ANDREW KLAVAN: GamerGate Forever! For those who have wondered what GamerGate is about, this is a nice short description. Love the shirt. . . .

VIDEO: Me on The Independents last night, talking about Garner, Eric Holder, and police accountability.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 574.

AUSTIN BAY: Putin’s Kremlin Losing The Oil Price War. “Though Russia can strangle Ukraine by denying gas supplies, the stunted and corrupt Russian economy survives on energy sales. Without its cash crop of oil, and gas, Russia is a big cabbage farm with a second-rate armaments industry.”

ED KRAYEWSKI: Why Bill De Blasio’s Comments on Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision Are Full of Shit.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law Schools Still Have A Ways To Fall:

Legal work will continue to face increasing automation, and demand for traditional JD programs will come down even further. Law schools will have to respond much more dramatically than this to that fact. As is the case with higher education more generally, many middle tier schools may have to close up shop altogether. The schools that remain may have to experiment with a two year degree. Perhaps law schools will eventually disappear altogether as legal training becomes an undergraduate degree or apprenticeship programs grow. We cannot predict exactly how exactly legal education will look in thirty or forty years, but whatever happens it is clear that the market will force much larger changes than the ones we are currently witnessing.

Related: Will Faculty Soon Be Cleaning Law School Bathrooms? When I was in law school, the Yale janitors went on strike and we students cleaned our own dorm bathrooms. They were cleaner than when the unionized staff had the job.

ASHE SCHOW: A productive role for universities in combating campus sexual assault.

WAIT, HOLDER AND OBAMA ARE BLOWING SMOKE? INCROYABLE! Holder NYC Civil Rights Investigation Is Not News. “Mainstream media will, naturally, treat the announcement as major news. In fact, a federal review is opened in every single case where police officer action results in a death. As I said on Lou Dobbs, it’s like holding a press conference to announce that the lights were turned on that morning at the DOJ.”

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Dear Media: This Elizabeth Lauten Nonsense Is Why Everybody Hates You. “So we know that the national media is deeply concerned about stray insults directed toward the Obama family from Congressional staffers. Is raping people worse than that? Or not? I’m confused. Because a few years ago Congressional staffer Donny Ray Williams, Jr., was indicted for a series of alleged sexual assaults and it got only one ‘local crime’ story in the Washington Post. Yesterday he pled guilty and that also generated one story in the Washington Post. If there’s network coverage of this congressional staffer raping people, I’m not seeing it. Did I mention he was a staff director for Democrats on a Senate panel?”

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BRYAN PRESTON: The Role that Obama’s Runaway Bureaucracy Played in the Death of Eric Garner.

Related: Eric Garner and Omnipresent Police Power: The Eric Garner case is a reminder that government is force, and more government equals more force. “What did the facts show in the Staten Island case? They don’t show deliberate murder. The video of the police arrest of Eric Garner shows no evidence of malice or specific intent to harm Garner. Rather, it shows a callousness toward his obvious physical distress when the confrontation goes wrong. The killing is less malicious than officious.”

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Feds balk at releasing docs showing IRS sharing tax returns with White House.

Less than a week after ’fessing up that it found some 2,500 documents potentially showing that the IRS shared taxpayer returns with the White House, the Obama administration has reversed course and won’t release the trove to a group suing for access.

In an abrupt decision, the Treasury inspector general’s office said that the documents are covered by privacy and disclosure laws and can’t be provided to Cause of Action, despite a promise last week to hand over some 2,500.

Yeah, the only time they seem to care about privacy is when they can use it as a brick in their stonewall.

TRANSPARENCY: Bad Things Happen To Govt. Whistleblowers.

What happened to Peterson is not unusual, according to outside watchdogs, members of Congress and a review of recent media reports involving whistleblower retaliation at numerous federal agencies.

The pattern is predictable:

The whistleblower reports wrongdoing to the inspector general.

The IG does nothing except forward the complaint to the agency.

The agency retaliates against the whistleblower.

“They never listen to whistleblowers,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a longtime champion of protecting those who expose agency wrongdoing. “They are punishing whistleblowers instead of considering them good, patriotic Americans. They are treated like a skunk at a picnic.”

