I’M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE CRIMES THEY COMMIT IN OFFICE, HONESTLY: Dem Says His Disgusting Criminal Record Shouldn’t Influence Mayoral Run.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Brain implants show promise for depression treatment in new study.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Abbott Comes Out Swinging Against Jihad. “EPIC City may have turned out to be mostly (not entirely) a nothingburger, more a prosaic speculative land deal than an actual Islamic City, but it seems to have lit a fire under Greg Abbott, as he’s come out swinging against any opportunity for Jihad to take root in Texas this week.”

HARVARD ADMITS ITS GRADES HAVE LOST ALL MEANING: Hey, they’re not paying a jillion dollars a year to not get A’s…

THAT’S GOOD: Use of head CT scans in ERs more than doubles over 15 years.

LARRY SUMMERS EXITS OPENAI FOLLOWING EPSTEIN EMAILS RELEASE.

RESTORING SOME SMALL MEASURE OF SANITY: HHS Slams ‘Sex-Rejecting’ Trans ‘Treatments’ in New Study.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Researchers find eating disorders have long-term health effects.

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Walker’s Game Ear GWP-RSEM-MCC Gear Hearing Protection Plugs. #CommissionEarned

PROCUREMENT MESS: Inside the XM30 program: The Army’s Bradley replacement. “After four decades of failed replacement attempts, the Army’s XM30 program is the closest it has come to retiring the Bradley, but challenges remain.”

The first major effort, Armored Systems Modernization, aimed to build a series of new vehicles across shared chassis designs. The program collapsed in 1992 when the Cold War ended and costs ballooned.

Future Combat Systems (FCS) followed in 2003, promising a fleet of networked, lightweight vehicles. Billions of dollars later, none could withstand the realities of Iraq and Afghanistan, where improvised explosive devices and RPGs shredded light armor. FCS was canceled in 2009.

The Ground Combat Vehicle effort launched soon after, promising a heavily armored troop carrier for a new era of mechanized warfare. But the prototypes were so heavy they barely fit on a C-17 and were more expensive than an Abrams. It lasted until 2014.

The Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, born in 2018 under the broader Next Generation Combat Vehicle initiative, suffered its own false start when no contractors could meet the Army’s requirements. It was reset in 2020 with a more flexible acquisition strategy and renamed XM30 in 2023.

Today, the XM30 is the closest any program has come to crossing the finish line.

After four decades, maybe we should just skip ahead to starship troopers.

NIXON’S THE ONE, NOW MORE THAN EVER! Is This Nixon Redux?

Both Nixon and Trump made taking on the Washington establishment their top domestic policy priority.
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Writers and pundits are increasingly comparing Donald Trump to another Republican president who governed several decades ago: Richard Nixon.

In the past, these comparisons would have been offered primarily by President Trump’s detractors. But for many on the right these days, being compared to Richard Nixon is an honor rather than a criticism. As Michael Knowles observed last week in a speech at the Nixon Library, there has been a “major reputational rehabilitation” of Richard Nixon over the past decade among conservatives.

Which is nothing compared to the major reputational rehabilitation Nixon already received from the left, to bash a prior generation of Republican presidents.

(After he leaves office, Trump will receive his own reputational upgrade from the left to similarly bash future Republican presidents, which will be hysterical to watch.)

I HEAR LOTS OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS: “Across the country, the ancient tradition of Orthodox Christianity is attracting energetic new adherents, especially among conservative young men.”

At my shooting range a few months ago, I had the lane next to an Orthodox priest who was teaching a parishioner how to shoot, so I can see it.

Or, you know, it could be the hats.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Expert Witness: ATF Prosecuted Collector Because He Didn’t Have an FFL.

Georgia gunsmith and technical specialist Len Savage is an expert witness who has been involved in 29 federal court cases over a 20-year span. He has been hired by defense attorneys, federal public defenders and sometimes the U.S. Department of Justice, which last asked him to verify government testing at $175 per hour.

Savage’s firm, Historic Arms, LLC, is a leading source for semi-auto Bren light machineguns and other unique items, and he also repairs full-auto weapons. “I haven’t had to testify in many, many years,” he said. “The last time I was summoned to examine the government’s evidence they dismissed the case.”

