MEDIA MATTERS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SCAM:

BREAKING: X data confirms Media Matters manipulated the algo using inauthentic accounts to produce false ad results. It was a hoax pic.twitter.com/gQuhca8Gs8

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 21, 2023

UPDATE: New: TX AG Opens Criminal Probe of Media Matters over Twitter.

MINDING THE CAMPUS: Gerber For Faculty Positions.

These are all cases that, prior to the outbreak of pro-Hamas festivities on campus, had already tarnished the reputations of these law schools. Doubtless if I had time and my readers had the patience, this list could be extended to many other law schools. But I’ve assembled this list not as part of a general indictment but rather to set the stage for a positive proposal.

Any of these schools could take a major step towards re-gaining public respect by showing that it is willing to hire to its faculty a recognized critic of DEI.

And I have the candidate for you: Scott Gerber.

I trust you have heard of him. But for readers who have not, Dr. Gerber was until about a week ago a tenured professor of law at Ohio Northern University. He is perhaps best known right now as the author of an article published in May in The Wall Street Journal, “DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School,” in which he recounted the frightening attempt by his law dean to fire him, by pulling him out of class under armed police escort.

No doubt the drama was meant to stigmatize Dr. Gerber in the eyes of students as guilty of some dark deed. But the issue was simply that he had raised objections to his university’s aggressive DEI initiatives, as is his legal right and academic freedom to do.

Ohio Northern University? What kind of law professor pursues his career in such a place? Judge the man, not the school. Cambridge University Press has just published his fourth academic book, Law and Religion in Colonial America. He has edited two others, and he also has had four novels published. He earned his Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of Virginia, clerked for U.S. District Judge Ernest C. Torres, and is a member of the Massachusetts, Colorado, and Virginia bars, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court bar. He is the four-time winner of the Fowler V. Harper Award for excellence in legal scholarship—five-time winner, actually, but ONU’s law dean withheld the award from him this spring so as not to make the summoning of armed police to his classroom look even more outrageous than it already did. He likewise is the three-time winner of the Daniel S. Guy Award for excellence in legal journalism, and has received awards for excellence in teaching and has lectured at universities around the country, including yours. He was a visiting professor at Brown University’s Political Theory Project during the 2018-19 academic year.

I am not going to pack his resume into this article—just enough to indicate he is a serious scholar long buried in an out-of-the-way place, where he apparently annoyed his colleagues as a rate-buster. Everything they did, he did a hundred times better—and then he refused to get on the DEI bandwagon.

Jealousy is a major part of academia.

IT’S A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS!

Palestinian Authority Warns That Gaza Hospitals Running Dangerously Low On Ammunition https://t.co/WIjNFr0bXm pic.twitter.com/xP59LgstUu

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 20, 2023

LOL: Gen Z workers say they should be hired for their ‘personality,’ not productivity: We ‘set the vibes.’

Um.

SO, IT’S RED SEA PIRATES NOW, IS IT? We Live In Interesting Times.

CHANGE: Iowa’s Board of Regents vote to get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs, programs on all 3 campuses.

OPEN THREAD: Why? Because I like you.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Dishonour in Denmark.

I BELIEVE THE PLUME WAS LONGER THAN THE ROCKET, WHICH IS VERY LONG: Starship Second Launch Test: Amazing Photos.

BAN PRIVATE JETS: World’s richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report.

THE LONELY LIVES OF SCIENTISTS: Scientists Have Simulated What It Might Be Like to Plunge Into Uranus.

HMM: Hidden belly fat in midlife linked to Alzheimer’s disease, research indicates. “Visceral abdominal fat, which has been linked to Alzheimer’s, is the fat surrounding the internal organs deep in the belly. Researchers found that this hidden fat is related to changes that occur in the brain up to two decades before the earliest memory loss symptoms of Alzheimer’s appear.”

IF I WERE IN THE MARKET RIGHT NOW I’D CONSIDER THE LEXUS PLUG-IN HYBRID SUV: 2024 Lexus SUVs: Meet the New GX and TX, Plus Updates to NX and RX.

TWO GUNS? You bet!

BAFFLING: If that’s not what “you” do, what are “you” supposed to do?

“You” are supposed to arrest people and punish them, we’re told. But who’s the “you”? That’s not something CVS can do. CVS is stuck with limited options, and it’s doing something within its power. Is it supposed to stop so that things can be stolen because that creates the opportunity to arrest people and punish them? Actually, the WaPo Editorial Board is not recommending arresting all shoplifters — only “ringleaders” and maybe people who “steal 10 or more times in a 30-day period.” But CVS ought to reload its shelves and give free rein to those who avoid organized crime and who avoid getting caught more than twice a week.”

It’s hard for journalists to confront reality.

TB IS STILL OUR BIGGEST KILLER DISEASE: Cancer therapy shows promise against tuberculosis.

DOES IT WORK ON MONKEYPOX? NEVER MIND, FORTUNATELY, MONKEYPOX DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE: In the lab: An mpox mRNA vaccine that’s outperforming its old-school predecessor.

