WHEN YOU’RE READING THIS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ABOUT A DEMOCRAT, IT’S BAD NEWS:

“They thought it was over, that they could put it in the rearview mirror. All that Hunter Biden had to do was show up in a courtroom, answer a few questions sign some paperwork and that would be it. Not that the Republicans would let it go, but any real danger would be past. Except that it did not work out that way. The criminal investigation that President Biden’s advisers believed was all but done has instead been given new life with the collapse of the plea agreement and the appointment of a special counsel who now might bring the president’s son to trial. What had been a painful but relatively contained political scandal that animated mainly partisans on the right could now extend for months just as the president is gearing up for his re-election campaign. This time, the questions about Hunter Biden’s conduct may be harder for the White House to dismiss as politically motivated. They may even break out of the conservative echo chamber to the general public.

Maybe they just did. And the reason “mainly partisans on the right” were the only ones talking about it is because the Democrat-defending media was doing its best to black it out.

HMM: A Longer-Lasting and More Powerful Treatment – New Antibody Reverses Effects of Potent Opioid.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘My colleagues and I are still in shock.’ 32 majors marked for elimination at WVU: Other programs were told to reduce faculty as the university looks to make up for a $45M budget shortfall. “The university announced in July that 128 programs would be reviewed for possible discontinuance or reduction. The decisions regarding which programs to discontinue were based on student enrollment trends, enrollment in majors and departments, and department-level metrics including full-time faculty-to-student ratio and programs’ financial status. . . . The university has already cut staff and raised tuition almost 3% in an effort to make up its budget deficit. University leaders have also pointed to a recent price hike in state health insurance premiums as a reason behind the financial crisis. WVU has received less funding from the state legislature, too.”

READER FAVORITE: Van Heusen Men’s Dress Shirt. #CommissionEarned

FREDDIE DE BOER: Let Me Reiterate the Questions I Asked in My AOC Essay. “Why did she attend the 2021 Met Gala, during a devastating pandemic, when that event reflects exactly the elitism and excess that AOC once railed against? Without wearing a mask, when she had been admonishing Americans for the entire pandemic to mask up? Why make that choice, at that particular moment in history?”

Plus: “Why has she not pursued the issue of the border crisis under President Biden with the same visibility and passion that she pursued it under President Trump? What happened to kids in cages? I can go back and find the fundraising emails about immigration and the border from 2018 to 2020. People voted and gave money based on the idea that Democrats would do something about this issue. How are they supposed to feel now that Democrats have essentially nothing to say about the crisis?”

UNSURPRISING: Black Texans Getting Carry Permits More Than Doubled in the Last Seven Years.

Those damn white supremacist Texans, making it easier for black people to get guns. The whole point of gun control was to disarm black people.

KEYNES’ “ANIMAL SPIRITS:” Poverty alleviation breakthrough: How a switch to a ‘growth mindset’ empowers entrepreneurs in developing nations.

“They would tell us, ‘If God wanted me to be rich, then I would be rich.’ Or ‘my neighbor is smarter than me and I’m sure that they can do this, but my family has always done things this way and that is what I am destined to do.”

Those interviewed by Morris, Carlos and their colleagues who were more succesful in their respective businesses said that their success was due in part to their belief that “you have to try things and realize you are going to fail along the way.”

It was this response which led the researchers to conduct an experiment testing whether providing “growth mindset” training, in addition to business skills training, would help training recipients overcome the psychological barrier that they were incapable of applying the skills that they had learned.

Interesting.

I’M SURE THE PHARMA COMPANIES ARE AROUSED AT THIS THOUGHT, ANYWAY: Is science getting closer to the brain center for male libido?

Directly infusing the peptide to the POA accelerated mating behavior; in fact, direct activation of the circuit even led to mating with inanimate objects, the findings showed.

Stimulation of the POA also cut short the mice’s refractory period, or the stretch of recovery time required before full sexual drive and capability is restored after ejaculation.

For the mice used in this study, the normal refractory period is five days. But directly stimulating the POA with Substance P prompted male mice that had just ejaculated to immediately repeat their sexual mating routine.

