SOMETHING THAT WOULD WORK: Want to Reduce Violent Crime Against Women? Get More of Them to Carry a Gun.

Related: Narrative Fail: Crime’s Down in Seattle as More People Own and Carry Guns.

AREA CATS ORGANIZING TO PREVENT COMPETITION: City raccoons near humans show early signs of domestication.

CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION, BUT . . .

2025 IN A NUTSHELL:

WHAT FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE:

A reminder that the empirical evidence shows lockdowns failed to protect life and caused tremendous catastrophic harm. Let's hope the NYT never again has a say in public health policy. https://t.co/xp1EnZVKAW

— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) November 27, 2025

ROBIN HANSON: The Male Gender-War Advantage.

Raising the status of some situation or action, and people will pay more to get it. Lower that status, and they’ll pay more to avoid it. For example, women can raise the price men pay for sex with women by lowering the status of promiscuous “sluts”, while men can raise the price women pay to “henpeck” men by lowering the status of such men.

However, men have a big advantage re this status strategy, as how much other men respect a man counts a lot more to women than how much other women respect a woman counts to men. (Data) So when men look down on hen-pecked men, those men look bad in both male and female eyes, while when women look down on a promiscuous woman, that woman doesn’t look so bad in male eyes.

Hmm.

MAKE THEM PAY: Oklahoma U student files discrimination report after flunking gender essay for psych class with trans instructor.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democrat/Regime Media Plot Against Pete Hegseth Is a Joke. Even if this story were true — which it pretty clearly isn’t — most Americans would approve of blowing up narco boats.

SENTENCE OF THE DAY: “These are different yet frequently overlapping intellectual traditions, many of them traceable — like so many forms of human error — to France.”

CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS IS A FELONY: New Docs Reveal Jack Smith Intentionally Violated Congressional Republicans’ Constitutional Rights.

HIGHER EDUCATION HAS NOT BEEN A CIVILIZING INFLUENCE: 42% of young liberals say Kirk’s views ‘brought violence upon himself to an extent’: poll.

AS INTENDED? How MSU’s mandated DEI course trains future teachers in conformity.

WHY DOES IT SEEM LIKE IT’S ALWAYS WOMEN WITH THESE DISPLAYS? Irate passenger kicked off United Airlines flight in Newark after cursing out attendant: ‘F–king c–ts.’

I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AGAINST RACISM AND ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC:

It needs to stop https://t.co/WN2BZdKumH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2025

THAT’S TRUE, IT ISN’T. No, It’s Not Racist to Pause Third-World Immigration.

Related: Afghan Terror and Somalia Fraud Shows Why Trump Is Right on Migrants.

ANDREW STILES: How I Found Out My Journalist Side Piece Was Cheating on Me With Her Fiancé Again.

IT’S A LAW THAT HAS BEEN ABUSED: Is President Trump About To Cancel “Temporary Protective Status” For The Countries That Have It — All 16 Of Them? “TPS is not a basis to remain in the U.S. after the “extraordinary” and “temporary” emergency in a country has passed.”

#JOURNALISM:

You're gonna need a bigger hoax

"Drone imagery showed the initial Hellfire engagement incinerating the vessel from bow to stern, with no signs of life amid the inferno. No “two men clinging to wreckage,” no improvised follow-up." – @SecWar https://t.co/tNBJjhVIz7 pic.twitter.com/FHBdyWWqlM

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) November 30, 2025

ROGER KIMBALL: Some Holiday-Season Thoughts on Altruism. “Human nature isn’t a war between pure selfishness and pure selflessness—most of us carry both, and the refusal to admit that complexity is the real mistake.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the long weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA astronauts take new moonsuit for a swim | Space photo of the day.

THEIR WHOLE STRATEGY DEPENDS ON THE U.S. BEING PASSIVE — OR, AS IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S CASE, BRIBED: Why Venezuela’s allies Russia and China are slinking away as Trump ramps up pressure on Maduro.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher with 8-week-old baby pleads guilty to having sex with her student, 15. “Rae claimed to have been unaware that the boy was underage, despite the fact that he was a student at her school, according to reports. . . . Rae pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a teenage boy, possessing child abuse material, grooming a child for unlawful sexual activity and committing an act with the intention of perverting the course of justice, the ABC reported.”

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Fetterman Counters Dem Strategist James Carville’s Grand Political Agenda With Three-Word Plan.

STAY TUNED: Pass the Popcorn: Kash Patel Has Intriguing News About Comey Case and Those ‘Burn Bags.’ “We reported at the end of July on the stunning news that they found a room at the FBI with the bags, which had Russia probe documents in them. That raised a lot of questions as to what might be in those documents. Patel said all of that information is going to come out, so that we will be able to see it.”