WELL, GOOD: Depression, migraine drug may be effective treatment for IBS.

I can remember when talking about off-label uses of inexpensive, existing medications was considered practically criminal.

NCLA: NCLA Amicus Brief Decries SEC’s Administrative Denial of Jury Trial Rights, ALJ Removal Protections. “In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act unconstitutionally transferred judicial power to SEC by empowering the agency’s ALJs to adjudicate SEC enforcement cases against Americans like Mr. Jarkesy for alleged securities law violations. The Constitution’s text places judicial power only in federal courts. So, SEC’s in-house adjudication scheme violates constitutional separation of powers.”

Reminder/disclosure: I’m on the NCLA’s advisory board.

THIS IS EMBARRASSING. Ninth Circuit Contender Is Exposed As Pretender.

Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Ware had long recounted (as this New York Times article put it) the “tragedy that made him ‘hungry for justice’: the murder of his teen-age brother, Virgil, in a racist shooting in Birmingham . . . at the height of the civil rights struggle in 1963.” James was pedaling his bicycle, with 13-year-old Virgil on the handlebars, when two white teenagers shot and killed Virgil, on “the same day that four little black girls were killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church across town.”

In the years since his appointment to the federal bench, Ware had told the story “over and over at judicial conferences and in newspaper interviews” and had “held audiences . . . spellbound with his account.”

Except it turned out that Ware’s story was a fiction. More precisely, the horrific incident that Ware described did occur, but it was a different James Ware who was Virgil’s brother and who was riding the bicycle. Judge Ware was pretending to be that other James Ware.

The man who discovered and exposed Ware’s lie was a federal district judge in Alabama, U. W. Clemon. Judge Clemon, who became Alabama’s first black federal judge in 1980, had often heard Ware tell his story. In early August 1997, he read a Birmingham newspaper article that recounted the murder of Virgil Ware. The article quoted his brother James at length and stated that he continued to live in Birmingham and “has worked for Drummond/ABC Coke for 20 years.” It also included pictures of Virgil Ware’s family.

Ooops. This sort of lie would seem to be bad judicial behavior.

CHAOS UMPIRE SITS: I was a DEI director — DEI drives campus antisemitism.

“Chaos Umpire sits, And by decision more imbroils the fray. By which he Reigns.”

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: VCU med school sought to ‘work around’ affirmative action ban: documents.

No surprise, Virginia schools did the same thing the last time the Supreme Court told them they couldn’t discriminate on the basis of race.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Trans professor trying to ‘build a better world’ wants ‘excrement’ Jews to ‘rot in hell’: report. “Mika Tosca defines himself as an activist first and professor second on his website.” Well, I’d say he’s telling the truth there.

KURT SCHLICHTER’S NOVELS ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE HOW-TO MANUALS: Democrats now want US split into ‘blue’ states and ‘red’ states.

By the way, I finished reading Schlichter’s latest, Overlord, the other night. First-rate as always.

UPDATE: Don Surber: America Needs A Divorce — From Washington.

LOL: The Aussie elites are in meltdown: The mass public rejection of the Voice to Parliament has come as a rude shock to the cosseted intelligentsia.

The emotional response displayed by the cultural elites on social media came from a deep place. The Yes supporters’ image of themselves was suddenly at stake. These are people who pride themselves on having the judgement and wisdom to diagnose social ills and prescribe solutions. The No result was as much a rejection of them and their worldview as it was of the Voice proposal itself.

As we have seen following similar acts of popular insurrection, like Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election, the elites reacted like cornered cats. ‘Fuck Australia’, wrote ABC broadcaster Jonathan Green. ‘I mean seriously. What the fuck? How can you say No?’

According to the Yes campaign, Aboriginal Australians deserve special status. Why? Purely because they are the descendants of the nomadic hunter-gatherers who lived on the Australian continent before the British laid claim to Sydney Harbour. The primacy of indigenous people in the hierarchy of cultural identity is seldom challenged. But it should be, as ethicist Nigel Biggar sets out in his recent book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.

