LIKE HIS ENTIRE PRESIDENCY: “Simply put, the foreign policy side of Joe Biden’s administration has been an unmitigated disaster, in part because it’s not so much Biden making bad foreign policy decisions as what we’re seeing unfold to date is what Barack Obama’s third term would look like.”

BOO FRICKIN’ HOO: The Tragic Victimhood of “Disinformation Experts.” “Put bluntly, these people lie, but do it in a way that would impress even a politician.”

They are, quite literally and quite deliberately, the enemies of a free society, and should be treated as such.

COLLUSION: Were AP, Reuters, CNN and NYT Photographers Embedded With Hamas?

OPEN THREAD: Just be yourself.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

TRIBALISM, HATRED, and a Charlottesville school board race.

HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY SENDS A LETTER ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM.

As President, I affirm our commitment to protecting all members of our community from harassment and marginalization, and our commitment to meeting antisemitism head-on, with the determination it demands. Let me reiterate what I and other Harvard leaders have said previously: Antisemitism has no place at Harvard. While confronting any form of hatred is daunting, the challenges we face tackling antisemitism are made all the more so by its pernicious nature and deep historical roots. But we are committed to doing the hard work to address this scourge.

As I announced in a speech on October 27, I have assembled an Antisemitism Advisory Group of trusted voices, including faculty, alumni, students, and leaders of Harvard’s Jewish community.

A friend, a Harvard alumnus from a distinguished family of Harvard alumni, shared his reply with me: “Dear President Gay: The appointment of an advisory group is cowardly, feckless and demonstrates your refusal or inability, my vote, to lead. We deserve more.”

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: The Inflammatory Question: Red Meat Might Not Be So Bad for You After All.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: More than 1 in 4 kids in U.S. child welfare system prescribed psychotropic medication, study finds.

THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE RULING A SOCIETY HAVE CONTEMPT FOR IT: Barbarism Is Winning.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Faecal transplants are just the start of a new sort of medicine.

NOT TO ME: Is This Custom 50-Year-Old Toyota Corolla Worth $250,000?

SCATTERGUN SCIENCE: Is The Pump Action Shotgun Obsolete? “According to Tim Chandler, an instructor with 360 Performance Shooting, a properly set up Beretta 1301 semi-automatic shotgun can outlast a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun when it comes to putting tens of thousands of shotshells through each gun.”

Of course, you can. buy three 870s for the price of one Beretta 1301.

THESE MEDS JUST KEEP COMING: FDA authorizes use of diabetes drug tirzepatide for weight loss.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Study looks at ties between anxiety and gut bacteria.

LAW: More Than a Dozen Judges “Have Released Official Guidance on Using AI Tools in Litigation.”

HMM: Routine CT scans may improve odds of surviving lung cancer.

PROPAGANDA WORKS:

Have you noticed that Republicans have been losing a lot lately?

This, in an environment where most Americans think that Democrats are screwing up the country. Why do you think that is?

Sure, hatred of Trump has something to do with it. Abortion politics has something to do with it. A lot, actually. Each of you can name an issue where Republicans are in bad odor with ordinary people, but add them all together and one thing becomes clear: propaganda works.

Why is Trump so unpopular? Was it because things got worse under his presidency? Uh, yeah, no. Things got immeasurably better, and even a lot of people who hate him will say that.

Is abortion such a drag on Republican prospects because people don’t agree that late term abortions are immoral, except in extreme circumstances? That’s not what the polls say.

Why do people think Republicans are all-in on banning books? Has anybody suggested making the publishing of any books illegal? Of course not. Democrats actively campaign to prevent the publication or sale of books they don’t like, but Republicans don’t.

So what is it?

It is the steady drumbeat of propaganda portraying Republicans as Nazi White Supremacists who want to force 11 year-olds to birth babies, schoolmarms who hate gays, and White Supremacists who hunt minorities in the dead of night. We wanted to kill grandma and deserved to be put in camps.

You can’t escape the propaganda. It is everywhere. In the schools, in the classrooms, on every university campus, and in the MSM.

And it works. I had a conversation with a friend who hates Trump and asked him what Trump actually did to make his life worse, and he stared at me. He is Trump!

January 6. Russia. Muh democracy. Orange man bad!

Honestly, he admitted things were better under Trump, but he bought every lie the Left pushed about Trump. The propaganda worked.

I remember when “serious” figures on the right mocked some of us for our alleged obsession with media bias.

LEFTISTS DEMAND THAT YOU TOLERATE THEM. THEY DO NOT RETURN THE COURTESY:

BREAKING:

Anti-Israel protesters are physically attacking Jews attending a screening of the Oct. 7th Hamas Massacre organized by actress Gal Gadot at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/jCAQGPGbI0

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 9, 2023

BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION ARE EVERYWHERE: Kendi’s ‘Antiracist’ center mostly fired black and Latino employees: analysis.

ADHERING TO THE ENEMY: Top American universities have campuses in Qatar, the nation playing host to Hamas leadership: Qatar, which currently houses Hamas’ former leader, has been the largest Arab donor of American universities for decades.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Hudson Booksellers blocks ‘America First’ authors: MTG, Mark Levin, Kari Lake, Judge Jeanine.

If they’re in your local airport, call the airport authority and ask them to replace Hudson with a bookseller that isn’t bigoted against half of America.

WHAT DO THE JEWISH CITIZENS OF GAZA SAY? From the River to the Sea? Arab Citizens of Israel Say, No Thanks to ‘Liberation.’

Oh, right, there are no Jews in Gaza because it’s an apartheid state.

OUR ELITES FAVOR HAMAS, BUT THE NORMALS DON’T: Rasmussen: Most Americans Reject Cease-Fire in Gaza.

Of course, the central organizing principle of the last several decades has been to assure that the elites get what they want while the normals don’t.

JOHN LUCAS: Republican Ineptitude in Virginia: The Stupid Party Bombs Again.