AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Texans Strangely Unconcerned About Global Day Of Jihad.

HOW WE GOT HERE: Stop Being Shocked—Once and for All. “Tablet didn’t wade into the culture wars for its own sake. We did it because we feared we saw an emerging world in which the broad-minded American civic ideals and institutions that had kept us safe for so long were falling apart, which was bad for the country—and also meant that Jews would once again be seen as enemies to be eliminated. As a result, our archive now looks like the answer to the question faced by so many people this week—namely: What the hell is going on? Below is a selection from the past five years.”

CHANGE: Best Buy Is Ditching DVDs in 2024.

Entertainment represents just 6% of Best Buy’s total revenue in the US. Physical movies will still be available through the holiday season, and the change won’t impact video games, the company said.

Since Netflix first launched its streaming service in 2007, consumers have shifted away from purchasing physical movies as well as DVD and Blu-Ray players. With thousands of movies and TV shows available to stream from companies including Disney, Hulu, Amazon and Apple, DVDs have become all but obsolete.

And yet, it’s still very much worth it to buy physical media with the left running around armed with airbrushes: Blazing Saddles Review: Buy a Copy Before the Left Burns Them All.

ROBERT SPENCER: Everything You Need to Know About the Israeli Occupation (That Is, Everything the Left Won’t Tell You).

ROGER KIMBALL: What does a ‘proportionate’ response to Hamas look like? “My own feeling is that Israel ought to do for Hamas what Donald Trump did for ISIS, i.e., destroy it utterly.”

JOE ROGAN INTERVIEWS BRITISH COMEDIAN JIMMY CARR on the massively positive environmental impact of the first cars, the Lindy Effect, Dick Gregory and the Zapruder Film, Bob Fosse’s Cabaret, Portugal versus England, and much, much more (video):

JIM TREACHER: Do Americans Have the Right to Applaud Hamas Murdering Jewish Babies?

Look, I’m a free speech guy. I support your right to say something stupid, or even evil. I’ll tell you that you’re wrong, but you get to be wrong in the United States of America. That’s what sets us apart from almost every other country in the world.

But…

Doncha just hate that word?

But… let’s say one of your employees decides to grow a toothbrush mustache and starts goose-stepping around the office in a brown shirt, yelling “Heil Hitler!” and “Gas the Jews!”

Would that be out of line? Would you be within your rights to fire him?

How is “Death to Israel” any different? It’s another style of anti-Semitism, but the message is the same. A keffiyeh on an American college campus is just a hipster swastika.

I keep hearing how dangerous Trump voters are because of their anti-Semitism. The FBI is even watching them. Well, how about the people who are openly calling for the genocide of Jews?

“Kill all the Jews” isn’t an opinion. It’s a threat. And when you make a threat, you’re accountable for it.

I wouldn’t expect an employer to hire a guy with White Power tattoos all over him. Why should I expect an employer to hire somebody whose anti-Semitism is cloaked in euphemisms and nitpicking and cynical lies?

You get to say what you want. I get to choose whether I want to pay you for your labor. God bless America.

And businesses get to decide who they hire: The astonishing courage of Hamas defenders’ convicti…RUN AWAY!!!

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Wacky college fads thru the years:

1930s: swallowing goldfish
1950s: panty raids and stuffing phone booths
1970s: streaking
2020s: Nuremberg-style pro-Holocaust pep rallies

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 13, 2023

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Mass Hypocrisy Edition.

QUESTION ASKED: Bob Menendez is being charged as a foreign agent — so why not Hunter Biden?

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Watch: Environmental Wackos Scare Pete Buttigieg Off Stage.

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

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.

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ!

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

— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) October 12, 2023

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.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Rashida Tlaib Urges Nation To Resist Commercialization Of Day Of Jihad And Remember The True Spirit Of The Holiday.

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Israel to the 1.1 Million Terrorist Residents of Gaza City: Get the F*ck Out. “Andrea Mitchell will cry. But it’s time to Decolonize Gaza. It’s time to decolonize the living sh*t out of it.”

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Knife-wielding attacker shouts ‘Allahu akbar’ and kills teacher in French school amid Hamas-Israel war: report.

REPORT: Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours.

WHAT A GREAT WEEK FOR NYC’S POLICE COMMISSIONER TO BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY: NYPD suits up, expands patrols for mass protests, possible violence as Israel-Palestinian war rages. 

Police Commissioner Edward Caban did not attend the briefing held at City Hall because he was out of the country, a source told the Daily News. He was visiting Qatar, according to a second source.

The Qatar Peninsula has a photo of Caban meeting that nation’s minister of the interior, which it ran on Monday.

STOPPED CLOCK: Left-Wing Host Christiane Amanpour Blames Hamas for Israel War — CNN Aired It, PBS Edited It Out (Video).

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: Local stores get into fall spirit with pumpkin spice bacon.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Apparently suffering from memory loss, George Takei can’t remember the media criticizing Dan Quayle.

SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW:

"Once we have a free Palestine, a free Gaza, you can do…the same thing."

This EU envoy took to paragliding along the Gaza coast to bring focus to the blockaded Palestinian enclave ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/H04n3e7Eoe

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 6, 2023

THAT WAS FAST: Steve Scalise ends bid for House speaker.