Photo: The Leonardo sculpture is going on auction 

 Man Identifying As 6-Year-Old Crushes Game-Winning Homer In Tee-Ball Championship

 Who’s Afraid of Roundup?

 Why Do Women Fake Orgasms?

 Listen to World’s Loudest Bird Scream for Mate

Judith Miller:  A tribute to my brother Jimmy Miller, who produced the Rolling Stones’ greatest records and heard the music in everything around him, on the 25th anniversary of his death

Is transgender a mass hysteria? 

 Study: Most People Who Overdose On Opioids Aren’t Using Prescription Drugs

 Mike Pence criticises NBA as 'wholly owned subsidiary' of China

 When Education Becomes Therapy

Capitalism on trial: Profit is a good thing — except to the political left

 THE WELFARE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX - Where does the money go?

 National Review Does The Unthinkable-- It Hires a Non-Never-Trumper, David Harsanyi, From the Federalist

 Ilhan Omar Condescends Voters: Democrats Know “Things Most People Can’t Understand”…

 Trump-Haters, Not Trump, Are The Ones Wrecking America's Institutions, WSJ's Strassel Says

The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is a doomed and desperate time-buying ploy. They hope that talk of impeachment will buzz about Trump’s head like a cloud of horse flies

 CIA 'rattled' by DOJ inquiry into Russia investigation origins

 NYT: Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Investigation Of The ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Russia Investigation

 Brexit: Could Britain’s Bid for Freedom End in Tragedy?

Avocado wars in Mexico 

 Italian police bust 'Mafia plastic recycling ring'

About David Ben Gurion's interesting life 

 Trump Gave Ukraine What Obama Withheld

 Hong Kong Government Formally Withdraws Extradition Bill That Ignited Protests

 What Trump Actually Gets Right About Syria

U.S. Withdrawal From Syria Was Inevitable

Horror Films and Sexual Arousal

 The Best-Kept Secret to Staying Married (h/t Insty)

Anglo-Saxon?  Higher Education’s Medievalist Moral Panic

 Tech and finance experts are shocked by SoftBank’s 'stone-cold crazy' $1.7 billion golden parachute for ousted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann

The Religion of Climatism - A new faith emerges

Somebody to vote for in Alabama 

Planned Parenthood trial judge allows 20/20 aborted baby parts trafficking video to be shown

 Tulsi Gabbard To Hillary: It’s Time To Step Down From Your Throne

 The Pathocracy of the Deep State: Tyranny at the Hands of a Psychopathic Government

Speaking of which,  Hillary Clinton Mulling 2020 Run, Citing Weak Dem Field, Claim Of Email Vindication: Reports

 Durham's probe into possible FBI misconduct expanded based on new evidence, sources say

President Trump Cheers News of Peace Deal with Safe Zone Negotiated on Syrian Border with Turkey

Scientists 'may have crossed ethical line' in growing human brains

 Biological Male Dominates at Women’s Masters Track Cycling World Championships – Wins Gold Medal

Why not let everybody compete together? Then you can get the best of every human flavor. Like marathons. 

 The Kenyan ghost writers doing 'lazy' Western students' work

Gov. Cuomo signs bill outlawing elephant performances

How about banning politician performances?

The “Supermarket Sweep” - Addiction and decriminalization fuel a West Coast shoplifting boom.

Unexpected? 

The Clintons Coined The Phrase ‘Safe, Legal And Rare,’ But Abortion Activists Say This Is Stigmatizing

 The American Melting Pot Isn’t Quite So Melty Anymore

 Rand Paul: Rising Support for Socialism Among American Youth Is ‘Mind-Boggling’

Not really. Transitioning to independence is difficult for many.  

 An Opponent of Due Process for the Supreme Court?

 The Supreme Court Is Poised to Strike Down a Major Obama-Era Agency

Good 

 Supreme Court will take on 'fourth branch' of bureaucracies

 All Nine House Intelligence Committee Republicans: Adam Schiff is Playing Games and Withholding Evidence

Hillary Now Blaming The DNC For Her Loss To Trump…

 JUDICIAL WATCH: NEW BENGHAZI DOCUMENTS CONFIRM CLINTON EMAIL COVER-UP

Beto O’Rourke: ‘This Country… Is Still Racist At Its Foundation, At Its Core’ - Still auditioning for that MSNBC gig.