Frankly, the more these people yammer on about “decolonizing,” the better colonialism looks in contrast.

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: Hundreds of Harvard Protesters Stage ‘Die-In’ to Demand End to Violence Following Gaza Hospital Blast. Note the “From The River to the Sea” sign, which is an endorsement of genocide.

But they’re not proud enough of what they’re doing to put their names and faces to it anymore:

During the die-in, a man began to film demonstrator’s faces. Within minutes, he was escorted out by protest organizers, who blocked his camera with their keffiyehs — traditional scarves worn by Palestinians that have come to symbolize Palestinian nationalism. Demonstrators yelled “shame” at the disruptor as he left.

Yes, Harvard students are wearing keffiyehs in solidarity with rapists and mass murderers. Wouldn’t Klan hoods be more comfortable, and better at hiding their faces?

SAVE OR DESTROY, WHATEVER: Can a Donor Revolt Save American Universities?

THEY GOT THE LIE TO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD, WHY SHOULD THEY CARE IF THE TRUTH HAS ITS PANTS ON NOW: Omar, Tlaib Silent After Evidence Contradicts Their Claims That Israel Killed Hundreds in Gaza Hospital Blast.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Law Professor Pay Plummeted 30% This Decade While College President Pay Rose 20%. “Law school applicants and enrollment peaked around 2010, but have been in long term decline according to data from LSAC. In 2004, 105,000 prospective JD’s applied to law school. By 2010, it was 91,000, and by 2016 it had fallen to 57,000. As of 2022, applicants recovered only slightly to 64,000, still down 42 percent since 2010. Declining student interest may be due to a widespread perception among prospective students that law schools have become excessively political and distracted from their core mission, and related concerns that law schools are not doing enough to help their students prepare for the rigors of work as professionals in the private sector.”

I don’t know where people would get that idea.

“MORALLY PERVERSE.” The unwillingness of many college and university leaders to condemn Hamas’s atrocities outright suggests not confusion but subservience to an ideological view.

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Leaker of Trump Taxes Worked for Biden Beltway Donor That Just Won a Big New IRS Contract.. “The massive IRS theft is the third major breach of confidential and classified government information by Booz Allen contractors over the last decade . . . . Cyber-thief Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn was working on an IRS contract for Booz Allen in 2018 when he stole more than two decades of Trump’s personal tax records from IRS computers. He later leaked them to the New York Times, which published negative stories on Trump’s long-sought returns several weeks before the 2020 election, which Trump narrowly lost in a handful of battleground states.”

Someone who did this to a Democrat would be hounded for the rest of his life.

SHOCKER: Mitt Romney had no friends in Senate, ate dinner alone in front of TV.

I HAVE TO SAY, I WENT ALL-LED AND MY ELECTRIC BILLS DIDN’T DROP NOTICEABLY: The Incandescent Ban and the Lie of LED Efficiency.

As with all this stuff, it’s not about the promised results, it’s about obtaining compliance.

IDENTIFY AS ANTIFA OR PALESTINIAN AND THEY’LL LET YOU OFF: A court just sentenced a man to 7 months in prison for an election “prank” on social media. Does the punishment fit the crime?

ROLL OF SHAME: Here Are the Media Outlets That Uncritically Regurgitated Hamas Propaganda.

OPEN THREAD: Play nice.

CUE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANTITRUST SUIT IN 3. . . 2 . . . 1 . . .: Small launch companies struggle to complete with SpaceX rideshare missions.

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THERE ARE DEEP SEVENS ON MARS? The Source of The Most Colossal Marsquake Ever Detected Is a Huge Surprise.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Over 80 (and Counting) CUNY Professors Endorse Hamas Terrorism Without Reservation.

Related: Pro-Hamas protests show how higher education has finally crossed the line.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED? Watchdog Group Exposes Biden Administration Skirting Law on Funding Terrorists.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: India wants a space station by 2035, moon mission by 2040.