“It took one second or less for them to resume sexual activity,” Shah said in a news release. “That’s a more than 400,000-fold reduction in the refractory period.” . . .

A sex-stimulating drug aimed at the human equivalent of the POA would act very differently than erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra, Shah said.

Instead of stimulating blood flow in the small blood vessels, such drugs would directly act upon the specific brain area that controls the male libido, he explained.

Shah’s group is also trying to find equivalent brain circuits in females.

There’s gold in them thar pills.

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND, PART DEUX: Police failed to solve a single burglary in half of English and Welsh neighborhoods over the last three years, data reveal amid warnings of ‘no consequences’ for committing crime.

But the British police will strike down with furious vengeance upon any autistic teenager who calls a policewoman a lesbian.

SHOCKER: Poor sleep may harm heart health, and catching up on weekends won’t restore it.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia launches mission to land on lunar south pole.

Everyone wants control of the ice deposits.

THANKS, FIDEL! How Cuba lost its Cigar King of the World crown to the Dominican Republic.

Cuba is no longer seen as the source of the finest cigars thanks to the increasing dominance of its near neighbor, the Dominican Republic,

This year, Habanos SA – the Havana-based business that oversees all Cuban cigar sales – reported 2022 revenues of $545 million, a 2 per cent increase on the previous 12 months (a figure helped considerably by skyrocketing prices of Cuban cigars).

The Dominican Republic, however, broached the $1 billion mark almost three years ago and exports are still growing, making cigars its fifth-largest export after gold, electrical products, textiles and medical equipment (who knew?).

As the late P.J. O’Rourke wrote in 1992, “You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.”

BOOK OF THE DAY: The Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners. #CommissionEarned

REMY: Try That in a Large Town (Jason Aldean Parody). New video from Reason TV:

WELL, NOT BY ACCIDENT, FOR ONE THING: How unnecessary college degree requirements hurt the working class.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Penalty Kick Schadenfreude Edition.

EVERY PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTION WANTS TO ELIMINATE THE BASIS FOR ITS PRESTIGE: Conservative students appear blackballed from top law reviews. “They use the diversity statement to find out who we are and keep us off.”

The admissions offices will be doing that next year.

CHANGE: FDA Sneakily Announces Doctors Are Allowed To Prescribe Ivermectin.

The FDA snuck a major announcement under the radar. Yes, doctors CAN prescribe Ivermectin to Covid patients.

Remember back in 2020 and 2021 when the media, Fauci, and the CDC were so insistent that Ivermectin didn’t work? That it shouldn’t be prescribed, and in fact livestock feed stores had to put it away behind lock and key? I do. Others do as well. Heck, the FDA even tweeted about it.

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However, yesterday, during 5th Circuit court proceedings involving the case of the federal government working hand-in-glove with the social media companies to suppress information they deemed disinformation or misinformation regarding the Covid narrative, this little gem dropped into everyone’s laps.

Where does Joe Rogan go for his apology?

Flashback: Joe Rogan’s Dust-Up With CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta Exposes the Narrative:

Rogan continued to ask why the network would lie about a Nobel prize-winning drug that had cured blindness due to a parasitic infection in millions of people, suggesting it was only used in animals. Rogan asked, “Does it bother you the news network you work for out and out lied? Just outright lied about me taking horse dewormer?” Gupta responded, “They shouldn’t have said that.”

That’s what Gupta told Rogan while in his studio. The following day, however: CNN’s Effort to Clean up the Gupta Train Wreck Interview Proves Joe Rogan’s Point:

CNN’s [Don Lemon]: “It is not a lie to say that [Ivermectin] is used as a horse de-wormer. I think that’s important. And it is not approved for Covid.”

[Gupta]: “Correct … If you look at the data, there is no evidence that it really works [against Covid].”

This is CNN. “But that’s the problem with CNN in a nutshell, and it’s the point that Rogan was making,” Red State’s Nick Arama writes. “They don’t care about the truth; it’s all about narrative.”

And CNN wonders why they’re not trusted in flyover country.