USA Today's Print Edition May Be Another Casualty of Dying Media - The buried lede is that the media is struggling to survive. And so it's going to war.

 The New York Times Gets Neoclassicals, Austrians, And Schumpter Wrong...All In One Article

Like Him or Not, Trump is Uniquely Suited for Such a Time as This

 Trump's Labeling of 'Fake News' Was an Understatement

 CNN ANALYST JEFFREY TOOBIN SAYS HE REGRETS TALKING ABOUT CLINTON EMAILS

He didn't get the memo 

 Larry C. Johnson: FBI-DOJ Likely to Throw the CIA and Clapper Under the Bus

 Barr Approved Expanded Scope Of Durham Probe — To Include Clapper And Brennan

It took too long to find Barr 

About the Turks and the Kurds 

 Elizabeth Warren threatens Israel with aid cutoff but slammed Trump for cutting off aid to Palestinians

An ignorant question: Why does Israel need US aid, and why does US aid the Palis? 

Photo: Lobby floral displays this week at the Met Museum. Some rich lady endowed their flowers, years ago and they are always worth atthention. 

New York’s glorious Frick Collection does not deserve its planned mutilation.

 Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good

The Rothschild's Downton Abbey 

 This is where the FAA does its tests to determine minimum dimensions for plane seats

 Public university tells professors not to grade based on merit

 Investigated for Not Having Sex With a Tranny

 Who Needs Women’s Sports Anyway?

 Hundreds Of Fans Protest NBA/China At Nets-Raptors Game In Brooklyn

 Ex-NFL star Jack Brewer: Why Trump policies are secretly loved by most liberals (even if they won’t admit it)

 Trump's Labeling of 'Fake News' Was an Understatement

 CIA Analysts Lawyer Up As Brennan, Clapper Ensnared In Expanding Russiagate Probe

 Mifsud’s Phones Obtained by Durham Have UK Sim Cards Tying Them to the UK — AND BACK TO JOHN BRENNAN

 Hunter Biden got $83G per month for Ukraine 'ceremonial' gig: report

 Beto O'Rourke Announces Support for Menstrual Equity Act on National Period Day

 AOC: We Must Have The Government Control Things, So We Can Be More Free

 Warren’s Plan To Tax What She Can’t Ban

 "I Stand Against Everything She Represents" - Gabbard Hammers Tired, Sick, Fragile Hillary

Catfights are sort of fun 

Crenshaw discusses border issues 

 How the Sinaloa Cartel Bested the Mexican Army

 Socialist Tyranny, Genocidal Muslim Tyranny, Slave State and Libya Win UN Human Rights Council Seats

Trump is Right: Ending the Endless Wars Starts in Syria - The neocon consensus has brought nothing but disaster. If the president wants to chart another course, we should support him.

 What Trump Actually Gets Right About Syria

 China’s Maritime Strategic Challenge

Happy Halloween! Annual ‘Offensive’ Costume Bans Begin, Starting With Michigan State University

‘Pass the iPad’: ‘American Families’ Data Explored

NYT:  Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working?

What an idiot. Guy's never heard of the work ethic. Link via Althouse 

‘Start Your Day With Maximum Gay:’ Kellogg’s Launches LGBT Cereal

 Men’s Magazine GQ Introduces New Insane Issue Undermining Masculinity

 And Now, A Musical Tribute To Cancel Culture

 New California Law Targeting Uber and Lyft Will Destroy Freelance Writing Industry

Why short selling is so important 

WSJ:  Electricity Doesn’t Light Up the Soul - Secular humanism was full of promise. Now it’s having an existential crisis.

 As Confucius Institutes shutter, Chinese spies in the US hold steady

Watch: Kat Timpf Responds to NYT Piece ‘Free Speech Is Killing Us’

Government Help Will Never Be Enough - Transforming the lives of struggling people requires personal commitment and willingness to change one’s perspective—not more “free stuff.”

Hysterical reaction to AG Barr's landmark speech at Notre Dame

 Wait, What… DOJ Has Possession of Joseph Mifsud Cell Phones (Blackberries)?…

The Greatness of Donald Trump - You can judge him by the real “deplorables” — with enemies like his, the greatness flows naturally.