A recent twist is that agencies are now using IGs to retaliate against whistleblowers or silence them by threatening criminal investigations rather than just personnel actions, said Tom Devine, legal director for the nonpartisan Government Accountability Project.

Criminal investigations conducted by the IGs mean agencies do not have to contend with complex personnel rules or whistleblower protection laws, Devine said.

Trumped-up charges can be anything from accusing the whistleblower of making threats to disclosing classified information, Devine said. The effect is intimidation.

What Michael Barone calls “gangster government.”

ROLL CALL: Less than 2 Weeks to Shutdown, Conservatives Cool to ‘Cromnibus.’

As House Republicans sort out how they will fund the government past Dec. 11, leadership is running into a problem: Many conservatives looking to block President Barack Obama’s immigration plan contend the House must act now rather than wait until later.

That’s a more confrontational approach than the “cromnibus” proposal floated by GOP leaders Tuesday morning. The cromnibus — a portmanteau of continuing resolution and omnibus — would incorporate 11 of the 12 appropriations bills in the House, funding operations through the end of the fiscal year in September, and couple that package with a temporary CR for Homeland Security operations, likely to extend to March.

Homeland Security houses the agencies where the bulk of the executive action implementation is expected to take place.

GOP leaders argue the cromnibus is the best way to keep the government open while ensuring a fight later on the immigration executive actions — once all of Capitol Hill is under Republican control.

They also point to a “sweetener” of sorts, a chance to vote as early as Thursday on legislation that’s been introduced by Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., to “disapprove” of Obama’s immigration actions.

But it might not be enough for many of the president’s staunchest opponents in Congress.

At Tuesday’s monthly “Conversations with Conservatives” get-together, Republicans said the idea of asking members to vote for any spending bill that funds the president’s executive order — even on a short-term basis — is tough to swallow.

I can imagine.

DOUBTS ABOUT THE ROLLING STONE STORY COME TO SALON: Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story backlash: When narratives are so compelling that we don’t notice unbalanced reporting.

SORRY, YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE, MR. SHOVEL-READY: Obama: US infrastructure ‘embarrassing.’

Anyway, who wants jobs for burly men? Not this administration, apparently.

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, BUB — I’M GETTING YOUNGER: The Aging of the American Law Professoriate.

IT’S INTERESTING THAT THE DEMOCRATS AND THE GOP ARE SO EAGER TO CUT AN IMMIGRATION DEAL, GIVEN THAT THE PUBLIC ISN’T:

A new Economist/YouGov poll said that the public opposes the president’s order, 45 percent to 38 percent supporting it. In fact, only a majority of Democrats support the president’s action.

“The president’s plan for executive action on immigration clearly does not sit well with many Americans. Democrats support the president’s decision to use an executive order to delay deportation proceedings for parents of U.S. citizens, but 51 percent of independents and 80 percent of Republicans oppose it,” said the poll analysis.

What’s more, support for illegals and the president’s action has dropped since he unveiled his order to allow some illegals to stay temporarily and apply for a work permit if they have children who are U.S. citizens.

In February, for example, 55 percent supported providing a path to citizenship. That has dropped to 47 percent.

More telling is the nation’s attitude toward undocumented immigrants when it comes to jobs, school and crime.

Quite odd that the establishment — especially the GOP establishment — seems so uninterested in these sentiments, which you’d think would have considerable electoral salience.

BABY BOY EXPOSED TO sexism in utero.

BE VERY AFRAID: It’s President HAL, the Democratic Party candidate built from 100 brains.

Hey, we’ve already got President Robama.

REPEAL THE HOLLYWOOD TAX CUTS, STATE-LEVEL EDITION: Maryland’s tax credits for film production aren’t worth it, state study says. “Maryland’s tax incentives for film production only brings in 10 cents for every dollar spent, and the legislature should let it expire in 2016, a study from the Department of Legislative Services recommends.”

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I’M SCHEDULED TO BE ON FOX BUSINESS NEWS’ THE INDEPENDENTS TONIGHT AT 9 PM EASTERN. Tune in, or set your DVR. Should be around 9:30 or a bit after, I think.

ED DRISCOLL: Who Will NBC Be Rooting For Tonight?