READER FAVORITE: 5 Precision Adjust Knife Sharpener. #CommissionEarned

DEMOCRATS: Forced to Delete Another False Claim About Trump and Epstein.

DRUG WARS: Get In, Losers. We’re About to Blow Up a Lot More Narcos.

GOOD NEWS FOR ADVIL: Nearly one third of people worldwide suffer from headaches.

“I’M FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND I’M HERE TO HELP.”

Government subsidies for health care increased 670% in just 11 years.

• From $18 Billion in 2014 to $138 Billion in 2025.

• Insurers make 350% more profit per ACA patient in 2025 than in 2014.

• At the same time insurance companies saw profits skyrocket 230+%

— Wolfways 🇺🇸🐺 (@Wolfways44) November 14, 2025

Still the nine most frightening words in the English language.

CDR SALAMANDER: The Last 600 Meters: PBS’s 17 Year Disgrace. “The American people were not given the opportunity to see and understand — and honor — their Marines for the worst reasons by the worst people.”

2004 was 21 years ago.

That is the difference from the end of WWI to 1939, the start of WWII; from the end of WWII to 1966; and from the attacks of 9/11 to 2022.

What is an example of a great documentary about one of the above? Let’s take Victory at Sea. It came out in 1952, seven years after the end of WWII. The documentary was a long series about a very broad topic with about 13 hours’ run time.

What if you were going to focus on just a battle instead of the broad sweep like VaS took and wanted to keep it inside 90 minutes? Would it take half as long, 3 or 4 years?

Imagine a documentary of WWI, WWII, or 9/11, full of primary sources from the major players, and footage not seen anywhere else, but refusing to air it because you didn’t want Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, or George W. Bush to be seen in a good light…no, belay that.

You did not want the Doughboys, the US Navy, and FDNY to look good. That was your reason.

I’m talking about the documentary by Michael Peck, The Last 600 Meters: The Battles of Najaf and Fallujah that was played on the USMC’s Birthday Monday on PBS, and is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Read the whole thing.

And if you have Prime, maybe check out Peck’s work.

HILL AIDES SAY DEMS BIG SHUTDOWN LOSERS: Almost half, 48 percent, of all the responding congressional aides point to the Democratic party as the biggest loser in the 42-day shutdown that started on October 1, according to the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey. Democratic Senate aides represented 56 percent of those agreeing their party lost big-time.

DEPENDENCE IS A CHOICE: How Trump Reasserted America’s Control Over Energy.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why No One Cares About the Climate Conference.

Suppose they held an international summit and nobody came? The Brazilian organizers of the annual United Nations climate conference are close to finding out. They pulled out all the stops, including bulldozing tens of thousands of acres of rainforest to clear a new highway to the host city, Belém. International business leaders flocked to earlier summits, and 150 heads of government attended the one in Dubai two years ago. The moguls are steering clear of Brazil, though, and only 53 national leaders are making the trek (a shame, considering all those temporarily converted “love motels“).

The sudden bursting of the climate-alarmism bubble is nearly as shocking as the global shrug that has accompanied it. Not so long ago, the climate movement was widely believed to be the most urgent cause of our time. Global do-gooders flew around the world urging others to cut transportation-related greenhouse gases, agencies and bureaucracies developed plans to slash carbon emissions, and C-suites lobbied their governments for green targets and subsidies. Now Germany is trying to avoid hosting next year’s climate gabfest.

Back in 2020, Nancy Pelosi sputtered that climate change “is a religious issue:”

Pelosi on empowering government to try controlling the climate: “This is a religious issue.” pic.twitter.com/CaVGJSxO3n

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 13, 2025

But while every obsession of the left functions as a substitute religion, in order to advance technology such as AI, it looks like the business community is desperate to find a separation of the climate church and state, Pelosi, Al Gore, and John Kerry be damned.

CLEANUP ON LEO SIX: A giant inflatable bag could catch asteroids and space junk. “Space junk capture tests have been successfully conducted for years, but while no full-scale solution has yet been deployed, the risks associated with orbital debris keep growing. Many different technological solutions have been proposed, from complex robotic arms to magnets and even harpoons.”

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Left vs Right: The Battle for Tolkien’s Middle Earth.

