DAN MARKEL UPDATE: FBI Arrests Donna Adelson At Miami Airport, One Week After Her Son Charlie’s Conviction In Dan Markel’s Murder.

She was reportedly buying a one-way ticket to Vietnam.

ILYA SHAPIRO: Bari Weiss’s Speech for the Ages. “I’ve been involved with the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies since I started law school back in the fall of 2000. I’ve been attending its national lawyers conventions since 2004, meaning I’ve now been to 20 of them. Never have I seen anything like what happened Friday night at the Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture.”

THE ENEMY WITHIN: These Mosques Pray for the Annihilation of Jews. They Also Receive Money From the Biden Administration.

LOL: Pundits: “Ignorance” Makes Americans Give “Wrong” Answers To Economic Confidence Poll. “The Guardian editorial Krugman linked to explains: Americans continue to believe the economy sucks, even though they’ve been told over and over it doesn’t! Why won’t they listen?”

I noticed the other day that Heinz Ketchup was $7.99 a bottle, which I found kind of striking. Related: Memorial Day staples rocked by inflation, ketchup up 27.9%.

CHANGE: Professor Aaron Nielson Is The New Texas Solicitor General. “Mr. Nielson is a Professor of Law at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, specializing in administrative law, civil procedure, antitrust, and the federal courts. One of the nation’s foremost experts on the Administrative Procedure Act, he recently served as Chair of the Administration and Management Committee of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He also recently served on the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and currently co-chairs its antitrust committee. Professor Nielson is a visiting fellow at the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. He is taking a one-year leave of absence from Brigham Young University to serve as Solicitor General. In 2020, Mr. Nielson was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court to brief and argue Collins v. Yellen, a separation-of-powers case about the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He also regularly represents clients in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His publications have appeared in many of the nation’s top journals, including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and University of Chicago Law Review.”

Josh Blackman is happy.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Pennsylvania middle school counselor allegedly used field trip to start sexually grooming student. “Kelly Ann Schutte, 35, is facing felony and misdemeanor charges, including three counts of having intercourse or sexual contact with a student at school, one count of corruption of minors and three counts of indecent assault of a person under 16 years old, according to Montgomery County records. . . . Schutte allegedly began having inappropriate contact with the student in her own home, officials said. Schutte’s alleged sexual misconduct with the student began during a class field trip in the fall of 2022. Afterward, she would frequently call the victim to her office during school hours, FOX 29 reported.”

TIP OF THE FAKEBERG: Six Federal Cases of Self-Represented Litigants Citing Fake Cases in Briefs, Likely Because They Used AI Programs.

CHANGE: Greek owner to sell all container ships, spend $3B on LNG tankers.

This makes me suspect that “Net Zero” and “100% Renewables” are now just dead buzzwords.

Related item here. “They are ponying up the cash, and not just the extra required to make the day’s cut – they’re buying a license to jump the line entirely.”

OPEN THREAD: Have fun, kids.

SPACE: SpaceX launches final pair of O3b mPower satellites needed for commercial services. “As is now routine for SpaceX, the Falcon 9’s first stage booster successfully landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch for reuse.”

The satellites themselves, built by Boeing, have been a bit glitchy, though.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Bold China Mission to Mars Will Obtain Samples Years Before NASA.

REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Secret Service Opened Fire on Three Thugs in Front of Biden’s Granddaughter’s Home.

Crime, and carjackings specifically, is so out of control in Washington, D.C. that this wouldn’t even be a story if there was not a connection to the president’s granddaughter. As of late October, more than 800 carjackings were reported this year. That is more than double the number reported in 2022. Juvenile crime is a big problem. 64 percent of carjacking arrests involve juveniles.
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Last week an armed 17-year-old was arrested for carjacking. Instead of cracking down on theft and carjackings, D.C. officials were busy passing out air tags to residents so that if their vehicle was stolen they might be able to track its whereabouts. Unreal.

So, in this Democrat-run city, the car thieves are running loose because the Secret Service not only missed the shot that was taken at one of them, but the three got away. It’s disturbing that they got away but even more disturbing that the Secret Service agent missed the shot.

The Secret Service is not the organization we used to think it was.

WELL, GOOD:

It is basically now too late to save the Hamas formations in Gaza and the left, unable to rescue the battalions, will try to pluck out the symbolic colors. The IDF will soon conduct tours of tunnels under hospitals, and the left will proclaim: Hamas is dead, long live Hamas.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 13, 2023

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES:

At least Newsom is willing to say the quiet part out loud. Democrat leaders only care about cleaning up their cities for foreign leaders and major sporting events. Their own citizens aren't even an afterthought. https://t.co/QM0j1Gt8N2

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) November 13, 2023

HMM: New Study Reveals Universal Blood Pressure Reduction Strategy, Effective Even With Medication.

MICHAEL WALSH: Was St. Malachy Right? “While the canonicity of Malachy’s famous prophecies of the popes is roundly disputed (and I generally discount ‘prophecy’ across the board), perhaps we should heed his words. The loss of faith at the top levels of the Church, the diminution of its adherents in the West — not to mention the weird rush to canonize the line of largely failed popes from John XXIII to John Paul II (strong on politics, weak on dogma), including the cipher, Paul VI — indicates an institution in serious trouble.”

That institutions will over time become corrupt and ineffectual is a safe prophecy to make.

FLASHBACK: Chicago sings blue-model blues.

It’s only gotten worse! Chicago is so unpleasant migrants are fleeing BACK to Venezuela.

PROGRESS: All-female city council makes history in St. Paul, Minn.

LOL, ELIE MYSTAL: Mystal: The Republic Can’t Survive the Invalidation of Trump’s Bump Stock Ban.

JOURNALISTS ARE HYPOCRITICAL SACKS OF CRAP? “It’s somehow delightful when Nikki Haley called Vivek Ramaswamy “scum,” but Trump got clobbered for calling his political antagonists “vermin.” What’s the rule here? It’s certainly not respect the humanity of all human beings.”

LOL: OMG, This is REAL! Prankster Calls Harvard Admissions About Admitting Her Hamas TERRORIST Son (Listen).

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Programmed DNA nanorobots to shrink cancer tumors by cutting off their blood supply.

FASTER, PLEASE: SpaceX hopes for second Starship flight test next week.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Coronary calcium scores highly effective in identifying heart disease in people without any known risk factors: Study.

HMM: Genetic testing can determine if high cholesterol is inherited, study says.