RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Virginia School Board Member Opposes Moment Of Silence For Victims Of Hamas Attack. “Fairfax County School Board member Abrar Omeish — who in September 2021 opposed a resolution honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks — opposed a moment of silence for victims of the Hamas attacks. Omeish’s father, Esam Omeish, has served as director of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which hired as its imam Anwar al-Awlaki, whom President Barack Obama later ordered killed by a drone strike. The mosque was attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers as well as the shooter in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood, Texas.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

It’s been amazing this week to watch the left invert every rhetorical device they’ve used since 2020, all to avoid having to criticize terrorists dedicated to Jewish genocide. It would be hilarious, if it weren’t so reprehensible.

2020: Silence is violence.

2023: People can’t…

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) October 14, 2023

LOL: NY Times Opinion: New York sounds like a southern border state now.

Props to Greg Abbott for starting this.

HIGHER EDUCATION AS TOXIC INDUSTRY:

The overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education. https://t.co/eI0acO7Pbw via @VDHanson

— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) October 12, 2023

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSE HERE: Oh, nothing – just Hamas videos with kidnapped crying babies in their arms.

GREAT MOMENTS IN DISPASSIONATE OBJECTIVITY: AP’s Gaza reporter repeatedly ripped Israel on social media, said oppressive regime should be ‘overthrown.’

Flashback: Israel Shared Intelligence to Us Showing Hamas Operated Inside Building Where Ap, Al-Jazeera Had Offices.

OF COURSE IT’S NOT: Sieging Gaza is not illegal or ‘collective punishment’, says NJAC director: Goldfeder was tackling accusations from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Peter Beinart that Israel would violate international law and norms by enacting a siege.

MORE NCLA NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear NCLA Relentless Case Challenging Chevron Deference. “Today, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s Relentless Inc., et al. v. Dept. of Commerce, et al. lawsuit challenging the Chevron precedent and an unconstitutional federal rule requiring fishing companies to pay for at-sea government monitoring of their herring catch. The case will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court during the January 2024 argument session in tandem with the case of Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Gina Raimondo, which challenges the same at-sea monitor rule. NCLA thanks the Court for granting a writ of certiorari in Relentless, which presents an important opportunity to sweep away the fatally flawed Chevron doctrine and vindicate fishermen’s fundamental rights.”

Disclosure/Reminder: I’m on the advisory board of the New Civil Liberties Alliance.

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ!

You can’t make this up… https://t.co/qvyR0WboXQ

— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) October 12, 2023

DONALD SENSING: War and the Reshaping of Societies.

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Speaker at Dearborn Palestinian Rally Says White Supremacists Wave Israeli Flags. “How many white supremacy rallies has this guy been to, first of all….[D]on’t white supremacist groups typically hate Jewish people? The best example would be — oh, I don’t know — Nazis.”

ICYMI: GOOD: Billionaire philanthropists leave Harvard board, scorch leadership over campus support for terrorism.

YEAH, THAT’S MY NEIGHBORHOOD TOO, WHERE MY GUN SAFE IS ACTUALLY LESS WELL-STOCKED THAN MY NEIGHBOR’S:

Texans Strangely Unconcerned About Global Day Of Jihad https://t.co/28nFIAjTnL pic.twitter.com/zUWjhnVuM8

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 13, 2023

But, you know, I’m not much into crew-served weapons or RPGs. NTTAWWT.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: It’s an increasingly toxic industry, lacking the social usefulness of asbestos or tobacco.

https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1712855649699115099

LET’S BE HONEST, YOU’D BE A FOOL NOT TO: Jewish NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov arrested for carrying gun at pro-Palestinian rally. I do love how NYC won’t charge actual criminals but went after her.

But Eric Adams’ NYC government has chosen sides, and everyone knows which one.

I HOPE THIS REPRESENTS A GLOBAL TREND: European elections: Ashes, ashes, the Greens fall down.

OPEN THREAD: Thank God it’s Friday. Only 2 more working days until Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Metal asteroid Psyche has a ridiculously high ‘value.’ But what does that even mean?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Startup GuardianSat gets research grant for satellite self-defense technology.

IN BRITAIN, THOSE USED TO ONLY BE FOR PEOPLE WHO CRITICIZED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS: UK Home Secretary Calls for “Heavy Criminal Consequences” for Various Pro-Hamas Speech.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE:

#StrengthOfTheirConvictions https://t.co/Ao45yPEUDo pic.twitter.com/dtLdAm0sXL

— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) October 13, 2023

FROG, MEET SCORPION:

Eyal Waldman, the Israeli high-tech magnate, astounded the tech industry and the entire Arab world by creating research and development centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, all while employing hundreds of Palestinian developers. On Saturday, Hamas murdered his daughter Daniel pic.twitter.com/6KNuKhAXZP

— raz_sauber (@raz_sauber) October 12, 2023

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: NASA: We’d Have 30 Minutes’ Warning Before a Killer Solar Storm Hits Earth.

LAW: No Preliminary Injunction Against Idaho Law Mandating Public School Students Use Bathrooms “That Correspond[] with Their Biological Sex.”

STEVEN CALABRESI: Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.