SHOCKER: Free Beacon Journalist Is A Trump Donor. My favorite part is this:

Andrew Stiles, the digital managing editor of Washington Free Beacon, has given $544.25 to Trump’s presidential campaign, nearly all of it in the third quarter of this year. The contribution appears to be for an order of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats. Stiles’ occupation is listed as “#1 TRUMP FAN” on the FEC filing.

The Free Beacon makes no secret of its conservative bias, and $500 is a small sum when compared to the $75,000 Stephanopoulos gave to the Clinton Foundation. But political donations of any amount are nevertheless a rarity in an industry that prides itself on freedom from conflict of interest.

So to be clear: Being a Democratic operative with a byline is fine, so long as you don’t admit it, or leave a paper trail. And by the way, is this first-rate media trolling by Andrew Stiles, or what? “#1 TRUMP FAN?” You know he knew that someone was going to check the paperwork. . . .

‘GOEBBELS WOULD BE PROUD’: MSNBC peddles full-blown anti-Israel ‘propaganda:’

Read the whole thing.

SHOT: Hillary Clinton: Hey, We Should Be Willing to Consider Australia’s Mandatory Mass Gun Confiscation Program.

CHASER: “Thursday, it seemed clear that the Clinton campaign was trying to lay the foundation for a Lone Star subplot this cycle. There was the simple fact that today’s rally, the launch of the campaign’s Hispanic outreach project, happened in San Antonio, with the Castros. Introducing Clinton, Julián Castro told the crowd he looked forward to seeing Fox News announce Clinton’s taking of Texas’ electoral votes come November, and Clinton responded by asking the audience to help her ‘turn Texas blue’…She told the crowd that she would actively pursue gun control in office. ‘If you join me,” she said, ‘I will continue taking on the NRA!’”

In response, NRA Says Clinton Comments Validate its Long-Held Skepticism.

Needless to say, we’ll be debating this topic at Bullets & Bourbon in the Dallas Metroplex area in December. If you haven’t signed up yet, here’s all the information you need to do so.

SURE, AND NEXT YOU’RE GOING TO TELL ME THAT THERE’S GAMBLING GOING ON IN RICK’S CAFE, TO BOOT: The American boy arrested for making a clock meets Sudan’s president, an accused war criminal:

Bashir is no ordinary world leader. He has an outstanding arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, for example, for allegedly orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The country he leads is under a variety of U.S. sanctions. His government harbored Osama bin Laden for five years in the 1990s. A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks even suggested he may have secretly stolen $9 billion in oil money.

I’m shocked — shocked! — by this oh, so “unexpectedly” occurring development, aren’t you?

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: US Troop Deployment in Cameroon Partially a Consequence of Libya War.

The U.S. intervention in Libya got a brief mention at Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate. Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner, defended the decision of the Obama administration, while she was secretary of state, to launch a military campaign in Libya, calling it a humanitarian intervention done at the behest of European and Arab power and an example of “smart power at its best.”

Responding to criticism about the intervention from Jim Webb, another Democratic presidential candidate, Clinton said Obama “made the right decision” on Libya because it brought democracy to the country, which, she noted, held its first free election since 1951. The elections last year were marked by low turnout and clashes between government forces and militants in Benghazi.

A United Nations report released last year, meanwhile, warned of a “considerably deteriorated” security situation in Libya, with the unsecured arms of the former Qaddafi regime (“we came, we saw, he died,” Clinton joked in 2011 even as the Obama administration insisted regime change wasn’t a goal of the intervention) making their way across the region, from Nigeria to Syria, exacerbating conflicts in the region.

Libya: Hillary’s war of choice, waged without Congressional authorization, that destabilized a country, flooded Europe with refugees, and created a haven for Islamists.

CHARTING THE VARYING STRAINS OF BUSH DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: Left, right, and Trumpian. In 2007 and 2008, the Donald had a particularly virulent strain of BDS, as Neo-Neocon writes, along with transcripts and YouTube clips.

And it doesn’t seem to have abated much in the interim: Trump blames George W. Bush for 9/11: ‘Say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.’

I guess from the perspective of Trump’s Nietzschean worldview, Dubya’s almost as big a loser as a guy shot down and tortured in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War.

APRES DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ LE DELUGE: “Here’s a fun question to ask Democrats upset about the Debbie Wasserman Schultz / Tulsi Gabbard flap…Who were they planning to replace Wasserman Schultz with?”

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT DID: Online ad industry, battling ad blockers, admits it messed up.

I try to police the ads on this site, but since they’re served individually to users I don’t see most of them.

SOMETHING TO MAKE YOUR INSOMNIA WORSE: Krauthammer’s Take: Russia Helping ISIS Regain Lost Territory in Syria.

SOCIALISM IS THE ANSWER: Why Isn’t America Working? It always ends inequality by sharing poverty.

CHRONICLES OF THE RIDICULOUS: Does Washington Post’s Steve Elliot support Rape Violence?

A GLIMPSE OF BYGONE TIMES: It Came From The Slush Pile.

WAIT, WHAT: It’s Porn Versus Pot in a Battle for Italy’s Work Ethic.

AND THE PRESS WILL PLAY THE GAME EVERY TIME: Stabbed By The Press.

VODKAPUNDIT COULDN’T REPORT THIS BETTER: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Democratic Debate.

WAIT, THEY’RE ‘LOOKING TO’? Why are we supporting these people? Congress Looks to Cut U.S. Aid to Palestinians Amid Terror Campaign.

I’M TORN — IS THIS PEAK CRAZINESS OR HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: This is Teaching Your Kids.

PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS AN HOAX: Surgeon Amputates Ears so Man Can Look Like Parrot.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO ABUSE: Women Who Emotionally Abuse Men.

THERE’S THE LONG MARCH; THIS IS THE STUPID MARCH: Anti-gun New York Democrat calls for infiltration of NRA.

BERNIE FAIL: Does he think the poor of third world countries send their children here for a worse life?  No, wait, does he think at all?  I could have told him this. The Poor in the US Are Richer than the Middle Class in Much of Europe.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cornell faculty: Few Republicans teach here because they hate science and are generally dumb.

Here’s the Cornell Sun piece on the lack of diversity among Cornell faculty: Cornell Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show. “Of the nearly $600,000 Cornell’s faculty donated to political candidates or parties in the past four years, over 96 percent has gone to fund Democratic campaigns, while only 15 of the 323 donors gave to conservative causes. . . . Although students and professors alike said they consider Cornell’s faculty generally Democratic, nearly all remarked that they had not expected to see donation numbers so dramatically skewed.” I like the English professor who says he’s a Democrat because he’s a “scientist.”

Is it any surprise that many people view higher education as just another arm of the Democratic Party machine? And do academics really think that it helps their position to call half the country stupid?

YOU CAN SHOOT DOWN A DRONE WITH IT: This Tactical Cyber Rifle Is a Glimpse Into the Future of High-Tech Warfare.

SKYNET SAYS NO: Playing Defense Against the Drones: We’ve managed to create armies of flying robots. Can we control them? “To glimpse the near future, I spent several months speaking with people who already live there, including security experts, a celebrity-wedding planner, an animal-rights activist, and a couple of prison wardens. In different ways, they are all reckoning with off-the-shelf drone technology in their everyday work. They’re responding faster than most government agencies, and their patched-together countermeasures are as imaginative as the drones themselves.”