HMM: How polio came back to New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed. “How polio reemerged in New York this year remains the subject of investigation, but public health officials believe the virus originated overseas in a country that still uses the oral polio vaccine. American health officials stopped using the oral vaccine more than 20 years ago because it contains live virus that can — in rare circumstances — mutate to become virulent, but it is still common in other countries.”

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Medical Groups Ask DOJ to Criminalize Speech and Dissent Against Transing the Kids.

YOU CAN GIVE STUDENTS ‘EQUITY’ — WHATEVER THAT MEANS IN THE MOMENT — OR YOU CAN TREAT THEM EQUALLY BUT YOU CAN’T DO BOTH: Public schools are losing white, middle-class students. “New York City’s education officials hope ‘to create more equitable schools, while trying to prevent middle-class families from abandoning the system,’ writes Closson.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Has His Lawyers Firing on all Cylinders, Hope He Keeps It Up. “What the people running Biden’s brain, Congressional Democrats, and the corruptomedia don’t grasp is that their relentless attacks are merely making Trump grow stronger. Each time they give him a chance to counterattack his legend among the faithful grows.”

PRETTY PLEASE HELP US OUT OF THIS HOLE WE DUG: White House launches last ditch effort to dissuade OPEC from cutting oil production to avoid a ‘total disaster.’

You know, maybe Biden would have better luck if he hadn’t called the Saudis a pariah state.

TRANSMADNESS: A New York Father Is Fighting for His Daughter’s Body and Soul. “So the father is now facing the mother, the courts, and the state in trying to gain full custody and ensure that his daughter, now 11, grows up normally, without introducing chemicals into her body. He wants the girl to be able to express herself but to do so without drugs or surgery that will change her forever.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Russia’s frontline in Ukraine ‘collapses’ as Kyiv hammers Putin’s forces into humiliating retreat: Zelensky’s troops sweep ’10 miles in four hours’ and liberate dozens of occupied towns – as NATO warns Kremlin ‘will test NUKES on the border to save face.’ “Pro-Russian military bloggers said their forces had retreated around 10 miles down the Dnipro River.”

UNHEALTHY IN SO MANY WAYS: Diverse Fat Activist Gets Paid to Lie to Children About Nutrition for Corporate Profit.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Harry Styles endorses Beto O’Rourke for Texas governor.

IF THEY DON’T, HISPANICS MIGHT: Could Black Voters Give Control of the Senate to the GOP?

NO JOKE: Brief of The Onion as Amicus Curiae of Petitioner. “The Onion files this brief to protect its continued ability to create fiction that may ultimately merge into reality. As the globe’s premier parodists, The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists. This brief is submitted in the interest of at least mitigating their future punishment.”

THE LEFT WILL DO ANYTHING — ANYTHING — TO DESTROY THE FAMILY: California Passes Law to Lure, Keep, and Mutilate Children.

DAVID HARSANYI: Some Helpful Ideas For Biden’s Impeachment. “Let’s hope that Republicans don’t limit themselves to a presidential impeachment, either. There might be numerous reasons to investigate Attorney General Merrick Garland, but none deserves more scrutiny than his role in chilling dissent by intimidating parents who opposed critical race theory and Covid mask mandates.”

BREAK THEM UP: RNC Says Google Spiked Over 22 MILLION of Its Emails in September Alone.

Previously: Hotel Googlefornia. “Even if you don’t use Google, the Menlo Park data giant still has you and some of your most deeply personal information deep in its servers.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (EURO EDITION): Thousands of German Stores on Brink of Closure As Energy Prices Skyrocket.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Must Resign, Period. “Joe Biden must resign, he’s gotten so weak, even though the alternative is clueless Kamala.”

• GOP House candidate Hung Cao shows the world how’s done
• Restoring parental rights catches fire while radical teachers want to ‘burn down the system’
• White Lives Matter says… Kanye West?

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

YES: When Even Al Sharpton Warns Democrats They ‘Aren’t Connecting’ With Black Voters, There’s a Problem.

STACEY LENNOX: The GOP Must Capitalize on the Huge Opportunity in Front of Them With Hispanic Voters. “Biden is almost 10 points underwater on border security and immigration with Hispanic voters. Twenty-five percent of Hispanic voters put those issues in their top two. When asked about them separately, 59% say border security is their most important issue. Another 43% have cost of living among their top two issues, with 35% selecting jobs and the economy. Biden is -13 on the economy and -25 on the cost of living. The GOP needs to take a wild guess that these are the most important concerns in the community as a whole and not some vague, separate category based only on ethnicity. Only 11% put healthcare in the top two issues, and 14% selected abortion.”

FALLOUT: Nvidia Closing Offices in Russia, Ceasing All Activities There.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Once Glorious California Is Now a Fascist Lunatic Asylum. “Gavin Newsom is a full-on fascist. I was fortunate to end my time in California before he became governor. The thought of him in the White House is petrifying. He comes from the same San Francisco political toilet that’s given us Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi. People from the most radical part of an already radical state keep rising to power.”

THEY WANT YOU TO SUFFER: Woke Portland mayor LAUGHS at woman’s safety concerns over growing homelessness.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Gas Prices Likely to Rise Even More as OPEC+ Discusses ‘Historic’ Cut in Production.

Previously: Biden Begs The Middle East Nation He Called A ‘Pariah’ To Give Us Oil After He Throttled U.S. Energy.

CLAIRE BERLINSKI: Tannenberg Revisited.

The Russian plan—to seize Kiev with thunderclap suddenness, deposing the Ukrainian government and replacing it with a puppet regime—misfired. And as the weeks passed with Russian troops bogged down north of Kiev, it came to be realized that Putin’s legions were far less battleworthy than previously supposed. Confronted with the spirited resistance of the Ukrainian Army and people, the invaders faltered and recoiled. There were episodes of panic and rout. The Ukrainian countryside became littered with abandoned, burned-out tanks and vehicles: tangible, humiliating evidence of the Russian Army’s surprising incompetence.

It was tangible evidence as well of the faulty judgement of the aforementioned Western observers, many of whom lay a claim to military expertise. In the six months since the Russian Army’s defeat in the battle of Kiev became obvious, that evidence has continued to pile up. Stubborn resistance to the idea that Russia is losing the war may reflect a natural reluctance to admit that one’s judgement was at fault. Among the so-called nationalist conservatives, for whom V. Putin’s histrionic Russian nationalism touches a chord, it no doubt reflects ideological embarrassment: Their narrative of the Russo-Ukrainian War has been falsified. Others, perhaps the majority, may simply find it impossible to believe that a major world power, armed to the teeth, can be defeated in war by a much smaller country.

To all such prognosticators I would simply say, as I said at the time of the Battle of Kiev: Remember Tannenberg.

History buffs will want to read the whole thing.

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Matt Margolis: Kari Lake Proves She’s a Force to Be Reckoned With. “Lake didn’t bother waiting for the media to do their homework. She laid out her opponent’s radical abortion views, such as supporting abortion up until the moment of birth and opposing protecting babies that survive an abortion attempt.”

Ryan Ledendecker: Biden Just Landed in Puerto Rico, and We Know the Real Reason Why. “If you haven’t already guessed, I’ll let one of the New York Times’s latest tweets be the big reveal.”

Yours Truly: Ron DeSantis and Hurricane Ian: a Category 4 Media Fail. “So what was the media doing this weekend, while honest workers were helping Florida heal?”

ONE YEAR? IT FEELS MUCH LONGER: Happy Anniversary to ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’