I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CIVILIZING INFLUENCE: Loyola student calls Trump-supporting peer a ‘Nazi,’ seems to call for violent assaults against him.

ENTITLEMENT: Liberal Media Scream: How dare Trump make demands on Senate, CNN whines.

IT’S SMART MARKETING THAT THE LOGO IS CUTE, PATRIOTIC, AND NON-THREATENING:

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2024

DOGMA: Tufts University Walks Back Top Prof’s Threat To Blackball Seth Moulton Over Trans Athlete Remarks: ‘I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male,’ Dem rep told New York Times.

#JOURNALISM: (Thread).

🧵As Democrats deal with the impact of wokeness and how it make it difficult for them to connect to the working class, those wo college educations and a growing number of minority men, I wonder if the MSM will address the extent wokeness has crept into our style books & usage in…

— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) November 12, 2024

BIGOTRY IN THE BIDEN ERA: At the University of Rochester: Wanted Posters of Jewish Faculty Members Glued to Walls.

GOOD QUESTION: Can you pay celebrities millions to appear at your rally and report it as an “event production” expense to the FEC?

WHY SO MUCH HATE FOR AUTOMOBILES FROM URBAN PLANNERS? A federalist approach to anti-car urbanism.

Back in the early 1990s, anxious about long-term regional decline and hoping to put my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, back on the map, local leaders embarked upon constructing a totally new light rail system that was to provide living proof of our dynamic vision for the future. The MetroLink promised to unite the diffuse bistate area like never before.

But three decades and billions of dollars later, most St. Louisans except the starriest-eyed of rail boosters would probably say that the money might have been better spent on road repair and expanded bus routes. However noble the ambition, the system has proved an underutilized and crime-riddled vanity project that, for the foreseeable future, is more trouble than it’s worth.
More recently, a smaller-scale St. Louis project, The Loop Trolley, burned over $50 million on a 2-mile vintage-style streetcar line along one of the area’s main commercial corridors, worsening traffic and hurting small business. The system ended up an embarrassing failure that brought in roughly a tenth of projected revenues and shut down after just a year of service.

The appeal of light rail is the graft, not the service.

CHEERFULLY: How Trump crushed Obama’s legacy: The president-elect rides the cowboy spirit.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese commercial Lijian-1 rocket launches 15 satellites.

AFTER SEC V. JARKESY THIS SHOULD BE EASY: NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Fifth Circuit to Overturn Currency Comptroller’s Violation of Jury Trial Rights.

Reminder/Disclosure: I’m on the NCLA’s Board of Advisors. At this point these are probably redundant, I guess, but. . . .

PERSONNEL IS POLICY:

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump selects Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) pic.twitter.com/SbEhcNb5bi

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 13, 2024

ROARING 20S OR WARRING 20S? How disruptive would a Chinese invasion of Taiwan be?

BIG NEWS:

Huge decision holding that CEQ never had authority to issue the National Environmental Policy Act regulations that have been used for nearly half a century https://t.co/8Jn5TF4kT5 pic.twitter.com/KRn0ZDIbIS

— James Coleman (@EnergyLawProf) November 12, 2024

This will open up all sorts of previously-regulated projects. If the Supreme Court lets it stand, there will probably be calls for new legislation, but if the GOP plays its cards right it can fix this for a long time.

PERSONNEL IS POLICY:

🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump names John Ratcliffe as Director of the CIA pic.twitter.com/IgngKnRawI

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 12, 2024

I MEAN, WHY WOULDN’T YOU, THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE WARSHIPS: CDR Salamander: Arm the Auxiliaries: Just Make it Happen.

Due to program management that progresses at the speed of smell and creates more board seats for recently retired four-stars than actual assets that displace water, we’ve run out of time for theoretical ‘offsets’ or the latest flavor of magic beans.

Nope. Time to walk away from the intellectual habits that painted us in this corner and look at what we can do to take action NOW to enhance the combat utility of what we have, with what we have.

We don’t have to look far. One of the first steps we must take is to arm the auxiliaries. In the generations after the Vietnam War, we were lulled into accepting the ‘green-eyeshade’ logic of saving money by converting former USS ships to USNS, leaving them unarmed. What pennies we may save in peace from that mindset will cost of bricks of gold at war.

The seas are no longer ours, if they ever really were. Our few replenishment ships have always been High Value Unit, it is time to start treating them like one. We cannot afford to lose any of the few that we have—but we seem to be inviting that exact event.

There’s been a lot of criminal negligence regarding our naval posture. We need to fix it as much as we can, as fast as we can.

DON SURBER:

USA Today reported, “Former Kamala Harris aide says Joe Biden should resign so she can serve as 47th president.”

Sure, go ahead because then we will not have to hear Democrats demand we elect their next candidate simply because she is a woman. Trump can sell more hats that read 45 and 48.

Democrats need to go back and read the Rules for Radicals because all these impeachments, indictments and lawsuits are getting old. Rule No. 7 says, “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”

Democrat supporters must be tired of losing by now. It looks like Warren and Raskin want to give them another L. . . . Trump continues to amaze and amuse his supporters. I don’t know about anyone else but I feel better today than I did 8 years ago, and I was pretty happy then, too.

Heh. Indeed.

I LOVE A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING: Home Invaders Meet Their Match When TX, FL Armed Citizens Fight Back. “What’s most striking to me about these defensive gun uses is that in both cases the homeowner was able to contact 911 and alert law enforcement that a crime was taking place, but as quickly as officers and deputies responded it would have been too late to save the residents from harm. The phase ‘when seconds count police are minutes away’ isn’t meant as a knock on police. It’s just a simple fact. . . . The reality is that if someone’s breaking into your home, you are the quickest first responder… and being able to defend yourself can all too easily be the difference between life and death.”

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Mazda Recalls CX-90 and CX-70 SUVs Due to Several Software Issues.

HMM: 9mm vs. .45 ACP: The Debate That Seems To Never End.

WELL, GOOD: Bystander CPR done within 10 minutes likely increases survival rates: Those who received care quickly had a 95 percent higher rate of surviving without significant brain damage.

HMM: Study: Deaths from cardiovascular disease surge among adults 25-64 in rural areas.

WELL, GOOD: Research monkeys still having a ball days after busting out of lab, police say.

JAMES LILEKS: Introducing Notes From Highway 10.