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.

THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION. The Gun Control Industry and the Media Want New Laws in Maine That Would Have Done Nothing to Stop the Lewiston Shooting.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: India had an impressive year in space—and it’s just getting started. Up next for the Indian Space Research Organization: a Mars and Venus orbiter, crewed missions, and more.

SUPPOSABLY THIS IS TRUE: Hearing bad grammar results in physical signs of stress, new study reveals.

Welcome to Grammar Hell.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: There are no pro-Palestinian rallies — only pro-Hamas, antisemitic hate.

INSURRECTION: Protesters calling Antony Blinken a ‘murderer’ and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza derail hearing: Demonstrators are hauled out and put up hands covered in ‘blood’ in chaos in Congress.

You can always count on Code Pink to support the enemies of civilization, since that’s who they’re paid by. And now that there’s a GOP speaker, maybe some video will show how they got in, and which (no doubt Democratic) staffers helped them.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S ASTEROID DUST THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT. Dinosaurs likely brought down by dust, not asteroid, researchers say.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: FDA warns to stop using eyedrops amid unsanitary manufacturing conditions.

HEY, IT’S NOT LIKE IT WAS A PRO-TRUMP RALLY OR SOMETHING: On the Pro-Genocide Rally at George Mason University: Why didn’t university president Gregory Washington speak up? “The Hamas massacre in Israel has revealed that the the DEI norms embraced by most American universities don’t include protecting Jewish students from intimidation. Every day I hear new stories from friends about their college kids being threatened, ostracized, and bullied, because they object to the glorification of Hamas terrorists by other students. A good friend of mine, for example, has had to hire a civil rights attorney because other students in his daughter’s program have taken to referring to her as ‘the little Jew bitch,’ and the program’s administrators have not done anything about it.”

Make them pay.

I see that Washington is a big fan of “Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence.” But apparently this doesn’t apply to just anyone who’s a victim of racism or exclusion.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Welcome To The Party, Pal! Erwin Chemerinsky discovers that higher education is a hotbed of antisemitism. (Bumped).

STILL WAITING: “Another month has passed without full release of Audrey Hale’s manifesto, which could reveal her motive for the murder of nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, daughter of Chad Scruggs, senior pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville. Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, also shot dead schoolmaster Katherine Koonce, 59; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61. On March 29, 2023, two days after the murders, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit took custody of the manifesto.”

If they aren’t telling us what it says, it’s because they don’t want us to know what it says.

LOL: Suddenly ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Terrible.

We warned you people you wouldn’t like the new rules. But you went ahead anyway. Enjoy your gander sauce.

SO MUCH HATE: Pro-Palestinian students arrested after threat, trespassing at Dartmouth.

WHY IS THE IVY LEAGUE SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? Jewish Columbia U student feels more peril in NYC than on front lines against Hamas, which ‘baked to death’ a baby in oven.

THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW STUFF BECAUSE IF YOU DID YOU’D BE MAD AT THEM: Matt Taibbi: Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon’s Censorship End-Around. The Consortium News lawsuit against a private news rating system lays out how the government can suppress speech by proxy.

A REMINDER TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, FROM JONATHAN TURLEY: Yes, Hamas is Legally, Morally, and Factually a Terrorist Organization.

HOMELESSNESS IS TOO LUCRATIVE A PROBLEM TO SOLVE: Denver Closing In On $2 Billion Spent On Homelessness Since Pandemic, Study Shows.

FLASHBACK: Higher Education: A Toxic Industry?

UPDATE:

Very proud of my old law firm and former partner Marc Kasowitz who are going to hold elite universities accountable for failing to protect their Jewish students:

Major universities have failed to curtail virulent antisemitism: Marc Kasowitz https://t.co/Iozhw4QLjd #FoxBusiness

— David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) October 31, 2023

NEW YORK POST: Cornell University Jewish threats prove how deep campus rot runs.

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED. SOME WERE DOWNRIGHT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT. Anatomy of a Biden family ‘cover-up’ executed by our own FBI and DOJ.

WELL, YES: Everything the social justice crowd told us was a lie. “Everything the social justice crowd has said for the past 15 years has been a lie. The movement gained a foothold in American culture around 2008, riding a wave of popular reexaminations of race relations, political divisions, and systemic disparities. It styled itself as an honorable call to right the wrongs of society, both historical and contemporaneous. The past three weeks, however, have served as definitive proof that the benevolent emperor is a naked tyrant. The warriors for the oppressed are not so noble and selfless as they claim. Neither are they singularly motivated by the ideals of ‘inclusivity,’ ‘equity,’ and ‘diversity.’ They’re as greedy, vicious, prejudiced, and hateful as the oppressors they accuse.”

Oh, they’re worse than that.

DON SURBER: Politico reported, ‘National Democrats land on a nickname for the new House speaker: MAGA Mike.’ How much is he paying them?”

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS: INFLATION IS OVER!

What the Big Mac Index says: McDonald’s revenue soars as it hikes menu prices: ‘$18 Big Macs.’ “Though he didn’t specify by how much, Borden said McDonald’s expects to increase the cost of its menu items just over 10% for the full year — the second consecutive annual 10% price hike.”

Related: Big Mac Index Shows Official CPI Under Reports Inflation.

And America’s Paper Of Record is on it: McDonald’s Now Offering 36-Month, 0% Interest Financing On All Value Meals.