD WAS NOT AN HOW-TO BOOK:  Pushback: Arizona parents sue over school board’s attempt to silence and intimidate them.

BEHOLD, MY PROFOUNDLY SHOCKED FACE:  The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates.

THE LEFT TWISTS THE LANGUAGE TO HIDE THE UGLINESS OF THEIR VIEWS:  “Reproductive health” = abortion.

YES, THEY ARE GROOMERS:  Yes, Dare To Call It “Grooming” .

And David French playing dumb is tedious.