Not necessary to like his personality 

 Maneuvering To Force The U.S. To Accept Immigrants Who Will Become Public Charges

 About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says

Who knew? 

 Mike Rowe Gives Devastating Summary Of Democratic Candidates’ Economic Agenda

 Impeachment Becomes A Psychodrama Of the Press

WaPo Admits State Department Official Raised Alarms In 2015 Over Hunter Biden's Ukraine Business, But Was Ignored

 John Durham Now Has Two Blackberries Used by Russian (???) Agent Joseph Misfud, Who Incepted The Idea of Asking About Hillary's Emails Into George Papadopolous

 Unhinged Retired Admiral and Clinton Loyalist Calls for Coup of President Trump: Remove Trump from Office ‘The Sooner the Better’

Not a good look for a military guy 

The U.S. is the No. 1 most generous country in the world for the last decade

 Don’t Romanticize the Kurds

Just because we helped them in a tribal war, do we have to love them forever?  Sheesh, we only had 25 troops there.

 Congress Just Begging for Another Quagmire War

 So much for Trump being a threat to world peace

 Move the summit, Mr. President

Wrong. It's Trump's house - home field advantage. Plus all the guests will want to play the famous Doral golf course 

What a Warrior’s Lost Toolkit Says About the Oldest Known Battle in Europe - More than 3,000 years ago, soldiers appear to have traveled hundreds of miles from southern Europe to fight in what is now northern Germany

 Massachusetts Lawmakers Consider Banning Balloons

 The Weaponization of the MeToo Movement: America’s Due Process Crisis

Congressional Hearings Conflate Vaping With Smoking, Legal E-Cigarettes With Black-Market THC Products -Democratic legislators ignore the tremendous harm-reducing potential of smoke-free nicotine delivery.

Harvard says masculinity and testosterone are not ‘connected’

Powerline:  PRINCETON TODAY

 Dr. Susan Crockford: UVic bows to outside pressure and rescinds my adjunct professor status

 Journalists Have Become Hoaxers

 FIELD OPS MANAGER AT CNN: ZUCKER’S 9AM CALLS ARE ‘BULLSHIT;’ “WE’RE TOTALLY LEFT-LEANING…(BUT) WE DON’T WANT TO ADMIT IT”

 Newt Gingrich: Bye Democratic Party – You're being transformed into an anti-American engine of radical change

Via Doug Ross:

Rep. Jim Jordan

✔@Jim_Jordan

Schiff Pressured Witness To Say Trump Pressured Ukraine To Investigate Biden, Report Says

 Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps The Elite

 No More Pretense: Journalists, Dems Use Identical Talking Points on Impeachment

 Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Are Trying To Wear Down The Physical And Mental Resilience Of Donald Trump

 Imagining Donald Trump’s Future for America

 Ron Paul: Washington Doesn't Understand That Our Intervention Only Makes Matters Worse

 Mexico flies 300 Indian migrants to New Delhi in 'unprecedented' mass deportation

James Carafano: Syria cease-fire follows completely appropriate actions by Trump – Avoids needless bloodshed 

Docs Still Overwhelmed by Regulatory Burdens: Survey

 When the Singer Sewing Machine Company Built the Best .45 Pistol Ever Made

It’s time to stop scapegoating Christopher Columbus

 WHY EISENHOWER DELETED THE JEWS

The Gig Academy

 Why the Supreme Court’s Davis standard is necessary to restore free speech to America’s college campuses

 The South Bronx School That Outscores the Suburbs

 I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn’t Popular

 In San Diego, officials say new wall is helping bring border numbers down

 O’Rourke’s America

 Bummer: Democrat Debate Fails To Mention ‘Climate Change’ Yet Again

 Democrat Debate 'Desiderata': Kamala Klowns, Biden Battered, Bernie Bounces Back

Record 32 Million Hispanics Registered To Vote In 2020, Largest Minority Voting Group…

 Top Diplomat Testified That Obama Admin, Not International Community, Orchestrated Ukraine Prosecutor’s Firing