NOPE. BUT OUR PRONOUNS ARE IMMACULATE. Andy Kessler: Is the US Ready for War?

Ukraine’s troops are using both old-fashioned heavy artillery and commercial products such as drones with grenades attached to them, directed via Starlink’s satellite internet service. Hamas terrorists used motorcycles and paragliders. Israeli soldiers use sophisticated Iron Dome antimissile systems and, to close off tunnels, “sponge bombs” that work like spray foam sealant from Home Depot. . . .

I sensed frustration. “It’s like pulling teeth to get the DOD to focus on what’s needed to fight and win the wars. Ukraine is a reminder that that kind of warfare has not vanished from the earth. There’s still going to be battlefields. There’s still going to be the infantry in the army that have to close with and destroy the enemy, to fire and maneuver as opposed to big brains sitting back in Washington, D.C., clacking away on keyboards and all of a sudden, you compel a nation to submit to your will.”

I nodded and said I agreed. Mr. Cotton quickly jumped in: “There was a lot of people who don’t agree with you and me, just to be clear, like mostly Democrats.”

But not exclusively.

MICHAEL WALSH: The Toxoplasmosis of the Feline Left.

SAY WHAT YOU WILL, I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB:

Grandma: “so Ryan, what are you grateful for this thanksgiving”

Me:
https://t.co/RKi4z1J0Rp

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 20, 2023

I also like that this guy was so popular with younger voters.

I REMEMBER WHEN FEMINISTS WERE AGAINST RAPE: Now they’re making excuses for it when it’s by Hamas.

I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS PROMOTED AS ENCOURAGING TOLERANCE AND CIVILITY: Wake Forest prof resigns after saying she would have been ‘tempted to shoot up’ Israeli music festival.

Let’s face it, higher education has become a toxic industry.

MY RECIPE FOR THANKSGIVING LEG OF LAMB:

1 semi-boneless leg of lamb (about 8 pounds)
2 cups merlot
1 cup each worcestershire and teriyaki
2 cloves garlic, crushed (more is better!)
1tbsp sugar
2 oz. olive oil
rosemary, thyme, salt, and pepper to taste
Disposable aluminum roasting pan.

Mix merlot, worcestershire, and teriyaki, plus sugar, and marinate, preferably overnight. Heat a covered gas grill to high temperature on one side, low on the other.

Rub the lamb with olive oil, garlic and other spices. Place the roasting pan on the “low heat” side. Place the lamb on the “high heat” side of the grill and sear; rotate until all sides are browned. Move to the roasting pan, and turn the “high” side down to low as well. Close the grill cover and cook. If the lamb seems to be browning too much, cover with aluminum foil.

Cook until a meat thermometer inserted all the way to the center reads 140 degrees. (Don’t overcook, or the lamb will be dry and tasteless; the outside can be pretty crispy, but the inside should be rare). Remove, let it rest for a few minutes, and serve. Juices will make an excellent lamb gravy, especially if you add more merlot.

DON SURBER: Don’t anoint Milei just yet: But it’s the vote that matters, not the candidate.

Milei hits all the right notes. He told an interviewer, “We do not make pacts with Communists. I would not promote relations with Communists. Whether it’s Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Nicaragua or China.” . . .

AP reported, “In the streets of Buenos Aires, drivers honked their horns and many took to the streets to celebrate in several neighborhoods. Outside Milei’s party headquarters, a hotel in downtown Buenos Aires, a full-on party kicked off with supporters singing, buying beers from vendors and setting off colored smoke bombs. They waved Argentine flags and the yellow Gadsden flag, emblazoned with the words ‘Don’t Tread On Me,’ which Milei’s movement has adopted.”

Maybe Andrew Lloyd Webber can rework his tune to Don’t Tread On Me Argentina.

Media hysteria in America ahead of the election was as expected. . . .

Journalists keep using that word democracy, but I don’t think they know what it means.

They tell us that voting for someone they don’t like will destroy democracy. It is hard not to root for the populist over the elitist.

But we have seen populists rise and disappoint conservatives. Boris Johnson hit all the right notes too but delayed enacting Brexit for as long as possible.

Don’t buy what the media is peddling about him. The proof of Milei’s threat to the globalists is in the hands of the prosecutors. Trump faces 91 counts in four kangaroo courts. Italian prosecutors went after Silvio Berlusconi as well. No excitement without an indictment.

But Milei is a minor character at present. The big story was once again a country has used the ballot box to assert itself against the globalist wave of a world run by bureaucrats and billionaires who see humans as objects. . . . Canada may have surrendered. England may have given up. But the war continues because we the people fight on against the dystopian world the elitists want us to accept.

Don’t Cry for Argentina. Instead, pray, hope, and realize that if Milei fails to live up to the billing, someone else will run. The people have no choice but to have faith in God and vote.

Read the whole thing.

LOSS OF CREDIBILITY: ‘The Science’ Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds: A separation of science and politics might be called for.