BLUE LIVES: Wayne State University police officer in critical condition after being shot in head.

The officer, 29-year-old Collin Rose, was investigating complaints of thefts from vehicles when he stopped a man on a bicycle, Craig said. Responding to the scene as backup, a second officer found Rose on the ground, suffering from at least one serious gunshot wound, the Detroit Free Press reported. The officer was not shot with his own gun, and police were still searching for the weapon used, the Associated Press reported.

Rose was transported to the hospital, where he was recovering from surgery Tuesday night, M. Roy Wilson, Wayne State University president said, according to the Associated Press. The officer was with family members, and was still not “totally out of the woods,” Wilson said.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: NY Governor’s top aides indicted on sweeping corruption charges. (Is Hillary next?).

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: US airstrikes top 1,000 against IS in Iraq and Syria.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Trump Supporters Found ‘Hamilton’ Star’s Old Tweets & Voting Record — And Are Having a Field Day.

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WHEN YOU SEE THE POST-ELECTION ANTI-TRUMP VIOLENCE REMEMBER THE PRE-ELECTION VIOLENCE INCITED BY DEMOCRAT PARTY OPERATIVE ROBERT CREAMER.

HARVESTING SAFFRON IN AFGHANISTAN: Alas, when it’s saffron versus opium poppies, opium poppies still win.

Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, selling for as much as $1,200-$1,800 a kilogram, and has long been seen as an alternative crop to opium poppies for poor farmers in a country struggling with the legacy of decades of war and lawlessness.

So far, it has had little impact on the opium trade which the United Nations estimates is worth some $3 billion a year in Afghanistan, source of most of the world’s opium, from which heroin is produced.

SO TRUMP’S GOT THAT GOING FOR HIM, WHICH IS NICE: Dalai Lama: ‘I have no worries’ about Trump.

MARINES TESTING A BATTALION ARMED WITH SILENCER-EQUIPPED WEAPONS: During the tests every “element” of 1st Battalion 2nd Marines will utilize silencer-equipped weapons, from M-4s to .50 caliber heavy machine guns.

They’ve already done some experimentation.

“What we’ve found so far is it revolutionizes the way we fight,” Love told Military.com. “It used to be a squad would be dispersed out over maybe 100 yards, so the squad leader couldn’t really communicate with the members at the far end because of all the noise of the weapons. Now they can actually just communicate, and be able to command and control and effectively direct those fires.”

More:

Suppressors work by slowing the escape of propellant gases when a gun is fired, which drastically reduces the sound signature. Used by scout snipers and special operations troops to preserve their stealth, the devices are also valuable for their ability to minimize the chaos of battle, enabling not only better communication but also improved situational awareness and accuracy.

Good. FWIW I recall a couple of late night discussions in the 1970s –lieutenants and captains ruminating while sipping beverages– where arming infantry companies and battalions with silenced weapons was a subject of professional speculation.

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING LEGACY: Federal judge blocks Obama overtime pay rule.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas, whom President Obama appointed, imposed a nationwide injunction against the rule Tuesday at the request of 21 states, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups.

Business groups cheered the decision as another rebuke of the Obama administration’s penchant for regulation and for extending executive power.

“The Labor Department’s overtime changes are a reckless and aggressive overreach of executive power, and retailers are pleased with the judge’s decision,” said David French, the National Retail Federation’s senior vice president for government relations.

The judge said the Labor Department regulation exceeded the authority granted it by Congress, which he said gave Labor the right to define which workers are considered salaried but only based on the duties they performed, not by how much they made.

Live by the phone and the pen, die by the phone and the pen.

LAW SCHOOL DEBT RANKINGS: I’m glad to see that Tennessee makes the list of bottom ten law schools for student debt.

HERE’S MY RECIPE FOR Thanksgiving Leg Of Lamb. And here’s a review! I’ll be cooking a turkey and two legs of lamb once again this year, for Helen’s family and mine. We’ve been having a joint Thanksgiving since we first started cohabiting, now over 20 years ago, and it’s still a major family event.

AS OPPOSED TO THE DIGNITY WITH WHICH OUR NEWS MEDIA HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING THEMSELVES: Press fumes as Trump breaks tradition. “The national media have been left frustrated and fuming with President-elect Trump’s unconventional transition to the White House, and have taken to complaining that even his process of selecting a Cabinet has a reality-show feel to it.”

THANKSGIVING TIP: Alton Brown’s Turkey Brine.

We use our own roasting technique because we roast (much!) larger birds, and we substitute Alton’s candied ginger for fresh. There’s something about fresh ginger that makes the turkey taste even turkey-er.

PAYBACK’S A… YOU KNOW: Twitter has been left red-faced after it briefly suspended its own CEO’s account.

DO TELL: NYT’s public editor is right. Its 2016 coverage could have been better.

The first step is admitting you have a problem, and the New York Times has a problem, the paper’s public editor suggested this weekend.