 The Origins of New US-Turkish Relations

 Esper To Lobby NATO For Tough Turkey Punishment

 How Erdogan Planned This Ethnic Cleansing All Along

 U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack: officials

 Bison Return to Badlands National Park for First Time Since Late-1800s

 Destroying America’s History One Icon at a Time

‘The Rise of Jordan Peterson’—A Review

The right way to handle homeless mental illness

 The More Public Money Gets Spent To Solve "Homelessness," The More Homelessness There Is

 The Cost of Immigrant Medicaid Coverage Under Current Policy

Trump makes black women fat 

 Lebron James Sides with Chinese Communists: Attacks Rockets GM Daryl Morey for Pro-Freedom Tweet and Lectures on Perils of Free Speech

 Bill Barr's Brilliant Touchdown Run at Notre Dame

 Why impeachment, and why now?

Time for an end to wars of sincerely good intentions

Guardian: Trump is right to take troops out of Syria. Now they must leave Iraq and Afghanistan

 The Zombieland 2: Double Tap Trailer Is Here!

DAIRY COWS: TANGLED UP IN THE GREEN NEW DEAL

 California's Gavin Newsom decides state's big, voter-approved gas tax won't be for repairing highways after all

 There’s A New Documentary About Jordan Peterson But Theaters Are Afraid To Show It

I Was Protested At Bard College For Being A Jew

The Age of Mutual Assured Cancellation - Journalists should reconsider their embrace of character assassination.

 Sen. Rand Paul: If socialists can't find a crisis, they'll create one

 How I changed my mind… about global warming

 Caravan of Migrants Bound for U.S. Didn’t Make It Too Far

 Trump: Vulgar president or great president? Or both?

 EXPOSED: THE CNN HATEFEST

CNN Whistleblower Reveals Network ‘Vendetta’ Against Trump, Obsession With Impeachment

CrowdStrike and the Impeachment Frenzy - No wonder the Dems are nervous: The alleged Russian hacking of the DNC’s computers is proving to be a Hillary campaign and DNC scam that went unchallenged by Messrs. Comey and Mueller.

Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus - Can any of the Democratic candidates pull America back from this madness?

Via Althouse:

"[S]ingling out Trump for the turmoil engulfing the country is possible only if you disregard the No. 1 contributor: the refusal of Democrats and most of the media to accept the results of the 2016 election...."

What Columbus Day Really Means - If you think the holiday pits Native Americans against Italian Americans, consider the history behind its origin

Thomas Edison’s Greatest Invention - It wasn’t the light bulb or the phonograph or the moving picture—or anything tangible. It was a way of thinking about technology.

SpongeBob Squarepants Is A ‘Violent,’ ‘Racist’ Colonizer, College Professor Says

 University program teaches faculty and staff how they ‘support racism and white supremacy’

 Issues 2020: Millennials Aren’t Drowning in Student Debt

Should Men Be More Like Women?

 California’s Green Energy Dreams turn into its Power Outage Nightmare

  NBA Security Confiscates Pro-Hong Kong Signs, Ejects Fans As National Anthem Plays In the Background

 Bill Maher: ‘We Don’t Go For All The Bulls*** On The Far Left’

 Goodwin: Madness of leftist zealots

 Elizabeth Warren Is Jussie Smollett

Intel Expert Tony Shaffer: Government Officials Trained in “Information Dark Arts” Are Using These Techniques Against President Trump

If You Can’t Compete You Must Impeach

 Schiff: 'There doesn't need to be a quid pro quo'

How Obama’s Senior Response Director Profited From Disaster in Puerto Rico

 Olga Tokarczuk: Poland’s “Patriots” Struggle To Accept The Nobel Prize

Do We Owe the Kurds a War?

 Kurds agree to Russian-brokered plan to allow Assad into their territory

TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA IS A BLOCKBUSTER

 France: More Death to Free Speech

 What Is China Doing In Africa?

 The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie review – portrait of a paradox

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself

Kansas Schoolgirl Arrested, Charged with Felony for Brandishing Finger Gun

 Electric-Car Owners Shocked by California Blackouts

Battery Derangement - Electric vehicles won’t save the planet and won’t survive without subsidies.

