“SELF-RADICALIZED”? The LAT reports that Tashfeen Malik, the woman shooter in San Bernardino, had pledged support to Islamic State in a Facebook post:

Tashfeen Malik, who joined husband Syed Rizwan Farook in the San Bernardino mass shooting that killed 14 people, pledged her allegiance to an Islamic State leader in a Facebook posting, two federal law enforcement officials said Friday.

The officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, cautioned that the new evidence did not mean that the militant group directed Malik and her husband to carry out the attack and that investigators think it instead suggests that the couple had become self-radicalized.

The page, which is continually updated, is a good way to track new information on this story.

TERRORISM? MEH. TRUMP MOCKING OBAMA? IT’S CLOBBERING TIME! Barry blows a gasket over Trump mocking his religious faith in global warming.

So demonstrate how serious you are — voluntarily ground Air Force One for the reminder of your administration, Mr. President. After all, “If climate change is such a crisis, then why don’t global leaders make a few sacrifices for the team?”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 938.

NOT TO MENTION, HE WOULD TOTALLY APPROVE THE AIRBRUSHING: Woodrow Wilson’s racism isn’t the only reason for Princeton to shun his name.

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE:

Shot: Obama Planning To Pull The Trigger On Gun Control Executive Order.

Chaser: ATF Says Weapons Used in San Bernardino Shooting Were Illegal in California.

WHO WILL WIN THE DRIVERLESS CAR WARS:

GE didn’t invent the CT scanner. That honor goes to EMI laboratories. Godfrey Hounsfield, the inventor, eventually received a Nobel prize in medicine and a knighthood. Yet the market share went to three manufacturing giants founded in the 19th century, rather than the comparative upstart.

Why should this be the case? Actually, it’s not that rare. Innovators often see some other company reap the fruits of their invention. Sometimes that innovator is outdone by another innovator (think Henry Ford and his assembly line), but established companies also horn in on the market. They have a lot of what economists call “complementary assets” to help monetize the invention: manufacturing expertise, distribution networks, sales forces. This is one reason that biotech firms so often end up getting bought by Big Pharma: The small firm may have a great drug candidate, but the big firm has the cash and experience to take the drug through clinical trials, the manufacturing expertise to make the stuff in large amounts, and the distribution networks to put the stuff in the hands of patients.

So remember that when we ask, “Who is going to control this market?”, that is different from “Who is going to have the breakthrough that gives us a level-four self-driving car?” That company may end up owning the market, or it may end up pushed to the side as less innovative firms copy the advances, and push them out to the market using their complementary assets.

As they used to say in Silicon Valley, you can spot the pioneers — they’re the ones with the arrows in their backs.

JACOB SULLUM: How Background Checks and an ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban Failed in San Bernardino: Two of President Obama’s favorite gun control solutions did not prevent this week’s massacre. To be fair, preventing massacres isn’t their actual purpose, just the excuse.

WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: San Bernardino Shootings Destroy Leftist Narrative After Leftist Narrative. “Over the last 48 hours, the unserious parade of clown leftists in politics and the media have jumped on every narrative rake in sight. They desperately wanted the shooting in San Bernardino to be a right-winger with an NRA tramp stamp gone mad. Instead, it turned out to be two Muslims who dropped their six-month-old baby off in order to pursue killing. Here’s how the left desperately attempted to spin narrative after narrative – and will continue to spin in the coming days, ignoring the very real threat of radical Islam.”

Plus: “There’s just one more step before we reach the end of the rake-stepping parade: climate change.”

HOW ABOUT THAT: ATF Says Weapons Used in San Bernardino Shooting Were Illegal in California.

CHANGE: Violent Crime and Murder Are Half What They Used to Be; Is That Changing?

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT IN ALL THE OTHER NEWS: I explain how our leaders can demonstrate that “climate change” is a genuine crisis.

ATTORNEY GENERAL LORETTA LYNCH: San Bernadino shootings provide a “wonderful opportunity” to make changes in America.

SCOTT JOHNSON: Allah Will Not Help Us.

“ELUSIVE?” REALLY? Motive elusive in deadly San Bernardino rampage as FBI takes over probe. If these people had ever attended a single Tea Party meeting, the press would be 100% sure of what was going on. But Muslims with ties to terror? “Motive elusive.”

THIS WORKED OUT VERY BADLY LAST TIME: Biafra May Be Staging A Comeback.

Dissatisfied with Nigeria’s messy governance and the recent election of a Muslim president from the country’s north, the Igbo people are starting to talk again about reviving Biafra, the secessionist state that was repressed in a brutal civil war in the late 60s. . . .

