HMM: New study calls into question the superiority of stem cell therapy for treating knee pain.

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Guillette on Exposing Antisemites and Being SWATted Repeatedly.

GOOD: Netanyahu Rebukes US, Declares No Pause and No Fuel Before Hostages are Released.

I’M WAITING TO SEE WHAT KIND OF PRESSURE THE STATE DEPARTMENT WILL APPLY TO TRY AND FORCE BUKELE NOT TO RUN AGAIN: Nayib Bukele Stuns the World in El Salvador’s Historic Presidential Re-Election Bid.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Space Pioneer raise funding for its Falcon 9-class rocket.

The funds will also be used for production of the smaller Tianlong-2, which had a successful inaugural flight in April this year. That launch made the company the first Chinese commercial firm to reach orbit with a liquid propellant rocket.

Construction of a launch site for the Tianlong-3 at China’s Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert is also noted.

Space Pioneer is targeting a first Tianlong-3 launch in the first half of 2024. It aims to launch 30 times per year within three years of the debut launch.

By then, SpaceX’s Starship should have Falcon 9 completely outclassed — assuming the Biden administration gets out of the way.

TIME TO GET SERIOUS: A Warning To Law Schools On Anti-Semitism.

BLUE ON BLUE: 30 Columbia Students Walkout On Hillary As Part of Anti-Semitic Tantrum.

DEAL OF THE DAY: VECELO Mid-Back Swivel Ergonomic Office Chair. #CommissionEarned

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: House Rich, Cash Poor: America’s New Retirement Trap. “Wells Fargo warned on Oct. 26 in an economics research note that if interest rates remain higher for longer, it will discourage prospective sellers with low-rate mortgages from putting their homes on the market even amid a shortage of inventory and even though they need the cash. At a hair under 7.8% as of Oct. 26, the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is more than double its level since the Federal Reserve began the first of 11 rate hikes in March 2022, according to Freddie Mac.”

WELL, GOOD: Alternative antibiotic for pneumonia may reduce risk of C. diff infection.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: U. Maryland to host weeklong series of health events only ‘for Black students.’

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY ARE: Biden & Harris Playing Footsie with Hamas to Protect His Lead in This State.

GOOD: Jay Sures, a regent at the University of California, is calling out Ethnic Studies professors in the public university system who signed a letter condemning the word ‘terrorism’ to describe Hamas.

DECOUPLING CUTS BOTH WAYS: Apple revenue drops for the fourth straight quarter in what the company’s longest slump in 22 years. “The results suggest that Apple is facing a bigger deceleration in China than feared. The government there has imposed iPhone bans in some workplaces, and a new phone from Huawei Technologies Co. is providing fresh competition. Revenue from that region amounted to $15.1 billion last quarter, well short of the $17 billion analysts had predicted.”

Just because decoupling isn’t easy doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary.

HOW DEI INSPIRES JEW-HATRED: “Diversity bureaucracies stoke anti-Semitism on campus.”

MAKING PEOPLE GO TO CLASS EVEN AFTER STRESSFUL EVENTS IS BETTER TRAINING FOR LIFE: Cornell University cancels Friday classes after arrest of student Patrick Dai over antisemitic threats.

On the other hand, this does underscore how crazed it is to have this kind of antisemitic stuff happening on campus.

LESLIE EASTMAN: Objectively Assessing Whether Our Colleges Have Gone Mad: If so, there there are signs that the madness does not have to be permanent.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Flailing Democrats Hit Comical New Low Over Speaker Mike Johnson. “As has been mentioned here in the Briefing, the worst things that the Democrats have been able to come up with when whining about Johnson is that he likes Donald Trump, and he loves Jesus, neither of whom is popular with the Left.”

UNEXPECTEDLY: U.S. payrolls increased by 150,000 in October, less than expected. “The unemployment rate rose to 3.9%, against expectations that it would hold steady at 3.8%. Employment as measured in the household survey, which is used to compute the unemployment rate, showed a decline of 348,000 workers, while the rolls of the unemployed rose by 146,000. A more encompassing jobless rate that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time positions for economic reasons rose to 7.2%, an increase of 0.2 percentage point.”

WHEN BAGMEN PLAY THE VICTIM: Hunter Biden Whines That Republicans Weaponize His Addiction to Attack His Father.

OOPS: Spacewalk Snafu: Astronauts Lose Tool Bag in Orbital Oopsy.

Flashback: NASA astronauts Moghbeli and O’Hara embark on rare all-female spacewalk.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: A commercial spaceplane capable of orbital flight is ready for NASA testing.

NASA will soon start testing what is dubbed as the world’s first commercial spaceplane capable of orbital flight, which will eventually be used to resupply the International Space Station. The agency is set to take delivery of Sierra Space’s first Dream Chaser, which should provide an alternative to SpaceX spacecraft for trips to the ISS.

In the coming weeks, the spaceplane (which is currently at Sierra Space’s facility in Colorado) will make its way to a NASA test site in Ohio. The agency will put the vehicle, which has been named Tenacity, through its paces for between one and three months. According to Ars Technica, NASA will conduct vibration, acoustic and temperature tests to ensure Tenacity can survive the rigors of a rocket launch. NASA engineers, along with government and contractor teams, are running tests to make sure it’s safe for Tenacity to approach the ISS.

All going well, Tenacity is scheduled to make its first trip to space in April on the second flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. The rocket has yet to make its own first test flight, which is currently expected to happen in December. However, given how things tend to go with spaceflight, delays are always a possibility on both fronts.

Reliance on Vulcan — which itself relies on Blue Origin’s oft-delayed BE-4 engines — is a real problem: After Vulcan slips, Space Force ends up awarding more missions to SpaceX. “It is imperative to rapidly deliver critical space capabilities to the Joint Warfighter as soon as they are ready to be launched—we cannot leave capability sitting on the ground.”

SEEMS AWFULLY TAME COMPARED TO THE STUFF THAT’S GOTTEN A PASS FROM THE LEFT: Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on Jan. 6: Antifa and federal ‘provocateurs.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, BUSTED FOR RACISM DEPT: University Of Washington Bans Psychology Department From Faculty Searches For Two Years After Changing Hiring Process And Order Of Offers Based On Race Of Candidates.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Some of the Dystopian Tyranny You Can Expect if the Marxists Win. “We already know the federal government colluded with Big Tech to censor Americans who dared question the origins of COVID and the efficacy of the clot-shot and even shut down the New York Post for breaking the Hunter Biden laptop story. We’ve seen pro-lifers have their doors kicked in by FBI SWAT teams. This will get even worse if We the People don’t raise our voices.”