FASTER, PLEASE: Preventing Astronaut Bone Loss With Innovative Compound.

CHINA: Is That A Spy In Your Car? “This should make Americans very nervous. Why? Because the Chinese government likely sees in Hesai another means to capture information from the West that can be funneled back to China.”

Why worry? What can the Chinese do with millimeter-scale maps of the whole country?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 19 Older Adults Are Sharing The Best Things About Being In Your 60s, And As A Younger Person, I Feel Immense Relief.

ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS NO ONE HAS ASKED SINCE AROUND 1991: Was the Yugo As Bad As Critics Said? Yes. “This was the first and only Yugoslavian car that made it to the U.S market. It was made by a company called Corvina Zastava, which literally means red flag.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Lost Scrolls of Turbocharging: How Twin-Scrolls Work.

I’M NOT SAYING IT’S ALIENS…: A Mysterious Hidden Force Is Generating Water on The Moon.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Fake Meat Is an Even Bigger Fraud Than I Thought. “Upside Foods, some employees say, lies about how their faux chicken is created. Why?”

I GUESS WE’LL FINALLY GET THOSE FOOD DESERTS EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT: Just What Chicago Needs, Government-Owned Grocery Stores. “City officials contend that a city-run grocery store would be better because they wouldn’t have to worry about making money. And Mayor Brandon Johnson is enthusiastically embracing the idea.”

Of course he is.

ANOTHER WIN FOR METFORMIN: Researchers Discover Surprising Side Effect of Common Diabetes Drug. “Researchers found that Metformin, a common diabetes drug, can prevent muscle atrophy and fibrosis, potentially aiding in faster recovery from injury in the elderly. The drug targets senescent cells, which affect muscle function, and its benefits were observed in a study with older adults during periods of muscle disuse and recovery.”

ROBERT SPENCER: Rumors Are Flying That Fetterman Has Been Replaced With a Double – but They’re Missing the Biggest Oddity. “Twitter/X is full of detailed comparisons of still photos from each, with the slovenly socialist’s supporters deriding doubters as crazed conspiracy theorists going nuts over photos taken with different lighting or from different angles. Amid all the back-and-forth about whether there are now two Fettermans, however, the biggest part of the story has been missed, and that is this: when did this man become coherent?”

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Why a mysterious ninth planet might be lurking beyond Pluto: A new computer model suggests a world a little larger than our own Earth hides within the distant Kuiper belt.

CHUTZPAH: Hunter Biden files lawsuit against IRS.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ‘Battle of Sacred Cow Groups’ Begins in MI After All-Muslim City Council Bans Pride Flag on City Property.

YOU JUST NEED BETTER PEERS! Top science editor defends peer-review system in climate row.

NATIONALLY SOCIALIST TELEVISION NETWORK PBS HYPES SMEAR ON ‘POPULAR AUTHORITARIAN MOVEMENT WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:’

[PBS host Laura Barron-Lopez]: ….Their new book, Tyranny of the Minority, concludes that part of the problem lies in the Constitution.

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Ziblatt: ….What’s so striking, though, because we have a federal system, that there are states in the United States where there are assaults on voting rights taking place, where there’s extreme levels of gerrymandering, so that it makes it possible for a party that doesn’t win the most votes to actually win control of state legislatures, where courts are then packed at the local — at the state level as well. So what we see across the United States is increasingly a divide between states where you continue to have voting rights and democracy and states where democracy is really under assault.

Yet after all the guff about the Republican threat to traditional governance, Barron-Lopez lets the authors explain why, in her words, the U.S. Constitution “is part of the problem, is part of what’s imperiling democracy.” So chuck the Constitution in the name of protecting Democracy? Harvard hates the Constitution, too.

CNN, interviewing the same authors, agrees that pesky Constitution must go as well: CNN Gets Roasted for Absurd Chyron Warning Constitution is ‘Outdated, Puts Democracy at Risk.

A Fox producer was fired over putting “wannabe dictator” on a screen graphic. But this at CNN is standard programming. https://t.co/AQkAlymVrJ

— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) September 17, 2023

THE FIX WAS IN: Another FBI Informant in Biden Case Was ‘Shut Down’ Before 2020 Election.

JUST BEWARE OF MUTANT 59, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED: Genetically modified bacteria break down plastics in saltwater.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STUCK LIKE THAT: Navy Puts The Kibosh On Digital Recruiting Program After Discovering Enlistees Aren’t Into Drag Queens. “Our digital outreach efforts will maintain the important distinction between Sailors’ official activities and their personal lives.”

Professionalism in the military, what will they think of next?

I’M NOT ENTIRELY SURE, BUT IT’S POSSIBLE KURT SCHLICHTER IS NOT A VERY BIG FAN OF MITT ROMNEY: That Miserable Bag Of Goo Mitt Romney Slinks Away Humiliated.