 How the NBA censored me on American soil

 College Republicans stand by statement on ‘brutal societies’ in pre-Columbus America

 Air Force Concludes Investigation into Aircrew Trump Resort Stays

 China is winning the battle for corporate America's soul

 You Know Those Adorable, Convenient Hotel Mini-Shampoos? California Banned Them

San Francisco’s False Solution - By doubling its homeless-services budget, the city is treating the symptom, not the problem.

 Liz Warren, CNN Cheer the Abuse of 9-Year-Old Children Paraded as Transgender

Warren is prone to rewriting her personal story

All pols got away with it before the internet. George Washington's cherry tree?

Dems who move the Overton Window

Biden brings town hall to standstill, reminisces on ‘gay bathhouses’ and ’round-the-clock sex’

 Hillary Clinton Blasts Facebook for Not Censoring Enough Voices

 ELIZABETH WARREN WRAPS HERSELF IN THE VICTIMHOOD OF OTHERS

 You Can’t Ignore Politics in Impeachment

 Trump Administration Threatens Sanctions on Turkey

 “It’s Very, Very Good” – Chinese Top Trade Representative Tells Reporters: Trump Trade Deal Brings “Peace and Prosperity to the World”

All the ways American teenagers are under enormous pressure to succeed

 DC Council approves 'emergency' bill to rename Columbus Day 'Indigenous Peoples' Day'

 Three years after LA tax payers approve $1.2 billion for homeless housing, not a single unit built yet. “…higher-than-expected costs…such as consultants and financing…comprise up to 40% of the cost…”

 14 Times American Companies Self-Censored Or Apologized To Appease Communist China

 Portland Trail Blazers Join Boycott Against Israel

 NBA Coach Steve Kerr Ignores Brutal History Of Communist China, Attacks United States. Critics Shred Him Online.

 The Guardian wants a UK climate skeptic book burning

Warren Panders To Low Income Folks With $1 Trillion Climate Justice Plan

 Democrat launches primary challenge to Ocasio-Cortez

 Trump's New Executive Orders To Restrain the Administrative State

American Thinker's scoop on Trump getting Port of Long Beach out of Chicom hands getting noticed

 Melania’s Home Country Sets Up Citizen’s Defense Force to STOP Illegal Migrants

 Trump Is Killing a Fatally Flawed Syria Policy

 Turkey's Syria offensive explained in four maps

 Turkey Flooding Europe with Migrants

 NATAN SHARANSKY: WHY BDS FAILS MY 3D TEST ON ANTI-SEMITISM

 The Hidden Face of Nationalism in Islamic Lands

 FAREWELL, TOMAHAWK CHOP!

 The Lights Are Out in California, And That Was the Plan All Along

California:  Say Goodbye to Charter Schools - New union-backed law is the beginning of the end for California’s 27-year experiment in giving poor kids a way out of horrible schools.

Hillary tried to protect Weinstein 

Does she have a thing for bad boys? 

Julian Castro Wants to ‘Phase Out’ Nuclear Power

 Elizabeth Warren Whips Out "Environmental Justice" Plan For Poor Communities

 Kamala Harris Promises 6 Months of Paid Family Leave

How do you run a business with that? 

 House Dem: We’re Going To Pass Gun Control And Climate Bills While Impeaching Trump

 Rep. Ilhan Omar: My Adultery is the Fault of the Republicans and the Jews

 New Revelation Blows Up Entire Premise Of Impeachment Inquiry: Ukraine Reopened Investigation Into Biden In March 2019

 Burisma Holdings Paid Joe Biden $900,000 For Lobbying Activities: Ukrainian MP

 The “Whistleblowers” Are Deep State Spies

 Democrats Enter Robespierre Phase Of Impeachment

 Democrats' Fear of Durham About to Reach Panic Level

 Durham Broadens Investigation into 2016 Russia Probe, Adds More Agents and Resources

There is No Middle Ground with Today’s Democrats or the Deep State - If you’re wondering how all of this stops, how we return to normal, I will tell you what a friend  told me: “There is no normal. There is only Clausewitz.”

Turkey Begins Assault on Kurds as Trump Defends Withdrawal

We had just 50 troops there, and Turkey is a NATO ally. Remember, Kurds and Turks have been at war for 400 years...The ME is insane, quagmire. No US interests there, and Israel is self-sufficient.