Maggie's Farm

The Secret to Parenting: Do Less of It

The Morning Briefing: Brutal Night for Republicans...Or Was It?

MacDonald:  The cost of Zohran - Mayor Mamdani’s policies are guaranteed to wreck New York City

Duke University plans to push climate change in every discipline

Why are we sending illiterate high school grads to college?

Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing

The reasons behind Gen Z’s love of Luigi Mangione should scare everyone who cares about the future of America

Trump's Phone Got Seized by Special Counsel in Arctic Frost Spy Probe

President Trump Sets New Course with Shipbuilding and Maritime Plans

Submission to Islamism -- Christmas market in Overath cancelled

Nice antique village, probably touristy in season but not in October.  Eating places in France do not serve before 7 or 730. Kinda late for Americans.

Supper at a brasserie, not a fancy place, in Sarlat, officially Sarlat-la-Caneda.  That's 3 hunks of sateed foie gras on the right, a pile of sliced taters roasted in duck fat. The bread in Perigord Noir tends to be walnut bread.

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On Climate, Follow the Money

Fetterman Drops a Short, Savage Assessment of Socialism When Asked About Mamdani

I'm Sorry, But HOW MANY Illegals Get Food Stamps?

Government to Kill 500,000 Owls for Equity

"I Am Declining Fast": Cancer-Striken Scott Adams Urges Trump To Help Secure Treatment; President Says "On It"

Did We Just Win the Vietnam War?

Bill Gates finally got to right answer on climate change — but not before immense harm

Harvard Crimson defends resident dean who called cops ‘racist, evil’ and said ‘if [Trump] dies, he dies’

Can Mandami damage NYC? 

Nonhostile takeover: How the Democratic Party gave in to radicals like Mamdani

Andrew Jackson’s Precedent for Trump’s Strikes on Drug Traffickers

Victor Davis Hanson: Jen Psaki’s Gross Attack on Usha Vance

The Tragedy of Eric Adams

Sudan:  They ran 25 miles to flee a massacre as their friends were executed around them

Our nice little terrace in our favorite boutique hotel in Paris. 

Paris seemed fine to us, but I guess it has lot of problems. 

I tried a half-dozen oysters in France. Didn't like 'em. Too salty. 

I like Wellfleet oysters. 

Luke 19:1-10 - Zacchaeus climbs high to see Jesus

19:1 He entered Jericho and was passing through it.

19:2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.

19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.

19:4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.

19:5 When
Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus,
hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today."

19:6 So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him.

19:7 All who saw it began to grumble and said, "He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner."

19:8 Zacchaeus
stood there and said to the Lord, "Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I
will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I
will pay back four times as much."

19:9 Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.

19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost."

Lonesome George

Halloween decor in Greenwich Village 

Thank God the feds have come to clean up Washington Square Park

A Tragic Tale of Deprogramming Woke Youth - How the uncritical embrace of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ made students lose their reasoning faculty.

Disgraced ex-Prince Andrew had 40 prostitutes brought to Thailand hotel on taxpayer-funded trip, biographer says

Democrats’ naïve view of Islamists: “They’re just like me! They hate America!”

VDH:  Trump's First Nine Months Compared to Biden's Four Years

How the Country I Was Taught to Hate Saved My Life

Shellenberger on sea level rise 

Puerto Rico: The Myth Of A Statehood Mandate

'No Kings' Partner Plans Mass Mobilization To Surround White House With Unhinged Boomer Activists

The Perigord region of France (aka Nouveau Aquitaine, aka Dourdogne) is a land of foie gras, walnuts, and truffles. 

One of many foie gras shops in Sarlat. I had a foie gras appetizer every day there, whether in ravioli, as pate, sauteed, etc.

"We Just Won": Trump Gloats After Bill Gates Admits Climate Change Won't End World

The Environmental Disaster of Wind and Solar

Scientists Deliberately Misled Public On Fires, Ice, Food, Floods, Heat, Islands, Coral, Sea Level, And Hurricanes

 Obama: Let's 'Experiment' With Government-Censored 'Diversity' of Opinion in Journalism,
Or Something

Sen. Kennedy Hilariously Eviscerates Schumer and Rest of Dems on Their Shutdown and Their TDS

Mollie Hemingway: ‘The Base of the Democrat Party Really Has Become Angry Women’ (VIDEO)

Some Democrats Now ‘Growing Anxious’ About What a Zohran Mamdani Victory Will Mean for Their Party

Magical Thinking Is Why Socialists Get Everything Wrong

Imagining a Socialist New York

Sudan: Arab Militia Slaughters Hundreds in Maternity Ward Massacre

New Report Details Extent to Which Mexican Government is Arming Drug Cartels

The basic French sandwich is a baguette sliced horizontally with a thin spread of Dijon mustard on one half, butter on the other half, with a slice or two of ham and thin slices of gruyere cheese.  

That's fine if you're hungry, but an open-faced grilled version in a cafe is better. I had two of these in the past 10 days. Delicious lunch.

Here's how to make it: Grill an American white bread in a pan with plenty of butter, on one side only. Put a small layer of ham, then top with a generous layer of cheese. Many choices of cheese to use. Then put under a broiler until the top turns brown.

That's it. Here's one I had last week:

If you want to go more complicated, there is the famous Croque Monsieur 

Not much today - too disorganized.

Good stuff at Lucianne. 

A few more:

Major White House Renovations Through the Years

VDH:  The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’

Leftist madness infected my Connecticut town council — now I’m at risk

Well, we were in Paris this morning, and in Lascaux yesterday - no, the day before yesterday.

I doubt I missed any other than ephemeral news, and it was nice to avoid the internet. I'll post photos.

Oh, I should mention that I miss our past contributors. Maybe we don't have enough market share.

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

4:6 As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come.

4:7 I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.

4:8 From
now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me
but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

4:16 At my first defense no one came to my support, but all deserted me. May it not be counted against them!

4:17 But
the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the
message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it. So
I was rescued from the lion's mouth.

4:18 The Lord will rescue me
from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be
the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Jeremiah 31:27-34 - Promise of a new covenant

31:27 The days are
surely coming, says the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and
the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.

31:28 And
just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to
overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build
and to plant, says the LORD.

31:29 In those days they shall no longer say: "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."

31:30 But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

31:31 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.\31:32It
will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I
took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt--a covenant
that they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD.

31:33 But
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will
write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people.

31:34 No longer shall they teach one another or say to
each other, "Know the LORD," for they shall all know me, from the least
of them to the greatest, says the LORD, for I will forgive their
iniquity and remember their sin no more.

A Full Guide to Ruffed Grouse Hunting

Obesity has little to do with inactivity, according to researchers. A new study concludes that what we eat plays a far greater role.

Duh 

Polar bears take over abandoned Soviet-era research station

What do nose rings mean? 

Reform at CBS News

After People Refuse to Watch it for Free, CNN to Charge $70 to Watch It

What the Hell Happened to the Dems on CNN Last Night?

Green Dregs and Scam Day Continues: Trump and the UN Carbon Tax

What is sleep for? 

Microplastics in Bottled Water at Least 10 Times Worse Than Once Thought

Climate lunatics in Hamburg pass referendum committing Germany's leading
industrial city to deindustrialise completely in 15 years

 Obama’s dour new Presidential Centeris getting savaged on social media: ‘Death Star in Chicago’

Why do these libraries exist? 

JD Vance and the Contemporary Media Landscape

New Jersey Governor's Race About All Tied Up

Bernie Sanders Rant Exposes How Absurd His Ideas Are

You probably wouldn't want to be Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro's laundryman right now.