I knew there was something wrong with Mitt Romney, really wrong, when my mom – a daughter of Pennsylvania’s steel mill country, but a dedicated Republican, told me back in 2012, “I just don’t like him.” Of course, those steel mills are all gone now, moved to China by guys who either were, or looked exactly like, Mitt Romney. Now he’s finally calling it quits as a senator, apparently by popular demand. His departure is cause for celebration. Mitt Romney is a bad person who pretends to be a good person. He is the blow-dried embodiment of everything awful about the Republican Party that used to be. The only good thing about him is the riddance.

Mitt Romney is an empty $5,000 suit, a human Mad-Lib who tries to fill in the blanks with whatever his audience wants to hear. He is Eddie Haskell with incredible hair, who believes in nothing except the desperate imperative of his own success. That success, of course, has been limited – Mitt will be remembered for his failures. Love Trump or hate him, you have to respect the way The Bad Orange Man serially humiliated Mitt by encouraging his ambitions right up to the point where Trump publicly snatched back whatever job he was dangling in front of Romney’s nose. Brutal, and totally deserved.

Mitt believes he deserves the awe of the peasants; why is not so clear. Mitt got quite a head start in life because his dad was a rich guy deep inside Republican politics, and this grates on him. Mitt pulled himself up by his Gucci straps, unlike his nemesis JD Vance, who pulled himself up by his combat boot straps. JD, who was born into desperate poverty and actually worked his way up, was a United States Marine. Mitt couldn’t be troubled to serve in anything but his own cause. His only interaction with Vietnam was to ship American jobs there.

As America’s Newspaper of Record reported last week: Democrats Scramble To Find Replacement For Retiring Mitt Romney.

I HAVE A FRESH BATCH OF UNEXPECTEDLIES ALL READY TO GO FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: Illinois Prepares to Enter the Brave New World of Cashless Bail.

ARNOLD KLING ON UNSUSTAINABLE FISCAL POLICY: “Maybe countries can live with today’s high debt ratios, and maybe they cannot. The problem, which the authors mention briefly but do not address, is that in the absence of significant policy changes, the outlook—at least in the U.S.—is for debt to rise exponentially, because of demographics. The ratio of elderly dependents to working-age people just keeps heading higher, and health care spending just keeps rising faster than inflation. Can inflation itself cure the debt problem by enabling the government to pay back debt in cheaper dollars? Arslanap and Eichengreen say that the consensus from many studies is not favorable.”

BLUE CITY BLUES: More Tech Companies Cancelling San Francisco Conferences.

As a hilly, historical, picturesque city on the coast, San Francisco used to be tourist hot-spot and convention destination. But with social justice turning San Francisco into a crime and feces ridden hellhole, even local tech giants have decided it’s time to hold their conferences elsewhere.

First Red Hat and Meta (AKA Facebook) have cancelled San Francisco conventions.
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Now Google has joined Red Hat and Meta in pulling their conference out of the city.

San Francisco isn’t really a big tech town, anyway.

BIDEN’S BRIAR PATCH: Some of us are old enough to remember ole Brer Rabbit begging the fox to “please, please don’t throw me in the Briar Patch.” What Brer Rabbit actually wanted was precisely to be in the Briar Patch as that’s where he grew up. Issues and Insights wonders if the Biden White House is mis-playing the same game.

Why else incessant warnings from the White House and its Mainstream Media Echo Chamber that disaster will befall the Republican Party if the House GOP pursues its impeachment inquiry? But if that claim is actually true, then the Biden backers ought to be encouraging, rather than discouraging, the impeachment effort.

But they are instead discouraging the inquiry. What does that tell us?

CAMPUS BIAS REPORTING AND THE COMPANIES THAT LOVE IT. The Bolsheviks were right–capitalists like Maxient are selling us the rope we’re using to hang ourselves with a social credit system.

J CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Cal Berkeley Law EXPOSED: Class Credit to Aid the Revolution.

Over a decade ago, Hans von Spakovsky and I published the “Every Single One” series here at PJ Media. It took a federal lawsuit by PJ Media to obtain the resumes of all the new Eric Holder-hired lawyers in the Civil Rights Division. We documented the radical progressive backgrounds of every single one of Holder’s new lawyers in the so-called neutral “civil service.”

The series exposed the “swamp” before the term swamp was fashionable. We had seen the problem up close when we both worked inside the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Eventually, even the DOJ Inspector General urged the Obama administration to change course and hire a more ideologically diverse attorney pool.

Of course, the Obama administration ignored the suggestion because there was a fundamental transformation to complete. Now, we find ourselves in 2023, and the problem has only gotten worse.

A radicalized civil service is downstream from radicalized elite law schools.

Read the whole thing.