Though she doesn’t quite come out and say it, Liz Spayd seemingly agree with the many irate readers who say the Times could have done a better job covering the 2016 presidential election.

They “complain that The Times’s attempt to tap the sentiments of Trump supporters was lacking. And they complain about the liberal tint The Times applies to its coverage, without awareness that it does,” she wrote.

“Few could deny that if Trump’s more moderate supporters are feeling bruised right now, the blame lies partly with their candidate and his penchant for inflammatory rhetoric. But the media is at fault too, for turning his remarks into a grim caricature that it applied to those who backed him. What struck me is how many liberal voters I spoke with felt so, too. They were Clinton backers, but, they want a news source that fairly covers people across the spectrum,” Spayd added.

Also the Times’ 2012 election coverage, its 2008 coverage, its 2004 coverage, its 2000 coverage. . . .

CONRAD BLACK: Vanquished leftist press “Fails To Comprehend Its Defeat by Trump.”

Black dissects left-wing adulatory hallelujahs for Obama, especially from The New Yorker’s David Remnick. “The mountain of Mr. Remnick’s adulation (for Obama) gives birth to a tiny, squeaking mouse.” Heh.

Black argues Remnick is representative of his left-media pals –and that clan missed Trump completely.

More:

His explanation of Mr. Trump’s success, the tedious screed about Trump the psychotic, extremist dumbbell, is just a jangling echo of the Democratic campaign: a coast-to-coast, wall-to-wall smear job in the absence of any argument for the reelection of the Democrats. It would have been no less fair for the Republicans to have tied Mr. Obama hand-and-foot to Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

Mr. Trump won because the United States has had the 15 worst years of misgovernment by all branches and both parties, and the only period of absolute and relative decline, in its history. The new president will have a clear mandate for reform of taxes, spending, health care, immigration, and campaign financing; for a workfare program to address decrepit infrastructure; and for a redefinition of the national interest between George W. Bush’s mindless interventionism andMr. Obama’s Panglossian crusade to make friends of America’s enemies.

Donald Trump is the oldest and wealthiest person elected president, the first not to have had a public office or high military command, the first to pay for his own campaign, and the first since Washington to waive his salary. He has defeated the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, and almost all the dishonest, myth-making national press (including David Remnick). The national political press has declined even more precipitously than the political class, and the president-elect was elevated despite the animosity of both, a signal achievement whose significance those who have been vanquished show no signs of grasping.

Read the whole thing,

IF LEFTIES DIDN’T HAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:

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ZUCKERBERG SELLS OUT: Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China.

CABINET OF RIVALS? Trump taps South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for U.N. ambassador, sources say.

DEREGULATION: Will Trump Abolish the FCC? “Most of the original motivations for having an FCC have gone away.”

WELL, YES: Tim Allen: Hollywood liberals ‘hypocritical’ toward Trump supporters.

Actor Tim Allen is criticizing Hollywood liberals as “hypocrites” and accusing them of bullying Trump supporters.

“I find it odd in Hollywood, is that they didn’t like Trump because he was a bully,” Allen told host Megyn Kelly on her Fox News show “The Kelly File.”

“But if you had any kind of inkling that you were for Trump, you got bullied for doing that, and that’s where it gets a little hypocritical to me, is that you can now bully people, and you’re always on the defense with this.”

Kelly asked Allen how he survives in Hollywood as a conservative who has said publicly he is open to some of Trump’s ideas.

“I’m really an anarchist,” Allen said. “That’s how I look at it. I don’t like anyone telling me what to do, period.

True.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: WSJ: Many Deans Resist Law School Accreditors Raising The Bar—’Nobody Looks At Job Outcomes Of PhDs, MBAs.’

PERSPECTIVE: An Awful Lot of Media Coverage for About 200 Losers Getting Together.

Jim Geraghty:

It is not that hard to gather a couple dozen or couple hundred people together for just about any idea or concept, no matter how obscure or outlandish. About 80 Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln presenters – don’t call them “impersonators!” – gathered for their convention in Vandalia, Illinois. The white nationalists couldn’t gather as big a crowd as the 300 mermaids and mermen at “MerFest” in Cary, North Carolina last year. Of course, all of these gatherings shrink in comparison to “BronyCon”; about 7,000 grown adults attended the last convention for My Little Pony fans. (You may find that a completely different sign of the Apocalypse.)

Yet from the headlines, you would think that this was some sort of burgeoning mass movement, marching through the streets and taking over the nation’s capital.

It takes a lot of effort to establish a narrative.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Seen on Facebook:

Progressives on 9/12: ‘Just because some Islamics are terrorists, doesn’t mean all Islamics are terrorists! It’s not okay to just walk up and assault them!’

Progressives on 11/9: ‘Some Trump supporters are Nazis so Trump and all his supporters are NAZIS! Just walk up and assault them!’

Yeah, pretty much.