Savage has closely followed the ATF’s treatment of Patrick “Tate” Adamiak. “I am familiar with Tate’s case and I have even spoken to him,” Savage said Monday. “Was this a legit charge? Nope. This was part of Joe Biden’s anti-gun agenda. They were going after everything during that time period. They went after pistol braces—they went after everything you can imagine.”

Adamiak is just starting the third year of his 20-year federal prison sentence. A series of more than 30 stories revealed that none of the charges he faced were based on any actual violations. All were made up by the ATF.

How about a presidential pardon and a few presidential “You’re fired!” moments?

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN:

Thank you for sharing your story. People underestimate how much of an improvement that accessibility tech makes for society.

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 20, 2025

THE POWER OF PRAYER, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Maduro’s Backup Plan? Jesus, Apparently

NOW OUT: From Brett Baier, To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower. #CommissionEarned

IT MIGHT BE A BUBBLE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS MORE LIFE IN IT: Nvidia beats earnings expectations, even as bubble concerns mount. “Nvidia’s sales grew 62% year-over-year to $57 billion in the October quarter, ahead of the $54.9 billion Wall Street had projected, signaling that demand for AI chips remains strong even as more questions emerge about whether returns from the technology will keep up with the pace of infrastructure investments. It posted profits of $31.9 billion, up 65% from the year-ago quarter and also slightly above expectations.”

I HOPE HE GOT A LOT OF MONEY: Michigan State U. professor settles with trustees who urged students to attack him as ‘racist.’

I ALWAYS LEARN A LOT FROM RAYMOND IBRAHIM’S VIDEO PODCASTS: How Islam Caused — and Is Again Causing — a Dark Age in Europe.

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cream, Hydrating Face Moisturizer with Squalene. #CommissionEarned

DEVOLUTION: Notre Dame removes Catholic mission from staff values, touts new ‘refreshed’ values.

WOW:

Oh this is hilarious. Sad but hilarious.

This study finds (and others confirm) that a teacher earning a graduate degree has a NEGATIVE effect on student achievement

Attending a graduate school of education literally makes teachers WORSE at their job pic.twitter.com/Gyt8xSoS3k

— Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” (@MrDanielBuck) November 19, 2025

And here’s a link to the study.

Maybe we’d be better off abolishing or restricting education degrees, and mostly just hire retired people to teach the things they used to do.

LATE-STAGE COMMUNISM: Cuba struggles to ease power cuts amid reduced fuel supplies from Venezuela, Mexico.

Between January and October, Cuba’s oil imports from Mexico – which emerged as a reliable provider in 2023 after regularizing shipments of light crude – declined to some 5,000 barrels per day, a 73% fall from the 18,800 bpd received in the same period of 2024, according to the shipping data.

Imports of crude and fuel from Venezuela, Cuba’s most important political ally, fell almost 15% over the same period to 27,400 bpd, with the reduction particularly hitting supplies of fuel oil for power generation, internal documents from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA showed.

In total, Cuba’s imports of crude, liquefied petroleum gas and residual and motor fuels from all origins fell 35% to some 45,400 bpd in January to October, from 69,400 bpd in the same period last year.

Mexico and Venezuela are both dealing with output limitations and do not have much spare capacity to offer Cuba. Their lower availability of light crude and fuel oil for export, coupled with Cuba’s struggles to pay for purchases on the spot market, have put a ceiling on fuel imports.

Previously: Cuba’s power grid collapses again. Why does this keep happening?

The link goes to an NPR article that blames pretty much everyone and everything except for Cuba’s communist government.

HEARD OF THE NEW SHALE REVOLUTION? As is so often the case, Rod Martin is looking way ahead and pointing out the latest example of American technology working at its best when allowed to do so by a (mostly) free market.

Here’s a taste of why Martin sees the U.S. set to become an energy colossus beyond anything the Saudis ever dreamed of achieving:

“This new shale revolution doesn’t just pad Exxon’s quarterly numbers. It locks in America’s structural energy advantage. Our cost curve moves down and out. Our reserve base, in practical economic terms, grows. Our role as the world’s swing producer — in both oil and gas — becomes impossible to dislodge.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Seriously, How Are the Big Blue Cities Still Standing?!? “There is a massive difference between being governed by 20th century and early 21st century Democrats and what the party has become in 2025. When Zohran Mamdani gets into office, he won’t be reminding any older Manhattanites of Ed Koch or David Dinkins. In Los Angeles, Karen Bass has more in common with the late Fidel Castro than she does with Tom Bradley.”