THE ENEMY WITHIN: They chant it before they know what it means. Then someone asks what it means. And they chant it again when they know what it means. “Anti-war” activists learn “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Farsi.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Have We Already Spiraled Into a Regional War in the Middle East?

#JOURNALISM:

These two stories were published on the same day a few weeks ago 🥴https://t.co/262uDBIJZbhttps://t.co/262uDBIJZb

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) April 15, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Heavenly wine and roses seem to whisper to me, when you post.

I THOUGHT HAWKING EVAPORATION MADE THAT IMPOSSIBLE, BUT APPARENTLY THEY’VE CHANGED THEIR MIND ON THAT: Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Psychedelics Could Pose Risks For People With Personality Disorders, Study Finds.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Biden’s Middle East policy is beyond parody. “Is this ineptitude, or is it corruption? As the girl in the taco commercials says, ‘Why not both?'”

WELL, GOOD: Breaking Barriers: CPAP Alternative Matches Efficacy in Clinical Trials. “People with hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea were no less likely to see their blood pressure drop over six months if they used a mandibular advancement device (MAD), which is inserted onto the teeth similar to a bite guard. compared to a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device, according to research featured at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. . . . MADs are designed to help keep the airway open by repositioning the lower jaw and moving the tongue forward. Previous studies have shown that CPAP devices outperform MADs in terms of apnea-hypopnea index, the standard metric used to measure sleep apnea severity. However, there is evidence that MADs may be better tolerated than CPAP, which some people find too uncomfortable or cumbersome for sustained use.”

UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION? Measles should be long forgotten. Why are cases rising in the U.S.?

QUALITY IS JOB 1: Our Ford Maverick Hybrid Has Been Recalled Five Times: Only one is serious—but that’s the one that doesn’t have a fix yet.

BURNING QUESTIONS: Why haven’t shotguns with box magazines caught on?

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: Yet Another Bogus Trump Trial Begins Today, Helping Trump.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, THEY SAID. YOU CAN TRUST THE RESEARCH, THEY SAID. ‘Peaceful’ bonobos bite and push each other, actually.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Carbon beads help restore healthy gut microbiome and reduce liver disease progression, researchers find.

THE DANGERS OF URBAN CHICKENS: Parents with backyard poultry can transmit salmonella to infants.

MAYBE FOOD ISN’T ACTUALLY MEDICINE: “Food-As-Medicine” Trial Fails to Improve Health. Maybe it’s just, you know, food. Or maybe they’re using the wrong food as medicine (they’re following U.S. government dietary guidelins, after all, which suck.)

Either way, nobody’s paying attention to a big study that undermines the whole, uh, feedlot: “Despite a couple of stories on medical sites and an article on the study in JAMA just this week, the “null results” have had little noticeable effect so far on the Food-As-Medicine juggernaut. In February, the Department of Health and Human Services hosted its first ‘Food As Medicine’ summit, with three public-private partnerships already in place, while a dozen projects are underway at the new, partially industry-funded Food Is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.”

Follow The Science! Er, unless it threatens you self esteem, or especially your funding.

MAYBE THEY’RE JUST MAKING A MOVIE VERSION OF KURT SCHLICHTER’S LATEST BOOK.

This reportedly happened yesterday in Carlsbad, California. A group of mostly military age males invaded our country illegally via boat and then dispersed throughout the city in cars.

Are any of them on the terror watch list? Do any of them have a criminal history?

We don’t… pic.twitter.com/MQHqpF27Gu

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 14, 2024

MICHAEL WALSH: The End Is Near (Again).

YOU CAN SEE WHY THE DEMOCRATS WOULD BE AFRAID OF THAT: Dem Senator Warns Trump Might Appoint Judges That Will Follow The Constitution.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY AND KANGAROO COURTS? Expelled male student sues college for faulty rape trial: A male student who received oral sex from a female friend while he was blacked out was expelled from Amherst College two years later when the woman accused him of sexually assaulting her. “A male student accused of sexual assault and subsequently expelled by administrators at Amherst College recently sued the school for denying him due process and ignoring key evidence substantiating his claims of innocence. In February 2012, the male student—identified as “John Doe”—escorted his girlfriend’s roommate, identified as Sandra Jones, back to her residence hall where Jones then performed oral sex on him. Doe alleges that he was blacked out during the encounter. Roughly two years after the incident occurred, the female student accused Doe of sexually assaulting her and the school launched its own investigation. Doe was forced to partake in a school-led rape trial absent of any legal representation and eventually expelled after a panel of students and administrators found him ‘guilty.’”

JOEL KOTKIN: BLUES VS. JEWS. California is the homeland of progressive anti-Semitism: Even Jewish progressives are waking up to the reality of anti-Semitic hate on the Left.

One 19th century Gentile described California as “the Jews’ earthly paradise”. It is paradise no longer. Reports of attacks on Jewish businesses, homes and institutions are becoming ever more commonplace, while university campuses – hardly considered to be bastions of hate – have allowed acts of flagrant anti-Semitism to go unpunished.

Just last week, pro-Hamas students interrupted a graduation party for UC Berkeley law school graduates at the home of the school’s Jewish dean. The ‘protest’ occurred on private property, but that didn’t prevent the leader of ‘Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine’ from smearing the professor who confiscated the microphone from the interrupting student’s hand as an “Islamophobe”, accusing her of “assault”.

It appears that California’s Jews can’t even relax in their own homes without being confronted by zealous radicals. Prior to the event, posters had been shared on social media showing the dean holding a bloody knife and fork, captioned “No dinner with Zionist Chem while Gaza starves.” It’s little wonder that dean Chemerinsky, a well-known progressive, wrote in response that “nothing has prepared me for the anti-Semitism” currently festering on Berkeley campus.

What happens in California says much about the future of the beleaguered Jewish diaspora. California, with 1.2 million Jews, has almost three times as many Jewish people as the three largest foreign diaspora countries – France, England and Canada.

Leftists are trash. Let them run free without consequences and terrible things will happen. So don’t do that.

THEY ALWAYS SIDE WITH THE ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Yes, The Left Is Cheering for Iran Now.

ICYMI: ROGER KIMBALL: The Battle Begins: Trump’s Trial Tests American Justice.

ROBERT TRACINSKI: What Big Thing Are We Getting Wrong About the Future? The old overpopulation scare is a warning about our cultural blind spots.

DEMOCRATS: WILL NO ONE RID US OF THIS TURBULENT CANDIDATE? RFK, Jr. Prepares to Take Legal Action After 5th Denial of Secret Service Protection.