FIGHT THE POWER: Meet the libertarian professor who raised a ruckus at USC.

“The progressive monolith hates being called out for the intolerant structure that it is.”

That according to University of Southern California emeritus Professor James Moore, who said that despite the fact that an offer to teach during retirement was rescinded by USC, he still plans to keep his longtime employer in his crosshairs.

The university initially asked him to teach two classes in retirement, but recalled the offer, he said. The industrial and systems engineering scholar, who taught at USC for 36 years, also said his emeritus designation was nearly refused over a history of disagreements with administration and his rejection of “illiberal” thinking.

Moore made headlines in recent years for, among other things, telling the school during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings that sometimes people lie, as well as hanging a Blue Lives Matter flag on his office door and refusing to take it down.

USC Executive Director of Media Relations, Emily Gersema, did not respond to a request for comment.

Lol.

STAND UP AGAINST TERROR AND BIGOTRY: Video: Pro-Israel students counterprotest pro-Hamas classmates.

LOL, HE SHOULD LOOK AT HARVARD IF HE’S LOOKING FOR NAZIS: John Oliver Is Worried about Nazi Homeschoolers.

Related: ‘I Wouldn’t Have Gone Along With The Nazis In 1939,’ Says College Student At ‘Kill The Jews’ Rally.

Seen on Facebook: “Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a Harvard student their grandfather’s SS rank.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education. “In Campbell’s Knox County school district, public school enrollment declined 16 percent during the last six years. Over the same period, the county’s number of home-schooled students grew 80 percent.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

THEY WOULD NEVER SAY THIS ABOUT BLACK STUDENTS: University of Wisconsin-Madison Calls Jewish Students’ Fear “Exaggerated:” Two years ago the university raised $50k in private donations to remove a racist rock.

Priorities, you know. In the world of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, some people get more equity and inclusion than others.

HE WAS CLEARLY RIGHT: Elon Musk on why he bought Twitter. “He’s responding to Joe’s prompt to tell us why he bought Twitter, and — warning that it would sound melodramatic — he says he thought that Twitter had taken the mindset of the San Francisco area and amplified it and made it dominant to the point where all life on Earth was in danger.”

DON SURBER: World War Obama: His envy of Donald Trump has unleashed hell on Earth.

BIG MAC INDEX REVEALS ALL: McDonald’s insane new prices chart supersized toll of Bidenomics.

LOL: Second teacher at Missouri high school caught peddling porn on OnlyFans.

“ANTI-RACISM” WAS ALWAYS A SHAM AND A SCAM: The shameful silence of the ‘anti-racists.’ “The oldest hatred is making a grim and dangerous comeback – and yet so many organisations, ostensibly dedicated to equality and racial justice, find it impossible to confront. . . . Thanks to the grim logic of identity politics, anti-Semitism has come to be seen as a lesser form of racism, and Jews as the ‘wrong’ kind of victim. This is a shameful development.”

They’re only against certain varieties of prejudice. They’re all-in in favor of others.

A LAW MEANT TO BE BROKEN: “Everywhere in the west, the radical left is protesting to support Hamas, despite (or perhaps because) of the latter’s calls to completely destroy the Jews. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom and California Democrats are disarming law-abiding Jewish American citizens in their synagogues.”

And consequences visited upon its sponsors.

COME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, WHICH ISN’T RUN BY NAZIS AND MORONS: It’s Early Decision Time for College Applicants. What Should a Jew Do?

Seen on Facebook: “Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a Harvard student their grandfather’s SS rank.”

OPEN THREAD: Boo!

CORNELL HATEWATCH UPDATE: Cornell Junior Arrested and Charged In Threats Against Jewish Students.

Patrick Dai, of Pittsford, posted threats to shoot up a multicultural dining room on campus to an online discussion site, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York said in a news release.

104West, the dining room, serves food that meets Kosher, Halal and other religious guidelines. It is next to the university’s Center for Jewish Living, where several dozen Jewish students live on campus.

Dai, a junior, also called for the deaths of Jewish people and threatened to bring an assault rifle to campus, prosecutors said. He was charged with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications.

Dai faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison if convicted. He’s expected to be arraigned Wednesday in federal court in Syracuse.

Don’t let him off.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Space Pioneer raises funding for its Falcon 9-class rocket.

INSURRECTION: 9 arrested after police assaulted during protest outside Israeli defense contractor in Cambridge. “The crowd was estimated to be about 200 people. At about 11:15 a.m., some of the protesters broke through metal barricades and began throwing smoke pellets, eggs and other things at officers and the building, police said.”

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? We Have The Power to Destroy Earth-Buzzing Asteroids, Scientists Say.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

600,000 known gotaways-i.e. people who were detected crossing the border but not caught. Does not include the additional *unknown* gotaways who managed to sneak in without being detected at all P.S.: And of course that is all in addition to the millions Mayorkas just lets in https://t.co/eItvdaKS2r

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 31, 2023

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? California Having the Darnedest Time With Electricity.

If Germany and California had gone nuclear instead of renewable, they’d now be 100% carbon free, and reliable.

SO THE WHITE HOUSE EXECUTIVE ORDER ON AI HAS A SECTION ON “EQUITY:”

Advancing Equity and Civil Rights

Irresponsible uses of AI can lead to and deepen discrimination, bias, and other abuses in justice, healthcare, and housing. The Biden-Harris Administration has already taken action by publishing the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and issuing an Executive Order directing agencies to combat algorithmic discrimination, while enforcing existing authorities to protect people’s rights and safety. To ensure that AI advances equity and civil rights, the President directs the following additional actions:

Provide clear guidance to landlords, Federal benefits programs, and federal contractors to keep AI algorithms from being used to exacerbate discrimination.

Address algorithmic discrimination through training, technical assistance, and coordination between the Department of Justice and Federal civil rights offices on best practices for investigating and prosecuting civil rights violations related to AI.

Ensure fairness throughout the criminal justice system by developing best practices on the use of AI in sentencing, parole and probation, pretrial release and detention, risk assessments, surveillance, crime forecasting and predictive policing, and forensic analysis.

“Equity” is a code word for leftist politics.

SERVES ‘EM RIGHT: WSJ: Anti-Semitic Left About to Blow Dems Apart.

MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE SPENT LESS TIME SPYING ON PARENTS WHO SPOKE UP AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS: ‘Wake Up, It Is a Time to Be Concerned’: FBI Director Wray Issues Stark Warning at Committee Hearing.

And little old ladies praying at abortion clinics.

YA THINK? Higher Ed Support for Hamas Exposes Disdain for America in Top Colleges.

Related thoughts here.

AN EARTHSHATTERING KABOOM, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER: Double-Barreled Shotguns for Home Defense. Not ideal, but effective.

WELL, THAT’S ENCOURAGING: Our F-150 Raptor Broke. Ford Was Gonna Take Forever, So We Fixed It Ourselves.