STAY STRONG: Toniiq NAD+ Supplement 1500mg. #CommissionEarned

ACCOUNTABILITY IN A BLUE STATE? YEP: Massachusetts man convicted of threatening Republican state rep. “Rep. Steven Xiarhos, a Barnstable Republican, is thanking Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois and his office for prosecuting James Spence, a 63-year-old Dennis resident set to serve six months in jail.”

COLD WAR II: Days after Fujian launch, images point to work on China’s first nuclear-powered carrier.

A week after China commissioned its third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, newly leaked images, including satellite imagery and other photos, suggest that the fourth might be nuclear powered.

US military website The War Zone reported on Wednesday that China’s new Type 004 aircraft carrier, which is under construction at the Dalian shipyard in the northeastern province of Liaoning, showed a hull structure apparently similar to that of American nuclear-powered supercarriers.

Citing social media posts with photos and satellite imagery of the Type 004 under construction, it said the hull featured what appeared to be a reactor containment structure, a “key indicator” of the propulsion system.

It’s also a key indicator of global ambitions.

CHANGE: Texas Christian U. to end gender, race studies departments.

INSIDERS: Chuck Schumer to Retire in 2028.

PRESSURE WORKS: Fort Lewis student government backpedals, agrees to recognize TPUSA chapter.

OUCH: Oil climbs as Russian port suspends oil exports after Ukrainian attack.

Oil prices climbed around 2% on Friday, boosted by supply fears after the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk halted oil exports following a Ukrainian drone attack that hit an oil depot in the major Russian energy hub.

Brent crude futures were up $1.50, or 2.4%, at $64.51 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude advanced $1.57, or 2.7%, to $60.26 a barrel.

Friday’s attack damaged a ship in port, apartment blocks and an oil depot in Novorossiysk, injuring three of the vessel’s crew, Russian officials said.

The port paused oil exports and oil pipeline monopoly Transneft suspended crude supplies to the outlet, two industry sources told Reuters.

“The intensity of these attacks has increased, it’s much more often. Eventually they could hit something that causes lasting disruption,” said Giovanni Staunovo, commodity analyst at UBS.

The market is trying to assess the impact of the latest attacks and what this means for Russian supply longer term, he said.

Plus: “About 1.4 million barrels per day of Russia’s oil, or almost a third of seaborne export potential, has been added to stocks held on tankers as unloading slows due to U.S. sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, JPMorgan said on Thursday.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Need a Permanent Time-Out for Their Childish Anti-Trump Antics. “Rather than spend any time coming up with policy ideas that would appeal to American voters, the TDS Dems spend their days looking for petty foot-stomping gestures that they believe prove they’re sticking it to President Trump. That’s what the government shutdown was all about. The Dems who wanted it to go on didn’t really care about who would be adversely affected, they just wanted to keep resisting the president.”

ACCOUNTABILITY: Judge refuses to toss assault case against New Jersey Democrat.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected Rep. LaMonica McIver’s (D-N.J.) claims the Trump administration is selectively and vindictively prosecuting her for accusations she assaulted agents during a visit to an immigration facility in May.

U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper’s ruling enables McIver’s prosecution to proceed closer to trial, denying her bid to immediately dismiss the criminal charges. McIver pleaded not guilty.

“Defendant has failed to offer clear evidence that the charges in this case had a discriminatory effect, thus her claims of selective enforcement and prosecution must fail,” wrote Semper, an appointee of former President Biden.

Semper’s 41-page ruling also largely rejected McIver’s arguments that she is immune under the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause, which protects lawmakers for things they say or do as part of their legislative activities. But the judge said he’d rule on the defense later for one of the three counts.

Nobody knows how this plays out, but it’s nice to see something more than a judicial shrug for a congresscritter.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

GET WOKE, GET BROKE, DELAWARE EDITION: Coinbase reincorporating in Texas from Delaware, citing new Texas business court.

IT’S A FAMILY TRADITION: A Kennedy Family Member Might Have a Nazi Problem.

SWALWELL READY TO DO TO CALIFORNIA WHAT HE DID TO FANG FANG: Eric Swalwell eyes his next campaign — a run for California governor.

LEFTISTS ARE LOSERS (CONT’D):

Leftists are often downwardly mobile children of successful parents, who use leftism to try to force their way into the elite they believe to be their birthright. https://t.co/yHinjm1sPT

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion) November 14, 2025