In Europe, nobody would doubt that Biafrans constitute a nation and have the right to a state. The Igbo population, at 32 million, is larger than 22 members of the EU. In Africa, they’ve been told they are a tribe, and in 1970 the world stood by as they were starved into surrender.
Yet even today, the thought of encouraging Biafran independence gives Africa policy wonks the hives: If one big tribe goes for independence, how many others will follow? Africa will be drenched in blood as the different ethnic groups sort themselves out. There are good reasons for worrying about this. The history of Europe from 1850 to 1950, the history of what was once Yugoslavia, the remnants of Iraq and Syria today: These all show how identity wars can plunge whole regions into terrible conflict. Moreover, the bloodshed in South Sudan shows that the dangers of breaking up African states aren’t imaginary. Partitioning Sudan did not end the bloodshed.

None of that, however, means very much to Igbos who want independence from the dysfunctional and corrupt ramshackle entity that calls itself the state of Nigeria. And this points to another problem. We all sing hymns to the wonders of diversity and to the value of cosmopolitan society these days, but multi-ethnic federations are often not very well run.

True enough.

CHANGE: Rand Paul Introduces Bill Banning Refugees From “High-Risk Countries:” The “SECURE Act” also puts a 30-day delay on citizens of countries in the Visa Waiver program.

IT’S ALL ABOUT MUSCLE: Jonathan Last of the Weekly Standard offers a guide to “understanding the campus unrest:”

The Obama administration—easily the most ideologically progressive in modern American history—has been accompanied by both liberal triumphalism and liberal outrage.

Three major protest movements have marked the Obama era: Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the as-yet-unnamed campus protests that began at the University of Missouri and Yale and have now spread across the country. The Occupy movement failed utterly. The Black Lives Matter movement has been on a fast track to irrelevance, its only success having been to discipline Democratic presidential candidates to deny that “all” lives matter, while insisting that “black” lives do.

The campus protests are different. At one school after another, protesters have achieved the resignation and/or humiliation of high officials. They have extorted a great deal of money. They have tried to establish new conventions for the behavior of the media and have even intensified what may prove to be a serious debate about the future of the First Amendment. And in all of this it has become clear that the campus protests aren’t about race or privilege or safe spaces. They’re about power.

As Zombie noted in 2013 at PJM, “I used to wonder, ‘Why are you complaining to Obama? He agrees with you!’ Turns out that of course they all know full well that he agrees with them, that he and they are all on the same side. The purpose is not to change Obama’s mind, the purpose is to provide him with political cover to make bad or unpopular decisions, by fabricating hollow “popular uprisings” which he can then point to as indicative of overall public opinion.”

THAT’S OKAY, GRANDMA. JAMES O’KEEFE HAS SPIES IN YOUR ORGANIZATION, TOO. Clinton-aligned group claims to have mole in Koch machine.

SO, WHAT WAS THE PLAN OF THE SAN BERNARDINO TERRORISTS?

PHILIP HAMBURGER: The Unconstitutionality Of The Exxon Subpoena. “Most sobering of all are the implications for freedom of speech and political dissent. An attorney general is apt to demand information only when the target violates what a majority in his state considers the boundaries of law or justice. But that is a central part of the constitutional danger. The discretionary executive power to extract private information will tend to be used only when it is apt to satisfy the demos. Of course Exxon is not Socrates, and its empirical research is a far cry from his elenctic inquiry. Nonetheless, there are parallels, for the prosecutorial subpoena to Exxon appeals to populist anxieties. In refusing to join the crowd—in refusing to accept its climate beliefs—Exxon has questioned the gods of the city, and for this it now is being forced to answer.”

WE DON’T WANT TO TAKE YOUR DRONES, WE JUST WANT YOU TO REGISTER THEM: Drone Policy Abuzz in Washington as Holiday Gift Season Approaches.

An army of small drones are heading for the national airspace this holiday season — many of them hiding in closets and gift-wrapped boxes under Christmas trees.

The flood of new aircraft — and new pilots — is expected as federal officials are preparing to tighten their grip on drone fliers. The Federal Aviation Administration said in October it would require registration of drones and a task force made recommendations for the registration system for small drones in November.

Federal rules already require commercial users to register to fly drones, also known as unmanned aircraft systems. But officials, as well as representatives of the aviation industry, are worried that recreational drone users, including the pajama-clad pilots who might take their drone for a virgin flight on Christmas Day, might not understand the rules behind launching into U.S. airspace.

Safety concerns have grown to the point that members of Congress want the federal government to be able to track down a drone operator in case something bad happens.

“Pajama-clad?”

WILL CONGRESS IGNORE THE WORST BUREAUCRATIC OUTRAGE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD ABOUT UNTIL NOW? Well, yes, with 305 co-sponsors for the Email Privacy Act in the House of Representatives, odds are good the answer is yes. The bill protects ISPs from judge-less subpoenas but not private citizens. They are called “administrative subpoenas” and they are bad news for those who appreciate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: The Left Prays After San Bernardino Shooting, To Its God Of Government. Yes, and they make sacrifices, too. Us.